Rhetoric Program Colloquia
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin — Madison
Fall 2007

6 September -- No Colloquium, Faculty Meeting

13 September (Thursday), 4 PM
Workshop/Lecture: "Welcome Back"

RGH
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Ewbank Room

20 September (Thursday), 4 PM
Workshop: "Visual Rhetoric, Performance, and Visibility Politics"

Christine Garlough
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Ewbank Room

Readings: Hariman, Robert and John Louis Lucaites. “Performing Civic Identities: The Iconic Photograph of Flag Raising on Iwo Jima.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 88.4 (2002): 363-392; and Morris, Charles III and John Sloop. “What Lips These Lips Have Kissed”: Refiguring the Politics of Queer Public Kissing.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 3. 1 (2006): 1-26.

27 September (Thursday), 4 PM
Joint Lecture: "Chimpanzees and Men in Tights: Doing Transnational Television History"

Michele Hilmes
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
4070 Vilas

4 October -- No Colloquium, Faculty Meeting

11 October (Thursday), 4 PM
Lecture: “The Legacy of Edwin Black”

Stephen E. Lucas
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Embank Room

Readings: Black, Edwin. Excerpts from Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method. Macmillan Company: 1965; - - -. "The Second Persona." The Quarterly Journal of Speech. 56.2 (April 1970): 109-119; - - -. “A Note on Theory and Practice in Rhetorical Criticism.” Tbe Western Journal of Speech Communication 44 (Fall 1980): 331-336; - - -. “On Objectivity and Politics in Criticism.” American Communication Journal 4.1 (Fall 2000): Accessed 3 October 2007: <http://www.acjournal.org/holdings/vol4/iss1/special/black.htm>.

18 October -- No Colloquium, AFS

25 October, 4 PM
Lecture: “‘America’s Worst Catastrophe’: Touring New Orleans Post-8/29”

Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture
Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University
Ewbank Room

Readings: Pezzullo, Phaedra C. 2007. “Introduction.” Toxic Tourism: Rhetoric of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice. The University of Alabama Press: Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 1-23.

1 November -- No Colloquium, Faculty Meeting

8 November (Thursday), 4 PM
Workshop: “NCA Practice”
The Faculty and Students of the Rhetoric Program
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Ewbank Room

THE RHETORIC OF RIGHTS AND WORK
Robert Asen Chair
4 PM, Ewbank Room
1. Pamela Conners, "The Discourse on Work in the Debate over a Living Wage"
2. Paul Hendrickson, "'The Worst of the Worst': Guantánamo, Dissent, and the Rhetoric of International Rights"
3. Sarah Jedd, "Obscene Acts: Anthony Comstock, Cora Sammis, and the Vilification of Abortion"
4. Whitney Sogol, "Robert Kennedy's 1966 'Day of Affirmation' Address in South Africa: The Eloquence of Equivocation"

VISUAL RHETORIC AND THE MORAL VOICE
Jeff Drury Chair
4 PM, 4018 Vilas Hall
1. Michelle Murray, "Still Burning: Self-Immolation as Photographic Protest"
2. Kathryn Palmer, "Filling the Void With Meaning: The Visual Flux at Ground Zero"
3. Amy Tully, "Revising May 4: Contrasting Commemorations at Kent State University"
4. Paul Stob, "Louis Brandeis and the Moral Voice of the Progressive Era"

15 November -- No Colloquium, NCA

22 November -- No Colloquium, Thanksgiving Holiday

29 November (Thursday), 4 PM
Workshop
“Subjectivity and the Public Sphere”

Robert Asen
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Ewbank Room

Readings: Hegde, "Eyeing New Publics: Veiling and the Performance of Civic Visibility" prepared for Public Modalities, ed. Daniel C. Brouwer and Robert Asen, and Greene, Ronald. “John Dewey’s Eloquent Citizen: Communication, Judgment, and Postmodern Capitalism.” Argumentation and Advocacy 39 (2003): 189-200; and Phillips, Kendall. “Rhetorical Maneuvers: Subjectivity, Power, and Resistance.” Rhetoric and Philosophy 39.4 (2006): 310-332.

6 December -- No Colloquium, Faculty Meeting

13 December -- No Colloquium, Last Week of Classes