The Latest News
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.
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.
08/21/2025
Announcement conference Romancing Rhetoric: Imperial Fiction and Late-Antique Rhetorical Theories and Practices
We are delighted to share the programme of the conference, which will take place in De Krook, Miriam Makebaplein 1, Ghent, On Thursday 25 – Friday 26 September 2025.
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.
