A conference on value of rhetoric’s history for our contemporary worries over the powers of persuasion, the misuse of political discourse, incivility, gender inequality, and the subverting of democratic forms of discourse. Keynote addresses by David Zarefsky (Northwestern University) and Cheryl Glenn (Penn State University). Sponsored by the American Society for the History of Rhetoric and the Moody College of Communication.

Feb 15-17, 2019. All sessions in BMC 5.208. Free and open to the public.

Full program available at: www.ashr.org

Conference Organizer: Scott Stroud (Communication Studies)