ISHR Twenty-Fourth Biennial Conference

University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University

July 23-26, 2024

The Twenty-Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) 
University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, Canada
July 23-26, 2024

The 2024 conference theme is:

Continuity and Change in the History of Rhetoric

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ISHR Twenty-Fourth Biennial Conference

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Founded at Zurich on 30 June 1977, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric includes members from thirty countries, and holds biennial congresses in Europe and North America.
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Peer-reviewed scholarly monographs in the history of rhetoric in its broadest sense.
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Biennial Conference

The Biennial Conference of ISHR brings together several hundred specialists in the history of rhetoric from around thirty countries.
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Rhetorica

The journal publishes articles, book reviews, and bibliographies that examine the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages.
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Research Grants
Event Support Grants
Rhetorica Prize
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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.

03/03/2023

Reintroducing ISHR’s Event Support Grants

Before COVID-19, it had been the practice of ISHR to offer financial support for small, in-person, history-of-rhetoric events organized by ISHR members. We hereby resume that practice and expand it to include digital and hybrid events.

03/01/2023

ISHR 2024 Call for Papers Now Open!

As many of you know, the paper deadline for ISHR is quite early, this June for next year’s July conference: there are many things that have to be got into place in the meantime, international travel, funding to be applied for, invitations to be sent out, etc. So it’s important to get the paper proposals in by June a year ahead of time. You have three months.

02/13/2023

ISHR Mourns the Passing of Craig Kallendorf

Craig KallendorfISHR mourns the passing of Craig Kallendorf, a past editor of Rhetorica (1992-1997) and co-editor, with Laurent Pernot of the ISHR/Brill series International Studies in the History of Rhetoric.

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