POROI Seminars Archive

Seminars listed by Date

Click on Seminar title for time, place, biographical sketch and description of the papers.

Fall 2002
10.10.2002	David Depew	"Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in the Great Yanomami Controversy"
11.04.2002	Aimee Carrillo Rowe	"Be Longing: Towards a Feminist Politics of Relation"
11.14.2002	Alice B. Fulton	"Why Cell Biology Cannot be Reduced to Physics"
11.14.2002	Robert P. Newman	"Hate, Terror, Hypocrisy, and the US-Israel Alliance"
Spring 2003
02.20.2003	John Nelson	"Politics in Words, Words in Musics, Musics in Movies: Bulworth, Bob Roberts, and Rhythms of Political Satire"
03.06.2003	Kembrew McLeod	"Cease and Desist: Freedom of Expression in the Shadows of Intellectual Property"
03.27.2003	Daniel Gross	"The Problem of Experience"
03.27.2003	Thomas Swiss	"My Way: Rock Autobiographies"
04.23.2003	Deirdre McCloskey	"Bourgeois Virtue"
Fall 2003
11.06.2003	Greg Wilson	"Boundary Objects and Persuasion Across Discourse Communities"
11.18.2003	Allen Michie	"'New Philosophy Calls All in Doubt': Chaos Theory and the Fractal Poetics of John Donne"
Spring 2004
01.15.2004	Public Rhetoric Seminars	"The National Security Strategy of the United States of America" (September 2002)
02.26.2004	G.R. Boynton	"Globalizing Sympathy"
03.11.2004	Vershawn Ashanti Young	"Nigga-Gender"
04.08.2004	Barbara Eckstein	"Sex and the Historic City: Nelson Algren's Walking Tour of New Orleans' Wild Side"
04.22.2004	Louis-George Schwartz	"Bad Affect or Misery in the Service of Revolution"
Fall 2004
09.23.2004	Mark Andrejevic	"Virtual Bourgeois Interiority: Smart Clothes in the Digital Enclosure" (A Critique of the Promise of Interactivity)
10.06.2004	John Nelson	"Not the Only Game in Town: A Rhetorical Analysis of Liberalism, Populism, and Republicanism in Ads for the 2004 Iowa Caucuses"
10.21.2004	Barbara Beisecker	"The Enola Gay Controversy: The Politics of Experience or Truth Telling at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century"
11.04.2004	Heriberto Godina	"The Colonized Context of Mexican American Identity in the US"
11.18.2004	Laura G. Gutierrez	"'Maybe She's Born With It, Maybe It's Maybelline': Balancing Acts and Transformations in Nao Bustamante's 'America the Beautiful'"
Spring 2005
02.04.2005	Ece Algan	"Talk Radio, Interactivity and Counterpublic Sphere in Southeast Turkey"
03.10.2005	Public Rhetoric Seminar	"No Child Left Behind"
03.31.2005	Meenakshi Gigi Durham	"Toward a Phenomenology of Media Reading: Theorizing the Embodied Subject and the Text"
04.22.2005	Stephen G. Bloom	"Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes: The Experiment that Shocked the Nation and Turned a Town Against its Most Famous Daughter"

 

 

 

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