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Member News April 2024

Welcome to our 2024  Member News post, in which we share news about the activities of RhetCanada members over the past year with the goal of helping us keep in touch with one another’s work. As usual, people have been busy!

We hope to see you at the 2024 RhetCanada Conference, which takes place online on June 8 and in person June 12-14 in association with the 2024 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at McGill University in Montreal. The conference program will be available in May.

New Positions/Promotions

Jonathan Doering is now an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Literature, Folklore, and the Arts at Cape Breton University.

Shannon Lodoen has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Professional Writing at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, beginning in August 2024.

Pierre Zoberman is professor emeritus, Université Sorbonne-Paris-Nord.

Awards and Honours

Sheila Batacharya received the University of Toronto Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy 2023-2024 ISUP Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.

Jocelyn Peltier-Huntley was awarded a $5,000 research grant from Women in Mining Canada.

Zhaozhe Wang received the University of Toronto Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy 2023-2024 ISUP Faculty Research Excellence Award.

New and Forthcoming Publications

David Beard

“Rethinking the three origin stories for communication studies in North America.” Media Ecology. (forthcoming)

Editor [with E. Wright]. A Charge for Change. Parlor Press, 2023. 

[with L. Horton, P. Soulen, A. Propes, C. Ford, and J. Ford] “From Television to Videotape and Back Again:  Intellectual Property in Doctor Who.” Televisual Shared Universes: Expanded and Converged Storyworlds, Lexington Books,  2023.

Editor, special issue of Survive and Thrive, a Journal of Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine: Health, Illness and Injury in Professional Wrestling, Vol. 8, no. 2, 2022.

Shivaun Corry

“How to Talk so that Doctors Will Listen.” Survive and Thrive. (forthcoming, and based on her talk at last year’s RhetCanada conference).

Jocelyn Peltier-Huntley

“Responding to the Kairotic Moment: Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through Allyship in Canadian Mining.” The Journal of Leadership Accountability and Ethics, vol. 20, no. 1, 2023,  https://doi.org/10.33423/jlae.v20i1.5986.

[with Jovita Dias] “Insights from Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Allies: Results from the Second Phase of an Interdisciplinary Study on the Retention of Underrepresented People in Mining.” 26th World Mining Congress Conference Proceedings, 2023, https://tinyurl.com/ymxyfypz.

“Leading DEI Transformations: What HR Needs to Know.” CPHR Saskatchewan Magazine, vol. 16, no. 2, 2023, https://www.hrsaskatchewan-digital.com/sahb/0223_fall_winter_2023/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1916135#articleId1916135.

“World Mining Congress Raises Awareness of Gender Inequity from the Mine Face to the Main Stage.” Mining Your Business, no. 2, 2023, p. 22,  https://issuu.com/delcomminc/docs/mining_your_business_-_issue_2_2023_4b33cf931e1694.

Ryan James McGuckin

“E. M. Forster’s Female Musicality: Inconclusive Counter-romance in A Room with a View.” Journal of Modern Literature. (forthcoming)

“Temporal Limits: Modernist Refrain, Modern Disruption in the Music of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled.” Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga, edited by David Racker and Julia Titus, Palgrave Macmillan. (forthcoming)

Zhaozhe Wang

“Transnational Rhetorical Circulation in the Splinternet Age.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 5, 2023, pp. 670-684.

“Rhetorical Economy: Affect, Labor, and Capital in Transnational Digital Circulation.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 108, no. 4, 2022, pp. 382-401.

“The Switched-Off Circulation: A Rhetoric of Disconnect.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 40, no. 4, 2021, pp. 395-411.

“Activist Rhetoric in Transnational Cyber-Public Spaces: Toward a Comparative Materialist Approach.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 4, 2020, pp. 240-253.

Pierre Zoberman

Editor, special Issue of Intertexts : (Re-en)Gendering Intertexuality: Queer Pasts and Futures. (forthcoming)

“Proust and the Intertextual Construction of Identity.” Intertexts. (forthcoming)

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées. Translation edited by Pierre Zoberman, with an introduction by David Wetsel and notes by David Wetsel and Pierre Zoberman. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2023.

Projects

Jocelyn Peltier-Huntley is completing her final data collection phase of her PhD project (Activating Allies) and drafting her manuscript dissertation. She hopes to defend before the summer. The Active Allies course trailer video and summary articles for each study phase of her dissertation are available on her research website, and public reports/guidlines co-published with clients are available on the website of her consulting company, Prairie Catalyst.

Ryan James McGuckin is working with Joshua Myers (Ball State U.), on a co-edited critical anthology tentatively titled New Brave New World: Memory, Technology, and the Word in Kazuo Ishiguro.

Pierre Zoberman was co-organizer of the panel of the ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association) research committee for Comparative Gender Studies: Queer Contemporaneities: Anachronism and Gender (Annual Congress of the American Comparative Literature Association, Montreal, March 2024), and will co-organize a two-day international seminar on the same topic in Paris (11-12 October 2024). He will also be presenting a paper, “Being in the Pink and Seeing Red: Topoi and the Intertextual Construction / Subversion of Gender Identity from Saint-Simon to Proust,” at the International Society for the History of Rhetoric in July 2024.

Sean Zwagerman is organizing the Kenneth Burke panel at the International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference in July and will be presenting a paper entitled “Indigenous Justice and the Social Status of the Uninvited Guest” at RSA in May.

Other News

Shivaun Corry is living in Mexico this semester, and like many of us is adjusting to the presence of GenAI in her courses. “I’ve taken inspiration from my grandpa who owned a movie theatre in the 1950s. When televisions became popular, and movie theatre attendance declined, he didn’t rage and rail against televisions; instead, he shut down the theatre and opened up a TV repair shop. Following Grandpa’s ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’ attitude; I’ve adjusted my syllabi to include lessons on prompt engineering and the ethical use A.I.”

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Rhetor 8.1 is Now Available

We’re happy to announce that a special issue of our journal, Rhetor 8.1, is now available. The issue, guest edited by David Beard, focuses on the role of national identity in rhetoric scholarship and features articles from a wide variety of Canadian and international rhetoricians.

Previous issues of Rhetor can be accessed from our Rhetor Volumes page.

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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 7 Now Available / Rhetor 7 est maintenant disponible

RhetCanada is delighted to announce that Rhetor 7 (2017), assembled under the able editorship of Pierre Zoberman, is now in circulation. Readers will find in this seventh issue investigations of rhetorical pedagogy, environmental rhetorics, gamification, literature, and philosophy. This bilingual assortment, the collective endeavour of scholars from North America, Africa, and Europe, speaks to the diversity of theoretical approaches and interests in contemporary rhetorical study.

As the new general editor of Rhetor, I extend my thanks first to Pierre Zoberman for his equanimity and discerning eye, to all the reviewers, the RhetCanada executive and Rhetor editorial board, and to the contributors who have made this issue the rich offering it is. Members are encouraged to preview the articles here on the RhetCanada website and visit the EBSCO database for article downloads when they are up and ready.

Stay tuned in the next months for a special issue of Rhetor and (very shortly!) a Call for Papers for Rhetor 8 (2019).

Best,

Tracy Whalen

Editor, Rhetor

 La Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Rhétorique/ RhetCanada a le plaisir d’annoncer que Rhetor 7 (2017), édité sous la direction de Pierre Zoberman, est maintenant disponible. Ce septième numéro réunit des explorations de pédagogie (de la) rhétorique, des rhétoriques écologiques, de la ludification, de la littérature et de la philosophie. Cette collection d’articles, fruit des réflexions de chercheur.e.s d’Amérique du Nord,  d’Afrique et d’Europe, tæmoigne de la diversités des approches théoriques et des intérêts qui animent aujourd’hui les études rhétoriques.

En tant que nouvelle directrice de Rhetor, je tiens à remercier Pierre Zoberman pour son égalité d’humeur et sa sagacité, ainsi que tou.te.s les évaluateurs.trices, le bureau de la Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Rhétorique et le comité de rédaction de Rhetor, et, bien sûr, les auteur.e.s qui ont fait de ce numéro l’ouvrage riche qu’il est. J’encourage les adhérents à lire les articles en avant-première ici sur notre site, et de visiter la base de données EBSCO où ils/elles pourront télécharger les textes.

Ne manquez pas dans les mois qui viennent un numéro spécial de Rhetor et (très bientôt!) un appel à contributions pour Rhetor 8 (2019).

Bien à tou.te.s

Tracy Whalen

Directrice, Rhetor

 

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New 2017 issue of “Survive and Thrive” Journal has been published

A new issue of Survive & Thrive: Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine has been published. It includes articles that may be of interest to rhetoric scholars (see a selected list below).

Rhetoricians may also wish to consider submitting research articles and creative works in the area of the Rhetoric of Medicine / Narrative Rhetoric.

See the journal’s website at http://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/

“Survive & Thrive: Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine aims to provide opportunities for sharing research, artistic work, pedagogical dialogue, and the practice of Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine. Although it is linked to the Survive and Thrive Conference and Arts Festival, the Journal serves its own mission in education and the practice of Humanities as they relate to illness, injury, and trauma.”

“Survive and Thrive (S & T) is an open access, digital, peer reviewed journal, supported by St. Cloud State University Digital Archives.”

SELECTED Articles in Volume 3, Issue 1 (2017)

See full list at http://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/

“The Rhetoric of Confessional Poetry (Revisited): Ethos, Myth, Therapy, and the Narrative Configuration of Self”
by Steven B. Katz

“13 Ways of Looking at the Body”
by David E. Beard

“Telling a Story of Stillbirth: Accepting the Limits of Narrative”
by Janel C. Atlas

“Meta-Cognitive Thinking and Logical Approaches after a Cardiac Arrest”
by diego k. fontanive

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Journal CFP: The Humanities as a Form of Resistance

The first issue of Con Texte, Laurentian University’s interdisciplinary humanities graduate student journal, will explore the various forms of text that ignite revolutionary forms of political and social resistance.

Works should reflect the ever present need for political resistance as expressed through the humanities and emphasize the role and importance of text as a means of pedagogy, revolution, and reformation.  When politics fall into dangerous and threatening forms, many of us have few alternatives for opposition.  This edition will explore the importance of text in maintaining our sense of the world, creating culture and national identity, and centring our communities within their own power.

We are looking for submissions exploring a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

  • feminist literature, philosophy, and all other forms of text
  • explorations of intersectionality in terms of art, literature and philosophy
  • humour and satire as forms of political commentary
  • explorations of empowerment for community and culture through humanities methods
  • scholarly reflections on music, poetry and prose as forms of resistance

We invite submissions from scholars at all levels and seek a variety of theoretical positions, differing and silenced opinions, and strange perspectives about the value of the Humanities.

Full Submission Due: March 15th 2017
Maximum 3,500 words in Word format.
Citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago.
Prepared for blind review.
In English or French.
Online publication released June 1st 2017.

Please send your submission to contexte.journal@gmail.com.

More information available at contextejournal.ca

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CFP: Special Issue on Rhetoric and Peace Studies (English and French)

[copied from H-Rhetor announcement]

Call for Papers for volume 10, n° 1(19)/ 2017

ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies[1]

www.essachess.com

Rhetoric and Peace at Crossroads: Public and Civic Discourse, Culture and Communication Perspectives

http://www.essachess.com/index.php/jcs/announcement/view/19

Guest editors:

Dr. Noemi Marin, Professor, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Florida Atlantic University, USA (nmarin@fau.edu)

Dr. Lara  Martin Lengel, Department of Communication, School of Media and Communication,  Bowling Green State University, USA (lengell@bgsu.edu)

This special issue examines rhetorical and/or cultural-critical perspectives on peace, non-violence, and the role of civic discourse in contemporary times. The issue intends to cover scholarship that focuses mainly on the last 30 years, including the historic period following 1989 that created a democratization of discourse throughout the world, yet engaged even more peace and conflict as paradigmatic perspectives on migration, terrorism, communism, and political and social change. Accordingly, some areas of scholarship pertinent to this special issue are: geopolitics and discourse of peace; historical public arguments for non-violence; theoretical approaches to communication and conflict as cultures of peace; migration and its peace-related consequences in the 21st century; nationalism as cultural or political paradigm of national identity; international contexts for rhetoric of peace, to name a few. Of note that this issue intends to present an interdisciplinary set of scholarly articles open to all disciplines such as but not limited to political communication, rhetorical studies, intercultural and/or international communication, and peace and conflict studies.

Important Deadlines

– December 20, 2016: submission of the proposal in the form of an abstract of maximum 2 pages. The proposal must include a list of recent references;

– January 5, 2017: acceptance of the proposal;

– April 30, 2017: full paper submission;

– June 15, 2017: full paper acceptance.

Full papers should be between 6,000-8,000 words in length. Papers can be submitted in English or French. The abstracts should be in English and French, max. 2 pages followed by 5 keywords. Please provide the full names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of all authors, indicating the contact author. Papers, and any queries, should be sent to:

essachess@gmail.com

Authors of the accepted papers will be notified by e-mail. The journal will be published in July 2017.

[1] The journal ESSACHESS is covered in Scopus Elsevier, ProQuest CSA, EBSCO Publishing, Index Copernicus, DOAJ, Ulrich’s, Gale, J-Gate, CEEOL, Genamics Journal Seek, SSRN, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR), MLA Directory, and DRJI (Directory of Research Journal Indexing) databases. The journal is also recognized by AERES – French Evaluation Agency for Research and higher Education and sustained by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie.

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New Issue Publication from Exercices de rhétorique (Rhétorique et citoyenneté )

Parution du numéro 5 | 2015 – Rhétorique et citoyenneté  de la revue en ligne Exercices de rhétorique

Cher.e.s collègues,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du numéro 5 | 2015 – Rhétorique et citoyenneté  de la revue en ligne Exercices de rhétorique (édition Ellug, publication Cléo/OpenEdition), à l’adresse suivante:

http://rhetorique.revues.org/

Nous vous en donnons ci-dessous la table des matières.

Nous lançons également un appel ouvert à contributions : toute proposition de dossier ou d’article sera la bienvenue.

Vous trouverez une présentation générale de la revue en tête du premier numéro (URL: http://rhetorique.revues.org/87).

Avec nos salutations les plus cordiales.

Francis Goyet et Christine Noille, directeurs de la revue Exercices de rhétorique

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5 | 2015
Rhétorique et citoyenneté

  • DOSSIER. L’exercice rhétorique de la citoyenneté

Sous la direction de Victor Ferry et Benoît Sans

  • Victor Ferry et Benoît Sans

Introduction : éduquer le regard rhétorique [Texte intégral]

  • Benoît Sans

Exercer l’invention ou (ré)inventer la controverse [Texte intégral]

  • Roberta Martina Zagarella

Résister à la calomnie : Changeling de Clint Eastwood [Texte intégral]

  • Marco Mazzeo

Le sophiste noir : l’assaut poétique chez Muhammed Ali [Texte intégral]

  • Emmanuelle Danblon et Ingrid Mayeur

La Déclaration préliminaire des Droits de l’Homme Numérique : un exercice pratique de l’utopie rhétorique ? [Texte intégral]

  • Victor Ferry

Exercer l’empathie : étude de cas et perspectives didactiques [Texte intégral]

  • ATELIER. Réflexions sur l’exercice : autour du manuel de rhétorique d’Auguste Baron (1re éd. 1849)

  • Loïc Nicolas

Exercer et pratiquer la rhétorique dans la tradition humaniste de l’École de Bruxelles : Auguste Baron, Eugène Dupréel, Chaïm Perelman [Texte intégral]

  • Auguste Baron

De la Rhétorique, ou De la composition oratoire et littéraire (2e éd. 1853 : Préface et extraits) [Texte intégral]

  • DOCUMENT. Hélisenne de Crenne. Les quatre premiers livres des Eneydes (1541)

  • Ellen Delvallée

Hélisenne de Crenne : traduire, réécrire, amplifier Virgile au XVIe siècle [Texte intégral]

  • Hélisenne de Crenne

La Translation du quatrième Livre des Énéides de Virgile [Texte intégral]

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Special Issue Publication from Exercices de rhétorique

Rhétorique et citoyenneté  de la revue en ligne Exercices de rhétorique

Cher.e.s collègues,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du numéro 5 | 2015 – Rhétorique et citoyenneté  de la revue en ligne Exercices de rhétorique (édition Ellug, publication Cléo/OpenEdition), à l’adresse suivante:

http://rhetorique.revues.org/

Nous vous en donnons ci-dessous la table des matières.

Nous lançons également un appel ouvert à contributions : toute proposition de dossier ou d’article sera la bienvenue.

Vous trouverez une présentation générale de la revue en tête du premier numéro (URL: http://rhetorique.revues.org/87).

Avec nos salutations les plus cordiales.

Francis Goyet et Christine Noille,

directeurs de la revue Exercices de rhétorique

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New CSSR / SCER Zotero Bibliography

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

  1. a folder for all articles in our Rhetor journal,
  2. a folder for publications authored by CSSR members on the topic of rhetoric (even book reviews and conference papers are eligible, and you can also add an item with your CV and/or link to your profile)
  3. a folder containing an unlimited number of sub-folders for sub-topics within rhetorical studies.

See more info on our new Bibliographies page.