Call for papers

Available here in PDF: https://bit.ly/ris9-cfp

Rhetoric in Society 9
Rhetoric in Digital Age
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia June 18th –June 21st 2025

We warmly invite you to send your proposals for the Rhetoric in Society 9 conference which will be held in Zagreb, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, from June 18th until June 21st 2025.

We invite scholars and researchers to submit their proposals for individual presentations, poster or panel presentations, as well as proposals for round table discussions.

This year’s conference theme is Rhetoric in the Digital Age.

The development of technology and media in the 21st century influences the way people communicate and, ultimately, has an impact on people’s persuasion and argumentation strategies. Does the ancient discipline of rhetoric still have a role to play in contemporary society?

How did technology shape contemporary rhetoric, are classical rhetorical concepts still important, will new scientific developments, such as AI, change the significance of rhetoric?  These are only some questions which are in the focus of many discussions among scholars of rhetoric.

This conference is the best place to discuss the different challenges that rhetoric is facing today.

Of course, we also invite proposals which are interested in all possible domains and perspectives of rhetoric dealing with theory, practice, and rhetorical pedagogy.

Proposals may include, but need not be limited to, such areas as:

  • Rhetoric and politics
  • Rhetoric and education
  • Rhetoric and law
  • Rhetoric and literature
  • Rhetoric and Healthcare
  • History of rhetoric
  • Multimodal rhetoric
  • Rhetorical argumentation
  • Argumentation theory

As mentioned before, we invite proposals for different types of delivery:

1. Individual presentation proposal (template available here: https://bit.ly/ris9-presentation) must include

  • Title
  • Author name
  • Email address
  • Affiliation
  • Abstract (300 words maximum)

2. poster presentation proposal (template available here: https://bit.ly/ris9-poster) must include

  • Title
  • Author name
  • Email address
  • Affiliation
  • Abstract (300 words maximum)

3. panel sessions proposals (template available here: https://bit.ly/ris9-panel) must include

  • Panel title
  • Panel abstract of 500 words maximum
  • List of participants including chair, presenters and discussants (if applicable), their email addresses, and the names of the institutions that they are associated
  • The related paper abstracts (200 words maximum/ paper)

4. round table proposal (template available here: https://bit.ly/ris9-roundtable) must include

  • Round table title
  • Round table abstract of 500 words maximum
  • List of participants including chair, presenters and discussants (if applicable), their email addresses, and the names of the institutions that they are associated

How to submit
Send your proposals to ris9@ffzg.unizg.hr by December 15th 2024 and clearly indicate which form of presentation are you submitting.
You will receive information about acceptance by January 18th 2025.
Please do not submit more than two proposals. Panel proposals should not comprise more than four individual papers.