ImageText CFP

In an effort to expand our reviews section, ImageTexT will begin inviting reviews of comics texts published by small presses, preferably engaging with the connection between image/text mediums and the social world. Since comics and animation have a long and rich history of reflecting, interacting with, and being shaped by the larger socio-cultural moment in which they were produced, image/text works have been highly influential in social movements and justice-oriented discourses throughout the world.

At ImageTexT, we believe it is the academic community’s responsibility to keep social concerns in public discourse, resisting the normalization of hate-based rhetoric, images, or actions with our scholarly engagement. Given the critical socio-political climate of the contemporary United States and other locations, we feel comics that explicitly visualize social justice issues deserve academic and popular attention that helps illuminate the many ways these texts connect with or affect the actual lived experiences of those involved in these issues. To that end, we invite authors, publishers, or readers to recommend small-press texts that they believe deeply and critically engage with various social justice issues. Some of the texts we currently have available for review include:

·      Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back, Ad Astra Comix
·      War in the Neighborhood, Ad Astra Comix
·      Dumb, Georgia Webber, Radiator Comics
·      The Weight, Melissa Mendes, Radiator Comics
·      Inner City Romance, Guy Colwell (new 2015 collected edition)
·      Disco Cry, Marianna Serocka, Centrala Press
·      Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology, Joamette Gil

Please visit the ImageTexT website to find other scholarly and creative titles available for review.

We invite scholars, authors, and critics to submit 1,500-3,000 word reviews of these or any other small press, socially-oriented image/text works. To inquire about a specific title, suggest a title for review, or ask any other questions about the reviews process at ImageTexT please email Ashley Manchester at manchester@ufl.edu and/or Charles Acheson at cpacheson21@ufl.edu.

Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page from Rutgers University Press

Blair Davis bdavis47@depaul.edu via lists.ufl.edu
8:15 PM (17 minutes ago)

to COMIXSCHOLARS-L
With the usual apologies for self-promotion, I’d like to announce the publication of my new book, Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page from Rutgers University Press. It looks at the long history of how comic books and strips adapted films and television programs, as well as how movies and TV adapted comics, with an emphasis on the 1930s through 1950s.
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Here’s the official description from Rutgers: “As Christopher Nolan s "Batman" films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the comic book movie is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception, with comics characters regularly leaping from the page to the screen and cinematic icons spawning comics of their own. "Movie Comics" is the first book to study the long history of both comics-to-film and film-to-comics adaptations, covering everything from silent films starring Happy Hooligan to sound films and serials featuring Dick Tracy and Superman to comic books starring John Wayne, Gene Autry, Bob Hope, Abbott & Costello, Alan Ladd, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. With a special focus on the Classical Hollywood era, Blair Davis investigates the factors that spurred this media convergence, as the film and comics industries joined forces to expand the reach of their various brands. While analyzing this production history, he also tracks the artistic coevolution of films and comics, considering the many formal elements that each medium adopted and adapted from the other. As it explores our abiding desire to experience the same characters and stories in multiple forms, "Movie Comics" gives readers a new appreciation for the unique qualities of the illustrated page and the cinematic moving image."

Scott Bukatman says that "Movie Comics makes a crucial contribution to media studies not only by unearthing and exploring the very long history of comics adapted for the screen, but also by simultaneously covering the myriad ways that comics presented material originally produced for film and television. The real subject of this book is the never-ending saga of media mediating one another, and in Blair Davis’s most capable hands, it’s a tale meticulously researched and engagingly told."

Attached is a flyer with a coupon code for 30% off if you order from Rutgers. An e-book version should be out in January.

Best,
Blair Davis

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Dr. Blair Davis
Assistant Professor, Media & Cinema Studies
College of Communication
DePaul University

http://www.moviecomics.net/

European Comic Art

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of European Comic Art has
recently been published by Berghahn Journals. This is a special issue
focusing on the relationship between comics and fine art. There is much to
gain from reading fine art and graphic narrative in conjunction with each
other and this collection of articles offers essential jumping-off points in
the development of our knowledge of each of the fields.

Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal:
www.journals.berghahnbooks.com/eca

Current Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2
Comics and Fine Art
Guest edited by Hugo Frey and Laurike in 't Veld

Introduction
Hugo Frey and Laurike in 't Veld
http://bit.ly/2eUnkeF

Articles
Narrative Markers in Pablo Picasso's Tragicomic Strip The Dream and Lie of
Franco, Michael Schuldiner
http://bit.ly/2ffsfKv

Pogo, Pop and Politics: Robert Benayoun on Comics and Roy Lichtenstein,
Gavin Parkinson
http://bit.ly/2ffukpG

The Mining of History, Cognitive Disorder and Spiritualism in Olivia
Plender's A Stellar Key to the Summerland, Dan Smith
http://bit.ly/2fmtAwH

Psychogeography's Legacy in From Hell and Watchmen, Alex Link
http://bit.ly/2eDouuj

Reviews: http://bit.ly/2fDTnzO

Exhibition Review
Tintin: Hergé's Masterpiece, Somerset House, London, 12 November 2015 to 31
January 2016.
Matthew Screech

Book Reviews
Jennifer Howell, The Algerian War in French-Language Comics, Susan
Slyomovics

Benoît Mitaine, David Roche and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, eds., Bande
dessinée et adaptation (littérature, cinéma, tv), Armelle Blin-Rolland

Mel Gibson, Remembered Reading: Memory, Comics and Post-War Construction of
British Girlhood, Ana Merino

Recommend European Comic Art to your library
A form for this purpose is provided on the European Comic Art website:
www.journals.berghahnbooks.com/eca/library-recommendations

Sample Issue
View a sample issue of European Comic Art:
www.journals.berghahnbooks.com/eca/sample

Free Online Trial
To request a trial, please contact: info@berghahnjournals.com

New book announcement - *Hybrid Politics. Media and Participation*

My book, *Hybrid Politics. Media and Participation* (SAGE Publications), is now available in print and as an ebook: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/hybrid-politics/book245549. The blurb says: "Hybrid Politics examines the combinations and competitions between older and newer media technologies, practices, actors, contents and logics, by exploring their potential and practical implications in terms of political participation. In this Swift, Laura Iannelli analyses the 'hybridity' of politics in democratic societies from a multidisciplinary perspective, identifying the diverse forms of power and political participation that coexist within the contemporary complex media sphere, and which influence participation in the spheres of institutionalised and protest politics. Building upon renowned global research and original case studies, the book proposes an innovative and challenging analytic strategy to understand, explain, and problematise the contemporary complexity of political participation and communication"
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Call for Book Chapters Decolonizing Public Address: American Indian Rhetoric and the Struggle for Self-Determination

Editors:
Casey Ryan Kelly, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Critical Communication & Media Studies, Butler University
Jason Edward Black, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Project Rationale:

In one of his foundational essays on the rhetoric of American Indian activism, Randall A. Lake (1991) argues that Euro-American constructs of history and linear time “relegates contemporary native grievances to the perhaps regrettable but certainly unalterable past. It dismisses the entire rationale for activism, that is, traditional tribal worldviews, as a primitive and outmoded way of thinking” (p. 129). “Time’s arrow,” he argued, continues to negate American Indians claim for self-determination by severing the link between past and present, enforcing an illusory if not self-serving binary between tradition and modernity, myth and history. In response to this recurring exigence, this edited volume seeks essays that illustrate the enduring timeliness of American Indian rhetoric and public address, in particular, articulations of survivance outside of or in resistance to colonial and neocolonial practices of the American settler state. As survivors of genocide, mnemonicide, colonization, and rhetorical exclusion, American Indians face a unique set of rhetorical exigencies in US public culture. Scholars who have examined the history of American Indians “talking back” to Euro-American discourse, law, and policy have illustrated not only the dynamics of rhetorical exclusion but also the inventive strategies and tactics of Native resistance. As Jason Edward Black (2015) contends “American Indian populations were not helpless and voiceless . . . Native groups ‘talked back,’ which helped them reconstitute their own identities, rebuke governmental policies, and reconfigure US identities in the rhetorical process” (p. 6). Moreover, the vast expanse of Indian Country and indigenous North America possesses a plurality of distinct, multivocal, and hybrid indigenous communities who represent an extraordinary diversity of rhetorical practices, all of which are profoundly shaped by Native history, geography, religion, language, and politics. American Indians are far from a footnote or appendix to rhetoric in US public culture. To the contrary, Native voices are foundational to American history, culture, and experience. Recent events at Standing Rock, including collective resistance to the Dakota Pipeline and the violent legacy of US extraction industries, compel us to propose this volume sooner rather than later.

A small but prolific group of rhetorical scholars have worked over the past thirty years to rethink rhetorical theory, criticism, and public address through an indigenous lens. These scholars have produced insights into the consummatory function of Red Power rhetoric (Lake, 1983; 1991), the political and educational challenges of Euro-American audience identification (Endres, 2011; Morris & Wander, 1990; Sanchez & Stuckey, 2000), the rhetoric of decolonization (Kelly, 2014; Black, 2015; 2012), the rhetoric of Indian Affairs policy (Kelly, 2014; 2010; Strickland, 1982), indigenous public memory (Dickinson, Ott, & Aoki, 2006; Ewalt, 2011; McGeough, Palczewski, & Lake, 2015; Palczewski, 2005; Schmitt, 2015), Native responses to rhetorical exclusion (Endres, 2009; Meister & Burnett, 2004; Morris, 1997; Sanchez, Stuckey, and Morris, 1999), violence and Indian-hating (Engels, 2005; Stuckey & Murphy, 2001), resistance to stereotypes and mascotting (Black, 2002; Endres, 2015; Sanchez & Stuckey, 2000), and cultural identity and self-identification (Cullier & Ross, 2007; Kelly, 2011). But, the work continues. This year at the 2016 annual National Communication Association conference, there were at least seven different panels and paper sessions devoted to exploring the dynamics of American Indian and/or indigenous voices. These panels included not only established scholars but new voices interested in both historic and contemporary studies of rhetoric about, but most importantly, of indigenous peoples. In light of the ongoing vibrancy of this scholarship, the goal of this volume is to showcase the extraordinary contributions of American Indian discourse and indigenous perspectives to rhetorical theory and studies of American public address, broadly conceived.

Decolonizing Public Address calls for critical case study oriented essays that bring new perspectives on rhetoric and political communication by attending to the complex rhetorical agency of American indigenous communities, including but not limited to Native resistance movements, culture and identity controversies, Native legal argument and political discourse, indigenous digital activism, stereotypes and representation, as well as rhetorically-guided examinations of particular controversies such as mascots, gaming, religion, land-use policy, sovereignty, criminal jurisdiction, citizenship and blood quantum, science and archaeology, media representations, waste siting and nuclear colonialism, natural resource exploitation, or similar topics. This volume is particularly interested in projects that question the intersections of civic identity, including how American indigenous rhetoric is complicated by or made more dynamic when refracted through the lens of gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, and nationality. This project is open to a variety of rhetorical methods, theories, and texts but will remain committed to the larger academic movement toward the decolonization of Western scholarship. The goal of this project is illustrate the invaluable contributions of American Indian voices and perspectives to the study of rhetoric and public address.

Instructions for submission:

Please submit an extended abstract (250-500 words, excluding bibliography) that provides an overview of the proposed chapter, including a description the chapter’s central argument, critical/theoretical contribution, and fit for the volume. Please include a short author bio with the submission (100 words). After review, competitive submissions will be invited to submit full drafts of the chapter. At this point, the proposal will be submitted to the Peter Lang book series “Frontiers in Political Communication,” edited by Mary E. Stuckey and Mitchell S. McKinney. Below is the timeline for the project:

Abstracts Due: April 1, 2017

Invitations for Full Chapter Submission: May, 1 2017

Submission of Proposal to Press: No later than June 1, 2017

Full Draft Submissions Due: November 1, 2017

Request for Revisions and Final Submission to Press: TBA

All submissions should be delivered electronically in MS Word to crkelly@butler.edu with the subject heading “Decolonizing Public Address.” Submissions should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition) and use endnote citations. All submissions will receive an email confirmation. Please direct all inquiries to Casey Kelly crkelly@butler.edu or Jason Black jblac143@uncc.edu.

Journal of Creative Communications November 2016; Vol. 11, No. 3

Articles
Transforming Authenticity of Cultural Products: A Case Study of Comic Characters
Mun-Young Chung and Hyejung Ju

Deconstructing PRSP Measurement: Participation as Neoliberal Colonization
Mohan Dutta and Rahul Rastogi

Inter-subjectivity in Instant Messaging Interactions
Dipti Kulkarni

Sustainability as an Identity Construct: (Re)Crafting Organizational Identification for Organizational Immigrants
Debalina Dutta

Effect of Celebrity Endorsements on Dimensions of Customer-based Brand Equity: Empirical Evidence from Indian Luxury Market
Rajesh Sharma

Mentoring Checklist

Great Mentoring in Graduate School:
A QUICK START GUIDE FOR PROTÉGÉS
Laura Gail Lunsford, PhD & Vicki L. Baker, PhD 

The Digital City and Mediated Urban Ecologies

Announcement: My book, The Digital City and Mediated Urban Ecologies (Palgrave Macmillan) is now available in print and as an ebook: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319391724. In this book, I examine the phenomenon of the "digital city" in the US by looking at three case studies: New York City, San Antonio, and Seattle. I consider how digital technologies are increasingly built into the logic and organization of urban spaces and argue that while each city articulates ideals such as those of open democracy, civic engagement, efficient governance, and enhanced security, competing capitalist interests attached to many of these digital technological programs make the "digital city" problematic.

best, Kristin Scott

Kaleidoscope Call for Graduate Papers

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research welcomes submissions for our upcoming issue. Our submission period concludes on February 15, 2017.
Kaleidoscope is a refereed, annually published print and electronic journal devoted to graduate students who develop philosophical, theoretical, and/or practical applications of qualitative, interpretive, and critical/cultural communication research. We welcome scholarship from current graduate students in Communication Studies and related cognate areas/disciplines. We especially encourage contributions that rigorously expand scholars’ understanding of a diverse range of communication phenomena.
In addition to our ongoing commitment to written scholarship, we are interested in ways scholars are exploring the possibilities of new technologies and media to present their research. Kaleidoscope welcomes scholarship forms such as video/audio/photos of staged performance, experimental performance art, or web-based artistic representations of scholarly research. Web-based scholarship should be accompanied by a word-processed artist’s statement of no more than five pages. We invite web-based content that is supplemental to manuscript-based scholarship (e.g., a manuscript discussing a staged performance could be supplemented by video footage from said performance).
Regardless of form, all submissions should represent a strong commitment to academic rigor and should advance salient scholarly discussions. Each submission deemed by the editor to be appropriate to the style and content of Kaleidoscope will receive, at minimum, anonymous assessments by two outside reviewers: (1) a faculty member and (2) an advanced Ph.D. student. For works presented in video/audio/photo form, we may not be able to guarantee author anonymity. The editor of Kaleidoscope will take reasonable action to ensure all authors receive an unbiased review. Reviewers have the option of remaining anonymous or disclosing their identities to the author via the editor.
 Submissions must not be under review elsewhere or have appeared in any other published form. Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages (double-spaced) or 7,000 words (including notes and references) and can be prepared following MLA, APA, or Chicago style. All submissions should include an abstract of no more than 150 words and have a detached title page listing the author’s/authors’ name(s), institutional affiliation, and contact information. Authors should remove all identifying references from the manuscript. To be hosted on the Kaleidoscope website, media files should not exceed 220 MB in size. Larger files can be streamed within the Kaleidoscope website but must be hosted externally. Authors must hold rights to any content published in Kaleidoscope, and permission must be granted and documented from all participants in any performance or presentation.
 *Special Call*
Affirming (Global) Life: Overcoming Divisive Discourses,
Remembering What’s at Stake, and Doing Something Now
In addition to regular submissions, this year’s issue will feature a special section devoted to scholarly discussions of discourses charged with promoting inequality and xenophobia. 2016 has been a violently tumultuous year of global upheaval that has deeply affected public dialogue about diversity. Black Lives Matter, for example, rose to prominence with protests against the killing of unarmed Black citizens in ways that prompted even the religious blog Patheos to use the word “execution” to describe one example, the shooting of Terrence Crutcher by Officer Betty Shelby (Stone). The Orlando massacre of members of the LGBTQ community at Pulse nightclub gave rise to a rhetorical struggle to contain, clarify, and expand upon arguments about the shooter’s motivations and the implications of calls for policy reactions that struck many as Islamophobic (Green) and/or perpetuating an erasure of the intersectional LGBTQ and Latinx identities of those killed (Brammer). Other examples of such discourses this year included North Carolina’s unconstitutional bathroom laws persecuting trans people; the gender wage gap and overwhelming income disparity systemically oppressing the poor and rewarding the rich; ISIS’s fundamentalist terrorism; the desperate plight of millions of refugees fleeing their war-torn countries in search of life; and the xenophobic, racist, and misogynistic rally speeches by Donald Trump, which caused spikes in violence in the nation’s schools (Costello). 2016 has shaken many of us from any complacent perch that “things are fine the way they are,” and discourse communities from academia to the Internet debate the best ways to respond. For some, this uncertainty about the best way to respond mixes with anger and one longs for a different time “before” now – for the nostalgic comfort of a bygone world that likely never existed. At other times, such concerns stimulate pragmatic hope for different circumstances, prompting proactive efforts to foster transformational changes.
People in the U.S. and around the world are becoming collectively concerned about the future we face. The forces of terrorism, racism, xenophobia, sexism, and unmindful privilege compel many persons to close themselves off from others they perceive as overwhelmingly different in one way or another. These tactics exploit one trait or practice as determining that an entire person or demographic is dangerous and expendable. In U.S. culture especially, fundamental individualism has always been less concerned with an ethics of community than with capitalism and profiteering. But people are not inherently greedy or solipsistic. We are social creatures, vulnerable and interdependent, and we’re all stuck here together. In this (extra)ordinary way, as Levinas tells us, we are always responsible for the other before our sense of self.
This special section, then, invites essays that ask how communication theory and practice can assist in transcending discourses that demonize and scapegoat difference. How can communication studies guide this transcendence and encourage the commitment, in de Beauvoir’s words to embrace our “fundamental ambiguity” as a shared condition? How can communication studies assist those who seek to deconstruct and untangle themselves from the ethnocentrism poisoning their perceptions of others? How can communication studies undo the scripts that encourage the automatic association of Muslims with terrorism, African Americans with criminality, trans* persons with pedophilia, and women with sex objects? How can communication studies foster a communication ethics that might begin with the notion that none of us are exempt from considering our participation in some of these discourses? It is time for us to begin making decisions, as Sartre said, as if each choice mattered for the whole of humanity. And our choices do matter, because as Sartre also warned, humans are a most curious animal, and the only of its kind that has the power to destroy itself.
This special editor’s call invites authors to move beyond mere critiques of communication practices by imagining concrete pragmatic actions and building connections across difference. Additional questions to consider include: How can qualitative research disrupt the forces of de facto xenophobia, racism, sexism, classism, and other systems of marginalization? For performance scholars, how can performance art be deployed to inspire postmodern global ethics of interconnection – to remind us of our enfleshed similarities and vulnerabilities, the worthiness of well-lived lives, and the possibility of crafting joint hopes for the future? From an activist perspective, what are we doing and what can we do right now in our communities to counteract the public’s growing contempt and suspicion of foreign-others? For rhetoricians, how can we dissect, dismantle, and transform pervasively xenophobic rhetoric of hate, deficiency, and fear? What would a communication-studies-informed ethics of postmodern pragmatism entail? What might this existential calling realize?
Authors should clearly mark in their cover letter that their submission is for this special call. Submissions should be no longer than 2,000 words (excluding references) and be prepared using the same citation conventions as regular submissions.      
To submit a manuscript, please visit opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/kaleidoscope
Inquiries should be emailed to kalscopejrnl@gmail.com
Works Cited:
Brammer, John Paul. “Why it Matters that it was Latin Night at Pulse.” Slate, 14 June
2016,http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/06/14/it_was_latin_night_at_the_pulse_orlando_gay_bar_here_s_why_that_matters.html. Accessed 18 Nov. 2016.
Costello, Maureen B. Southern Poverty Law Center. “The Trump Effect: The Impact of thePresidential Campaign on our Nation’s Schools.”  https://www.splcenter.org/sites/ default/files /splc_the_trump_effect.pdf. Accessed 18 Nov. 2016.
de Beauvoir, Simone. The Ethics of Ambiguity. 1948. Open Road, 2015.
Green, Emma. “The Politics of Mass Murder.” The Atlantic, 13 June 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/orlando-political-reactions-homophobia-gun-rights-extremism/486752/. Accessed 18 Nov. 2016.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Otherwise Than Being. 1974. Duquesne University Press, 1998.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism is a Humanism. 1946. Yale University Press, 2007.
Stone, Michael. “Tulsa Police Execute Unarmed Black Man.” Patheos, 19 Sept. 2016, http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/09/tulsa-police-execute-unarmed-black-man/. Accessed 18 Nov. 2016.

Games and Culture January 2017; Vol. 12, No. 1

Articles
Mapping Metroid: Narrative, Space, and Other M
Luke Arnott

The Role of Social Interaction Element on Intention to Play MMORPG in the Future: From the Perspective of Leisure Constraint Negotiation Process
Wee Kheng Tan, Yi Der Yeh, and Ssu Han Chen

Virtually Real: Exploring Avatar Identification in Game Addiction Among Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) Players
Sukkyung You, Euikyung Kim, and Donguk Lee

Players’ Value Structure in Digital Games
Yu-Ling Lin, Hong-Wen Lin, and Ya-Ting Yang

Serious Gamification: On the Redesign of a Popular Paradox
Steffen Roth

Dialogue on Being Yourself (Corder)

Corder's Dialogues, by James Corder
Source: Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3/4 (Summer - Autumn, 1985), pp. 119-130

Philosophy & Social Criticism Special Section on Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection December 2016; Vol. 42, No. 10

Philosophy & Social Criticism
Special Section on Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection
December 2016; Vol. 42, No. 10
Introduction
Civil disobedience and conscientious objection
Maeve Cooke and Danielle Petherbridge

Special section articles
What Edward Snowden can teach theorists of conscientious law-breaking
William E. Scheuerman

The civil disobedience of Edward Snowden: A reply to William Scheuerman
Kimberley Brownlee

Between thinking and action: Arendt on conscience and civil disobedience
Danielle Petherbridge

Democratizing civil disobedience
Robin Celikates

Civil obedience and disobedience
Maeve Cooke

Conscientious objection and the limits of dialogue
Christopher Cowley

The embodiment of conscience
Anita Chari

Articles
Revisiting Rousseau’s Civil Religion
Joshua Karant

Jacques Derrida on the secular as theologico-political
Andrea Cassatella

For the unruly subject the covenant, for the Christian sovereign the grace of God: The different arguments of Hobbes’ Leviathan
James Phillips

Journal of Visual Culture Themed Issue: Architecture! December 2016; Vol. 15, No. 3

Journal of Visual Culture
Themed Issue: Architecture!
December 2016; Vol. 15, No. 3
Introduction: Architecture! (To be said excitedly but with real frustration)
Jae Emerling and Ronna Gardner

Articles
Poetry Makes Nothing Happen and Architecture Is When Theory Is the Residue of a Journey
Donald Preziosi

Architecture and Visual Culture: Some Remarks on an Ongoing Debate
Martino Stierli

Gordon Matta-Clark: ‘Somewhere Outside the Law’
Éric Alliez and Robin Mackay

Giving an Account of Oneself: Architecturally
Jane Rendell

Architecture in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner, Alexis Kalagas, and Michael Waldrep

Starting with the Square: Parallels in Practice in the Works of Josef Albers and Louis Kahn
Robert McCarter

Italy Is Taking a Position
Lina Malfona

Colin Rowe, Karl Popper and the Discipline of Architecture
Sarah Deyong

From the Construction of Community to Play as a Mechanism for Social Interaction
Giancarlo Mazzanti

Setting Goals in Graduate School

Great Mentoring in Graduate School:
A QUICK START GUIDE FOR PROTÉGÉS
Laura Gail Lunsford, PhD & Vicki L. Baker, PhD 

Consider developing goals for the beginning, middle and end of your graduate school experience. 

Beginning goals. In the short term learn the ‘unwritten rules’ for navigating your department and program in the first year.

Mid-range goals. The goals might relate to outcomes during graduate school like summer experiences or internships, presenting at conferences, and collaborating on a journal article.

Long-term goals. These goals might relate to preparing for job talks and interviews, and exposure to the career skills you will need. If you choose an academic career you might want to have goals around learning to teach well, advising students, balancing your workload in addition to conducting research. Think about possible career paths, e.g. the professoriate, industry, government or non-profit organizations. What do you need to learn or accomplish to pursue your career path or to keep your options open? How can your mentors help prepare and connect you? 

Why do we do what we do? (Or, how do we justify what we do?)

For an everyday language account, see this New Yorker article:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/10/heres-why

In “Why?” (Princeton; $24.95), the Columbia University scholar Charles Tilly sets out to make sense of our reasons for giving reasons. In the tradition of the legendary sociologist Erving Goffman, Tilly seeks to decode the structure of everyday social interaction, and the result is a book that forces readers to reëxamine everything from the way they talk to their children to the way they argue about politics. 

In Tilly’s view, we rely on four general categories of reasons. The first is what he calls conventions—conventionally accepted explanations. Tilly would call “Don’t be a tattletale” a convention. The second is stories, and what distinguishes a story (“I was playing with my truck, and then Geoffrey came in . . .”) is a very specific account of cause and effect. Tilly cites the sociologist Francesca Polletta’s interviews with people who were active in the civil-rights sit-ins of the nineteen-sixties. Polletta repeatedly heard stories that stressed the spontaneity of the protests, leaving out the role of civil-rights organizations, teachers, and churches. That’s what stories do. As Tilly writes, they circumscribe time and space, limit the number of actors and actions, situate all causes “in the consciousness of the actors,” and elevate the personal over the institutional. 

Then there are codes, which are high-level conventions, formulas that invoke sometimes recondite procedural rules and categories. If a loan officer turns you down for a mortgage, the reason he gives has to do with your inability to conform to a prescribed standard of creditworthiness. Finally, there are technical accounts: stories informed by specialized knowledge and authority. An academic history of civil-rights sit-ins wouldn’t leave out the role of institutions, and it probably wouldn’t focus on a few actors and actions; it would aim at giving patient and expert attention to every sort of nuance and detail.

A more detailed, even argumentative, summary from this review:
http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/viewArticle/1187/2605

2. Justification by ConventionJustification by convention may be illustrated by the first example quoted: Having been instructed to use contraceptive devices after the first abortion, a couple's failure of contraception is explained by convention, namely a Puritan principle which says that "artificial things" have to be excluded from sexual intercourse. It is the striking simplicity and the availability of stylized formula which characterize justification by convention. "The acceptability of such reasons does not depend on their truth, much less on their explanatory value, but on their appropriateness to the social situation" (p.40). [3] 

3. Justification by StoriesIn the second case, the Protestant preacher's justification of having changed his idea on racial segregation is an example which illustrates justification by story-telling. The reason is provided in the form of an autobiographic account which leaves out the whole process of contemporary political mobilization. Yet TILLY argues that what might be regarded as a deficiency is also a powerful source of reason-giving: Stories provide reasons by deliberatively keeping the numbers of actors involved to a minimum. The preacher found out that he had no reason to further exclude African Americans from religious service when an old Afro-American shoe-shiner he used to frequent had once dared to ask humbly and softly why he was not admitted. [4]
TILLY provides elaborate distinctions on the different formats of justification, and he sticks to his ambition to conceive of justifications as part of social processes. As the lack of philosophical references suggests, his aim is not to isolate what might be a justificatory proposition or to define a system of justifications. Consequently, TILLY is not clear on why there are precisely four repertoires of justification. He is much more concerned with clarifying how justifications relate to social order. As demonstrated throughout the book, this question falls into the domain of sociologists and social historians. Justifications are delivered to maintain, to change, or to repair social relations, including asymmetrical relations. To understand TILLY's interest in (a) asymmetries of power in justification and (b) the interference of different types of justifications, one should briefly return to the exposition of the third and fourth type of justification, namely codes and technical accounts. [5] 

4. Justification by CodesCodes or codified systems of rules and procedures
"emerge from the incremental efforts of organizations to impose their order on the ideas, resources, activities, and people that fall under their control ... Once in place, they strongly affect the lives of people who work for these organizations, or who cannot escape their jurisdiction. In those arenas, they shape the reasons people give for their actions as well as for their failures to act" (TILLY, p.125). [6]
On the other hand, research on organizations clearly shows how organizational practice may switch between what is justified by codes and what is to be accounted for by stories. TILLY provides many examples drawn from this corpus of research suggesting that justifications matter although organizations may put them to instrumental uses. This is where an interesting tension arises: how does the study of justifications relate to organizations—given that organizations partly derive their power from setting standards of justification? [7]
Following TILLY's argument, organizations are by no means to be excluded from the study of justifications. On the contrary, his choice of examples shows a predilection for organizational settings, and he is fairly interested in how justification occurs in relations of asymmetry within organizations. This path of inquiry is promising when it points at the interferences between the different types of justification. However, TILLY is more than reluctant to directly address this question and to elaborate on it in terms of a more theoretical discussion. A more thorough review of his examples would probably show that he sticks to explanations in terms of asymmetry, abandoning his ambition to do justice to all types of justifications and how they interfere. [8] 

5. Justification by Technical AccountsBut why would he not acknowledge and sustain the view that organizations systemically fail to purify justifications? This is somewhat puzzling as his book has examples which would confirm just that. These examples include a fourth type of justification by accounts established by technical experts. None of these ways of giving reasons is said to enjoy superiority. All of them are shown to intermingle. For instance, it is demonstrated that some professional experts facing laypersons are highly experienced in bridging technical accounts and stories (physicians, lawyers, and theologians). Even if he is not ready to radicalize the point of interference, TILLY's broad interest in how justifications work may be said to focus on that point. He is most intrigued by cases which simultaneously display the whole range of justifications he has suggested to divide up into the four categories of convention, stories, code, and technical accounts. [9]

Corder's Dialogues on Identity

Corder's Dialogues, by James Corder
Source: Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3/4 (Summer - Autumn, 1985), pp. 119-130

Science Technology & Society Special Issue: Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity in South Korea November 2016; Vol. 21, No. 3

Science Technology & Society
Special Issue: Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity in South Korea
November 2016; Vol. 21, No. 3
Articles
Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity in South Korea
Jinhyo Joseph Yun

Open Innovation to Business Model: New Perspective to connect between technology and market
Jinhyo Joseph Yun, Jeongho Yang, and Kyungbae Park

The Factors Affecting Basic Research Performance Funded by Government: ‘Creative Research Program’ Case in South Korea
Youngsoo Ryu, Kwangseon Hwang, and Sang Ok Choi

Open Innovation Effort, Entrepreneurship Orientation and their Synergies onto Innovation Performance in SMEs of Korea
Jinhyo Joseph Yun, Kyungbae Park, Janghyun Kim, and Jeongho Yang

How User Entrepreneurs Succeed: The Role of Entrepreneur’s Caliber and Networking Ability in Korean User Entrepreneurship
Jinhyo Joseph Yun and Kyungbae Park

Learning Organisation Activities and Innovativeness of Tech-based SMEs within Korean Technoparks: The Mediating Role of Learning Transfer
Sanghyun Sung, Jaehoon Rhee, and Junghyun Yoon

Exploring Neglected Aspects of Innovation Function: Public Motivation and Non-pecuniary Values
Kwangho Jung, Seung-Hee Lee, and Jane E. Workman

The Effect of Regional Innovation Type on the Pursuit of Open Innovation in Korean Firms
Gwang Min Yoo and Sunjoo Kwak

Book Reviews
Book Review: Banu Subramaniam (2014), Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity
Theodore Koditschek

Book Review: Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (2014), Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe
Anna M. Agathangelou

Science Communication December 2016; Vol. 38, No. 6

Science Communication
December 2016; Vol. 38, No. 6
Research Articles
Information Insufficiency and Information Seeking: An Experiment
Yoori Hwang and Se-Hoon Jeong

Favorite Battlegrounds of Climate Action: Arguing About Scientific Consensus, Representing Science-Society Relations
Mehmet ali Uzelgun, Marcin Lewiński, and Paula Castro

Enacting Multiple Audiences: Science Communication Texts and Research-Industry Relationships in the New Zealand Wine Industry
Erika Szymanski

“Whale Deaths” Are Unnatural: A Local NGO’s Framing of Offshore Oil Production Risks in Ghana
Sylvester Senyo Ofori-Parku

Doubt, Delay, and Discourse: Skeptics’ Strategies to Politicize Climate Change
Juliet Roper, Shiv Ganesh, and Theodore E. Zorn

Commentaries
Cumulative Advantage in Sustainability Communication: Unintended Implications of the Knowledge Deficit Model
Abel Gustafson and Ronald E. Rice

“Visual Science Literacy”: Images and Public Understanding of Science in the Digital Age
Massimiano Bucchi and Barbara Saracino

Varieties of Mentoring Relationships in Graduate School

Great Mentoring in Graduate School:
A QUICK START GUIDE FOR PROTÉGÉS

Laura Gail Lunsford, PhD & Vicki L. Baker, PhD

Definitions
Academic Advisor
An academic advisor, sometimes referred to as a “gate-keeper” is a professional and institutionally-driven relationship. This individual supports students in their quest to complete academic tasks and helps the student gain the necessary permissions and approvals associated with graduate level training. Such tasks include helping students complete major academic duties and requirements in a timely manner, ensuring progress towards degree completion, and compliance with departmental and programmatic rules and regulations. Researchers suggest that, in graduate school, academic advisors are responsible for the facilitation of learning about the craft of research through dissertation or thesis work. In other words, the academic advisor is primarily focused on supporting students as they work to complete academic tasks. Academic advisors can be assigned by the academic program or selected by the graduate student.
Supervisor
The supervisory relationship is particularly important in graduate education, given graduate supervisors serve as skilled experts overseeing the professional knowledge and skill development as you work to become a scholar or practitioner. Supervisors are the individuals who oversee research assistantships, teaching assistantships, graduate assistantships, work study positions, or part-time positions that may or may not be associated with the graduate program. The supervisor provides “on-the-job-training” by providing guidance on work tasks, completion deadlines, feedback on work products, and helps the student manage work hours. The term ‘Supervisor’ is used in the British system of higher education to mean PhD advisor.

Dissertation/thesis chair
The dissertation (or thesis) chair is the person who serves as the leader and manager of a doctoral student’s dissertation (or thesis) committee. Often referred to as a gatekeeper, the chair has the responsibility of overseeing a student’s progress towards the development of original scholarship that contributes to a body of work in the given field of interest. An effective chair serves as an advocate for the student and “protects” the student from other committee member demands deemed contradictory to the direction of the research or agreed upon goals. Finally, the chair helps the student meet program and departmental guidelines in terms of content, structure, completion time, and any other submission requirements. This person is the primary advisor.
Mentor
Traditionally, a mentor has been defined as a more senior individual who provides career and psychosocial support to a junior member of a given organization. Recently, mentors have been found to exist laterally, virtually, among peers, and with individuals outside of the professional context. Mentorships center on an emotional commitment, which focuses on the protégé’s personal and professional growth. Mentoring relationships, by nature, are reciprocal and more enduring than relationships with an academic advisor, supervisor, or dissertation chair. 

Journal of Material Culture December 2016; Vol. 21, No. 4

Articles
‘Uurga shig’ – What is it like to be a lasso? Drawing figure–ground reversals between art and anthropology
Hermione Spriggs

The curator, the investor, and the dupe: Consumer desire and Chinese Cultural Revolution memorabilia
Laurence Coderre

Old things with character: The fetishization of objects in Margate, UK
Ana Carolina Balthazar

The museum’s lexis: Driving objects into ideas
Gabriela Nicolescu

How khipus indicated labour contributions in an Andean village: An explanation of colour banding, seriation and ethnocategories
Sabine Hyland

New Book: Loser Sons Politics and Authority

Loser Sons
Politics and Authority
A chip off the old block, and a disastrous chip on the shoulder
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/53pde4nm97802520366464.html#.WDJ8-4C1jiI.facebook

There are sons who grow up unhappily believing that no matter what they do, they cannot please their fathers. Often unable to shed their sense of lifelong failure, either they give up and suffer in a permanent sulk, or they try with all their might to prove they are worth something after all. These are the "loser sons," a group of historical men as varied as President George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, and Mohammed Atta. Their names quickly illustrate that not only are their problems serious, but they also make serious problems for others, expanding to whole nations. When God is conceived and inculcated as an angry and impossible-to-please father, the problems can last for generations.

In Loser Sons, Avital Ronell draws on current philosophy, literary history, and political events to confront the grim fact that divested boys become terrifying men. This would be old news if the problem didn't recur so often with such disastrous consequences. Looking beyond our current moment, she interrogates the problems of authority, paternal fantasy, and childhood as they have been explored and exemplified by Franz Kafka, Goethe's Faust, Benjamin Franklin, Jean-François Lyotard, Hannah Arendt, Alexandre Kojève, and Immanuel Kant.

Brilliantly weaving these threads into a polyvocal discourse, Ronell shows how, with their arrays of powerful symbols, ideologies of all sorts perpetuate the theme that while childhood represents innocence, adulthood entails responsible cruelty. The need for suffering--preferably somebody else's--has become a widespread assumption, not only justifying abuses of authority, but justifying authority itself.

Shockingly honest, Loser Sons recognizes that focusing on the spectacular catastrophes of modernity might make writer and reader feel they're engaged in something important, while in fact what they are engaged in is still only spectacle. To understand the implications of her insights, Ronell addresses them directly to her readers, challenging them to think through their own notions of authority and their responses to it.

"The area of literature, politics and economics is a growing interdisciplinary field of study. Avital Ronell's new book is an important contribution to this newly evolving aspect of literary theory...Ronell has written a beautiful and timely book in support of the highly underrated and immeasurable zero position."--Political Studies Review

"Important contribution. . . . a beautiful and timely book."--Political Theory

"Loser Sons will endear and fascinate the theoretically curious and will speak to intellectually and politically adventurous audiences. A welcome intervention in the art of political physiognomy and progressive seismography, both redeemed from their most violent and delusional of expectations."--Hent de Vries, editor of Religion: Beyond a Concept

"In addition to its importance for the ongoing readers of Ronell's work, this book will be automatically a requirement in the field of study of authority. A beautifully written and composed study that sets new highest standards."--Laurence A. Rickels, author of Aberrations of Mourning: Writings on German Crypts

Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of German, English, and comparative literature at New York University, where she codirects the Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies program. She is also Jacques Derrida Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She is the author of Dictations: On Haunted Writing; The Telephone Book; Crack Wars; Finitude's Score; Stupidity; The Test Drive; and Fighting Theory.

CSSR 2017 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CSSR 2017 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR PROPOSALS
SCÉR 2017 : APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
Due January 15, 2017  Date-limite 15 janvier 2017
Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR)
Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Rhétorique (SCÉR)
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 30 – June 1, 2017
La version française suit.

The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR / SCÉR) invites scholars and students to submit proposals for presentations at its annual conference held at the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities’ Congress 2017 (www.congress2017.ca).

Special Sessions: Rhetoric and
Interdisciplinarity / Disciplinarity
We have chosen this theme because we are well aware that rhetorical studies and rhetoricians find their home in a wide variety of academic disciplines and institutions in Canada and beyond. In addition, throughout history in many cultures, rhetorical studies have been located within and across various disciplines, sometimes enjoying great power, high status and popularity in relation to other studies, and at other times low status or invisibility.
Some have proclaimed interdisciplinarity to be an academic value in itself, and some see it as a method of enabling smaller disciplines to survive. Alternatively, some have championed the status of rhetoric as an independent discipline, seeing it as the best means by which rhetorical study may flourish.
We would like to understand how disciplinarity or interdisciplinarity affects the study and teaching of various kinds of rhetoric in various institutional locations, historically and today.
 What happens to rhetorical studies when it is linked to or subsumed within communication or media studies, English or modern languages, composition or writing studies, philosophy, linguistics, or professional schools such as education or engineering, for example?
 What larger social, economic, political, and ideological factors influence the “places” for rhetorical studies within academia?
 What are the prospects for the future of rhetorical studies in particular institutions, regions, or cultures?
 What are the potential larger social and cultural effects of rhetoric’s changing status and location within the disciplines?
General Sessions
Proposals for conference papers in French or in English are not limited to the topic of the special session theme. The society welcomes papers on all aspects of rhetoric:
 rhetorical theory, criticism, and/or history  rhetoric in popular culture and everyday life  rhetoric and the media, film, gaming, and visual
culture  rhetoric and the physical environment

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 rhetoric and the body, sports or performance  rhetoric in the fine arts and literature  rhetoric and identity, women’s/gender studies  rhetoric in various disciplines and professions  rhetorical discourse analysis and genre studies  rhetoric of political, legal or public discourse  biographical research on rhetors or rhetoricians  rhetorical aspects of sociolinguistics and
semiotics
We foster dialogue among scholars from diverse disciplines and professions who are interested in rhetoric. We welcome not only mainstream rhetorical scholarship, but also “rhetoric in/and” a wide variety of domains or disciplines and through interdisciplinary frameworks.
The CSSR Conference Experience
Normally, we schedule all sessions in plenary format (all participants attend), rather than concurrent sessions in different rooms. Plenaries foster the growth of a community of rhetorical scholars through discussion, debate and shared experience.
We expect presenters to participate in all (or most) other sessions, not just those in which they are scheduled to speak.
As a bilingual society, we may mix both French and English presenters in panels. We encourage presenters to prepare materials such as a 1-page handout or abstract (in French and/or English) to assist audience members who may have limited oral fluency in your language.
We will hold a banquet (for a basic fee per person) on one of the evenings of the conference, and we may offer additional social activities.
Proposals
By January 15, 2017 send your proposal to:
 Dr. Tania S. Smith, CSSR President,
Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary: smit@ucalgary.ca
Proposals for twenty-minute oral presentations may be submitted in English or French.
 Submit a single file in .docx or .doc format.
 Save your file with the file name “CSSR-2017-Proposal-Surname-Firstname” using hyphens instead of spaces. (Your file will be renamed before it is distributed to reviewers.)
 Remove all identifying information from the document’s properties (in MS Word).
 The first page of the document is a cover page with all personal and contact information (full name, affiliation, address, e-mail, etc).
 If you are an undergraduate or graduate student, include your program name, year of study, and see “Student Proposals” below.
Within the following 2-3 pages, omit all identifying information from your proposal:
 The title of your presentation
 A brief abstract (max. 50 words) for inclusion in the programme. Please make the abstract clear and interesting to the educated public.
 A proposal of 200–350 words that indicates the central importance of rhetoric to the inquiry and how it contributes to rhetorical scholarship.
 A brief, preliminary list of works cited in your
proposal (2–10 items).
Student Proposals
We encourage students to submit a proposal and become part of our community. Special requirements and benefits for students:
 By May 1, 2017, one month before the conference, all student presenters (undergraduate or graduate) must submit at least a 5-page double-spaced draft to the President. This demonstrates your advance preparation and commitment. It also enables

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us to provide you personalized feedback, presentation tips, or encouragement.
 By May 20, 2017, any who wish to apply for
the student prize must submit a final draft that approximates the “script” of their oral presentation (although we do not wish you to read aloud from a script). To fit within 20 minutes, it should be 7-10 pages double spaced (in addition to references). Follow MLA or APA style conventions. The CSSR Student Prize Committee will evaluate both the written script and the quality of your oral presentation. The winner will be announced on our website, and the paper will be eligible for peer review and publication in the society’s journal, Rhetor.
 We offer a reduced membership fee for students. Also, please ask if you require financial assistance to attend our banquet.
 We designate positions on our committees
for students.
Acceptance & Fees
We plan to notify proposers of their acceptance by March 15 at the latest.
To confirm your intention to present, pay both your Congress Registration fee and CSSR Association conference fee at www.congress2017.ca. March 31 is the deadline for the reduced “early-bird” Congress registration fee, and Congress registration will remain open online until May 15. Only registered presenters will appear in the final conference programme.
The CSSR Membership fee is separate from the Registration & Association fees paid through the Congress website.
1. Congress fees (registration fee & association fee) only cover the costs of conference rooms, catering, audio-visual equipment, etc. They are paid to Congress. Current CSSR Members get a discount on the association fee.
2. CSSR Membership fee helps us maintain our society between conferences and pay for our website, posters, bank fees, etc.
All presenters must be CSSR members by the time they present, holding memberships for the upcoming year (June 2017 – May 2018). Pay your membership either in Canadian cash in person at the conference, or pay online with your credit card at http://cssr-scer.ca/join-us/ . ($40 Regular, $10 Students).
Travel arrangements
Book accommodations early. On-campus residences and local hotels fill quickly. Congress involves over 8000 attendees of conferences scheduled over one week (May 27 and June 2).
Congress usually offers discounts with selected hotels and airlines. Check the Congress website before booking. To reduce cost, consider sharing a room with another scholar.
Our CSSR banquet will be held May 31 at a local restaurant, and guests are welcome.



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SCÉR 2017 APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS CSSR 2017 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Date-limite 15 janvier 2017Due January 15, 2017
Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Rhétorique (SCÉR) Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR)

Université de Ryerson, Toronto, ON, Canada, 30 mai – 1 juin 2017

English version above.
La Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Rhétorique (SCÉR) invite ses membres à soumettre des propositions de communication pour son Colloque annuel qui se tiendra durant le
Congrès 2017 de la Fédération Canadienne des Sciences Humaines (www.congress2017.ca)

Session thématique : Rhétorique et (inter)disciplinarité
Nous avons choisi ce thème car nous sommes bien conscients que les études en rhétorique et les rhétoriciens sont logés dans une large variété de domaines académiques et d’institutions au Canada et ailleurs. En outre, tout au long de l’histoire, dans de nombreuses cultures, les études rhétoriques ont été placées à l’intérieur ou en travers de diverses disciplines, tantôt en bénéficiant d’une large influence, d’un statut et d’une popularité élevés par rapport à d’autres études ; tantôt en ayant un statut faible et une visibilité nulle.
Certains ont proclamé que l’interdisciplinarité était une valeur académique en elle-même, et certains la voient comme une méthode permettant à des disciplines de moindre importance de subsister. Alternativement, d’autres ont soutenu le statut de la rhétorique en tant que discipline indépendante, en y voyant le meilleur moyen de faire prospérer l’étude de la rhétorique.
Nous aimerions comprendre comment le caractère disciplinaire ou interdisciplinaire affecte l’étude et l’enseignement de différentes sortes de rhétorique dans différentes institutions, au cours de l’histoire et aujourd’hui.
 Qu’arrive-t-il aux études rhétoriques lorsqu’elles sont liées ou subordonnées aux études de communication ou sur les médias, aux études sur la composition et l’écriture en langue anglaise ou en langues modernes, à la philosophie, à la linguistique, ou aux écoles professionnelles, d’éducation ou d’ingénierie par exemple ?
 Quels facteurs plus larges, sociaux, économiques, politiques et idéologiques influencent les “places” dévolues aux études rhétoriques au niveau académique ?
 Quels sont les perspectives futures pour les études rhétoriques dans des institutions, des régions ou des cultures particulières ?
 Quels sont les potentiels effets plus larges, au niveau social et culturel, du changement de statut de la rhétorique et de sa localisation au sein des disciplines ?

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Sessions générales
En français ou en anglais, les propositions de communication ne sont pas limitées au seul sujet de la session thématique. Les propositions relatives à tous les aspects de la rhétorique sont, comme toujours, bienvenues, et ceci, quel que soit le champ investigué :
 théorie de la rhétorique, critique, et/ou histoire de la rhétorique ;
 la rhétorique dans la culture populaire et dans la vie quotidienne ;
 la rhétorique dans les médias, les films, les jeux et la culture visuelle ;
 rhétorique et environnement physique ;
 rhétorique du corps, du sport et de la performance ;
 rhétorique des arts et de la littérature ;
 rhétorique et identité / études de genre, études féministes ;
 aspects disciplinaires et professionnels de la rhétorique ;
 analyse du discours rhétorique et études génériques ;
 rhétorique du discours politique, légal et public ;
 recherches biographiques sur des rhéteurs et des rhétoriciens ;
 aspects rhétoriques de la sociolinguistique et de la sémiotique.
Nous favorisons le dialogue entre les chercheurs qui, venus de disciplines et d’horizons variés, s’intéressent à la rhétorique (au sens le plus large). Partant, notre but n’est pas uniquement d’accueillir le courant dominantde la recherche en rhétorique, mais bien d’encourager l’exploration de la « rhétorique dans et à travers » une grande variété de domaines ou de disciplines, et suivant des méthodes et des cadres interdisciplinaires extrêmement divers.
L’expérience du Colloque de la SCÉR
Notre colloque annuel se tient, chaque fois, sous un format de séances plénières (qui rassemblent tous les participants en un lieu unique), plutôt que sous un format de sessions parallèles prenant place dans des salles différentes. Nous cherchons à favoriser la croissance d’une communauté de chercheurs en rhétorique à travers la discussion, le débat et le partage d’expérience. C’est pourquoi nous demandons aux participants / orateurs de bien vouloir assister à toutes les sessions (du moins, à la plupart), et non pas seulement à celles où sont programmées leurs interventions.
Nous sommes une société bilingue, raison pour laquelle nous accueillons des intervenants aussi bien anglophones que francophones. Autant que possible, nous encourageons les intervenants à utiliser un support visuel, polycopié d’une page ou résumé (en français et/ou en anglais), destiné aux membres de l’auditoire qui ne maîtrisent pas complètement la langue utilisée par l’orateur.
Nous organisons un banquet (sur la base d’une participation individuelle forfaitaire) à l’occasion d’une des soirées du colloque, et pouvons également offrir des activités sociales supplémentaires.

Propositions
Les propositions de communication doivent être adressées d’ici le 15 janvier 2017 à :
 Dr. Tania S. Smith, Présidente de la SCÉR,
Department of Communication, Media and Film, Université de Calgary, AB, Canada : smit@ucalgary.ca.

Comment préparer une proposition ?
Les propositions (visant une intervention orale d’environ vingt minutes) peuvent être soumises en anglais comme en français :

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 Ne soumettre qu’un seul fichier au format .docx ou .doc ;
 Vous devez enregistrer votre fichier en respectant l’intitulé suivant (dans lequel les traits d’union remplacent les espaces) : « CSSR-2017-Proposition-Nom-Prénom » – votre fichier sera renommé avant d’être envoyé aux experts chargés de son évaluation ;
 Veuillez retirer toutes les informations permettant de vous identifier à partir des propriétés du document (dans Word ou équivalent) ;
 Il vous faut insérer une page de garde en tête du document, laquelle devra reprendre vos informations personnelles et de contact (nom, prénom, affiliation scientifique, adresse postale, e-mail, etc.) ;
 Si vous êtes étudiant/e/ en premier cycle ou dans un cycle supérieur, merci de mentionner le nom et l’année de votre programme d’études. Par ailleurs, nous vous invitons à consulter la section ci-dessous.
Sur 2 ou 3 pages suivant la page de garde, en omettant toute information permettant de vous identifier, nous vous demandons de fournir les éléments suivants :
 Le titre de votre présentation
 Un bref résumé (50 mots maximum) à inclure dans le programme. Nous vous prions de le rendre clair et intéressant pour un public averti.
 Une proposition de 200 à 350 mots montrant le rôle central de la rhétorique dans votre réflexion et comment cette dernière contribue à la recherche en rhétorique.
 Une brève liste préliminaire des travaux cités
dans votre proposition (2 à 10 références).
Propositions d’étudiant/e/s
Les étudiants/es sont vivement encouragé/e/s à soumettre des propositions et ainsi à prendre part à notre communauté de recherche. Afin d’encadrer leur participation au colloque, et pour leur meilleur bénéfice scientifique, nous
demandons aux étudiant/e/s de respecter les procédures suivantes :
 Avant le 1er mai 2017, soit un mois avant le colloque, tous/toutes les étudiant/e/s doivent avoir adressé à la Présidente de la société un projet d’intervention d’au moins cinq pages à double interligne. Il s’agit par-là de témoigner de votre niveau de préparation et d’assurer votre participation à notre colloque. Ceci nous permet également de vous offrir un retour personnalisé : conseils de présentation et encouragements.
 Avant le 20 mai 2017, tous/toutes les étudiant/e/s désirant concourir pour le Prix de la SCÉR (remis annuellement à la meilleure communication étudiante) doivent avoir envoyé un projet final collant au plus près du
« scénario » de la présentation oralesachant toutefois que nous n’attendons pas, le jour du colloque, une lecture à voix haute du script en question. Afin que ne pas dépasser les vingt minutes, le texte devra respecter un format de 7-10 pages à double interligne (sans compter les références et les notes). Nous demandons aux étudiant/e/s de se conformer aux conventions de style de la MLA ou de l’APA. Le Comité du Prix de la SCÉR sera amené à évaluer, tout à la fois, la conférence écrite et la qualité de la prestation orale. Le nom du/de la gagnant/e sera annoncé sur notre site internet ; son article sera admissible à un examen par les
pairs et à une publication dans Rhetor le journal de notre société.
 Nous offrons aux étudiant/e/s une réduction de cotisation à la SCÉR, et invitons ceux-ci/celles-ci à demander (éventuellement) une aide financière pour assister à notre banquet.
 Certaines charges et fonctions au sein de nos
comités sont par ailleurs destinées aux étudiants gradués.

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Admission et cotisations
Nous prévoyons de notifier aux proposants leur admission au colloque pour le 15 mars 2017 au plus tard.
Afin de confirmer votre participation au colloque, nous vous invitons à régler votre cotisation de participation au congrès et à la Société Canadienne pour l’Étude la Rhétorique (SCER) à l’adresse suivante : www.congress2017.ca.  La date limite pour bénéficier du tarif préférentiel pour l’inscription au congrès est fixée au 31 mars 2017. L’inscription au congrès et le paiement en ligne resteront ouverts jusqu’au 15 mai 2017. Seules les participants inscrits seront portés au programme final de notre colloque et pourront donc intervenir.
La cotisation en tant que membre de la Société Canadienne pour l’Étude de la Rhétorique (SCER) est distincte de la cotisation pour la participation au congrès et à l’association réglés via le site du congrès.
1. La cotisation de participation au congrès et à l’association, réglés sur le site, couvrent uniquement les frais de réservations de salle de conférence, de traiteur, d’équipement audio-visuel, etc. Elle est directement versée au Congrès de la Fédération Canadienne des Sciences Humaines. Les membres actuels de la SCER bénéficient d’une réduction sur la cotisation à l’association.
2. La cotisation de membre de la SCERnous aide à assurer la continuité du travail de la société entre les colloques (frais d’entretien et d’hébergement du site internet, coûts d’impression des affiches, frais bancaires, etc.)
Tous les participants doivent être membres de la SCER au moment de leur intervention pour l’année à venir (juin 2017 - mai 2018). Vous pouvez payer votre cotisation
de membre soit en espèces canadiennes et en personne au colloque, soit en ligne par carte de crédit à l’adresse http://cssr-scer.ca/join-us/ . La cotisation de membre de la SCER est fixée à 40 dollars canadiens pour les membres réguliers et à 10 dollars canadiens pour les étudiants.
Recommandations pour votre voyage
Nous vous conseillons de réserver votre logement le plus tôt possible. Les résidences sur le campus universitaire et les hôtels proches se remplissent rapidement. Le Congrès accueille plus de 8000 participants en l’espace d’une semaine (du 27 mai au 2 juin 2017).
Le Congrès de la Fédération Canadienne des Sciences Humaines propose généralement des réductions pour certains hôtels et certains vols. Nous vous invitons à consulter le site du Congrès avant de réserver. Pour réduire les coûts, nous vous suggérons de partager une chambre avec un autre chercheur.
Le banquet annuel de la SCER se tiendra le 31 mai 2017 dans un restaurant des environs. Les invités sont les bienvenus

Public Understanding of Science Special Issue: Scientific Uncertainty in the Media November 2016; Vol. 25, No. 8

Public Understanding of Science
Special Issue: Scientific Uncertainty in the Media
November 2016; Vol. 25, No. 8
Introduction
Scientific uncertainty in media content: Introduction to this special issue
Hans Peter Peters and Sharon Dunwoody

Articles
Constructing (un-)certainty: An exploration of journalistic decision-making in the reporting of neuroscience
Markus Lehmkuhl and Hans Peter Peters

Scientific evidence and mass media: Investigating the journalistic intention to represent scientific uncertainty
Lars Guenther and Georg Ruhrmann

Stakeholders’ rationales for representing uncertainties of biotechnological research
Senja Post and Michaela Maier

Rhetorical functions of a ‘language of uncertainty’ in the mass media
Anne Simmerling and Nina Janich

The influence of weight-of-evidence strategies on audience perceptions of (un)certainty when media cover contested science
Patrice Ann Kohl, Soo Yun Kim, Yilang Peng, Heather Akin, Eun Jeong Koh, Allison Howell, and Sharon Dunwoody

Evoking vigilance: Would you (dis)trust a scientist who discusses ethical implications of research in a science blog?
Friederike Hendriks, Dorothe Kienhues, and Rainer Bromme

Commentary
Scientific uncertainty in media content: Some reflections on this special issue
Robert J. Griffin

Review Essays
New texts in science communication
Jonathan Roberts

New media and social networks
Yves Laberge

Book Reviews
Book Review: The editor as catalyst and activist
Ullica Segerstrale

Book review: Peter Washer, Emerging Infectious Diseases and Society
Declan Fahy

Book Review: Alessandro Delfanti, Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science
Krishna Ravi Srinivas

Book Review: Sabine Höhler, Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960–1990
Jon Turney

Book Review: Richard Maxwell, Jon Raundalen and Nina Lager Vestberg (eds), Media and the ecological crisis
Liisa Antilla Kellems

New Textbook: Pursuing Popular Culture: Methods for Researching the Everyday

Jennifer C. Dunn and Stephanie L. Young's Pursuing Popular Culture: Methods for Researching the Everyday is now available through Kendall Hunt for Spring 2017 (and beyond) adoptions:

https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/pursuing-popular-culture-methods-researching-everyday

This textbook is available in both paperback and electronic versions and is designed primarily for popular culture, media studies, and introduction methods courses.
Pursuing Popular Culture provides both a rich blend of new and relevant popular culture artifacts that appeals to diverse students and the analytical tools needed to understand media, popular culture, communication, and critical/cultural studies. The text explains theoretical approaches and makes clear how these can be applied to better understand popular culture. Finally, the book provides straightforward approaches that allow students to think, talk, and write critically about popular culture.

Pursuing Popular Culture includes four sections: textual analysis and representation, production and media technologies, audience engagements, and presenting research. Additionally, the book provides specific instructions in major methodological approaches and references to additional quality materials. Each chapter guides students as to how to choose targets for analysis, write research questions, and select methods that will help them to answer those questions. Instructions are included to help students learn how to develop their own explanatory frameworks and/or choose existing theories to make sense of their analyses.

Jennifer C. Dunn, Dominican University, jdunn@dom.edu

New Book Announcement

My partner and I would like to announce the publication of our new book from Lexington: Possessed Women, Haunted States: Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema.

This monograph contains our research into the horror film subgenre of exorcism cinema. In this research, we examine the history of these films and suggest that they primarily concern themselves with the oppression of marginalized identities, mainly women, people of color, and the non-heteronormative. While the state of being possessed empowers such marginalized individuals, the act of exorcism removes this power and returns them to an oppressed state, thereby restoring the powers of a patriarchal, heteronormative and colonial state.

From The Exorcist to the spate of movies released recently, this traditional exorcism narrative appears largely unchallenged in over 100 movies. In the book, we consider reasons for the preponderance of this traditional exorcism narrative in our analysis of key texts from different historical periods.

The book is currently available from the publisher: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498519083/Possessed-Women-Haunted-States-Cultural-Tensions-in-Exorcism-Cinema#

Call for Chapters - "The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States"

Early in the 21st century, religious freedom has emerged as a prominent ideograph in a variety of public controversies, notably including healthcare statutes and same-sex marriage. But it is not limited to them. Indeed, this recent instantiation is part of a long historical legacy.

Though much has already been written on religious freedom in the United States, these treatments have come mostly from historians and legal scholars, with relatively little attention from rhetorical critics. This means that there is a wealth of literature on how lawyers and judges have interpreted the First Amendment in US history, but considerably less on religious freedom as a trope in political, social movement, and related discourses.

As such, this edited volume proposes to bring together scholars interested in the variety of forms that free, public religiosity may assume, and what rhetorical techniques are operative in a public square populated by a diversity of religious-political actors. In particular, we aim to include a diverse set of scholars who consider different religions, historical periods, and legal, political, or social contexts.

Chapters will address questions that may include:

What is the relationship between religious freedom and American civic identity? How does the discourse of religious freedom open and limit space for public belonging and engagement?

How have religious citizens made constructive contributions to public policy? Conversely, how has public policy influenced religious freedom and its relationship to citizenship?

How have rhetors and movements performed religious freedom? How have rhetors engaged arguments concerning the separation of church and state?

How has the discourse of religious freedom emerged as a contested terrain? Who can claim religious freedom and to what end?

How have non-Christian movements fared in this "free" environment? Have they been able to appropriate religious freedom arguments with any success?

Please contact Eric C. Miller (emiller@bloomu.edu) with any questions, and submit an abstract by Friday, January 13 for full consideration.

CFP: "BUFFY at 20" Conference (Marquette University, April 1, 2017)

deadline for submissions:
December 19, 2016
full name / name of organization:
Marquette University
contact email:
gerry.canavan@marquette.edu
CFP: BUFFY AT 20
April 1, 2017
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

https://gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/cfp-buffy-at-20/

CFP DEADLINE: DECEMBER 19, 2016
Please submit 250-500 word abstracts to gerry.canavan@marquette.edu and james.south@marquette.edu.
Participants will be notified by January 15, 2017.

Keynote Speaker: Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside

This one-day conference invites scholars working on film and television, literature, philosophy, history, folklore studies, religion, and related academic disciplines to explore the ongoing legacy of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer as it turns twenty years old this year. Undoubtedly one of the best-loved (and best-studied) television programs of all time, Buffy has left an indelible mark on contemporary genre fiction and contemporary fandom both. But where do we go from here? What is the place of Buffy today, in a media ecology that in many ways has moved beyond the stale genre conventions and offensive sexist assumptions that made it feel so revolutionary in its moment? Does Buffy really still matter, all these years later? We submit it does, and invite papers that advance novel and innovative interventions in Buffy studies that point the way towards another twenty years (at least)

Possible topics might include:
* Buffy/Angel spinoff media, including the video games, Fray, and the seasons 8-10 comics
* Where are they now? Post-Buffy careers
* Buffy/Angel fan commentary and fan fictions
* Bingewatching Buffy
* Re-(re-(re-))watching Buffy
* Buffy and philosophy
* Buffy and history
* Buffy and religion
* Buffy and contemporary identity politics
* Buffy/Angel and the wider Mutant Enemy culture industry (Firefly, Dollhouse, Doctor Horrible, The Cabin in the Woods, Much Ado about Nothing, the Marvel Cinematic Universe)
* Buffy and nostalgia
* Buffy and mythopoesis
* classic episodes / classically bad episodes
* the rise of Whedon Studies / Buffy in the academy / Buffy in the classroom
* Buffy in the Anthropocene
* Buffy in the Age of Trump
* Buffy’s impact, legacy, ongoing relevance, and future

Conference organizers:
Gerry Canavan (gerry.canavan@marquette.edu)
James South (james.south@marquette.edu)

Capital at 150 (Special Issue of Lateral)

deadline for submissions:
April 15, 2017
full name / name of organization:
Lateral, the journla of the Cultural Studies Association
contact email:
eero.email@gmail.com
Capital at 150Lateral, the journal of the Cultural Studes Association
http://csalateral.org/wp/Special Issue 6.2 (Fall 2017)

Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. Methodically describing the workings of capitalism and class, Das Kapital has inspired countless theorists, philosophers, and revolutionaries, as well as skeptics. Capital remains as relevant today as it was in 1867.

On the occasion of this anniversary, Lateral seeks articles, essays, and critiques of what has become one of the foundational texts of cultural studies and one of the most influential books in the past century and a half.

The editors invite interventions related to

Marxism’s historical legacy
The development and dissemination of Marxism as a school of thought, political theory, and revolutionary practice
The Frankfurt School
The Birmingham School
Black Marxism
Marxist Feminism
Inter- and Transnational Marxisms
Capital’s influence on movements such as unions, gender liberation, queer liberation, black liberation, workers’ and poor people’s liberation, anticolonialism and national liberation, and more
Contemporary radical politics
The future of Marxist thought and action
and other topics broadly related to Capital and Marxism.
In addition to full-length articles (4,000–9,500 words), the editors invite discussions from those working on colloquia, conferences, courses, and other events and resources in this area. Please be in touch about publishing materials as part of this special issue.

Submissions due by April 15, 2017 for publication online in November 2017. For submission guidelines, see http://csalateral.org/wp/contribute. Early submissions are encouraged and inquiries are welcome.

Lateral is the peer-reviewed digital journal and production site of the Cultural Studies Association, designed to foster experimentation and collaboration among cultural studies practitioners and researchers. It is committed to critical studies of culture that advance and extend the reach of cultural studies as a field and method of inquiry and as an intellectual/political project.

http://csalateral.org/wp/upcoming/capital-at-150/

Lateral Editors
Stefanie A. Jones (sjones@gradcenter.cuny.edu)
Eero Laine (eero.email@gmail.com)
Chris Alen Sula (csula@pratt.edu)

Corder on why poltical dialogue is difficult

Corder's Dialogues, by James Corder
Source: Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3/4 (Summer - Autumn, 1985), pp. 119-130

Teaching Inter-racial Communication in a Christian Context

Dr. Derrick Rosenior, "Teaching Inter-racial Communication in a Christian Context," Free CCSN Webinar, Thursday, Nov. 17

Greetings, CRTNET colleagues and friends.

Please join the Christianity and Communication Studies Network (CCSN) (http://www.theccsn.com) and Dr. Derrick Rosenior, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Chair of Communication Department, Vanguard University; Director of the Lewis Wilson Institute for Pentecostal Studies, for our upcoming free webinar titled "Teaching Inter-racial Communication in a Christian Context," on Thursday, Nov. 17, 8-9 pm EST. This webinar is free and open to the public. A full description of the webinar is located here: http://www.theccsn.com/teaching-inter-racial-communication-in-a-christian-context/

You may register directly here: https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/4599037615109087745

Description: The issues of race, racism, discrimination, and prejudice have long dominated the American cultural psyche.  Every aspect of American life, including the church, has somehow been touched and affected by race relations and racism. Unfortunately, the church in America has not always done a good job at addressing this issue head on. As Christians, we have been given the ministry of reconciliation (II Corinthians 5:18).  We have the mandate to be exemplars of reconciliation. Thus, a course in Interracial Communication is vital in enhancing our ability to bridging the racial divide, and being agents of racial healing and reconciliation to our world.

Dr. Dr. Derrick Rosenior, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Chair of Communication Department, Vanguard University; Director of the Lewis Wilson Institute for Pentecostal Studies. Read more here:  http://www.vanguard.edu/communication/faculty-and-staff/derrick-rosenior-phd/; http://www.csus.edu/indiv/b/bonillad/coms-cv/williamsmark-cv.pdf

Previously recorded CCSN webinars by Quentin Schultze, Bill Strom, Kevin Schut, Tim Muehlhoff, Paul Patton, Paul Soukup, Terry Lindvall, Calvin Troup, Bala Musa, Janie Harden Fritz, Diane Proctor-Badzinski, Bill Romanowski, Jen Letherer, Mark Ward, Jenni Sigler, Heidi Campbell, Bob Fortner, Naaman Wood, Stephanie Sandberg, Ken Chase, Gerald Mast, Annalee Ward, Greg Spencer, Dennis Smith, and Mark Williams are available for download here: http://www.theccsn.com/category/webinars/webinars-recorded/

Thanks for your support of the CCSN.

Sincerely,

Robert Woods, J.D., Ph.D.

CCSN Network Administrator

email: administrator@theccsn.com

Professor, Dept. of Comm. & Media,

Spring Arbor University (www.arbor.edu)

New book "Rhetoric, Humor and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert"

Elizabeth Benacka, benacka@mx.lakeforest.edu

New book

"Rhetoric, Humor and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert"

Rhetoric, Humor and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert investigates classical and contemporary understandings of satire, parody, and irony, and how these genres function within a deliberative democracy. This book examines the rhetorical history, theorization, and practice of humor from ancient Greece and Rome to the contemporary United States, particularly the contemporary work of Stephen Colbert and his parody of a conservative media pundit. Colbert's humor often took place in front of an uninitiated audience and ridiculed a variety of problems and controversies threatening American democracy. Humor serves as a source of information in contemporary society, as well as a discourse capable of calling forth a group of engaged citizens.
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James Corder on the Election (Kind of)

Corder's Dialogues, by James Corder
Source: Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3/4 (Summer - Autumn, 1985), pp. 119-130

Experiential Education: 9 Characteristics

From "On Defining Experiential Education" by Laura Joplin

Components of Experiential Education: Support or Feedback

From "On Defining Experiential Education" by Laura Joplin