This upcoming Monday on November 9th, the WRD department, in collaboration with the Department of History and Department of African and Black Diaspora Studies, will be hosting Dr. Ersula Ore, an Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and the Lincoln Professor of Ethics in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Dr. Ore will be lecturing via Zoom and participating in a question and answer session based on her book Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, & American Identity. The book won the 2020 Book Award from the Rhetoric Society of American, and offers a poignant and modern take on how Black Americans live in today’s society. The lecture portion will be recorded and available at a later date, but the Q&A will not. If you are interested in attending please register on our DeHub event:dehub.cglink.me/r9906 The link to the talk will be made available on the event page to registered attendees. For external guests, please use our Google Form forms.gle/sLRar57mNF8KATQf6.
Dr. Ore has an impressive resume as “a 2013 Institute for Humanities Research Fellow at ASU and a 2011 Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award Recipient…[and] winner of the 2018 Conference on College Composition & Communication Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection.” For WRD students, you may have come across some of her writings in Proseminar, and other works of hers “can be found in the Women Studies in Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Pedagogy, Present Tense, Rhetoric & Public Affairs and in Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education (SIUP Press, 2016).”
This lecture, open to all DePaul students, faculty, and staff will discuss lynching as a “violent rhetorical action” and its role in the “rhetorical construction of ‘the people’.” This lecture will be particularly relevant as the Black Lives Matter movement continues to work toward the freedom and equality of Black Americans. We look forward to listening and learning from Dr. Ore, and hope you all join in.
