The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric
RhetCanada’s 2024 conference will be a joint event that takes place online on June 8 and in person from June 12-14 in association with the 2024 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at McGill University, Montreal. The 2024 RhetCanada conference theme is “Where’s the Rhetoric?” See our Call for Proposals.
RhetCanada will be holding its 2023 annual conference from May 30-June 1 at York University in Toronto, in association with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Our conference theme this year is Rhetoric, Reckonings, and Re-imaginings, and we welcome paper proposals in both English and French on a broad range of rhetoric-related topics. See our Call for Proposals for more information on the conference and how to submit a proposal. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 20. If you have any questions related to the conference, contact RhetCanada president Bruce Dadey.
The 2022 RhetCanada annual conference will take place online from June 1-3, 2022. The theme for this year’s conference is Rhetoric: (Re)Conciliation, Resilience, Recovery.
We welcome paper proposals related to our conference theme and on a broad range of topics related to the theory, history, and practice of rhetoric. See our Call for Proposals for details about the conference and how to submit a proposal. The deadline for proposals is January 10, 2022.
RhetCanada will hold its 2021 annual conference as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Both the Congress and RhetCanada’s conference will be held online in 2021.
The conference will take place June 2-4, 2021. Our conference theme, which is carried over from last year’s postponed conference, is “Bridging Divides.”
Presenters whose papers were accepted for last year’s conference can present them at this year’s conference, and we are also accepting new proposals for papers. See our 2021 Call for Proposals for further information.
The deadline for new paper proposal submissions is January 15, 2021.
Keep updated on the conference by following the news on our website, following us on Twitter (@rhetcan), or joining our Facebook group.
We look forward to hearing your accepted papers and receiving your new proposals!
The call for proposals for RhetCanada’s 2020 conference is now available!
The conference will take place June 3-5, 2020 at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which will be held at Western University in London, Ontario. Our conference theme, which echoes the Congress theme, is “Bridging Divides.” The deadline for paper proposal submissions is January 10, 2020.
Keep updated on the conference by following the news on our website, following us on Twitter (@rhetcan), or joining our Facebook group.
We look forward to receiving your proposals!
Editors: Jeanie Wills, John Moffatt, and Corey Owen
Canada is host to a diverse rhetorical community meeting annually at RhetCanada. The community is comprised of international scholars from France, Belgium, the UK, and the United States. We meet annually at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences to exchange ideas, to examine public discourse in Canada and internationally, and to build a diverse and internationally flavoured rhetorical community of engaged and committed scholars.
This proposed volume arises out of the RhetCanada’s 2018 three-day program roundtables where the presenters and audience, at the end of each day, discussed rhetorical theory, history, and pedagogy in a Canadian context. We are compiling a volume of invited essays to put into print the ideas and discussions that we shared during the 2018 conference. The purpose of this project is to trace the scope of the field of rhetoric in Canada. This collection will ask authors to reflect on three themes placed in a Canadian context: rhetorical theory, history, and pedagogy.
Conference presenters from the 2018 RhetCanada are invited to submit manuscripts that examine the following themes:
If you are an international scholar involved with RhetCanada, we ask you to consider a comparative/contrastive examination of Canadian rhetoric:
The editor and editorial committee of Rhetor: the Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric invite submissions for its eighth volume, scheduled for 2019 publication. Rhetor is a bilingual, refereed, online journal published biennially by RhetCanada, a scholarly society dedicated to the study of rhetorical theories, practices, and history.
L’éditeur et le comité éditorial de Rhetor : Le Journal de la Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Rhétorique, vous invite à soumettre vos articles pour son huitième volume, à paraître en 2019. Rhetor est un semestriel bilingue, référencé et publié par RhetCanada, une société savante dédiée à l’étude de la théorie, de la pratique et de l’histoire de la rhétorique.
Keynote Speaker: Jeff Chang, journalist and music critic on hip hop music and culture
Submission Deadline: May 30
Conference Dates: October 27-28, 2018
Conference Location: 235 Queens Quay W, Toronto, Canada
Please submit via our website: http://www.humber.ca/liberalarts-ifoa/call-proposals
This conference explores the relationship between language and culture and taps into the rich fields of language studies, literature, history, sociology, politics, media studies, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, with a special focus on the interrelated nature of language and culture as it changes, evolves, adapts, or indeed is endangered or lost. Our conference takes an interdisciplinary approach to this topic. We are accepting proposals from areas that will include, but are not limited to, the following:
| Lost Languages Language attrition Language acquisition Reclaiming language Sociolinguistic analysis Affect Theory and Critical Animal Studies Forensic linguistics Multilingualism |
Metrolingualism Multimodality Transitivity Cultural appropriation Language, culture, and identity The language and culture of traditional and new media The Political Language of dissent, oppression, activism or diplomacy Language and gender Racialized Language |
Language & the Arts Body language and culture The culture of Learning and the technology of language The culture of economics History of Language Philosophy of Language Psychology of Language and Culture The Culture of Advertising |
We welcome proposals from researchers within all relevant academic disciplines.
If accepted, the presenter(s) should prepare a 20-minute presentation each, the oral equivalent of approximately 8 to 10 pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman 12pt font.
The January 13 proposal deadline for RhetCanada’s annual conference is fast approaching. The conference will take place May 27-29, 2018 at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which will be held at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The conference theme is “That’s not rhetoric!” “Yes, it is.” The topic invites participants to discuss and debate the borders of our definitions of rhetoric and what they mean to the way we see the world and speak, write, and act within it.
For more information, see the full Call for Proposals.
Funding is available to assist current and recent graduate students with travel expenses. See the Congress 2018 Student Funding page.
Please send proposals to Dr. Tania S. Smith, RhetCanada / CSSR President, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary: smit@ucalgary.ca.
Res Rhetorica is a peer-reviewed open access quarterly academic journal (ISSN 2392-3113). Its scope includes both theories of rhetoric and practices of persuasive communication. It is issuing the following CFP:
The rhetoric of social movements is the theme for a special issue of Res Rhetorica planned for 2018.
A democratic public sphere is an arena where various social movements voice their claims; these include prominent environmentalist, feminist, LGBT, anti/alter-globalist, or nationalist movements, or local, identity-related, ethnic and political movements.
Social activism includes organizing protests, demonstrations, performances of civil disobedience or debates – all of which can be analyzed from a rhetorical perspective. Each social movement makes claims, presents them to the auditorium, argues for them, defends them against criticism. It actively campaigns to achieve in-group solidarity, to promote its ideas, and to convince the public to support its claims. It also strives to be identified and recognized in the public spheres and to position itself against antagonists.
Is the rhetoric of social movements related to their aims? Is it determined by the social context? How have digital media influenced the rhetoric of the social movements? Are there any global, universal patterns of social engagement and protest? How are appeals to emotions or authority used in social campaigning?
We invite submissions discussing, among other aspects:
Agnieszka Kampka (agnieszka_kampka@sggw.pl)
Submission deadline: 31 January 2018
To see the author guidelines and submit the paper, prospective authors should register on www.ResRhetorica.com.
The Issue Editors welcome proposals (250 words) for the articles related to the theme of the issue to be sent to the Editors’ emails by the date specified in the Call for Papers.
We also invite year-round submissions unrelated to the themes of the consecutive issues to be published in the “Varia” section.
The papers are reviewed and have its own DOI.
Res Rhetorica is affiliated with the Polish Rhetoric Society. The Society, established in the year 2000, aims at promoting the awareness of rhetoric and perfecting the art of effective communication in practice by identifying links between rhetoric and other disciplines, disseminating research in the field of rhetoric, exchanging experience with researchers from other countries, and popularizing rhetorical skills. Feel welcome to join us and become a member of the Polish Rhetoric Society. For more information go to: www.retoryka.edu.pl.