Rhetoric Seminar Submission Form

Please Read: Rhetoric Seminars feature unpublished written work that would benefit from careful analysis and discussion in an interdisciplinary environment. Every semester POROI hosts between two to four such seminars featuring the work of UI faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars. Each presentation takes place before an audience from diverse disciplines that have read the work and are prepared to engage with the text. The virtue of the format becomes especially apparent as disciplines and intellectual traditions cross paths with personal proclivities, reading habits, patterns of knowledge and modes of expressions. The group provides insightful, constructive criticism concerning what it sees as the work’s strengths and weaknesses, which in turn provides the speaker with ideas for revision and eventual publication of the work. Many presenters eventually publish revised versions of their papers in scholarly publications.