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06/10/2026
ISHR Mail ... Online Workshop 15 June 2026 at 10:00 a.m. (London time)
We are pleased to announce the following online workshop, ‘Meeting of Minds and the Art of Rhetoric: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Workshop on Ancient Greco-Roman and Chinese Rhetoric’, which will be held on 15 June 2026 at 10:00 a.m. (London time).
03/12/2026
ISHR In memoriam notice for Jeffrey Walker
With great sadness, the International Society for the History of Rhetoric acknowledges the death of long-time ISHR member Dr. Jeffrey Walker, Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric at the University of Texas at Austin, on February 28, 2026.
06/23/2025
ISHR announces the appointment of Dr. Michele Kennerly as editor-elect of ISHR’s journal, Rhetorica
ISHR announces the appointment of Dr. Michele Kennerly as editor-elect of ISHR’s journal, Rhetorica. She will assume the editorship on 1 January 2026. Kennerly is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at The Pennsylvania State University in the USA.
08/15/2024
ISHR - Winner of the 2024 Rhetorica Prize
The Rhetorica prize committee is pleased to report that the winner of the 2024 prize for the best article published in Rhetorica is Michael R. Kearney, “Melanchthon's Didactic Genre and the Rhetoric of Reformation,” Rhetorica 40.1 (Winter, 2022): 23–42. The winner was chosen from among the twenty-four articles published in Rhetorica 39.3–41.1.
