Sessions and Papers

Please note: Sessions will be held on the University of Saskatchewan campus except on the afternoon of Wednesday July 23, when they will be held at Wanuskewin Heritage Park.

Concurrent Sessions on University of Saskatchewan Campus

• Session I. Classical, Biblical, Patristic, and Byzantine Rhetoric
• Session II. Medieval and Renaissance Rhetoric
• Session III. Early Modern Rhetoric (16th-18th Centuries)
• Session IV. Late Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric
• Session V. Rhetoric in Asia (Garrett: Organizer)
• Session VI. Queer Rhetoric (Salazar: Organizer)
• Session VII. Twentieth-Century Approaches to Rhetoric
• Session VIII. Rhetoric and The Fine Arts
• Session IX. Rhetoric in Education
• Session X. Women and The Rhetorical Tradition (Sutherland: Organizer)

Concurrent Sessions at Wanuskewin Heritage Park

• Seminar 1: Celebrating Living Cree Oratory
• Seminar 2: Encounters Between Europe and America

Concurrent Sessions on University of Saskatchewan Campus

Session I. Classical, Biblical, Patristic, and Byzantine Rhetoric - Room A

Tuesday

Seminar 1. Exploring Origins

Mirhady, D.C. "The Philosophical Intersections of Aristotle's Rhetoric"

Schiappa, E. "Aristotle's Genre of Epideictic and the Athenian Epitaphios"

Chiron, P. "La Rhétorique à Alexandre et l'éloquence du IVe s."

Calboli, G. "The Figures of Thought and the Progymnasmata: At the Beginning of the Doctrine of Figures"

Seminar 2. Exploring Contexts: Greek Oratory

Andrews, J.A. "Audience and Ideology in Fifth-Century Athens"

Rose, P. W. "Theorizing Athenian Imperialism from Its Rhetoric: The Case of Mytilene"

Edwards, M.J. "Andocides the 'Gentleman' Orator"

Vallozza, M. "Kallíste doreá: Isocrate e il suo committente"

Wednesday

Seminar 1. Adapting Theory to Context

Gaines, R.N. "Philodemus and the Ethical Theory of Delivery"

Schenkeveld, D. M. "The Stasis Theory Applied to Some Orations of Demosthenes"

Montefusco, L. "Aristotle's Rhetoric: The Speaker and His Audience"

Thursday

Seminar 1. Exploring Contexts: Roman Republic and Empire

Fogel, J. "Rebuking Your Public in Athens and Rome: Roman Adaptation of a Figure of Thought"

Wisse, J. "Rhetorical History? Cicero's 'Theory of Historiography' Re-examined"

Sullivan, R. "Quintilian and the Genera causarum"

Seminar 2. Literary Origins and Adaptations

Varwig, F.R. "'Two golden talents lay amidst...' (Pope/Homer, I1.) - The Two-fold Representation of Rhetoric in Homer"

Faber, R. A. "The Adaptation of Apostrophe in Lucan's Bellum civile"

Celentano, M.S. "Il fascino della parola: persuasione e seduzione nell'Ars amatoria di Ovidio"

Granatelli, R. "Tà eschematisména e controversiae figuratae: somiglianze, differenze, derivazioni"

Friday

Seminar 1. Biblical and Patristic Rhetoric

Selby, G.S. "Blameless at his Coming: The Rhetorical Function of Paul's Apocalyptic Language in 1 Thessalonians"

Quick, C.S. "Gospel Rhetoric and Oral Tradition Ethos"

Henderson, I.H. "'Salted with Fire' (Mark 9:42-50): Stylistics and Oracular Rhetoric in Gospel Criticism"

Astell, Ann W. "The Rhetoric and Poetics of Concessio: Cassiodorus's Commentary on the Psalms"

Seminar 2. Traditions of the Greek East

Poster, C. "Porphyry and the Rhetorization of Neoplatonic Mysticism"

Perria, L. "L'interpunzione in funzione retorica nella prassi dei manoscritti bizantini (secc. IX-X)"

Metodieva, L. "La tradition gréco-byzantine dans le manuscrit de Agapy Rilski"

Alexandrova, D. "Cyril and Methodius and Slavonic Rhetorical Tradition"

Session II. Medieval and Renaissance Rhetoric - Room B

Tuesday

Seminar 1. The Ars dictaminis and the Ars arengandi (Polak: Organizer)

Polak, E.J. [Introduction]

Coffey, T.F. "The Stormy History of the Rediscovery of Alberic of Monte Cassino"

Hinojosa, D. "The Transmission of the ars arengandi in Court Propositions"

Richardson, M. "Rhetoric and Power in the Late Medieval Epistle"

Camargo, M.J. "The Ars dictaminis in Context: Oxford in the Late Middle Ages"

Seminar 2. Rhetoric in England

Dobyns, A. "The Canterbury Tales and Forensic Rhetoric"

Mack, P. "Elizabethan Parliamentary Oratory"

Calder, C. "Royal Rhetoric: Varieties of Oratorical Effect in Q and F Henry V"

Wednesday

Seminar 1. Rhetoric and the Comic in Sixteenth-Century Humanism (Bowen: Organizer)

Chatlos, K. "Rhetorical Strategies and Ludic Theology in Erasmus's 'Concerning the Eating of Fish'"

Mehl, J. "Rhetorical Shifts in the Characterization of the 'Obscure Men' in the Epistolae obscurorum virorum (1515-17) and the Ex obscurorum virorum salibus cribratus dialogus (c. 1519)"

Bowen, B. "Cicero's Jokes Recycled (1528-1598)"

Thursday

Seminar 1. Rhetoric in the Reformation

DeCoursey, M. "Erasmus' Ecclesiastes and his Model of Rhetoric"

Leroux, N.R. "Luther's Invocavit Sermons: The Rhetor's Perceived Situation"

Lares, J.A. "Scriptural Defences in Early Modern England"

McClintock, M.R. "Rhetoric and Reformation in Mid-Sixteenth Century England"

Seminar 2. Revising Rhetoric: From Agricola to the Jesuits

van der Poel, M. "Topics in the Rhetorical Theory and Practice of Desiderus Erasmus (1469-1536)"

Moss, J.D. "Antistrophic Rhetoric: Aristotelian Rhetoric in Renaissance Rome and Padua"

Green, L. D. "Aristotle's Rhetoric Made Methodical"

Lichanski, Z.J. "Rhetoric and Philosophy in Jesuit Teaching: Assertiones Rhetoricae, Poznan 1577"

Friday

Seminar 1. Rhetoric in French Literature

Vaillancourt, L. "La lettre familière française à la Renaissance: Tradition rhétorique et novation épistolographique"

Desrosiers-Bonin, D. "La rhétorique délibérative dans l'Epistre de Marie Dentière"

Duche-Gavet, V. "L'Amant Resuscité de la mort d'amour: une rhapsodie de Nicolas Denisot"

Seminar 2. Rhetoric in Spain

Gomez-Alonso, J.-C. "Adaptaciones de la retórica eclesiástica: Fray Luis de Granada y Fray Diego Valadés"

Arribas, J. "Alterations and Adaptations of the Sweet Style in the Spanish Renaissance: The Case of Antonio Lulio"

Session III. Early Modern Rhetoric (16th-18th Centuries) - Room C

Tuesday

Seminar 1. Rhetoric in Late Renaissance English and Dutch Literature

Vavra, L. "Renaissance Vernacular Rhetorics and the Devotions of John Donne"

Collins, S. "The Near Omnipotence of Peacham's Orator: Articulating the Correspondences of the Elizabethan World View"

Wu, H. "Betraying Utopia: Gender Separation in Margaret Cavendish's Orations of Divers Sorts Accommodated to Divers Places"

Jansen, J. "Perspicuity as Decorum in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drama Theory"

Seminar 2. Continental Rhetoric of the Late Renaissance

Jomphe, C. "Éloge de la dispositio et structure de deux arts poétiques de la Renaissance"

Fruteau de Laclos, H. "Les progymnasmata au XVIe siècle: restauration et adaptation d'une tradition scolaire"

Guillot, R. "Rhétorique et poésie dans 'Le Mespris de la Vie et la Consolation contre la mort' de J. B. Chassignet"

Zoberman, P. "De l'antiquité à la rhétorique française: d'une technique de la persuasion à un artisanat du beau texte"

Wednesday

Seminar 1. Rhetoric, Science, and Modernity

Cragg, G. W. "Paradoxes in the Conflict over 'Res et Verba'"

Cunningham. R. "Rhetorical or Scientific Inconsistency? A Gap Between Programme and Practice in Early Modern Science"

North, S. G. "Logic/Anti-Logic in the Marketplace of Ideas: Sir Francis Bacon's Adaptation of Classical Discourse to an Enlightenment Rhetoric"

Hobbs, C.L. "Vico, Condillac, Monboddo: An Inquiry into Issues of 'Modernity' and Rhetoric"

Thursday

Seminar 1. New Concepts of Rhetoric: Self, Psyche, and Society

Boswell, G.M. "Language and Emotion in 17th-Century Rhetorics"

Harrington, D.K. "Rhetoric, Ethics, and Cartesian Epistemology"

Parmentier, B. "L'éloquence du livre: Critique de l'autorité rhétorique dans les Caractères de La Bruyère"

van Ingen, F.J. "Rhetorik und literarische Konversation"

Seminar 2. New Directions in Rhetoric

Ben Messaoud, S. "Balthazar Gibert, précurseur de la pragmatique"

Gaillet, L.L. "Michel le Faucheur: The Continental Authority Behind the Eighteenth-Century English Elocutionary Movement"

Lynn, S.W. "Locke's Impact on Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric"

Johannes, G-J. "Rhetorics in Holland around 1800: The Painful Discoveries of a Small Language Community"

Friday

Seminar 1. Enlightenment Rhetoric

Skolnik, C.M. "Rhetorics of the Sublime"

Sloane, S. "Borrowing Longinus: Visible Traces of On the Sublime in the Primary Authors of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1757-1809"

Agnew, L.P. "Common Sense as Epistemic: George Campbell's Rhetorical Process"

Gellis, M.D. "The Concept of Error in the Sermons of Blair and Campbell"

Seminar 2. The Rhetoric of Translation

France, P. "The Rhetoric of Translation"

Miller, S.L. "Adapting 'Inke Horne Termes': The Problem of Terminology in English Translations and Adaptations of Renaissance Humanist Rhetorical Theory"

Crogiez, M. "Rousseau face à la période: rythme rhétorique et scansion mélodique"

Hamilton, J. "Plastik und Musik: Wilhelm von Humboldt's Revivification of Pindar"

Session IV. Late Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric - Room D

Tuesday

Seminar 1. New Rhetoric for a New Republic: U.S.A.

Goodwin, J. "The Rhetorical Force of Glory, from Cicero to his Republican Posterity"

Morrow, T.S. "John Witherspoon and Creation of the United States Constitution: The Interplay of Ciceronian Eloquence and Decorum and Scottish Moral Philosophy"

O'Rourke, S.P. "'To Fill the Fountains of Eloquence': Rhetorical Handbooks and the Formation of the Republican Orator"

Seminar 2. American National Rhetoric of Place and Race

Clark, G., and Halloran, M. "Land, Landscape, and National Identity in the United States"

Trapp, J. S. "'The Cloudy Pillar of Inspiration': Oratory and the Making of Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Wilson, K. W. "Decorum and the Civil Rights Act of 1875: A Study in Cultural and Discursive Transformation"

Wednesday

Seminar 1. Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Schanze, H. "The Concept of 'Festspiel' and the Transformations of Rhetoric in the 19th Century"

Robling, F-H. "The Force of Plasticity: Some Reflections on the Concept of Rhetorical Subjectivity in F. Nietzsche"

Bashford, B. "Oscar Wilde on the Art of Rhetoric"

Session V. Rhetoric in Asia (Garrett: Organizer) - Room D

Thursday

Seminar 1. Classical Rhetorical Traditions in China and Japan

Xing Lu. "The Conceptualization of Ming (naming) by Ancient Chinese Thinkers"

Heping Zhao. "Speaking, Persuasion, and Self-Preservation: Rhetorical Appeals in Han Fei Zi"

LuMing Mao. "A Skeptical Engagement with Language: Chuang Tzu's View on Words"

Farnsley, K.W. "Classical Japanese Rhetoric: Neo-Confucianism"

Seminar 2. New Directions in the Study of Chinese Rhetoric

Yameng Liu. "From Chen Kui's Wen Ze (The Principles of Composition) to Chen Yizeng's Wen Shuo (A Treatise on Writing): The Systematization of Classical Chinese Rhetoric during the Song-Yuan Period"

Xiaosui Xiao. "The Chinese Organic Views and a Rhetorical Mission to Liberate the Mind"

Garrett, M. "Women and the Chinese Rhetorical Tradition"

Xu, G.Q. "A Comparative Study of the Rhetorics of Ancient Greece and Pre-Ch'in China"

Session VI. Queer Rhetoric (Salazar: Organizer) - Room D

Friday

Seminar 1. Contemporary Studies of Queer Rhetoric

Leap, W. "Story Telling and the Discourse of the American Gay City"

Spurlin, W. "Queer Desire and Psychoanalysis as Cultural and Rhetorical Interventions in Film"

Champagne, J. "Is There a Transnational Queer Rhetoric?"

Seminar 2. Past Rhetoric of Identity

Seifert, L. "Rhetoric of Bi-sexual Innuendo in Seventeenth-Century Anti-Royalist Pamphlets"

Goodkin, R. "Orgon and the Rhetoric of Censored Desire"

Salazar, P-J. "Rhetorical Modes in Male Academia in 17th-Century Europe: Towards a Gay Savant Discourse"

Session VII. Twentieth-Century Approaches to Rhetoric - Room E

Tuesday

Seminar 1. Approaches to Rhetoric: Alternative, Comparative, Interdisciplinary

Spina, L. "It Isn't Difficult to Praise the Athenians in Athens. . ."

Douay, F. "Rhétorique 'alternative' ou rhétorique 'comparée'?"

Saim, M. "Alternatives, Alterations and Patterns of Adaptation in the New French Rhetoric of Modernity"

Wiegmann, H. "Entwurf einer interdisziplinaren Rhetorik"

Seminar 2. Rhetoric and Contemporary Theories

Albaladejo, T. "'Rhetorica recepta' as Basis of Modern Rhetoric: Persistence and Renewal of Greco-Roman Tradition"

Robbins, V.K. "Socio-Rhetorical Criticism as an Adaptation of Greco-Roman Rhetoric"

Abbott, D.P. "Semiotics and the End of Rhetoric"

Plett, H.F. "Modernizing Classical Rhetoric: A Critique and a Concept"

Wednesday

Seminar 1. The Ancients and the Postmoderns" (Mailloux: Organizer)

Mailloux, S. "Postmoderns Read the Ancients"

Jarratt, S. C. "Ekphrasis and Postmodern Theory"

Worsham, L. "Pathetic Postmodernism"

Thursday

Seminar 1. Rhetoric and Logic

Purcell, W.M., and Chamberlain, R. G. "The Limits of Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis of Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus"

Kraus, M. "Rhetoric and Pragmatism: Charles S. Peirce's Theory of Abduction and the Aristotelian Enthymeme from Signs"

Apostolova, G. "Towards an Argumentative Approach to English Language Learning"

Seminar 2. Political Rhetoric in the Contemporary World

Dronzina, T. "The Classical Sense of Dialogue and the Sense of Social Dialogue in the East European Countries"

Okechukwu, C.M. "Rhetoric in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart"

Duffy, J. "From Oral Narratives to a Literacy of Dissent: Laotian Hmong Refugees and a New American Rhetoric"

Friday

Seminar 1. New Approaches to Ancient Rhetoric

Eades, T. W. "The Subject of Rhetoric in Classical Athens"

Leidl, C. "The Shaping of Metaphor"

Wiethoff, W. "Rhetorical Theories of Humor in the Greco-Roman Tradition: A Poverty of Adaptations"

ParaÍso, I. "Los Precedimientos de lo Risible en Cicerón, Quintiliano, Freud y Bergson"

Seminar 2. Studying Women in Ancient Rhetoric

Welch, K.E. "Feminist Historiographies of Rhetoric and Plato's Diotima"

Rankine, P. "The Politics of Identity: Othering and Women's Rhetoric in Euripides' Hecuba"

Galaz, M. "Rhetorical Strategies of Feminine Speech in the V-IV Century Orators"

Coyne, P.A. "Praise of Roman Imperial Women: Plus fecit quam quod sexus concesserat illi"

Session VIII. Rhetoric and The Fine Arts - Room F

Tuesday

Seminar 1. Rhetoric, Art, and Music

Blom, H.W. "Boxhornius's Emblemata and Neoclassicist Political Thought in the Dutch Republic"

Cockcroft, R. "Pathos and Painting: Franciscus Junius and the Uses of Art"

Buell, T. "Twentieth-Century Music and the Rhetoric of Genre"

Seminar 2. Ecphrasis

Crescenzo, R. "De l'écphrasis à la constitution d'un discours sur l'art: les Images de Philostrate et leur adaptation à la Renaissance."

Dubel, S. "L'apostrophe au lecteur, ou comment une figure peu générer un personnage (Philostrate, Imagines)"

Smoliarova, T.I. "Le rôle de l'écphrasis dans l'histoire culturelle de France à la limite des XVI-XVII siècles"

Shaffer, D.L. "Ekphrasis and the Rhetoric of Viewing in Philostratus' Imaginary Museum"

Session IX. Rhetoric in Education - Room F

Wednesday

Seminar 1. Classical and Medieval Pedagogical Practices

Nienkamp, J. "Isocrates' Philosophical Logon Paideia: Wisdom in Kairos"

Smith, M. D. [Cornelia: Letters to Her Sons]

Friend, C. "The Declamation Exercises: Connecting Rhetorical, Ethical, and Political Education in the Roman Schools"

Knappe, G. "The Rhetorical Aspect of Grammar Teaching in Anglo-Saxon England (700-1100 A.D.)"

Thursday

Seminar 1. Education in the Renaissance

Lawand, J.T. "El Ars conficiendi epistolas de Jacobo Publicio"

Pendergrass, J.N. "The Practice of Copia verborum in the Letters of Germain Maciot"

Burton, G. O. "A Rhetorical Analysis of Erasmian Amplification: Tuae literae me magnopere delectarunt"

Deitch, J. "'Should a philosopher take a wife?' The Topic of Women and the Renaissance Education of Boys"

Seminar 2. Rhetoric in the Early Modern Curriculum

Christiansen, N.L. "Competing Decorums in 16th-Century British Rhetorics: Alternatives and Adaptations within a Tradition"

Mitchell, L.C. "The Use of Rhetoric to Tame the Moral and Linguistic Nature of Children"

Scott, B.T. "Jesuit Rhetoric in Seventeenth-Century France"

Murphy, J. J. "Obadiah Walker (1616-1699): A Gentlemanly Ciceronian"

Friday

Seminar 1. Rhetorical Training for Professionals

Sullivan, C. "Credit as Commodity, in Early Modern Business Texts"

Perry, L.A. "The Legal Rhetorical Treatise Tradition in Early-Modern England"

Seminar 2. Education Since the Enlightenment

Ferreira-Buckley, L. "The Influence of Classical Rhetorical Texts in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Education"

Sjoer, E. "Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in the Netherlands"

Hewett, B.L. "Nineteenth-Century Commencement Orations at Bowdoin College: American Praxis in Development"

Schnakenberg, K.R. "Adaptations of Aristotelian Rhetoric in American Writing Textbooks 1950-1965"

Session X. Women and The Rhetorical Tradition (Sutherland: Organizer) - Room G

Tuesday

Seminar 1. The Setting: Women's Exclusion, Why and How?

Swearingen, J. "Plato's Women: Alternative Embodiments of Rhetoric"

Pullman, G. L. "Mincing Words and Prancing Feet: Why Ancient Rhetoricians Feared the Curling Iron"

Enders, J. "Cutting Off the Memory of Women"

Seminar 2. Finding Alternatives 1

Collins, V. "The Account of Hester Rogers: The Rhetoric of an Early Methodist Mystic"

Ward, J. O. "Women and Latin Rhetoric from Hrostvit to Hildegard"

Husby Scheelar, M. M. "Ethos Over Time: The Continuing Appeal of St. Catherine of Siena"

Wednesday

Seminar 1. Finding Alternatives 2

Wertheimer, M. M. "Breaking the Hold: Strategies of Extrication in Women's Bible Criticism"

Bensel-Meyers, L.D. "English Emblem Book Reception Theory and the Meditations of Renaissance Women"

Cazes, H. "Répéter pour comprendre"

Thursday

Seminar 1. Finding a Feminine Voice

Johnson, N. "Gender and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Parlor Rhetoric"

Herberg, E. "Mary Astell and the Creation of a Woman's Rhetoric"

Graves, H. "Metaphors, Analogies, and the Rhetorical Construction of Gendered Science"

Spoel, P. "Re-envisioning Rhetorical Epistemology: Donna Haraway's and Nicole Brossard's Embodied Visions"

Seminar 2. Challenges to the Tradition

Skretkowicz, V. "Lady Mary Wroth's Urania and the Rhetoric of Female Abuse"

King, R. L. "From Voice to Ethos: Women in the Public Arena"

Hunter, L. "Feminist Thoughts on Rhetoric"

Janack, M., and Adams, J. C. "Feminist Epistemologies, Rhetorical Traditions, and the Ad Hominem"

Friday

Seminar 1. Emerging into the Tradition

Mral, B. "The Public Woman. Women Speakers in Sweden at the Turn of the Century"

Williams, A. "Flora MacDonald Denison and the Rhetoric of the Early Women's Suffrage Movement in Canada"

Bordelon, S. "Democracy as the Ethical Ideal: Gertrude Buck's Social Theory of Rhetoric"

Seminar 2. Ede, L.; Glenn, C.; Lunsford, A.

Panel: "Roots for New Feminist Theories of Rhetoric"

Concurrent Sessions at Wanuskewin Heritage Park

(Wednesday, July 23 only)

Seminar 1: Celebrating Living Cree Oratory (Organizers: W. Stevenson and M. Campbell)

Winona Stevenson, "Historical Misunderstandings of Aboriginal Oratory"

Cree Orators Panel:

Marius Iron (Cree), translated into English by Maria Campbell

Harold Cardinal (Cree)

Maria Campbell (Cree-Metis)

Open Forum Panel Discussion

Seminar 2: Encounters Between Europe and America

Gerardo Ramírez Vidal, "Retórica y colonialismo en las crónicas de la conquista de México"

Gary Hatch, "Representations of Native American Discourse in Scottish Rhetorics"

Carl Johnson, "Law of Place and Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt and Modern Canada: An Examination of Conflict of Laws"