LRV 2011 - Conference on Literature, Rhetoric, and Values

Conference on Literature, Rhetoric, and Values
Friday, June 3 - Sunday, June 5 2011
Call for papers! The 50th Anniversary Committee invites 300 word proposals for the Conference on Literature, Rhetoric, and Values. Click here for further details.

Place: (TBD)
Time: (TBD)

The Department will host a conference on Literature, Rhetoric, and Values. Its feature speakers will include Christopher Hitchens and Barry Brummett. Hitchens, the well-known public intellectual, wrote the bestselling God is Not Great (the most recent of several books) and is a regular contributor to such magazines as The Nation, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic. Dr. Brummett is the Charles Sapp Centennial Professor in Communication and Department of Communication Studies Chair at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of several books, including Rhetoric in Popular Culture, now in its third edition, Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics (2008), A Rhetoric of Style (2008), and most recently Techniques of Close Reading (2009).

The conference aims to foster productive interdisciplinary exchanges on the nexus of values with literature and rhetoric, broadly conceived. Conference organizers will accept 300-word proposals on topics that include, but need not be limited to, the following:
? literature, rhetoric, disinterestedness
? anatomies of value: embodiment in literature and rhetoric
? literature, rhetoric, and “the good life”
? literature, rhetoric, and “the digital life”
? poetic justice: literature, rhetoric, and law
? popular literature, popular rhetoric, popular values?
? “global” literature and “globalized” values