For those of you who use Twitter, we’ve just set up a CSSR-SCÉR Twitter page that you can follow and share posts on:
See the sidebar of the CSSR website for icons that will send you to all our CSSR Social Media pages.
The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric
A new 8×10 CSSR/SCÉR poster and 2×6 bookmark are now available.
See them on the Posters page of our website.
I have also created a “campaign” series of four 4×6 postcards with messages and quotations about rhetoric, eloquence or oratory. Each card comes in a French version & an English version. They are great for sharing on social media.
I will bring some postcards, bookmarks, and “Rhetoric is majestic” and “Rhetoric is useful & good” cards for distribution at our conference next week.
I also welcome submissions of content for additional postcards with a similar design. Not every postcard can be printed due to cost, but they would be shared on our website and social media.
I’d need a complete postcard concept, which includes the following:
1) a brief 2-3 word persuasive or informative message about what rhetoric is, or does, or can do, ideally using the word “rhetoric” or “eloquence” or similar terms that identify rhetoric.
2) a very short, pithy quotation with a citation that develops the idea of the poster’s message. This has to be very short to prevent it from being too small print.
3) AND, for PR materials for our bilingual society, we need the content of the message and quotation in eloquent French and English. Please do not send content in only one language because it can take a lot of time to find or make a good translation.
Send your complete, bilingual content ideas to webmaster@cssr-scer.ca. I will select and edit the content as necessary for postcard design, and all PR materials will be reviewed by the Executive committee.
It’s conference season for many of us, and good presentations are a rhetorical art.
I would like to recommend this short article re-distributed by email today by the University Affairs magazine:
Also of interest from University Affairs:
As part of refreshing our CSSR-SCER website this month, I enriched our society’s Social Media presence by adding links to our existing Facebook and Google+ pages on our website sidebar.
In order to generate more discussion, I’ve also created 2 new Google+ communities:
1) Rhetoric in Canada
2) Rhetorical Criticism, History Theory
Posts to these communities (and the 2 additional pre-existing rhetoric communities we joined) will appear on our public Google+ page at https://plus.google.com/+CssrscerCanada/ and add to the activity there.
If you are a Facebook or Google user, consider following our social media pages and sharing your thoughts, images, or links. It’s a way of linking your own profile to rhetorical studies as well. Our Facebook and Google+ pages have seen little to no activity for years, but I hope they’ll see more activity in future as part of their increased presence on our website and on Google.
CSSR / SCÉR hosts a bibliography group on Zotero.org.
Zotero is free open-source cloud-storage bibliographic software created by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media in the USA. It collects source citations from library databases, Google books, Amazon, and various web sites, by working within your web browser.
The “CSSR SCER – Rhetoric” library of bibliographies can be browsed by the public at this address:
https://www.zotero.org/groups/cssr_scer_rhetoric/items
Our group’s bibliography houses
See more info on our new Bibliographies page.
CSSR Opening Address (1981)Opening address of Judith Rice Henderson for our second session at the learned societies conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 23 May, 1981. (Excerpts from Canadian Rhetoric Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, edited by Josef Schmidt.) |
Discours d’Ouverture (1981)Discours d’ouverture de Judith Rice Henderson pour notre deuxième session au congrès CanFed, à l’Université de Dalhousie, Halifax, 23 mai 1981. (Excerps de Bulletin Canadien de Rhétorique, vol. 1, numéro 1, 1981, édité par Josef Schmidt.) |