Dear colleagues,
Some of you may be interested in the CSSR call for proposals for next May's rhetoric conference.
Best,
Doreen
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR)
Société canadienne pour l'étude de la rhétorique (SCÉR)
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
May 28, 29, and 30, 2007
The CSSR invites you to send proposals for papers at its
annual conference that will take place at the University of
Saskatchewan concurrently with the Congress of the
Humanities and Social Sciences. This year the meeting will
include a joint session with the Canadian Association of
Teachers of Technical Writing (CATTW) and a special session
on Aristotle.
* Theme of the conference: Bridging Communities: Making
Public Knowledge - Making Knowledge Public
Scarcely a few centuries ago, scholars such as Leonardo da
Vinci could still explore all domains of learning.
University researchers today, confronted by the mass of
human knowledge, must resign themselves to mastering only a
part of it. The result is a compartmentalization into
disciplines that sometimes become isolated. --- The bridge,
that ingenious structure that allows the connection between
separated points, owes its erection to an irrepressible
need to communicate and to exchange with others. How can we
set up bridges between researchers and their communities?
Rhetoric, by its very nature, can offer original solutions.
Based on language, that material common to all, rhetoric
anchors its pillars in works, then establishes the roadway
on which ideas will circulate. To express oneself is to
communicate. To argue is to make oneself understood. In
short, to use rhetoric is to bridge communities.
* Joint symposium - Rhetorical Approaches to the Teaching
of Written and/or Oral Communication.
In collaboration with the Canadian Association of Teachers
of Technical Writing (CATTW).
* Special Session: Reexamining Aristotle's Rhetoric
While Eugene Garver claims that there might "no simple road
back to Aristotle," the Rhetoric is central to historical
and contemporary rhetorical inquiry: as Alan Gross and
Arthur Walzer note, "[n]o other discipline would claim that
a single ancient text so usefully informs current
deliberations on practice and theory." The renaissance of
interest in the Rhetoric --- epitomised by three recent
collections: Aristotle's 'Rhetoric': Philosophical Essays,
ed. Furley and Nehemas (1994), Essays on Aristotle's
'Rhetoric,' ed. A. O. Rorty (1996), and Rereading
Aristotle's 'Rhetoric,' ed. Gross and Walzer (2000) ---
suggests the timeliness of revisiting the Rhetoric in its
historical and contemporary contexts. The Canadian Society
for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR) invites papers that
explore the contemporary relevance of Aristotle's Rhetoric,
that examine the status of the Rhetoric in histories of
rhetoric, that propose innovative ways of reading of a text
offers us, according to Heidegger, a "life science, an
account of our defining life capacities." We welcome
critical and methodological diversity; topics might
include, but are not limited to:
- the _Rhetoric_ in ancient contexts
- the _Rhetoric_ and its reception (ancient, medieval,
early modern, modern)
- rhetoric and ethics
- rhetoric and poetics
- rhetoric and dialectic
- rhetoric and the human sciences
- the _Rhetoric_ in the histories of rhetoric
Nota bene: in order to facilitate discussion and easy
reference, panellists are encouraged to utilise the August
Immanuel Bekker numbers when referring to the Rhetoric
[e.g., 1354a1-10].
For more information, please contact Stephen Pender,
Director, Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor,
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4 Canada, t: 519.253.3000 [3507] f:
519.971.3676 e: [log in to unmask]
* Open topics
As always, projects concerning more general aspects of
rhetoric are welcome:
- rhetorical theory
- rhetorical criticism
- history of rhetoric
- media communication
- discourse analysis
- rhetoric of political and social discourse
- composition theory and pedagogy of composition
- sociolinguistics
- semiotics
- professional and technical communication
* How to submit a proposal:
- A proposal can be submitted in either English or in
French.
- Please submit a proposal for a paper of about 250 words
that will be included in the program if your project is
accepted.
- If possible, please submit your proposal by e-mail.
- If you would like to borrow electronic equipment for your
presentation, please send a request along with your
project.
- Proposals must arrive on December 15, 2006 at the latest
to the following address:
Sylvain Rheault
Département de français
Université de Regina
3737 Wascana Parkway
Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2
CANADA
Phone: (306) 585-4317
Fax: (306) 585-4827
Email: [log in to unmask]
* Rules of presentation
- You must be a member of the CSSR/SCÉR. You must pay your
membership fees must be paid before the presentation of
your paper.
- Please make sure that your presentation is no longer than
20 minutes.
- Rhetorical people love to exchange; you are invited to
take part in discussions that follow the papers of other
members. You will disappoint us if your intention is to
leave immediately after your paper.
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