Event Program & Conference App Information
ISHR 2025 Final Program (Monday 21 July, corrected 23 July)
Please click the following link for a PDF file which includes all papers accepted for the 2025 Conference:
ISHR 2025 Copenhagen Abstracts
You can find campus maps under "Travel and Local Information."
Here is a map of the South Campus
Please follow the information below to download and access the 2025 Conference App:
For Android and Apple users, search for ISHR Conference 2025 in the App Store/ Google Play or click the respective image below to be redirected:
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You can also access the app from your web browser. Just visit the following URL to get the app on your smartphone, tablet, or PC: https://app.resultsathand.com/ishr2025
Presenter Reminders: As you prepare your paper, keep in mind that ISHR presentation units are 30 minutes long: 20 minutes for the paper + 10 for Q&A about only your paper. Panel chairs will make sure every panelist has 30 minutes; it’s up to you to leave time for questions (that is, if you speak for 28 minutes, you will leave 2 minutes for questions.) Rooms will be equipped with A/V.
Chair Duties: If you are chairing, thank you! Your job is not onerous. Please show up to the designated room at least 5 minutes before the panel begins; please introduce each speaker in the publicized panel order (saying their name and paper title is minimalist, yes, but it also does them the courtesy of not eating into their talking time); please make sure each speaker holds to their 30-minute slot (that is, each speaker has 30 minutes total for their paper AND questions about their paper from the audience).
Questions or requested changes regarding the program? Those should go to the '25 program chair, Caroline Petit (c.c.l.petit@warwick.ac.uk). For example, if you notice your name is misspelled or your abstract title garbled, please forgive and then email her, and she will fix it for the next version. If it transpires that you need to withdraw your contribution, please email her. Though movement is sure to occur within the program, no one will be moved out of their assigned day without consultation.
After making sure the answer is not within the posted conference materials, you may direct any questions regarding anything else conference-related to ISHR President, Hanne Roer (roer@hum.ku.dk), who is planning things from Copenhagen. For example, if you require a certificate of acceptance in order to request funding, please email her.
Please see a summary of events and locations below:
SUMMARY (session and events with rooms)
Communal events:
Registration: July 22-25, 12:00 -15: KUA Hallway, by the main entrance Karen Blixens Plads 8
Tuesday 22, 10-12: Foundational meeting of the Societas Isocratica, SocIsoc (open to all), The festive hall/Festsalen
Tuesday 22, 15:00-15.30: Welcome address by the President and the Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities, Kirsten Busch Nielsen
(KUA3 – 9A.1.01, Nanna Berg Auditorium)
Tuesday 22, 17.25-20.00: Reception at Glyptoteket (including Rhetorica Prize Award Ceremony), Dantes Plads 7, 1556 København V
Wednesday 23,12:35-13:55: Business meeting of the International Society for the Study of Jesuit Rhetoric (open to all, KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg auditorium).
Wednesday 23, 11.30-12.30: Roundtable Discussion: Futures of Humanity in the New Rhetoric Project (KUA3 – 9A.1.01, Nanna Berg Auditorium)
Friday 25, 16-17: ISHR Business Meeting (all welcome), KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium.
Lunch Wednesday and Thursday: at the canteen i building 6A (JUR-kantinen)
Lunch Friday: lunch sandwiches in Festsalen/The festive hall, ), KUA2 - 11C.0.08 – The festive hall/Festsalen
Coffe breaks: in Festsalen/The festive hall, ), KUA2 - 11C.0.08 – The festive hall/Festsalen
Poster (Matthew McGrory) and quiz (Viktoria Völker) in Festsalen/The festive hall (ongoing), KUA2 - 11C.0.08 – The festive hall/Festsalen
Friday 25, 16-17: ISHR Business Meeting (all welcome, KUA3 – 9A.1.01, Nanna Berg Auditorium): state of the art, election of new vice president 50, 1401 København K (only for registrered guests)
Saturday 26, 14.00 and 16.00: Historic walks starting at the equestrian statue at Amalienborg Plads/Amalienborg Palace: https://www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/planning/equestrian-statue-frederik-v-gdk825613
Plenary addresses (KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium)
Tuesday 22, 15-15.30 |
Tuesday 22, 15.30-16.30 |
Thursday 24,11.30-12.30 |
Friday 25, 14.30-15.30 |
Welcome adresses by ISHR president and the dean of the faculty of the humanities, Prof. Kirsten Busch Nielsen |
Prof. Andrew Laird (Brown): Projecting Humanity: Rhetoric and symbolic power in the early Atlantic World |
Tahera Qutbuddin (Oxford), ‘Between This World and the Next: Mortality and Morality in the Orations of Ali (d. 661), Sage of Islam and Master of Arabic Eloquence’ |
Robin Reames (Bloomington, Indiana): Democracy, Demagoguery, Tyranny: Why the Rhetorical Tradition Matters Today. |
Wednesday 23, 9-11 (11 sessions)
Anthropos in ancient Greek literature |
Branching Eloquence: Tracing Ramist Rhetoric in Theory and in Practice
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Formed by Rhetoric: The Liberal Arts and the Human Soul
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Jesuit Rhetoric in Vietnam, China and Japan
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Futures of Humanity in the New Rhetoric Project
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Dynamics and variations of Roman idea of human and humanitas between 1st century BC and 1st-2nd AD |
The man and the State: progymnasmata, declamation and civic education 1
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The Emergence of Trust in Nordic rhetoric
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Demosthenes Asianus |
Containing multitudes: John Tzetzes and the Corpus Hermogenianum in the Vossianus Graecus Q1
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Dynamics and variations of Roman idea of human and humanitas between 1st century BC and 1st-2nd AD: the perspective of rhetorical writings and epistles.
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KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium |
KUA2 – 11A.2.07
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KUA2 – 12.1.62
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KUA2 – 11A.1.19
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KUA2 – 15A.1.11
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KUA2 – 12.0.25
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KUA2 – 15a.0.13
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KUA2 – 11A.1.07
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KUA2 – 12.0.37
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KUA2 – 12.0.47 |
KUA2 - 11C.0.08 – Festsalen/Fe |
Wednesday 23, 14-15.30 (10 sessions)
Looking beyond humanitas in the speeches of Roman epics
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The man and the State: progymnasmata, declamation and civic education 2
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Efficacious Citizenship: Citizens as Rhetorical Listeners
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The "Everyday" and Rhetorical Anthropology
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Comparative Rhetoric
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Rhetoric and the Law
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Louis de Cressolles, SJ. His Sources and Reception |
Medieval Rhetoric 1
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Humanitas and rhetorical teaching
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New Historiographies: Methods that Span
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KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium |
KUA2 – 12.0.25
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KUA2 – 11A.1.19
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KUA2 – 11A.2.07
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KUA2 – 12.1.62
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KUA2 – 15a.0.13
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KUA2 – 12.0.47 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.07
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KUA2 – 15A.1.11
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KUA2 – 12.0.37
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Wednesday 23, 16-18 (9 sessions)
Peter Mack 1955-2023
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The 1970s: Socio-Political, Cultural, and Digital Rhetorics at a Moment of Change
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20th -21st c. Rhetoric and Politics 1 (Palestine)
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Burke, Human Rationality and Rhetoric (20th c)
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Early Modern Rhetoric 1
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Rhetoric and Historiography
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New Rhetoric
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Rhetoric across ages
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Rhetoric and Christianity in Late Antiquity
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KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium |
KUA2 – 11A.2.07 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.19 |
KUA2 – 12.0.25 |
KUA2 – 15a.0.13 |
KUA2 – 12.1.62 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.07 |
KUA2 – 12.0.47 |
KUA2 – 15A.1.11 |
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Thursday 24, 9-11 (10 sessions)
Posthuman Approaches to Greek Oratory - Panel 1
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Musica Poetica I: Musical Dispositio, ca.1200–1700
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Rhetoric in the battle of the genders: from misandrist and misogynist rhetoric to the comparison of the sexes
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Reimagining the Human through Rhetoric: Definitions, Accommodations, and Resistance
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Greek rhetoric 1
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Medieval rhetoric 2
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Early Modern Rhetoric 2
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Roman rhetoric 1
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Rhetoric Curricula from the 17th to the 20th century
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Rhetoric and 20th c. Thought
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KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium |
KUA2 – 12.0.37 |
KUA2 – 12.0.25 |
KUA2 – 11A.2.07 |
KUA2 – 15a.0.13 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.19 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.07 |
KUA2 – 15A.1.11 |
KUA2 – 12.0.47 |
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11A.2.19 (18 seats) |
Thursday 24, 14-15.30 (10 sessions)
Posthuman Approaches to Greek Oratory - Panel 2
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Musica Poetica II: Musical Elocutio and Actio, ca.1700–2000
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Early Modern Rhetoric 3
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20th- 21st c. Rhetoric and Politics 2
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Rhetoric & Science
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Rhetoric and Nation-Building
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Chinese and Japanese Rhetoric
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Early Modern Rhetoric 4
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Idealised Concepts of Humanity in Panegyrical Texts
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Rhetoric beyond Rhetoric
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KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium |
KUA2 – 12.0.37 |
KUA2 – 15a.0.13 |
KUA2 – 11A.2.07 |
KUA2 – 12.0.25 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.19 |
KUA2 – 12.1.62 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.07 |
KUA2 – 15A.1.11 |
KUA2 – 12.0.47 |
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Thursday 24, 16-18 (8 sessions)
Greek rhetoric 2
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Rhetoric and the Sophists in the Roman Empire
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Roman Rhetoric 2
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Jesuit Rhetoric and the Idea of Man
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Rhetoric and Music
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Rhetoric and Politics 20th-21st c. 3
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Style maketh man? Style and ethos construction in Ancient and Medieval Rhetorical theories and (literary) practices.
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Non -Western Rhetoric |
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KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium |
KUA2 – 12.0.25 |
KUA2 – 15a.0.13 |
KUA2 – 11A.2.07 |
KUA2 – 12.0.37 |
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KUA2 – 11A.1.07 |
KUA2 – 15A.1.11 |
KUA2 – 12.0.47 |
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Friday 9-11 (9 sessions)
Ancient rhetoric and humankind
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Human Bodies and Texts in Imperial Rhetoric
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Iacobus Publicius, rhetor hispanus: new contributions
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Figuration and Feeling: A Comparative Study
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20th c. Rhetoric and Women
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Rhetoric and Pedagogy Across Cultures
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Ethos in the History of Rhetoric
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Ancient Rhetoric
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Rhetoric and Pedagogy in the USA
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KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium |
KUA2 – 12.0.25 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.07 |
KUA2 – 12.0.37 |
KUA2 – 11A.2.07 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.19 |
KUA2 – 15A.1.11 |
KUA2 – 15a.0.13 |
KUA2 – 12.1.62 |
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Friday 11.30-13 (8 sessions)
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Brunetto Latini’s Rhetorical Conceptions of Humanity: Communication, Community, Translation
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Rhetoric and Politics in the 20th century 3
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Antonio Vieira
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Greek Rhetoric 3
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Rhetorical Controversy and Polarity in Euripides’ Bacchae
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Rhetorical Humanisms and Rhetorical Practice
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Rhetoric & Language
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Greek Rhetoric 4
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KUA2 – 12.1.62 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.07 |
KUA2 – 12.0.37 |
KUA3 – 9A.1.01 Nanna Berg Auditorium |
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KUA2 – 12.0.47 |
KUA2 – 11A.1.19 |
KUA2 – 15A.1.11 |
KUA2 – 15a.0.13 |
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