The Agora
and other Speakers Series
Every
few weeks during Fall and Spring terms, the Communication Department
sponsors a symposium featuring a speaker from either inside or outside
the department. For our next Agora the department is pleased to present:
LESTER OLSON - University of Pittsburgh
&
JAMES J. KIMBLE - Seton Hall University
"Ventriloquism and Visual Rhetoric:
Expropriating, Commodifying and
Reanimating the 'We Can Do It'
Poster in Collective Memory"
Friday, January 5, 2007 3:00pm
CL 206
Previous Agora and other speakers include:
DAVID R. SHUMWAY
"A New Kind of Star: Rock & Roll and the Politicization of Celebrity."
Friday, December 1, 2006: 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
BRENT HEAVNER
"The more things change the more pollution
stays the same: a discussion of the discourse of environmental history
as it relates current environmental policy."
CARLETON S. GHOLZ
"An Intervention into the Roots of Techno:
Dissemination and Reception in Detroit 's Gay, Black Underground"
AUTUMN BOYER
"After Tuskegee : Rhetoric, Race, and Bioethics in an Era of Distrust"
Friday, November 10, 2006: 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
CECIL A. BLAKE
“The African Origins of Rhetorical Theory: the Rhetoric of Ptah-Hotep”
Friday, October 20, 2006: 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Gavin Illsley and Fraser Campbell of Oxford University
John Rief and Carly Woods of University of Pittsburgh
“This House Would Lift the Smoking Ban.”
October 6, 2006: 1:00 PM
English Nationality Room
For more information on future Agoras, please call 624-6569.
