Interdisciplinarity in/of Rhetoric

Call for Papers

For 2020, we have conscientiously chosen to hold the 2020 workshop in San Luis Potosí, Mexico at El Colegio de San Luis, in order to gather academics, scholars, and activists who are thinking about language and communication as we stay critical of its limits and consequences. In alignment with this purpose, the working languages in 2020 will be English and Spanish with the aid of translation software and technology.

Proposals that broadly speak to the conference theme are encouraged but certainly not required. We encourage a wide range of topics and approaches, as we believe that this can and will enhance the discussion and workshop experience. In all, we invite you to participate in the 3rd IRW and look forward to reading the many exciting proposals that we hope this theme will inspire.

Suggested topics

1. Rhetorical theory 
2. Transnational rhetoric
3. Rhetorical history
4. International rhetorics
5. Rhetorics of translation

• How can rhetorical studies contribute to the theoretical, critical, and conceptual practice of rhetoric in different communities? What are potential outcomes?
• What rhetorical practices and processes confront, complicate, or help to sustain democratic cultures within an increasingly globalized world?
• What nascent identity-positions emerge from transnational flows of bodies, beliefs, and communication practices as they move across borders and boundaries?
• How does rhetoric’s transnational intellectual history cross borders?
• How can the work of translation contribute to the study of rhetoric across national borders?
• How are ideas of race, ethnicity, and gender rhetorically deployed as a political means to securing hegemonic conditions or undermining democratic processes?  
• How do colonial legacies influence or complicate rhetorical conceptions of global citizenship and the idea of a global community? How does language supremacy structure our everyday lives directly and indirectly?
• How do LGBTQ activists’ rhetorical practices centered on queer worldmaking circulates or is contested in an increasingly globalized world?

Submission Deadline:  

Please submit a 150-200 word abstract and an application by DECEMBER 20, 2019. If you have any questions or problems with the application form, please contact 2020InRhWo@gmail.com. Applicants will hear back in January 2020.