• violence

Prayers to friends and colleagues in CT.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/14/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-el...

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• Free Speech

I am not a Free Speech person -- I mean, as a scholar. So this category of "Private, Family Speech' is new to me. Can anyone help?

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• teaching

At the request of Jim Aune, for whom us Blogorites would do anything, I reinstate the History of Rhetoric Syllabus Collection. From about 2000-2004, such a collection was hosted on the ASHR website, but it got lost in a migration.

So, if you teach a history of rhetoric course, and if you are willing to share it with Blogorites, please email it to:
dbeard@d.umn.edu
Please indicate whether the course is
Graduate or Undergraduate
Survey or Period (Classical, Medieval, Enlightenment, Modern, etc.)
# of credits (3 or 4), on semesters or quarters

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• grants

GRANTS

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• book announcements

John Borneman. Political Crime and the Memory of Loss. Bloomington
Indiana University Press, 2011. xiii + 243 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN
978-0-253-22351-7; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-35689-5.

Reviewed by David A. Messenger
Published on H-Memory (December, 2012)

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Grants

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Amor Technologiae was published:

http://www.aspeditions.be/article.aspx?article_id=AMORTE709T&langue=en-gb

In it, I endeavor to bring the traditions of media ecology and philosophy of technology closer to each other, by reading Marshall McLuhan as a philosopher - of media and/or technology. Some of you have heard me talk about this topic at several MEA conferences. This book, that comes forth from my doctoral dissertation, is in a sense the culmination of that research project. (Although all projects are always, I think, essentially provisional. :-))

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• awards

The Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Kathleen Ethel Welch Outstanding Article Award

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• CCCC

CCCC is now accepting applications for the newly established Assistance Fund for Contingent Faculty. This fund supports awards in the amount of $500 each for contingent faculty at two-year colleges and four-year colleges and universities to travel to the CCCC Annual Convention. Applicants must reside more than 300 miles from the convention site. The number of available awards will be dependent on the donations raised each year from the CCCC membership. The deadline for applicants will be December 31, 2012, for awards to attend the March 2013 Convention in Las Vegas. Recipients will be chosen at random in early January.

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• book announcements

Subject: H-Net Review Publication: Cothran on Francaviglia, 'Go East,
Young Man: Imagining the American West as the Orient'

Richard V. Francaviglia. Go East, Young Man: Imagining the American
West as the Orient. Logan Utah State University Press, 2011. 310
pp. $36.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87421-809-1; ISBN 978-0-87421-810-7;
ISBN 978-0-87421-811-4.

Reviewed by Boyd Cothran
Published on H-Memory (December, 2012)
Commissioned by Linda Levitt

In January 1844, John Charles Fremont's wearied expedition stumbled
out of the snow-packed Sierra Nevada and into the more "mild and

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