ISHR Twenty-Fifth Biennial Conference
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
July 22-25, 2025
The Twenty-Fifth Biennial Conference of the
International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR)
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
July 22-25, 2025
The 2025 conference theme was:
The idea of humanity in the history of rhetoric.
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Welcome
The International Society for the History of Rhetoric promotes the study of both the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages
and the relationship of rhetoric to poetics, literary theory and criticism, philosophy, politics, religion, law and other aspects of the cultural context.
06/23/2025
ISHR announces the appointment of Dr. Michele Kennerly as editor-elect of ISHR’s journal, Rhetorica
ISHR announces the appointment of Dr. Michele Kennerly as editor-elect of ISHR’s journal, Rhetorica. She will assume the editorship on 1 January 2026. Kennerly is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at The Pennsylvania State University in the USA.
05/26/2025
ISHR Research Grant Winners 2025
I am pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ISHR Research Grants. Congratulations to all recipients for winning this prestigious award and for your contributions to the study of the history of rhetoric.
08/15/2024
ISHR - Winner of the 2024 Rhetorica Prize
The Rhetorica prize committee is pleased to report that the winner of the 2024 prize for the best article published in Rhetorica is Michael R. Kearney, “Melanchthon's Didactic Genre and the Rhetoric of Reformation,” Rhetorica 40.1 (Winter, 2022): 23–42. The winner was chosen from among the twenty-four articles published in Rhetorica 39.3–41.1.
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September 3 - 5, 2025
2025 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas
The general theme of the colloquium is: Linguistics and Rhetoric: A Tale of Two Frenemies
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA, Reims, France)
September 25 - 26, 2025
Voices Of Persuasion: Women Writers And Rhetoric In The Early Modern Italy
The conference aims to bring together scholars to explore the forms and methods of communication of women writers in the early modern period in Italy (1500-1699).
Rome, Italy
