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CFP for RhetCanada’s 2026 Conference Now Available

 

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RhetCanada (The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric) invites submissions for our 2026 conference from May 28th-30th at St. Jerome’s University (SJU), a college of the University of Waterloo. This conference will be a large and unique joint event, comprising the annual conferences of RhetCanada and the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing/Association canadienne de redactologie, and the Rhetoricon project.  

For more information and submission instructions, see the conference website. Deadline for submissions is January 19th, 2026.

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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.

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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.

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CFP: RhetCanada 2021 Annual Conference, Online June 2-4

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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!

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RhetCanada 2020 Call for Proposals Now Available

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!

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CFC: Rhetorical Landscapes in Canada: Theory, History, and Pedagogy

Editors: Jeanie Wills, John Moffatt, and Corey Owen

  • Extended abstracts Due August 20th, 2018
  • Final Manuscripts Due December 30th, 2018

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:

  • What constitutes Canadian rhetoric?
  • How does Canadian scholarship contribute to national identity and vice versa?
  • What makes Canadian rhetoric distinct from rhetoric in other nations, including the U.S. and Europe?
  • How is a Canadian perspective on rhetorical theory, history, and pedagogy significant to the study of rhetoric in international contexts?
  • Why is (Canadian) rhetoric particularly relevant in the world today?
  • How can we use rhetoric to bridge divides in the so-called “culture wars” that are heating up in Canada and globally?
  • What can rhetoric teach us about public civility?
  • How does rhetoric help us to understand Canadian political situations, local and regional issues?
  • What are the opportunities for rhetorics of race and culture in Canada?
  • How do indigenous rhetorics influence the Canadian scene?
  • How does rhetoric inform Canadian teaching practices?
  • What are Canadian scholars contributing to rhetorical practice and theory?
  • How does rhetoric inform analysis and teaching about traditional media and social media platforms?
  • How do interdisciplinary studies rely on rhetoric?
  • What is Canada’s rhetorical history?
  • What historical artefacts contribute to the development of Canadian rhetorical practices and perspectives?

If you are an international scholar involved with RhetCanada, we ask you to consider a comparative/contrastive examination of Canadian rhetoric:

  • How do you see rhetorical scholarship in Canada as unique?
  • Why are you interested in participating in the conversation about Canadian rhetoric?
  • Does a Canadian context shape practices of rhetorical engagement?

Timeline

  • Extended abstracts of 1500 words plus bibliography are due Monday, August 20th, 2018.
  • You will receive notification with comments and suggestions about your manuscript by the end of September.
  • Final 8,000- 10,000 word Manuscripts are due Dec 30th, 2018.
  • Expected Publication date: Summer 2019.

Requirements

  • Send your extended abstract to Jeanie.wills@usask.ca.
  • Please use CMS style with end notes and references page.
  • Please remove your name or institutional identification so that your abstract can be blind peer reviewed.
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Rhetor 8 (2019) Call for Papers

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.

CALL FOR PAPERS: RHETOR 8

 

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CFP: Losing Our Words: Transformations in Language and Culture

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.

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RhetCanada/CSSR Proposal Deadline: January 13, 2018

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.