The US Chapter of the Latin American Rhetoric Society promotes the study of historical and contemporary Latin American rhetorics, including those newly flourishing in the US, Canada, and other regions as a consequence of technological innovation and migrations associated with political, economic, educational, health, and environmental forces. We aim to provide a mechanism for collaboration and communication among scholars working on such projects. We are affiliated with La Asociación Latinamericana de Retórica, a hemisphere-wide coalition of like-minded scholars.

Calendar of Events

AUGUST & SEPTEMBER 2011: III CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE CLÁSICOS EN MÉXICO. Call for Proposals
Proposals due December 31, 2010.

JULY 2011: CONFERENCE: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC, BOLOGNA, ITALY.
 Conference site

SEPTEMBER 2010: RHETORIC CONFERENCE IN BRAZIL
Date and Place: September 27-30, 2010, Ouro Preto, Brazil. The historic city of Ouro Preto in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Ouro Preto means black gold in reference to the gold extract era that happened during colonization.
Proposals to cbretorica@gmail.com by August 10, 2010.
Link to CFP in English

MAY 26, 2010: SYMPOSIUM
The Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse at DePaul University hosted a symposium on Rhetorical Studies in Latin America. Hosted by René de los Santos, the panel featured approaches to rhetoric from the perspective of Latin America, specifically Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. The panelists addressed the teaching of rhetoric, current research in this discipline, and rhetoric's political uses in building consensus as found in their respective national contexts. Speakers: Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho, Universidad Estatal de San Pablo (Brasil); María Alejandra Vitale, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina); Mariana Ozuna Castañeda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

CONFERENCE: MAY 28-31, 2010. The US Chapter of ALR sponsored two panels at the Rhetoric Society of America  meeting in Minneapolis.
The panels were scheduled as a Super Session on Saturday afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30.

Panel 1  Special Panel on Latin American Rhetorics: Perspectives from Scholars Based in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Speakers: 
Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho, Universidad Estatal de São Paulo, on history v. theory in Brazilian rhetoric. 
María Alejandra Vitale, Universidad de Buenos Aires, on the Argentinian golpista press.
Mariana Ozuna Castañeda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, on rhetorical forms for political independence. 

Panel 2  Special Panel on Latin American Rhetorics: Perspectives from US-based Scholars
Speakers:
Abraham Romney, University of California, Irvine, on Guaman Poma.
Christa Olson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, on mid-20th c. Ecuadorian national identity.
René Agustín De los Santos, DePaul University, on Francisco Olazábal's rhetoric of evangelism.