Events Archive

Thinking Beyond Boundaries: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson

Symposium Friday, February 19, 2016 Thinking Beyond Boundaries: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall   PROGRAM 9:15 – 9: 30 a.m. Welcome &…

Memorial: Seymour Chatman

 The memorial for Seymour Chatman will be held Friday, February 12th at 5:30 pm in Morrison Library. 

Colloquium: Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo

Transatlantic Concatenations: On the Historicity of "Western" Political Thought Description: What could the dialectical legacy of critical theory contribute to understand the historicity of political thought? This talk sketches…

Undergraduate Rhetoric Club Kick-off Meeting

The Rhetoric Department is delighted to announce the creation of the Undergraduate Rhetoric Club*! (*Official title and club organization to be determined by its members.) This group is open…

Art+Village+City Exhibition

 An Exhibition exploring Two Cities, Four Villages, and the Uses of Art in the Pearl River Delta in Southern China. Curated by Margaret Crawford and Winnie Wong. Featuring the…

Rhetoric Graduate Conference: Humanism and its Prefixes

Organized by the graduate students of UC Berkeley’s Department of Rhetoric The debate about the human has long haunted the humanities. Since antiquity, humanism has sought to define human…

Reading Capital Today: Against “Alienation”

Knox Peden, Australian National University

Knox Peden is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy at the Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University. He received his PhD from…

Featured Courses from New Rhetoric Faculty

Featured Courses from New Rhetoric Faculty

Rhetoric 107 | CCN: 77884  4 Units Rhetoric of Scientific Discourse Instructor: Nasser Zakariya, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Monday, Wednesday, Friday | 10:00 – 11:00AM | 109 Dwinelle  …

Commencement 2015

The Department of Film and Media and the Department of Rhetoric are pleased to announce that this year they will again jointly hold a commencement ceremony and reception to…

Tracking Corporate Personhood in Frank Norris’ The Octopus: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Corporate Character

Eugene McCarthy, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley Department of Rehtoric

Law and Contemporary Theory Working Group Spring Talks and Workshops Abstract: In this dissertation chapter, Eugene McCarthy provides a socio-legal reading of Frank Norris’ The Octopus (1901), the naturalist novel…