International Society for the History of Rhetoric

ISHR Mail: Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric April 17, 2026

Tue, 07 Apr 2026

The Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric invites you to our second spring session of the virtual Works...

ISHR In memoriam notice for Jeffrey Walker

Fri, 13 Mar 2026

With great sadness, the International Society for the History of Rhetoric acknowledges the death ...

ISHR ... Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric invites you to our first spring session of the virtual Works-in-Progress series

Mon, 02 Mar 2026

The Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric invites you to our first spring session of the virtual Works-...

ISHR 2026 Research Grant Submission is Open

Fri, 16 Jan 2026

We are now calling for applicants for this year’s grants. The application deadline is 2 March 202...

The Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric Works-in-Progress Series

Thu, 06 Nov 2025

The Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric invites you to a fall session of the virtual Works-in-Progres...

Position in the history of rhetoric (Enlightenment/modern era) at Mount Saint Vincent University

Mon, 27 Oct 2025

Portuguese Society of Rhetoric and the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra Call for Papers

Mon, 27 Oct 2025

The Portuguese Society of Rhetoric and the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the Uni...

ISHR Announcement: Royal Holloway Online Lecture Series

Fri, 03 Oct 2025

We are pleased to announce an online lecture series on Greek and Roman oratory and rhetoric, titl...

ISHR Announcement: ‚Voci della persuasione: Scrittrici e retorica nell’Italia del rinascimento / Voices of persuasion: Women Writers and Rhetoric in Early Modern Italy’

Mon, 22 Sep 2025

Announcement conference Romancing Rhetoric: Imperial Fiction and Late-Antique Rhetorical Theories and Practices

Thu, 21 Aug 2025

We are delighted to share the programme of the conference, which will take place in De Krook, Mir...

ISHR mail: The Imagination Research Network

Thu, 21 Aug 2025

A somewhat new enterprise has come to our attention, and it may tickle your fancy.* It’s called T...

ISHR Conference App Now Available

Mon, 04 Aug 2025

ISHR 2025 Conference Information and Updates

Mon, 04 Aug 2025

Time is flying, and before we know it, we’ll be gathering in Copenhagen for the Twenty-Fifth Bien...

ISHR announces the appointment of Dr. Michele Kennerly as editor-elect of ISHR’s journal, Rhetorica

Mon, 23 Jun 2025

ISHR announces the appointment of Dr. Michele Kennerly as editor-elect of ISHR’s journal, Rhet...

ISHR Research Grant Winners 2025

Tue, 27 May 2025
I am pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ISHR Research Grants. Congratulations to a...

Voices Of Persuasion: Women Writers And Rhetoric In The Early Modern Italy - Sponsored in part by a grant from ISHR.

Mon, 04 Aug 2025
The conference aims to bring together scholars to explore the forms and methods of communication ...

Call for Papers - ‘Political Rhetoric and Democratic Discourse’

Tue, 15 Apr 2025

ISHR Helps Sponsor International Colloquium 'Dialogues on Greek and Latin Rhetorical Terminology'

Wed, 12 Mar 2025

ISHR Call for new Council and various sub-committee members. - The Nominating Committee has announced a call for the replacement of retiring members from the ISHR Council.

Mon, 04 Aug 2025

ISHR 2025 Conference Registration Now Open

Mon, 04 Aug 2025

ISHR Twenty-Fifth Biennial Conference Updates

Tue, 01 Apr 2025

Call for Papers for Panel Sponsored by the Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

Call for Research Grant Proposals!

Mon, 20 Jan 2025
We are now calling for applicants for this year’s grants. The application deadline is 1 March 202...

VII Congresso Brasileiro de Retórica - Deadline for Registration December 9, 2024

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

Virtual Conference on Ancient Greek Sophistry and Its Legacy

Thu, 21 Nov 2024
A Zoom-only conference on 12 December (Eastern Standard Time) will celebrate the publication of a...

ISHR - CALL FOR Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas

Thu, 07 Nov 2024
The 2025 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas ...

Symposium on the History of Rhetoric: a Tribute to Marc van der Poel (1957-2022)

Wed, 16 Oct 2024
Radboud University Nijmegen, Huize Heyendaal, Faculty Club, Marijnenkamer
Friday 10 January...

ISHR Loeb Use Survey

Wed, 25 Sep 2024
As you may know, one of the perks of being an ISHR member is access to the Digital Loeb Classical...

ISHR 2025 Conference Submission Deadline Extened to 15 October 2024

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

ISHR 2025 Conference Submission Portal Now Open

Mon, 23 Sep 2024
We are happy to inform you that it is now possible to submit proposals for the 2025 conference.

Announcing the Detailed Theme for 2025 ISHR Conference in Copenhagen

Tue, 01 Apr 2025
As you may have noticed, ISHR soon will return its biennial conference to odd years: the meeting ...

ISHR - Winner of the 2024 Rhetorica Prize

Fri, 01 Aug 2025
The Rhetorica prize committee is pleased to report that the winner of the 2024 prize for the best...

ISHR - Call for Papers for XI Symposium in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais/Brazil, October, 7 to 11, 2024

Tue, 13 Aug 2024
To those interested in participating in the XI Symposium Reading, Seeing and Hearing the Past:...

ISHR 2024 Conference Wrap-up

Sun, 18 Aug 2024
It's now two weeks since the end of ISHR's 24th meeting in Vancouver. I hope that everyone has e...

ISHR Wishes You a Happy May Day!

Wed, 01 May 2024
We’re now just within three months of seeing each other in Vancouver on the beautiful UBC campus....

ISHR 2023 Research Grants Recipients

Thu, 08 Feb 2024

ISSJR Online Seminar - Friday, January 26, 9 am EST

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

Tübingen Rhetoric Department has a post available for an Assistant Professor

Tue, 07 Nov 2023

ISHR Mail ... 20th anniversary of the founding of the Rhetoric Society of Korea (RSK)

Thu, 02 Nov 2023

ISHR mail ... Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric

Thu, 12 Oct 2023
The Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric was co-founded a few years back by Professor Irene Peirano Ga...

Professor Peter Mack FBA (1955-2023) and Professor John O Ward (1940-2023) - ISHR mourns the sudden passing of former Rhetorica editor and friend to many in the Society Peter Mack, on Thursday October 5, 2023

Tue, 10 Oct 2023

ISHR mail: call for 2023 research grant proposals

Wed, 11 Oct 2023
We are now calling for applicants for next year’s grants. The application deadline is November 15...

ISHR mail: forthcoming digital lecture series on ancient Greek law and society

Mon, 02 Oct 2023

2024 ISHR Preconference in Denver, Colorado, USA, May 23, 2024 - Information for application.

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

Identities in the Cultural Humanism, 15th - 17th Century: Tradition and Reception - Call for Papers

Fri, 04 Aug 2023

Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric ... SPECIAL ISSUE: RHETORIC AND MEDICINE

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

SHR Nominating Committee seeks nominations (including self-nominations) for six ISHR committee positions

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

ISHR 2024 submissions – DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15 June

Tue, 08 Aug 2023

COR/ISHR Rhetorical Get Togethers

Tue, 08 Aug 2023

2024 ISHR conference submission deadline less than 1 month away

Fri, 05 May 2023

ISHR - Applications for Book Review Editor Position Now Open

Sat, 22 Apr 2023

Reintroducing ISHR’s Event Support Grants

Fri, 03 Mar 2023
Before COVID-19, it had been the practice of ISHR to offer financial support for small, in-person...

ISHR 2024 Call for Papers Now Open!

Fri, 03 Mar 2023
As many of you know, the paper deadline for ISHR is quite early, this June for next year’s July c...

ISHR Feburary Updates

Mon, 06 Feb 2023

ISHR Grants 2022 Research Fellowship Recipients

Thu, 08 Feb 2024

Transition to Johns Hopkins University Press as Publisher of Rhetorica

Tue, 06 Dec 2022

ISHR - 2022 Call for Research Proposals!

Thu, 01 Sep 2022

ISHR 2022 and 2024; the winner of the Rhetorica Prize

Thu, 18 Aug 2022

Report of the Nominating Committee for the ISHR Business Meeting, Nijmegen, 2022

Thu, 04 Aug 2022

ISHR Conference App

Sat, 30 Jul 2022

REMINDER ... Call for Candidates for Three Members of the Research Grants Committee and the Prize Committee

Sun, 26 Jun 2022

ISHR Visit Our New Website and Register for the Conference

Sun, 27 Mar 2022

ISHR - Online Presentation of The Subtle Subtext. Hidden Meanings in Literature and Life - Monday, February 14, 2022, at 5pm CET

Mon, 07 Feb 2022

COR/ISHR Rhetorical Get Togethers 2.0

Fri, 25 Mar 2022
The Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric (COR) at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Intern...

ISHR ... Christmas Greetings December 2021 - Note: Change of Conference Date to 2-6 August 2022

Thu, 23 Dec 2021

ISHR Invitation to a Presentation of the Oxford Handbook of Quintilian, edited by Marc van der Poel, with Michael Edwards and James J. Murphy, published on December 3, 2021

Thu, 23 Dec 2021

ISHR - 2021 Call for Research Proposals!

Wed, 01 Sep 2021

ISHR Grants 2020 Research Fellowship Recipients

Wed, 20 Oct 2021

ISHR Announces New Associate Editors of Rhetorica

Wed, 30 Jun 2021

ISHR Announces New Editor of Rhetorica

Wed, 30 Jun 2021

Colloquium, promoted by Sociedade Brasileira de Retórica and co organized with Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Tue, 15 Jun 2021

ISHR - Editorial Staff of Rhetorica ... Associate Editor for French Language Manuscripts

Sat, 05 Jun 2021

ISHR - Extension of Submission Deadline to June 1 ... Call for Papers Twenty-Third Biennial Conference July 26-30, 2022

Sun, 16 May 2021

COR/ISHR Virtual Get Togethers: Summer Series On Rhetoric

Wed, 12 May 2021

ISHR Grants 2020 Research Fellowship Recipients

Fri, 26 Feb 2021

ISHR - Editorial Staff of Rhetorica

Sun, 21 Feb 2021

ISHR 2022 Conference ... Call for Papers/Panels

Wed, 03 Feb 2021

ISHR - Editorial Staff of Rhetorica Seeking Nominations ... Associate Editor for Italian Language Manuscripts

Fri, 11 Dec 2020

Call for Papers 8th Rhetoric in Society Conference - Deadline Extended

Tue, 29 Sep 2020

ISHR - 2020 Call for Research Proposals!

Mon, 14 Sep 2020

ISHR Nominating Committee Proposal

Wed, 26 Aug 2020

Prize Winners

Fri, 31 Jan 2025

ISHR Results of Voting

Tue, 02 Jun 2020

Postponement of the 2021 Nijmegen Conference

Fri, 15 May 2020

ISHR 2021 - Submission Portal Open for Papers/Panels

Fri, 15 May 2020

ISHR 2021 - Call for Papers

Fri, 15 May 2020
The Twenty-Third Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (IS...

ISHR Grants 2019 Research Fellowship Recipients

Wed, 15 Jan 2020

CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference at the University of Oulu

Fri, 03 Jan 2020

ISHR Holiday Message and Reminder

Mon, 23 Dec 2019

ISHR - 2019 Call for Research Proposals!

Fri, 20 Sep 2019

California State University, Sacramento - Position Opening

Fri, 16 Aug 2019

A Greeting to the 2019 ISHR Conference from ISHR Founder James J. Murphy

Thu, 25 Jul 2019

Job vacancies: two fully-funded ERC PhD studentships (4 years each) at Ghent University (Belgium)

Fri, 16 Aug 2019

ISHR Seminar at the 2020 Rhetoric Society of America -- CFP PLUS 2019 ISHR Conference Reminders

Tue, 28 May 2019

Renaissance Society of America 2020 ... Call for Papers - Discipline of Rhetoric

Sat, 25 May 2019

ISHR 2019 Conference - Program Draft Posted

Tue, 21 May 2019

ISHR - Sándor Áron Kibédi Varga (1930-2018)

Tue, 21 May 2019

ISHR 2019 Conference - Registration Reminder

Tue, 21 May 2019

ISHR 2019 Conference - Travel and Local Information

Wed, 20 Mar 2019

ISHR 2019 Conference - Registration for New Orleans is now open!

Thu, 07 Mar 2019

Rhetoric Society of Europe - Call for Papers

Sun, 17 Feb 2019

ISHR Research Fellowship Recipients

Wed, 09 Jan 2019

ISHR - 2018 Call for Research Proposals!

Thu, 13 Sep 2018

Stasis Symposium - October 12, 2018

Thu, 13 Sep 2018

Call for Papers - Renaissance Society of America 2019

Fri, 29 Jun 2018

2019 ISHR conference abstract submission -- one last extension

Fri, 01 Jun 2018

ISHR 2019 Conference - Abstract Submissions Due by this Friday!, 1 June 2018

Sun, 27 May 2018

ISHR 2019 Conference - Call for Papers -- ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT!

Tue, 24 Apr 2018

2019 ISHR Conference - Message Regarding Submissions

Sun, 15 Apr 2018

Call for papers - IV Jornadas da Associação Latino-Americana de Retórica - V Congresso Brasileiro de Retórica

Tue, 10 Apr 2018

ISSJR Meeting in New Orleans in July 2019

Sat, 24 Mar 2018

THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR RHETORIC (AAR) - 8TH CONFERENCE, 8-10 AUGUST 2018

Tue, 06 Mar 2018

The Athenian Funeral Oration: 40 Years after Nicole Loraux - An International Conference - The University of Strasbourg (France) 9-11 July 2018

Mon, 26 Feb 2018

Call for Papers - Visual Knowledge in Education and Science - October 25-27, 2018 - Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Fri, 09 Feb 2018

Call for Papers - International Conference organized at Ghent University

Thu, 25 Jan 2018

RhetCanada (Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric / CSSR) Call for Proposals

Mon, 06 Nov 2017

ISHR - Call for Panels at the 2018 Rhetoric Society of America Conference - May 31 to June 3, 2018

Thu, 12 Oct 2017
RSA has offered ISHR the opportunity to offer two panels on the history of rhetoric at the RSA co...

ISHR - 2017 Call for Research Proposals!

Tue, 12 Sep 2017

Mike Edwards (President) greeting Sir Brian Vickers (Founding Member) at the Twenty-First Biennial Conference of ISHR in London

Mon, 28 Aug 2017

ISHR Twitter Account Activated

Wed, 09 Aug 2017

ISSJR Inaugural Meeting - July 26, 2017 Program

Thu, 13 Jul 2017

ISHR - Dr. Jan Swearingen passed away early on June 1st

Mon, 19 Jun 2017

ISSJR Inaugural Meeting

Sun, 18 Jun 2017

ISHR 2017 Conference - Program with Chairs - Final Updates

Mon, 19 Jun 2017

Calls for Proposals - Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER)

Fri, 16 Jun 2017

ISHR 2017 Conference - Program with Chairs Posted

Sun, 18 Jun 2017

ISHR Member Named as the Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Alumni Professor of the Humanities

Wed, 24 May 2017

ISHR - Things to do in London!

Mon, 15 May 2017

Renaissance Society of America 2018 - Call for Papers - Discipline of Rhetoric

Sun, 30 Apr 2017

Rhetoric Conference in Namibia July 3-5 2017 - Deadline for Papers is the first of May!

Thu, 27 Apr 2017

New Publication a Special LIAS Issue

Tue, 21 Mar 2017

ISHR 2017 Convention - Early Bird Registration Rate Ends on March 31st

Thu, 13 Apr 2017

ISHR Winter 2017 Newsletter Ready for Review

Mon, 20 Feb 2017

III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF RHETORIC and INTERDISCIPLINE IV NATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF RHETORIC - "Rhetoric and demonstrations of violence"; San Miguel of Tucumán, Argentina

Mon, 06 Feb 2017

ISHR Grants ... 2016 Recipients Announced

Mon, 09 Jan 2017

ISHR Conference Website Experiencing Technical Difficulty

Wed, 04 Jan 2017

Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Conference -- Call for Proposals: due Jan 15, 2017

Sat, 17 Dec 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS - Sources of Non-Western Rhetorical Traditions

Tue, 01 Nov 2016

ISHR Conference Submission Notifications - We are in the process of finalizing the notifications of acceptances for the conference and will contact you soon. Please bear with us a little longer. Thank you!

Fri, 21 Oct 2016

ISHR - Call for Research Proposals!

Mon, 11 Sep 2017

International Society for the History of Rhetoric

ISHR Mail: Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric April 17, 2026

ISHR In memoriam notice for Jeffrey Walker

ISHR ... Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric invites you to our first spring session of the virtual Works-in-Progress series

ISHR 2026 Research Grant Submission is Open

The Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric Works-in-Progress Series

Position in the history of rhetoric (Enlightenment/modern era) at Mount Saint Vincent University

Portuguese Society of Rhetoric and the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra Call for Papers

ISHR Announcement: Royal Holloway Online Lecture Series

ISHR Announcement: ‚Voci della persuasione: Scrittrici e retorica nell’Italia del rinascimento / Voices of persuasion: Women Writers and Rhetoric in Early Modern Italy’

Announcement conference Romancing Rhetoric: Imperial Fiction and Late-Antique Rhetorical Theories and Practices

ISHR mail: The Imagination Research Network

ISHR Conference App Now Available

ISHR 2025 Conference Information and Updates

ISHR announces the appointment of Dr. Michele Kennerly as editor-elect of ISHR’s journal, Rhetorica

ISHR Research Grant Winners 2025

Voices Of Persuasion: Women Writers And Rhetoric In The Early Modern Italy - Sponsored in part by a grant from ISHR.

Call for Papers - ‘Political Rhetoric and Democratic Discourse’

ISHR Helps Sponsor International Colloquium 'Dialogues on Greek and Latin Rhetorical Terminology'

ISHR Call for new Council and various sub-committee members. - The Nominating Committee has announced a call for the replacement of retiring members from the ISHR Council.

ISHR 2025 Conference Registration Now Open

ISHR Twenty-Fifth Biennial Conference Updates

Call for Papers for Panel Sponsored by the Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric

Call for Research Grant Proposals!

VII Congresso Brasileiro de Retórica - Deadline for Registration December 9, 2024

Virtual Conference on Ancient Greek Sophistry and Its Legacy

ISHR - CALL FOR Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas

Symposium on the History of Rhetoric: a Tribute to Marc van der Poel (1957-2022)

ISHR Loeb Use Survey

ISHR 2025 Conference Submission Deadline Extened to 15 October 2024

ISHR 2025 Conference Submission Portal Now Open

Announcing the Detailed Theme for 2025 ISHR Conference in Copenhagen

ISHR - Winner of the 2024 Rhetorica Prize

ISHR - Call for Papers for XI Symposium in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais/Brazil, October, 7 to 11, 2024

ISHR 2024 Conference Wrap-up

ISHR Wishes You a Happy May Day!

ISHR 2023 Research Grants Recipients

ISSJR Online Seminar - Friday, January 26, 9 am EST

Tübingen Rhetoric Department has a post available for an Assistant Professor

ISHR Mail ... 20th anniversary of the founding of the Rhetoric Society of Korea (RSK)

ISHR mail ... Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric

Professor Peter Mack FBA (1955-2023) and Professor John O Ward (1940-2023) - ISHR mourns the sudden passing of former Rhetorica editor and friend to many in the Society Peter Mack, on Thursday October 5, 2023

ISHR mail: call for 2023 research grant proposals

ISHR mail: forthcoming digital lecture series on ancient Greek law and society

2024 ISHR Preconference in Denver, Colorado, USA, May 23, 2024 - Information for application.

Identities in the Cultural Humanism, 15th - 17th Century: Tradition and Reception - Call for Papers

Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric ... SPECIAL ISSUE: RHETORIC AND MEDICINE

SHR Nominating Committee seeks nominations (including self-nominations) for six ISHR committee positions

ISHR 2024 submissions – DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15 June

COR/ISHR Rhetorical Get Togethers

2024 ISHR conference submission deadline less than 1 month away

ISHR - Applications for Book Review Editor Position Now Open

Reintroducing ISHR’s Event Support Grants

ISHR 2024 Call for Papers Now Open!

ISHR Feburary Updates

ISHR Grants 2022 Research Fellowship Recipients

Transition to Johns Hopkins University Press as Publisher of Rhetorica

ISHR - 2022 Call for Research Proposals!

ISHR 2022 and 2024; the winner of the Rhetorica Prize

Report of the Nominating Committee for the ISHR Business Meeting, Nijmegen, 2022

ISHR Conference App

REMINDER ... Call for Candidates for Three Members of the Research Grants Committee and the Prize Committee

ISHR Visit Our New Website and Register for the Conference

ISHR - Online Presentation of The Subtle Subtext. Hidden Meanings in Literature and Life - Monday, February 14, 2022, at 5pm CET

COR/ISHR Rhetorical Get Togethers 2.0

ISHR ... Christmas Greetings December 2021 - Note: Change of Conference Date to 2-6 August 2022

ISHR Invitation to a Presentation of the Oxford Handbook of Quintilian, edited by Marc van der Poel, with Michael Edwards and James J. Murphy, published on December 3, 2021

ISHR - 2021 Call for Research Proposals!

ISHR Grants 2020 Research Fellowship Recipients

ISHR Announces New Associate Editors of Rhetorica

ISHR Announces New Editor of Rhetorica

Colloquium, promoted by Sociedade Brasileira de Retórica and co organized with Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

ISHR - Editorial Staff of Rhetorica ... Associate Editor for French Language Manuscripts

ISHR - Extension of Submission Deadline to June 1 ... Call for Papers Twenty-Third Biennial Conference July 26-30, 2022

COR/ISHR Virtual Get Togethers: Summer Series On Rhetoric

ISHR Grants 2020 Research Fellowship Recipients

ISHR - Editorial Staff of Rhetorica

ISHR 2022 Conference ... Call for Papers/Panels

ISHR - Editorial Staff of Rhetorica Seeking Nominations ... Associate Editor for Italian Language Manuscripts

Call for Papers 8th Rhetoric in Society Conference - Deadline Extended