Call for Proposals

The Planning Committee for the 4th Biennial International Rhetoric Workshop invites international PhD students, emerging scholars, and established researchers to come together and consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and established traditions of rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and criticism inform global flows of meaning-making. This year’s theme, Borders and Crossroads, prompts us to explore how rhetoric can contribute to shaping novel responses, articulate new socio-political narratives, and cultivate human hopes and imaginaries for resolution, world-making, justice, possibility, sustainability, and reconciliation. 

The 4th International Rhetoric Workshop will be hosted by the University of Dubrovnik in Croatia on 18-20 June 2024. Due to its geographic location, Dubrovnik, with its proximity to the Adriatic Sea, consists of a cultural and historical crossroad of various empires and civilizations reflected in the city’s architectures, arts, and traditions. At the same time, throughout that history, Dubrovnik has undergone geopolitical shifts of its borders highlighting the importance of communities’ resilience to extreme political turmoils as well as to the construction of its modern identity among the challenges of globalization, migration, and climate change. 

In preparation for the 4th International Rhetoric Workshop 2024, we invite submissions that consider how borders and/or crossroads inform participants’ work—be they geopolitical, cultural, linguistic, economic, disciplinary, methodological, and more. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to attend lectures of prominent keynote speakers in the field of rhetoric, participate in workshop sessions, and develop networking opportunities in a small conference environment for collaboration with researchers of the field from all over the world.

Submission Guidelines:

• Please submit abstracts (no more than 250 words) to this Google Form

• The content of the abstracts should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and expected contribution to the field.

• Applicants can expect to hear back by mid-March.

• Full CFP and additional information can be found on the IRW website. Any questions can be forwarded to internationalrhetoric@gmail.com.

We are looking forward to your participation in the 2024 International Rhetoric Workshop in Dubrovnik. Sharing expertise, perspectives, and scholarly endeavors will steer our collective exploration towards novel insights of the theme.

This is the shortened version of the CFP.