Eloquentia Perfecta (EP) Week 2023

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. 

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 

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.

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 

¡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

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!