CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: Papers for International Rhetoric Workshop in Croatia (feat. Lisa Flores, Karma Chávez)
Matthew Houdek, mthuwp@rit.edu
Call for Submissions: 4th Biennial International Rhetoric Workshop (IRW)
Theme: Borders & Crossroads
When: June 18-20, 2024 (in-person)
Where: University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Keynotes: Lisa Flores, Karma Chávez, more TBA
Submission Deadline: Feb. 18, 2024
Contact: internationalrhetoric@gmail.com
The Planning Committee for the 4th Biennial IRW invites international PhD students and emerging, early-career scholars to come together and consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and established traditions of rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and criticism inform global flows of meaning-making. Senior and more established scholars are also welcome to apply. This year’s theme, Borders and Crossroads, prompts us to examine the notions of 1) physical, cultural, and conceptual borders that delineate territories and boundaries, marking spaces of distinction, separation, and connection; and 2) crossroads that represent intersecting paths, encounters, confluences, and opportunities to confront and transcend restrictive boundaries. Borders and Crossroads are encountered across inter/national, political, identity, and cultural contexts, all amid widespread refugee, migratory, wartime, economic, racial, and environmental crises. Guided by this theme, the workshop seeks to explore how rhetoric can contribute to shaping novel responses, articulate new socio-political narratives, and cultivate human hopes and imaginaries for resolution, world-making, justice, possibility, sustainability, and reconciliation. The 4th International Rhetoric Workshop will be hosted by the University of Dubrovnik in Croatia on 18-20 June 2024.
Held over the course of three days, the IRW consists of an opening keynote address each day from internationally renowned scholars, workshop sessions in which participants review and discuss drafts of ongoing research with faculty mentors and each other, and faculty discussion panels engaging topics relevant to the conference theme. This year's keynote speakers include Lisa A. Flores and Karma Chávez, with more TBA.
Submission Guidelines and Additional Information:
- Please submit abstracts (no more than 250 words) to via the portal below by Feb. 18
- The content of the abstracts should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and expected contribution to the field as releated to the theme
- Applicants can expect to hear back by mid-March
- Additional information can be found on the IRW website below
- Any questions can be forwarded to internationalrhetoric@gmail.com.
See the full Call for Papers by clicking here.
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