Call for Papers are invited at the workshop organized on the topic “The Rhetoric of Human-Animal Relations” at the University of Oslo, Norway from May 29 to 30, 2012.
The workshop aims to focus on questions as:
- How do we use rhetoric to form, understand, explain, discuss, ponder, justify, challenge, and criticize human-animal practices?
- How do visual and verbal rhetorics shape human-animal relations in theory as well as in practice?
- How do we rhetorically create, uphold, and challenge the norms that are supposed to guide our behavior towards nonhumans?
- How does interacting with animals inspire development of other rhetorics (olfactory, tactile, performative, etc.)?
Scholars engaged in rhetorical studies are invited at this workshop to present current work on how human-animal spaces of action are created with rhetorical means. Contributions are also invited from various academic disciplines and approaches, geographical locations, and fields of practice. Papers will also be pre-circulated among the participants.
Confirmed keynote speakers at the workshop will be:
- Susan McHugh, University of New England
- Mara Miele, Cardiff University
Deadline for submission of a full paper (10-15 pages) is May 15.
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