Conference Sites
2024 - Vancouver, Canada24th Biennial Conference Vancouver, July 23-26, 2024 Theme: Continuity and Change in the History of Rhetoric | 2022 - Nijmegen, The Netherlands23rd Biennial Conference Theme: Topics and Commonplaces in Antiquity and Beyond | 2019 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA22nd Biennial Conference Theme: Rhetoric and Populism |
2017 - London, England21st Biennial Conference Theme: The Spaces of Rhetoric | 2015 - Tübingen, Germany20th Biennial Conference Theme: Rhetoric Across Cultures | 2013 - Chicago, Illinois, USA19th Biennial Conference Theme: Rhetoric and Performance |
2011 - Bologna, Italy18th Biennial Conference Theme: Rhetoric and Law | 2009 - Montreal, Canada17th Biennial Conference Theme: Innovative Perspectives in the History of Rhetoric | 2007 - Strasbourg, France16th Biennial Conference Theme: Rhetoric and Religion |
2005 -Los Angeles, California, USA15th Biennial Conference | 2003- Madrid, Spain14th Biennial Conference Theme: Rhetoric and Society | 2001 - Warszawa, Poland13th Biennial Conference Theme: Rhetoric of Transformation |
1999 - Amsterdam, Netherlands12th Biennial Conference | 1997 - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada11th Biennial Conference Theme: The Greco-Roman Rhetorical Tradition: Alterations, Adaptations, Alternatives | 1995 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom10th Biennial Conference |
1993 - Turin, Italy9th Biennial Conference Theme: “Ethics and Rhetoric” and “Rhetoric and Pedagogy” | 1991 - Baltimore, USA8th Biennial Conference Theme: Quintilian | 1989 - Göttingen, Germany7th Biennial Conference |
1987 - Tours, France6th Biennial Conference Tours will not feature one theme; instead, “each contributor is asked to locate his proposed paper inside one of several sections. | 1985 - Oxford, UK5th Biennial Conference Theme: Rhetoric in the Academic Setting | 1983 - Florence, Italy4th Biennial Conference Theme: Cicero, The Concept of Invention through the Ages, Preaching, and Rhetoric and the Visual Arts. NB |
1981 - Madison, USA3rd Biennial Conference | 1979 - Amsterdam, Netherlands2nd Biennial Conference | ISHR First Biennial Conference1st Biennial Conference |