Eloquentia Perfecta (EP) Week 2023
Eloquentia Perfecta (EP) Week 2023
September 25-29
September 25-29
Eloquentia Perfecta Week (EP Week) was a five-day series of events that invites the SLU community to reflect on writing, creative expression, speaking, visuality, and all forms of media and communication. Events engaged both students and faculty to explore how communication is part of the undergraduate college curriculum, how communication connects us to ourselves and society, and the role that expression and listening play in the Catholic, Jesuit tradition. Events included student focused workshops (both skills based and reflective) as well as faculty events (including curricular development, training, and keynote speakers).
2:00-3:00p.m., Pere Marquette Gallery
Nathaniel Rivers, Associate Director, Written and Visual Communication
Tim Huffman, Associate Director, Oral and Visual Communication
Allen Brizze, Associate Director, Writing Intensive
Presentations and activites designed to introduce and explore Eloquentia Perfecta and how it inheres across all aspects of this sequence of the Core. We will trace how we arrvied at eloquentia perfecta here at SLU. How eloquentia perfecta embodies the Jesuit and Catholic mission of SLU. And how eloquentia perfecta makes a SLU education unique.
We will also discuss how to get involved in the EP sequence, including submitted course.
10:00-12:00p.m., Clock Tower
This ongoing and open event will allow students to explore and experiment with the various facets of eloquentia perfecta: from writing flash fiction and composing speed art. Refreshments provided.
portable audio recording studio
linograph postcards
typewriter (with newspaper print paper)
mini canvases
erasure poetry
3:00-4:00p.m., Adorjan Hall 142
Nathaniel Rivers, Professor of English
Ryan Prewitt, Doctoral Candidate in Department of English
A workshop designed to use multimodal thinking to design or refresh your Writing Program course. The workshop will introduce instructors to various modalities as inventional tools for developing in-class exercises, rebooting assignments and revising course projects.
Such iterative multimodality will also serve instructors working on research projects such as articles and dissertations. Particular attention will be paid to how research projects can be differently articulated across different modes. In this way, the workshop hopes to link the practice of teaching with the practice of research. In each instance, the move is to think through how research is conducted.
Refreshments provided.
10:00-12:00p.m., Clock Tower
This ongoing and open event will allow students to explore and experiment with the various facets of eloquentia perfecta: from writing flash fiction and composing speed art. Refreshments provided.
portable audio recording studio
linograph postcards
typewriter (with newspaper print paper)
mini canvases
erasure poetry
3:15-4:15p.m., Pius Library, 2nd Floor
¡Explora tu creatividad!
Have fun with palabras en español!
Students will receive models & prompts to play with in Spanish Intermediate proficiency in Spanish recommended
PLEASE RSVP AT ana.montero@slu.edu by September 24
Refreshments provided
3:30-4:30p.m., Cook Hall Room 236
Professor Jonathan Alexander, Chancellor's Professor of English and Informatics, University of California Irvine
In this presentation, Jonathan Alexander considers how Octavia Butler's near-future speculative novel, The Parable of the Sower, might serve as an updated meditation on the Ratio Studiorum, with particular implications for the Eloquentia Perfecta. Butler's narrating protagonist, Lauren Olamina, develops a new "religion," Earthseed, whose components compellingly parallel the four dimensions of the Ratio, including guidance for administrative work, approaches to the natural sciences, the formation of a theology, and the practice of the rhetorical arts. Lauren's Earthseed interestingly adapts these areas for a time of apocalyptic change, in which political, cultural, and environmental breakdown necessitates newer and flexible approaches to all four dimensions of the Ratio. In this presentation, Alexander traces the interesting linkages between the Ratio and Earthseed, commenting in particular on how Earthseed, at its heart, offers contemporary readers an approach to rhetoric, persuasion, and the usefulness of writing in meeting the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
Are you interested in learning about the history of letterpress printing? Have you thought about how the space of the page in word processing software like word or Google Docs is influenced by centuries of printing design and technology? Join us in the Busch Student Center for a talk and workshop with Marie Oberkirsch, the director of Central Print. Central Print is non-profit arts organization with a mission to promote the art of letterpress printmaking by providing workshops, classes, and programs focusing on design and production using historic printing equipment. We'll be experimenting with presses, ink, and movable type to create our own prints over the course of the workshop!