The Agora and other Speakers Series
Every few weeks during Fall and Spring terms, the Communication Department sponsors a symposium featuring a speaker from either inside or outside the department.
Future Agora's:
Herbert W. Simons, professor of Strategic & Organized Communication at Temple University and director of NCA-Forum
"The Ohio Debate:Dilemmas and Strategies"
Friday, March 7, 2008 3:00 pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Previous Agora and other speakers include:
Takuzo Konishi
"Is it Philosophy or What? Toward a History of Informal Logic"
&
Liangyu Fu
"Open the Book, Open the Mind: Science Book Printing in China, 1870-1920"
Friday,February 29,2008 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Katie O'neill
"Amournful Fashion: Form, Function, and Meaning of Baltimore's R.I.P T-Shirts"
Joe Sery
Holy Sh*t: The First Amendments's "Ofiliation" of the Sacred and the Profane
Fri, October 26, 2007 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Brent Saindon
"Dutch Schultx' Cut Man: William S. Burroughs and the Sutured Life Narrative"
Candi Carter-Olson
"Women on the Bus: Little Magazines and Women Beat Editors"
Wed, October 17, 2007 3:00pm
337 Cathedral of Learning
Lester Olson (University of Pittsburgh)
James J. Kimble (Seton Hall University)
"Ventriloquism and Visual Rhetoric: Expropriating, Commodifying and Reanimating the 'We Can Do It' Poster in Collective Memory"
Friday, January 5, 2007 3:00pm
CL 206
David R. Shumway
"A New Kind of Star: Rock & Roll and the Politicization of Celebrity."
Friday, December 1, 2006: 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Brent Heavner
"The more things change the more pollution
stays the same: a discussion of the discourse of environmental history
as it relates current enronmental policy."
Carleton S. Gholz
"An Intervention into the Roots of Techno:
Dissemination and Reception in Detroit 's Gay, Black Underground"
Autumn Boyer
"After Tuskegee : Rhetoric, Race, and Bioethics in an Era of Distrust"
Friday, November 10, 2006: 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Cecil A. Blake
“The African Origins of Rhetorical Theory: the Rhetoric of Ptah-Hotep”
Friday, October 20, 2006: 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Gavin Illsley and Fraser Campbell (Oxford University)
John Rief and Carly Woods (University of Pittsburgh)
“This House Would Lift the Smoking Ban.”
October 6, 2006: 1:00 PM
English Nationality Room
For more information on future Agoras, please call 412-624-6569.
