ISHR Twenty-Sixth Biennial Conference
Mexico City, Mexico
July 27–30, 2027
The 2027 conference theme is:
The time of rhetoric.
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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.
03/02/2026
ISHR ... Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric invites you to our first spring session of the virtual Works-in-Progress series
The Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric invites you to our first spring session of the virtual Works-in-Progress series, on Thursday, March 19, 12:00-1:00 PM (Eastern).
Dr. Sviatoslav Dmitriev (Ball State) is sharing his paper on “Homer and the Rhetorical Tradition.” Dr. Matthew Ward (Cambridge) will offer a response before open discussion.
01/15/2026
ISHR 2026 Research Grant Submission is Open
We are now calling for applicants for this year’s grants. The application deadline is 2 March 2026. To encourage our early-career membership, ISHR will seek to award at least one of the grants to a promising graduate student or post-doc.
10/03/2025
ISHR Announcement: Royal Holloway Online Lecture Series
We are pleased to announce an online lecture series on Greek and Roman oratory and rhetoric, titled ‘Building Bridges: Exploring Graeco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric from a Cross-cultural Perspective’, which will run from October 2025 to July 2026.
