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 »
Interrogating the Community Work of Rhetoric
Interrogating the Community Work of Rhetoric
UWM’s Rhetoric Society of America student chapter is excited to announce its first event on Friday November 13th! … 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 »
UNLV Presidential Debate Lecture Series
Professor Kathryn Olson was one of five guest scholars to deliver lectures in the Fall 2016 UNLV Presidential Debate Lecture Series at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas.… 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 »
Harris’s Class Connects Students to the Community
The UWM Report featured an unusual service-learning opportunity for Leslie Harris’s Rhetorical Leadership students. In her course Argument Theory and Practice, students get real-life experience within Milwaukee area community services organizations. … Continue Reading »
Olson on the Presidential Debates
Dr. Kathryn Olson was featured in the UWM Report on the on-going presidential debates. Olson looks less at what candidates say and more on why candidates say the things they do. She gives insights on what it means to “win” a debate and guidance to people who are watching the debates and attempting to make sense of what they hear.… 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 »