Event Program & Conference App Information

ISHR 2025 Conference Program July 11 (Updated)

N.B., a version of this schedule including room assignments will be posted and publicized at a later date. Some panel titles are provisional.

NOTA BENE: You can find campus maps under "Travel and Local Information." Abstracts will be available in the conference app. 

Here is a map of the South Campus

Presenter Reminders: As you prepare your paper, keep in mind that ISHR presentation units are 30 minutes long: 20 minutes for the paper + 10 for Q&A about only your paper. Panel chairs will make sure every panelist has 30 minutes; it’s up to you to leave time for questions (that is, if you speak for 28 minutes, you will leave 2 minutes for questions.) Rooms will be equipped with A/V.

Chair Duties: If you are chairing, thank you! Your job is not onerous. Please show up to the designated room at least 5 minutes before the panel begins; please introduce each speaker in the publicized panel order (saying their name and paper title is minimalist, yes, but it also does them the courtesy of not eating into their talking time); please make sure each speaker holds to their 30-minute slot (that is, each speaker has 30 minutes total for their paper AND questions about their paper from the audience).

Questions or requested changes regarding the program? Those should go to the '25 program chair, Caroline Petit (c.c.l.petit@warwick.ac.uk). For example, if you notice your name is misspelled or your abstract title garbled, please forgive and then email her, and she will fix it for the next version. If it transpires that you need to withdraw your contribution, please email her. Though movement is sure to occur within the program, no one will be moved out of their assigned day without consultation.

After making sure the answer is not within the posted conference materials, you may direct any questions regarding anything else conference-related to ISHR President, Hanne Roer (roer@hum.ku.dk), who is planning things from Copenhagen. For example, if you require a certificate of acceptance in order to request funding, please email her.

Please see a summary of events and locations below:

Communal events:

Registration: July 22-25, 8.30-17: KUA Hallway, by the main entrance Karen Blixens Plads 8

Tuesday 22, 10-12: Foundational meeting of the Societas Isocratica, SocIsoc (open to all), The festive hall/Festsalen

Tuesday 22, 15:00-15.30: Welcome address by the President and the Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities

(KUA3 – 9A.1.01, Nanna Berg Auditorium)

Tuesday 22, 17.25-20.00: Reception at Glyptoteket (including Rhetorica Prize Award Ceremony), Dantes

Plads 7, 1556 København V

Wednesday 23,12:35-13:55: Business meeting of the International Society for the Study of Jesuit Rhetoric (open to all), KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg auditorium

Friday 25, 16-17: ISHR Business Meeting (all welcome), KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium.

Lunch Wednesday and Thursday: at the canteen i building 6A (JUR-kantinen)

Lunch Friday: lunch sandwiches in Festsalen/The festive hall, ), KUA2 - 11C.0.08 – The festive hall/Festsalen

Poster (Matthew McGrory) and quiz (Viktoria Völker) in Festsalen/The festive hall (ongoing), KUA2 - 11C.0.08 – The festive hall/Festsalen

Friday 25, 16-17: ISHR Business Meeting (all welcome, KUA3 – 9A.1.01, Nanna Berg Auditorium): state of the art, election of new vice president

Friday 25, 18.30-21.30 BANQUET (Christianshavn Færgecafe: https://faergecafeen.dk/en/premises ), Strandgade

50, 1401 København K (only for registrered guests)

Saturday 26, 14.00 and 16.00: Historic walks starting at the equestrian statue at Amalienborg Plads/Amalienborg Palace: https://www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/planning/equestrian-statue-frederik-v-gdk825613

Plenary addresses (KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium)

Tuesday 22, 15-15.30

Tuesday 22, 15.30-16.30

Thursday 24,11.30-12.30

Friday 25, 14.30-15.30

Welcome adresses by ISHR president and the dean of the faculty of the humanties

Prof. Andrew Laird (Brown): Projecting Humanity: Rhetoric and symbolic power in the Atlantic World

Tahera Qutbuddin (Oxford), ‘Between This World and the Next: Mortality and Morality in the Orations of Ali (d. 661), Sage of Islam and Master of Arabic Eloquence’

Robin Reames (Bloomington, Indiana): Democracy, Demagoguery, Tyranny: Why the  Rhetorical Tradition Matters Today.


Wednesday 23, 9-11 (9 sessions)

Anthropos in ancient Greek literature

Branching Eloquence: Tracing Ramist Rhetoric in Theory and in Practice

 

Formed by Rhetoric: The Liberal Arts and the Human Soul

 

Jesuit Rhetoric in Vietnam, China and Japan

 

Futures of Humanity in the New Rhetoric Project

 

Dynamics and variations of Roman idea of human and humanitas between 1st century BC and 1st-2nd AD

The man and the State: progymnasmata, declamation and civic education 1

 

The Emergence of Trust in Nordic rhetoric

 

Demosthenes Asianus

 

 

KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium

KUA2 – 11A.2.07

KUA2 – 12.1.62

KUA2 – 11A.1.19

KUA2 – 15A.1.11

KUA2 – 12.0.25

KUA2 – 15a.0.13

KUA2 – 11A.1.07

KUA2 – 12.0.37

 

 


Wednesday 23, 14-15.30 (10 sessions)

Looking beyond humanitas in the speeches of Roman epics

 

The man and the State: progymnasmata, declamation and civic education 2

 

Efficacious Citizenship: Citizens as Rhetorical Listeners

 

The "Everyday" and Rhetorical Anthropology

 

Comparative Rhetoric

 

Rhetoric and the Law

 

Louis de Cressolles, SJ. His Sources and Reception

Medieval Rhetoric 1

 

Humanitas and rhetorical teaching

 

New Historiographies: Methods that Span

 

 

KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium

KUA2 – 12.0.25

KUA2 – 11A.1.19

KUA2 – 11A.2.07

KUA2 – 12.1.62

KUA2 – 15a.0.13

KUA2 – 12.0.47

KUA2 – 11A.1.07

KUA2 – 15A.1.11

KUA2 – 12.0.37

 


Wednesday 23, 16-18 (9 sessions)

Peter Mack 1955-2023

 

The 1970s: Socio-Political, Cultural, and Digital Rhetorics at a Moment of Change

 

20th -21st c. Rhetoric and Politics 1 (Palestine)

 

Burke, Human Rationality and Rhetoric (20th c)

 

Early Modern Rhetoric 1

 

Rhetoric and Historiography

 

New Rhetoric

 

Rhetoric across ages

 

Rhetoric and Christianity in Late Antiquity

 

 

 

KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium

KUA2 – 11A.2.07

KUA2 – 11A.1.19

KUA2 – 12.0.25

KUA2 – 15a.0.13

KUA2 – 12.1.62

KUA2 – 11A.1.07

KUA2 – 12.0.47

KUA2 – 15A.1.11

 

 


Thursday 24, 9-11 (11 sessions)

Posthuman Approaches to Greek Oratory - Panel 1

 

Musica Poetica I: Musical Dispositio, ca.1200–1700

 

Rhetoric in the battle of the genders: from misandrist and misogynist rhetoric to the comparison of the sexes

 

Reimagining the Human through Rhetoric: Definitions, Accommodations, and Resistance

 

Greek rhetoric 1

 

Medieval rhetoric 2

 

Early Modern Rhetoric 2

 

Roman rhetoric 1

 

Aristotelian Rhetoric and Beyond

 

Non-Western Rhetoric

 

Rhetoric and 20th c. Thought

 

KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium

KUA2 – 12.0.37

KUA2 – 12.0.25

KUA2 – 11A.2.07

KUA2 – 15a.0.13

KUA2 – 11A.1.19

KUA2 – 11A.1.07

KUA2 – 15A.1.11

KUA2 – 12.1.62

KUA2 – 12.0.47

11A.2.19 (18 seats)


Thursday 24, 14-15.30 (10 sessions)

Posthuman Approaches to Greek Oratory - Panel 2

 

Musica Poetica II: Musical Elocutio and Actio, ca.1700–2000

 

Early Modern Rhetoric 3

 

20th- 21st c. Rhetoric and Politics 2

 

Rhetoric & Science

 

Rhetoric and Nation-Building

 

Chinese and Japanese Rhetoric

 

Early Modern Rhetoric 4

 

Idealised Concepts of Humanity in Panegyrical Texts

 

Rhetoric beyond Rhetoric

 

 

KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium

KUA2 – 12.0.37

KUA2 – 15a.0.13

KUA2 – 11A.2.07

KUA2 – 12.0.25

KUA2 – 11A.1.19

KUA2 – 12.1.62

KUA2 – 11A.1.07

KUA2 – 15A.1.11

KUA2 – 12.0.47

 


 Thursday 24, 16-18 (9 sessions)

Greek rhetoric 3 

 

Rhetoric and the Sophists in the Roman Empire

 

Roman Rhetoric 2

 

Jesuit Rhetoric and the Idea of Man

 

Rhetoric and Music

 

Rhetoric, Poetry and Theatre

 

Rhetoric and Politics 20th-21st c. 3

 

Style maketh man? Style and ethos construction in Ancient and Medieval Rhetorical theories and (literary) practices.

 

Round Table led by Anna Vind:

‘Modus loquendi. Ancient rhetorical and poetic theories: hermeneutical tools and challenges for philosophical and theological thinking from Aristotle to Erasmus and Luther.’

 

 

 

 

KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium

KUA2 – 12.0.25

KUA2 – 15a.0.13

KUA2 – 11A.2.07

KUA2 – 12.0.37

KUA2 – 12.1.62

KUA2 – 11A.1.07

KUA2 – 15A.1.11

KUA2 – 11A.1.19

 

 


Friday 9-11 (9sessions)

Ancient rhetoric

 

Human Bodies and Texts in Imperial Rhetoric

 

Iacobus Publicius, rhetor hispanus: new contributions

 

Figuration and Feeling: A Comparative Study

 

20th c. Rhetoric and Women

 

Rhetoric and Pedagogy Across Cultures

 

Ethos in the History of Rhetoric

 

Ancient Rhetoric

 

Rhetoric and Pedagogy in the USA

 

 

 

KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium

KUA2 – 12.0.25

KUA2 – 11A.1.07

KUA2 – 12.0.37

KUA2 – 11A.2.07

KUA2 – 11A.1.19

KUA2 – 15A.1.11

KUA2 – 15a.0.13

KUA2 – 12.1.62

 

 


Friday 11.30-13 (10 sessions)

Containing multitudes: John Tzetzes and the Corpus Hermogenianum in the Vossianus Graecus Q1

 

Brunetto Latini’s Rhetorical Conceptions of Humanity: Communication, Community, Translation

 

Rhetoric and Politics in the 20th century 3

 

Antonio Vieira

 

Greek Rhetoric 4

 

Rhetoric Curricula from the 17th to the 20th century

Rhetorical Controversy and Polarity in Euripides’ Bacchae

 

Rhetorical Humanisms and Rhetorical Practice

 

Rhetoric & Language

 

Greek Rhetoric 5

 

 

KUA2 – 11A.2.07

KUA2 – 12.1.62

KUA2 – 11A.1.07

KUA2 – 12.0.37

KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium

KUA2 – 12.0.25

KUA2 – 12.0.47

KUA2 – 11A.1.19

KUA2 – 15A.1.11

KUA2 – 15a.0.13