The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric
You have a week left to benefit from early-bird registration rates for Congress. Hurry as they expire on March 31! | Il ne vous reste qu’une semaine pour bénéficier des tarifs de préinscription au Congrès. Dépêchez-vous, car l’offre se termine le 31 mars!
The draft programme for the 2017 Conference in Toronto is now available on Box.com:
Only registered presenters will appear on the FINAL programme, so please pay your Registration & Association fees soon.
The reduced rate for Congress Registration fees will end March 31. Online registration will close May 15. Register online at http://www.congress2017.ca/register
Presenters and suggested session chairs: Please check your tentative dates and times, but keep in mind that minor changes may occur if there are unexpected last-minute cancellations.
The CSSR Banquet has been moved to the evening of Day 1, Tuesday May 30th at 19:00 (7pm). Our restaurant location has not yet been arranged.
On Wednesday, May 31, our association (among others) is invited to the Congress President’s Reception at 5pm, where refreshments are provided.
If you are planning to come this year to CSSR 2017 in Toronto at Ryerson University, here is the correct website link for conference information: http://cssr-scer.ca/conference/
This morning I was informed that outdated information about last year’s 2016 conference was still on our website. It misdirected people to last year’s conference location in Calgary. I have now removed the outdated pages and posts from our website. I’m very sorry if anyone received the wrong information from those pages.
Sincerely,
Dr. Tania S. Smith
CSSR President and Webmaster
Planning to come this year to CSSR/SCÉR 2017? I think we’ll really enjoy our room and building this year at Congress.
Here are the links & info I have added to our Conference page online:
OAK-Oakham 218, Layton Room
It looks like a nice old building that is well maintained and often used for special events, weddings, etc.
Our peer review of proposals is now complete. Here is a list of titles of presentation proposals accepted for the CSSR/SCÉR 2017 conference. Hopefully this interesting set of titles will entice others to attend our conference in Toronto, ON, May 30-June 1, 2017.
In alphabetical order:
• A neurocognitive ontology of rhetorical figures
• Apartheid Legal Screens and Nelson Mandela’s Luminescence
• Cautiously Optimistic: Imagining a Multicultural Canada in 1941
• Communication across lay/expert divides: A rhetorical decision-making framework
• From persuasion to presumption to standards and surveillance: Rhetorical mechanisms in the promotion of surgical checklists
• From Usability to UX: Visual Rhetoric, Comics, and Technical Communication
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Memory, Fake News and the Rhetoric of Ignorance
• How to Survive Food-pocalypse: The Politics of Food Resilience Narratives
• Hyperreal Gentrification in Istanbul
• Identification Strategies in China’s National-Image Discourse Construction
• Laughing Stocks: Prison, Surplus, Comic Relief
• Les usages de l’ekphrasis / The uses of ekphrasis
• “Liberals Lead:” The Rhetorical Influence of CBC’s Aggregate Polling Data on Voters in the 2015 Canadian National Election
• Occupy Wall Street, C.S. Peirce’s Theory of Rhetoric, and the Right to the Commons
• “On Earth as it is in Heaven”: Transitive Action in The Lord’s Prayer
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s Pirouette as Canadian Ideograph
• Publicly Anonymous: Ethical Rhetorical Analysis Online
• Reimagining the Political: Weaving Aesthetics & Sensation in Communication & Rhetoric Theory
• Resonance Chambers & Industrial Nightmares: Big Wind’s Rhetorical Afflictions
• Re-turning the Rhetorical Turn to Narrative Practice
• Rhetoric And/ Rhetoric of
• Rhetoric Meets Structuralism at the École Pratique des Hautes Études
• Rhétorique et divination : comment rendre le divin évident dans la Grèce classique ?
Rhetoric and divination: how to make the divine obvious in classical Greece?
• The Context of Melmoth’s 1749 English Translation of Tacitus’ Dialogue on Oratory
• The Meme is the Message: Subtervising through Self-Care Internet Memes
• The Transformative Power of Rhetoric: Speaking to Become the President or Prime Minister
• Une rhétorique critique et inclusive. L’enseignement des questions rhétoriques à des professionnels se formant en éthique appliquée
• Vico’s rhetorical angle: geometry, genealogy, and argumentative ingenuity
• Viral Vaccines: Proposed Policy and the Rhetoric of Redditors Response
The DRAFT programme will be in developement after Feb. 27, by which time I hope to have received replies from proposers indicating whether they are planning to attend.
Keynote speakers’ presentations may be added to the programme at a later date.
Did you miss the deadline to submit your 2017 CSSR proposal?
It was Sunday, January 15th.
The good news is that we’ve got a wealth of proposals from new people! However, I am somewhat dismayed that some of our regulars haven’t submitted proposals.
Therefore, IF you are a currently paid CSSR member, OR you are a past paid CSSR member, and you would still like to submit a proposal for the 2017 conference,
I’m sorry we cannot afford an extended deadline of longer than 1 week for members. We must start reviewing right away. Several people who submitted proposals need early review results in order to obtain travel funding.
I also aim to give results in time for every presenter to register while Congress still offers a reduced “early bird” registration fee and to plan their accommodations before rooms are not sold out at conference hotels nearby.
Dear rhetoric scholars, please plan ahead some time to draft your proposal to present at the CSSR 2017 conference. The deadline is coming in one month.
You’re welcome to consult with me (Tania S. Smith) about your proposal ideas in advance. It’s also nice to know some more proposals are likely to come in by the deadline.
Please distribute our call for papers to individual colleagues and offer a personal note to encourage them to submit a proposal. I’ve already sent the CFP to a number of distribution lists. I’ve also distributed it internationally. We may be a society based in Canada, but our presentation topics and membership reach far beyond Canada.
Encourage your best students of rhetoric (graduate and undergraduate) to submit a proposal and/or attend our conference and become a member. We offer a prize for the best student paper, and we have positions on committees earmarked for students.
Unlike several other rhetoric societies that meet biennially, we host annual conferences. Your regular participation in our conferences can sustain and deepen your collegial relationships and networks of academic support (and perhaps even collaboration) beyond your own institution and region.
Rhetoricians may currently be a rare breed (at least outside of the US), but good rhetoric and good rhetorical scholarship is crucially important today. Rhetoric can be a growing (inter)disciplinary area if we continue to demonstrate the field’s breadth, relevance and usefulness.
I’m looking forward to many high-quality submissions for an invigorating conference in 2017 in Toronto.
Dr Tania S. Smith, President, CSSR/SCER
The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR / SCÉR) invites scholars and students to submit proposals for presentations in English or French. Our next annual conference will be held at the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities’ Congress 2017 (www.congress2017.ca) at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 30 – June 1, 2017.
Our special theme this year is “Rhetoric and interdisciplinarity/disciplinarity.” However, proposals are not limited to the special theme.
The society welcomes papers on all aspects of rhetoric:
We foster dialogue among scholars from diverse disciplines and professions who are interested in rhetoric. We welcome not only mainstream rhetorical scholarship, but also “rhetoric in/and” a wide variety of domains or disciplines and through interdisciplinary frameworks.
Please distribute this call among your networks. I look forward to receiving your proposal.
Sincerely,
Dr. Tania S. Smith, CSSR / SCÉR President
The CSSR 2017 Call for Papers is currently in review & translation.
Please start to plan your presentation proposal. It is due January 15, 2017.
Consider your travel plans to attend the conference at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, from May 30 to June 1, 2017. Congress usually offers low-cost campus accommodation as well as hotel and airline discounts. Congress registration fees will be available at reduced early-bird rates until March 31.
More information is on our Conference page.
Our association’s meeting dates at the 2017 Congress in Toronto are as follows: / Nous avons été informés que les dates de notre colloque au Congrès de 2017 à Toronto sont :
The Congress as a whole starts May 26 and ends on Friday June 2. / Le congrès dans son ensemble commence le 26 mai et s’achève le vendredi 2 juin.
You can see the dates for all the Congress associations here: / Vous trouverez les dates pour toutes les sociétés du congrès ici : http://www.congress2017.ca/sites/default/files/sites/default/uploads/conference-schedule-2017-en.pdf
Our CSSR/SCÉR association and 2017 conference will be described thus on the Congress website:
Rhetoric is the study of strategic communication through the lens of “rhetorical” theories and perspectives. Rhetorical theory, criticism, and pedagogy provide insight and instruction into how people communicate effectively (or ineffectively) and ethically (or unethically) in order to inform, persuade or delight their audiences. Rhetoric is actively performed in all media and situations, all cultures and languages, whether or not rhetors (communicators) are conscious of using rhetoric. Rhetoric is not limited to “public discourse,” although much of rhetorical study has focused on public discourse.
Our conference at the Congress in 2017 will have some sessions focused on the topic of “Rhetoric and Interdisciplinarity / Disciplinarity.” We have chosen this theme because we are well aware that rhetoric and rhetoricians find their home in a wide variety of academic disciplines and institutions in Canada and beyond. We would like to understand how disciplinarity or interdisciplinarity affects the study and teaching of various kinds of rhetoric in various institutional locations, both historically and today.
(Sorry, no French translation yet)
The CSSR/SCÉR 2017 Call for Proposals (CFP) is currently in development, and it will need to be translated into French before circulation, hopefully by November.
Submissions will be due by January 15, 2017.
The CFP will be very similar to the 2016 (last year’s) call for proposals, except for the more detailed description of the year’s theme for special sessions and the keynote speaker info.
We always welcome topics on any theme in rhetorical studies, not just presentations that fit our theme for the year.
Students are always welcome to present.
We hope you will start planning your presentation proposal soon!