Rhetoric's Responsibilities in Perilous Times

This session seeks abstracts that address rhetoric's role in countering the harms of neoliberal capitalism and its manifestations, fluctuations, and intimacies, e.g., cyberlibertarianism, ecofascism, technoauthoritarianism. How is rhetoric responsible to those vulnerable to authoritarian systems?

Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025

Shui-yin Yam, University of Kentucky (s.yam@uky.edu )