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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.
01/25/2022
ISHR - Carol Poster
Carol Poster, long time member of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, died of colon cancer at the age of 65 on October 22, 2021.
12/26/2021
ISHR - Dr. James J. Murphy
With great sadness I inform you of the passing of James J. - Jerry - Murphy in the morning of 24 December, at the age of 98. Jerry’s name is a household word for several generations of scholars in the history of rhetoric, and he was a dear friend of many of them.
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August 2-6, 2022
ISHR Twenty-Third Biennial Conference
The 2022 Conference Theme: Topics and Commonplaces in Antiquity and Beyond
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands