As part of the Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders series, Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke from the University of Wisconsin-Madison joined us on February 17 to discuss her work around community and disaster discourse. Her presentation titled “Living Well with Floods: Reciprocity, Research, and Refusal in Wisconsin’s Hill Country” provided a fascinating look into how storytelling can create positive frameworks for real change within a community. Although Dr. Gottschalk Druschke admitted that the work could be difficult at times as the community members were wary of university types after being exploited in the past. Even so, the larger response to increasing
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Event Preview: Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders with Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
This Winter Quarter the Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse department is offering a particularly special guest speaker in our Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders series. Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke is joining us from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to share her work in oral history. Her presentation “Living Well with Floods: Reciprocity, Research, and Refusal in Wisconsin’s Hill Country” gives a glimpse into stories she’s collected around dealing with ever-increasing floods and the mutual aid that takes place after disaster strikes. Dr. Gottschalk Druschke is well-versed in ecological and water-based rhetoric as they have been focuses of hers for years. In fact,
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With CCCC recently holding its annual conference, we talked to one of WRD’s attendees to get the rundown on the research and presentations.
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Join us for this quarter’s Speaker Series with Dr. Dylan Dryer as he talks about violent police language and what we can do to disarm it.
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At last week’s Speaker Series, Dr. Cedric Burrows talked about the concepts of rhetorical crossover, whitesplaining, and afrosplaining.
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We talked to Lisa Dush about HumanitiesX at DePaul to find out what opportunities and event await students with them.
Continue readingWinter Speaker Series – Dr. Cedric D. Burrows
For this Winter Quarter’s Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders Speaker Series, Dr. Cedric Burrows has been invited by the WRD department to speak about his book on whitescripting and afrosplaining.
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