Global Rhetorics

4. When All You See is White – Kefaya Diab (Jordan & Tunisia)

This special episode interviews Dr. Kefaya Diab, a Jordanian scholar of Palestinian origin who is postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University in the United States. She discusses her research about the role of affect in activist work–a phenomenon she terms “a sense of agency”–and provides examples from the Tunisian Arab Spring and from academia itself. We […]

3. From Sweden to the World with Frida Buhre & Erik Bengtson (Sweden part 2)

This is the second of a two-part interview with Dr. Frida Buhre and Dr. Erik Bengtson, co-founders of the International Rhetoric Workshop (IRW). In this episode, they tell us about the role of rhetoric at large in Sweden, including a popular game show that’s all about rhetoric. They also discuss the origins of the IRW […]

2. Time & Truth with Frida Buhre & Erik Bengtson (Sweden)

This is the first of a two-part interview with Dr. Frida Buhre and Dr. Erik Bengtson, both scholars at Uppsala University in Sweden. They tackle rhetoric’s relationship with two big ideas: time and truth. They also discuss the next generation of rhetorical scholarship in Sweden.  This interview was conducted in August 2019 at Uppsala University. […]

1. Design Rhetoric with Anneli Bowie (South Africa)

This episode features an interview with Dr. Anneli Bowie, a scholar at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. She discusses her research at the intersection of design and rhetoric. She also describes her time as an Erasmus Mundus scholar in Sweden, her service learning pedagogy, and her latest research about the Fourth Industrial Revolution.  […]