Date: October 6, 2003
(03-77)
Contact: Elizabeth Homan,
240-567-7970; Steve
Simon, 240-567-7952
Montgomery College
Presents “The Civic Conversation Since 9/11”
Visiting Scholar Series at Takoma Park Campus This Fall
The
Montgomery College Community Conversations learning community is hosting
a visiting scholar series, titled “The Civic Conversation Since 9/11,”
at the Takoma Park Campus this October and November. Free and open to
the public, the series will examine political language and its effect in
shaping the perceptions of citizens.
Each
presentation will look at specific motifs in current political rhetoric
that drive our thinking about war and peace, convince us of the
rightness or necessity of actions, permit or forestall contestation, or
gain our consent. The series will also look at historical use of the
words and images that move us today.
The
list of speakers and subjects are:
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GENDERED LANGUAGE: The gendered expression of commitment to war
Monday, October 13, 2003, 3:30 – 5:30pm
Commons Building, Room 201 – Student Lounge, Takoma Park Campus
This forum will look at the call to war
in political speeches and how it has evolved in a gendered way. The
presenter is feminist scholar Shawn J. Parry-Giles, Associate Professor
of Communication, Affiliate Associate Professor of Women's Studies, and
Director, Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership,
University of Maryland, College Park.
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LANGUAGE THAT UNIFIES: From E Pluribus
Unum to “United We Stand”
Monday, October 20, 2003, 2:30 – 4:30pm
Commons Building, Room 207 – Bliss Room, Takoma Park Campus
This forum will analyze the call for
national or global unity in political rhetoric and its power to heal as
well as to suppress differences. Co-author of the essay “Unity” in
Collateral Language, Eve Walsh Stoddard, will lead the forum. She
is chair of the Global Studies Department at St. Lawrence University.
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LANGUAGE THAT DIVIDES: The rhetoric
of binary opposition
Monday, November 10, 2003, 2:30 – 4:30pm
Provost
Conference Room (Commons 102), Takoma Park
This forum will examine political
rhetoric that polarizes. The historian Richard E. Rubenstein, author of
“Language and Terrorism,” will lead the session. Rubenstein is a
professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at
George Mason University.
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FILTERED LANGUAGE: The
role of the media
Monday, November 24, 2003, 2:30 – 4:30pm
Provost
Conference Room (Commons 102), Takoma Park
This
forum will study the role of media in filtering and framing information
and events since 9-11.
Beverly Sauer, author of “The Rhetoric of Risk,” will present. Sauer is
a professor in the department of business communication at Johns Hopkins
University
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MORALIZING LANGUAGE: Good and evil in
political rhetoric
Monday,
December 1, 2003, 2:30 –
4:30pm
Provost
Conference Room (Commons 102), Takoma Park
This forum will look at the moralizing
and evangelical language in political rhetoric. The presenter is Lisa
Schirch, Associate Professor of Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation
Program, Eastern Mennonite University.
Each
of five sessions will focus on a particular powerful use of language
found in recent political rhetoric. There are readings for each
session. For a complete list of the readings, copies, and information,
contact Marcia Bronstein, English Professor, at 240-567-1369 or
marcia.bronstein@montgomerycollege.edu.
Community Conversations is a Montgomery College Critical Literacy
Project. This project was made possible with funds from the
Maryland Humanities Council, through a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
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