• presidential rhetoric

Harvey Mansfield, the only neocon Straussian still worth reading, picks up on the theme of the "apolitical" advanced well by his students Bryan Garsten and Michael Kochin. Next up: having turned Sarah Palin into a useful idiot for the Likud, an endorsement for 2012! She will bomb Iran, after all. Jews praying Christian prayers in public school will be a small price to pay. (Yes, Omri.)

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CFP-Textual Girls
full name / name of organization:
Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
contact email:
jxr67@psu.edu

The lives of girls are mediated in large part by the plethora of texts that surround them. Though adults often attempt to intercede, manipulate, or otherwise circumvent these texts, still the abundance of media and materials surrounding girls leaves them both vulnerable and savvy as they engage with texts that are either meant to address them directly or not.

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CFPs come in waves. Two weeks ago, it was argument studies. Today, it's varieties of childhood studies. My alma mater is home to a new research group in Childhood Studies (http://www.grad.umn.edu/oii/Groups/current/Childhood.html), including my colleague Aaron Boyson in Communication at UMD.

Can rhetoric speak to this? Especially since, at least since Q., kids have been part of our pedagogical charge: "Let the talk of the child's nurses not be ungrammatical. Chrysippus wished them, if possible, to be women of some knowledge; at any rate he would have the best, as far as circumstances would allow, chosen. To their morals, doubtless, attention is first to be paid; but let them also speak with propriety."

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Red Feather Journal: an Internation Journal of Children's Visual Culture
full name / name of organization:
Debbie Olson
contact email:
debbieo@okstate.edu

[UPDATE] The inaugural issue of Red Feather Journal is now up and can be viewed at www.redfeatherjournal.org

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GIRLS' STUDIES CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
Reimagining Girlhood: Communities, Identities, Self-Portrayals

Hosted by: Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies and Women's Studies Program, State University of New York College at Cortland
Submission Deadline 03/01/2010

CONFERENCE DATES: OCTOBER 22-24, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. SHARON R. MAZZERELLA
Director School of Communication at James Madison University.

AUTHOR OF: Growing Up Girls, and Girl Wide Web: Girls and the Negotiation of Identity

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• jakobson
• rhetoric's restrictions
• tropes and figures

So, I have an honest question I'd like to pose to the Blogora:

Is Roman Jakobson the villain we make him out to be? I've been reading a lot about Jakobson's reduction of rhetoric to two tropes: metaphor and metonymy. And I'm wondering if anyone out there wants to argue that Jakobson takes a bit more heat than he should for reducing rhetoric to two tropes.

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• rhetoric of economics

A lovely bit of writing, as always, from our Aunt Deirdre.

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• obituary

As RSA members now know, Michael Leff of the University of Memphis and RSA President died this morning. As I look back on the course of rhetorical studies since the 1970's, it is difficult to imagine where we would be without his writing and teaching. He both helped reorient the study of the history of rhetoric (returning Cicero to the core of the tradition) and the study of public address (making the case that we had never really "read" the great speeches of our political tradition). Ave atque vale.

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• journal toc

Review of Communication: Volume 10 Issue 1 (http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=issue&issn=1535-8593&volume=10...) is now available online at informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).

This new issue contains the following articles:

Miscellany
Congratulations to Raymie McKerrow, Pages i - 1
Author: Ronald C. Arnett
DOI: 10.1080/15358590903462428

Editorials
Editor's Page and Policy, Pages ii - 5
Author: Ronald C. Arnett
DOI: 10.1080/15358590903248793

Editor's Introduction, Pages vi - 6

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• conferences and calls

This publication approximates the WPA Journal in composition studies. The APA style indicates that it may not be the most rhetorical of publications. But by gum, there are highly rhetorical basic course directors out there who need to stand up.

Here's what I'd like to see: some report of the innovative collaborations between scholars in rhetoric/composition and rhetoric/communication across the basic courses (first year writing and public speaking, first year writing and hybrid courses in public speaking, interpersonal, business comm, and/or small group communication). Rumor has it that there's exciting work by Dennis Lynch and William Keith at UW-Milwaukee. What other innovations are there to report?

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