Composition and rhetoric

Humour seems to be an essential feature of human life. It is not just about jokes but a way of looking at the world. That's why this inclusive, interdisciplinary conference is opening up space for academic, artistic, activist, and professional perspectives on the subject of humour and its role in our lives

The IRW is a 3-day international workshop that creates space for emerging and early-career rhetorical scholars to participate in an informal setting that facilitates engaging discussion, developing scholarship, and bridging communities. The workshop is a 3-day intensive retreat that includes keynote speakers, roundtable sessions, and working Pods. For 2020, we have conscientiously chosen to hold the 2020 workshop in San Luis Potosí, Mexico at El Colegio de San Luis. The working languages in 2020 will be English and Spanish with the aid of translation software and technology. We hope you will join us!

This panel for the Rhetoric Society of America 2020 conference will gather the threads of movements that push rhetoric beyond persuasion and the art of speaking. The necessity of responsible response in and through language in all its forms and mediums is of no clearer and greater importance than it is now. In precarious political and ecological times, this panel calls for theoretical and/or practical approaches to moving rhetoric beyond its classical roots.