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Pre-Convention Program 2004

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Rhetoric and Its Institutions

10 November 2004

 Hilton Chicago                                                                             Lake Ontario Room 

 8:15 -9:30 Rhetoric and Its Institutions I

Michael MacDonald,  University of Waterloo, “’Empire of the Word’: Luce Irigaray and the Rhetorical    Tradition”

John Logie, University of Minnesota , “Rhetoric and . . ."

 Robert Gaines, University of Maryland, “ The Fallacies of Rhetoric”

9:40-10:20  Morning Keynote Speaker:

 Professor Lawrence Green, University of Southern California, President, International Society for the History of Rhetoric “Histories of Rhetoric in International Contexts”

 10:30-12:30  Featured Panel: “Inheriting Histories of Rhetoric”

Chair, Professor Janice M. Lauer, Purdue University              

Michael Leff , University of Memphis, and Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington

Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University, and Jenn Fishman, University of Tennessee

Jeffrey Walker, University of Texas,  and Debra Hawhee, University of Pittsburgh

12:30-1:45: Lunch

1:45-2:45 Rhetoric and Its Institutions II

Chair, Janet M. Atwill

Robert G. Sullivan, Ithaca College, “Isocrates and the Problem of Autocratic Rhetoric”

Ann Marie Simpkins, Ohio State University “Black Abolitionists’ Rhetorical Activism: Historical inquiry in Graduate Education in Rhetoric”

3:00-5:00 Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Professor Danielle Allen, University  of Chicago

Introduction: Wayne Booth, University of Chicago

Discussion Chair: Beth Bennett

  Repondents: Chair, Richard Graff, University of Minnesota Susan Jarratt,  University of California, Irvine Sean Patrick O’Rourke, Furman University Ekaterina Haskins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

                5:00-6:00  Reception  

Fractal Art         Damon Taylor