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From http://dissoilogoi2.blogspot.com/2012/04/please-read-if-you-are-planning...

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Please read if you are planning to invite a speaker for an academic event.
If you are thinking about organizing an academic event--such as an invited talk or a conference--that involves one or more invited speaker, here are a few things to consider. (This information is based on my years of experience as a conference organizer and invited speaker.)

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• white privilege

Terrorism and Privilege: Understanding the Power of Whiteness
by Tim Wise
Cross-posted at Tim Wise’s website.

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• feminism

"In all cases but one, the stick figured is either non-sexed and therefore implicitly male (e.g., the newspaper reader and the disabled) or explicitly male (the business-suited full-time employees, the mustachioed retiree). The one exception, of course, is for the stay-at-home parent. Suddenly the stick figure is a female. We see this all over. As soon as parenting or housework is involved, all those neutral/male stick figures sprout skirts.

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• social media

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• civil rights rhetoric

Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the great documents of the American civil rights struggle, and a masterful piece of rhetoric: Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

http://www.legacy.com/ns/news-story.aspx?t=letter-from-birmingham-jail&i...

John

John Duffy
Associate Professor of English
Francis O'Malley Director of the University Writing Program

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• cfp

The rhetoric of science, as a field, has established itself as a subfield of communication studies, a sister field of technical communication studies, and a partner to science and technology studies. It is, in other words, thoroughly embedded in the American university context. While it would be fair to say that the field was built by a polyphony of voices (John Angus Campbell, Lawrence Prelli, Charles Bazerman, Jeanne Fahnestock, William Keith), for this special issue of POROI, we drawn one of those voices to the fore: Alan G.

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• conferences

Yesterday, were the weather to have cooperated more, there would have been a Publishing Conference at UMD. But it all started badly. It ended amazingly, though, and it’s worth some reflection.

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• librarianship

An Essential Skill for All Librarians
by Wayne Bivens-Tatum
If I can’t beat the gurus, sherpas, and assorted sages, I’m going to join them. Today I’m going to tell you, fellow librarians, the most basic, core skill that all of you need, more important than coding, cataloging, database searching, or anything else. It’s a subject barely taught in library schools, and yet mastery of it will do more for your career than just about anything actually taught there. What is librarianship really about? It’s about communication. And where there’s communication, you need rhetoric....

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• research

Great conversation here:

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2013/04/how-do-you-know-if-your-pa...

I'm non-philosopher, so I am biased.

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