Events Archive

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…

Moral Habituation in the Law: Rethinking the Ethics of the Sharī‘a

Junaid Quadri

 Law and Contemporary Theory Working Group – Spring Talks and Workshops Junaid Quadri, Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago Abstract: Modern writing on Islamic…

Van Gogh on Demand, Winnie Wong: Berkeley Book Chat

Winnie Wong

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Winnie Wong specializes in the history and present of artistic authorship, with a focus on interactions between China and the West. Her book, Van Gogh…

Biographies of Concepts in the Human and Social Sciences

Please register by sending an email to wimmer@berkeley.edu and to get access to pre-circulated papers! Link to shared folder with papers: https://www.dropbox.com/l/nC5cg5QkuJFGrkZ4sWiyer (password required) This two-day symposion brings together a…