Ancient Greek Sophistry and Its Legacy is an international conference which will be held Thursday, Dec. 12 online. The conference will feature sixteen presentations by scholars from seven countries. The conference celebrates the publication of a special issue of Humanities, and is sponsored by RhetCanada. For more information and to register, see the conference webpage.
Sarah Casey Wins the 2024 Michael Purves-Smith Paper Award
Congratulations to Sarah Casey, who has won RhetCanada’s 2024 Michael Purves-Smith Paper Award for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the RhetCan annual conference, and to Rachel Roy, who received a runner-up prize for the award.
In her winning paper, “Risk as a Common Topos,” Sarah described how communication and scholarship often treat risk as an idion topos for discussing uncertainty and hazards. She argues that it has become a koinon topos in our social discourse, one where we find technical arguments for risk management… or where we find arguments for managing all kinds of other things.
In her runner-up paper, “Locating Recuperative Ethos: Students with Disabilities Navigate University Accommodations,” Rachel identified the rhetorical moves that students make as they access the university, and argued that students perform “recuperative ethos” and “agile epistemologies” (Molloy) as they reconstruct these rhetorical moves.
As always, the conference featured an array of impressive student papers, and the judges would like to express their appreciation to all the students who presented.
RhetCan 2024 Conference Programmme Now Available
The programme for RhetCanada’s 2024 conference, which will be held online on June 8 and June 12-14 in-person at McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal, is now available. We hope to see you there, virtually or in-person!
RhetCan 2024 Call for Proposals Now Available
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.
Kyle Gerber Wins 2023 Michael Purves-Smith Paper Award
Kyle Gerber has received RhetCanada’s Michael Purves-Smith Student Paper Award for his paper, “Re-imagining the Rhetorical Powers of Prayer,” presented at the 2023 RhetCanada conference. The committee offered the following comments:
Kyle’s study of prayer as devotional practice and theological site (with reference to Amish programs of spiritual formation and attitude) was interesting and demonstrated a sustained engagement with the thinking of Kenneth Burke. His paper provided a sustained, textured rhetorical treatment, and his delivery was engaged, confident, and invested in his topic. The work had a depth and maturity and commitment.
Congratulations Kyle!
RhetCanada 2023 Programme Available
The programme for RhetCanada’s 2023 conference, which will be held May 30-June 1 at York University in association with the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, is now available. We hope to see you there, either in person or online!
RhetCanada 2023 Conference CFP
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.
RhetCanada 2022 Programme Available
The programme for RhetCanada’s 2022 annual conference is now available. RhetCanada 2022 will take place online from June 1-3, 2022. The theme for this year’s conference is Rhetoric: (Re)Conciliation, Resilience, Recovery.
To register for the conference, see our conference registration page.
RhetCanada 2022 CFP Available
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.
Michael Purves-Smith Student Paper Award Winners 2021
Congratulations to the two co-winners of RhetCanada’s Michael Purves-Smith Student Paper Award for 2021:
- Maab Alkurdi, for her paper “Bitterly Rhetorical: Terror in the Autobiography of Zainab Salbi”
- Shannon Lodoen, for her paper “Where is ‘Here’ and Who is ‘We’? Rhetorically Constructing a Unified Canada”
Congratulations as well to Maša Torbica, who won the Honourable Mention prize for her paper “Connective Activism: #Ottawapiskat and the Third Space of Sovereignty”
There were a number of outstanding papers this year, so the committee’s work was especially challenging. Thanks to all who presented!