On April 9, 2021, Dr. Raka Shome delivered the 2020-21 Rhetorical Leadership lecture, which she had titled “Cleaning the Nation: National Purification, Contemporary Hindu Nationalism, and the Politics of Gender,” virtually using Microsoft Teams. Her lecture focused on the rhetorical … Continue Reading »
Pauli Murray’s Rhetorical Leadership Through Intersectional Analogies
The 2019-20 Rhetorical Leadership Lecture occurred March 5, 2020, in conjunction with a keynote address for the annual meeting of the Organization for Research on Women and Communication… Continue Reading »
The Virtual Martin Luther King (vMLK) Project
On October 12, 2018, Dr. Victoria J. Gallagher presented the 2018-19 lecture “The Virtual Martin Luther King (vMLK) Project: Crafting a Necessary (Digital) Space to Explore Rhetorical Leadership and Civic Transformation,” complete with a virtual reality component assisted by UWM’s Campus Technology Support.… Continue Reading »
2017-18 RL Lecture: Dr. Lisa Flores
On February 23, 2018, Dr. Lisa Flores, Associate Professor of Communication at University of Colorado, Boulder, presented the 2017-18 Rhetorical Leadership lecture entitled “The Promise of Race and the Whiteness of Nation.” … Continue Reading »
2016 RL Lecture: Mary E. Stuckey
Friday, October 14
Dr. Mary E. Stuckey, Professor of both Communication and Political Science at Georgia State University, will present the 2016 Rhetorical Leadership lecture. Leadership lecture. … Continue Reading »
2015 Lecture: Jeremy Engels
The 2015 Rhetorical Leadership Lecture was presented by Associate Professor Jeremy Engels of Pennsylvania State University, who studies democracy with a particular interest in classical and contemporary practices of the care of the self. His talk is entitled, “The Rhetoric of Gratitude: From Debt to Freedom.”… Continue Reading »
2013-2014 Lecture: David Zarefsky
The 2014 (10th Anniversary) Rhetorical Leadership Lecture entitled “Abraham Lincoln’s Rhetorical Leadership” was presented in February of 2014 by Professor Emeritus David Zarefsky of Northwestern University. Professor Zarefsky is an internationally recognized expert in rhetoric, argument, public address, and presidential studies.… Continue Reading »
2012-2013 Lecture: Charles E. Morris III
The 2013 Lecture Series presents Professor Charles E. Morris III of Syracuse University’s Communication and Rhetorical Studies Department presented “Sunder the Children: Abraham Lincoln’s Queer Rhetorical Pedagogy” as the 2013 Rhetorical Leadership Lecture.… Continue Reading »
2011-2012 Lecture: Kirt H. Wilson
In October, Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor Kirt H. Wilson presented the 2011-12 Rhetorical Leadership Lecture entitled “Imitation, Leadership, and Violence: How to Understand Racial Hostilities After the Civil War.” In the lecture, Dr. Wilson analyzed the rhetoric surrounding the … Continue Reading »
2010-2011 Lecture
On March 11, 2011, Professor Catherine Palczewski, delivered the Rhetorical Leadership lecture “Taming Women’s Embodied Argument: The Transgressive Potential of Suffrage Advocates’ Body Argument and Social Responses of Recuperation.” She argued that, although the rhetorical enactment of political leadership by … Continue Reading »