Rhetoric Seminars
Every semester POROI hosts between three to five rhetoric seminars featuring the work of UI 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.
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