This conference will examine the role of rhetoric in creating, elaborating, and sustaining social formation and small group communication.
The organizers start with the premise that much of group identity and the devices that support that identity, including belief systems and ideologies, are derived from rhetorical constructs and represent the convergence of arguments meant to describe and explain realities as experienced by the group.
We invite papers that either illustrate or challenge that premise, using theoretical models and/or analytical methods, etc., from the disciplinary perspective of the presenter.
We welcome papers examining the phenomenon of group and social formation from any area and any part of the world. Additionally, we welcome papers that deal with the formation of the gospel tradition and the emergence of diverse early Jesus and Christian communities.
In the past we have had presenters from Australia, Botswana, Canada, Columbia, France, Japan, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the USA. As in the past, we strongly encourage foreign scholars to continue to submit proposals.
Proposals are due to the organizers no later than 1 June 2006. For more information, please go here.
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Queen is the electronic publishing arm of the Centre for Rhetorics and Hermeneutics. It encourages submissions (in any media) that analyze, critique and/or demonstrate the rhetorical function of power in any and all contexts. Its purpose is to create an environment of inter-, multi-, trans-disciplinary discussion and presentation of ideas that are intentionally experimental. It is designed to become the leading electronic journal for the exchange of ideas from among a broad array of approaches, disciplines, ideologies and communicative media about topics and issues that have an impact upon audiences from both inside and outside of academia.
Judith Butler