EVENTS: Dr. Farmer at the Communication Department's Colloquium TOMORROW

Don't forget to go see what promises to be an interesting talk on punk zines, public discourse, and culture by the English department's Dr. Farmer!  The talk starts at 4pm in the Jayhawk room of the Kansas Union.

Events: Rowland Colloquium on Friday

Hey folks, friendly reminder from Communication's Dr. Tell about the latest colloquium (a re-schedule thanks to snowpocalypse):  Dr. Rowland, of the Communication department, will be speaking this Friday at 3pm in the Dole Institute.

Advance early warning: the English department's Dr. Farmer will be giving a talk at 4pm on Wed 23 Feb.  You can find the full colloquium series listing here.  Anyone interested in rhetoric is welcome to come! 

(I'll have to be out of town for this Friday's meeting.  Hope someone posts about it afterward for those of us who have to miss it!)

First meeting time and place

Looks like the first meeting of KU Ars Rhetorica will come directly after the next Communications colloquium, which is Wednesday 9 Feb at about 5pmish. Kundai, Rachel, and I discussed whether we wanted to intrude on the Coms students' usual post-colloquium happy hour. But the post-colloquium time seemed best because we're hoping to encourage some of the English folk to come to the colloquium first. The colloquium is in the Mallott Room of the Kansas Union, so we'll stay in the Union for the KUAR meeting (finalized room location yet to be determined since the University is on snow lock-down), and then we'll join the happy hour that's going on at the Oread at about 5:30-5:45 or so.

When we get the room location in the Union for the KUAR meeting finalized, we'll send out an official email with all the details.

So, mark your calendars! Wednesday 9 Feb @ 5ish @ Kansas Union

Communications Spring 2011 Colloquium Series

Yet another example of the need for KU Ars Rhetorica: I'd bet "money" (my money right now is only an abstract concept!) that most of the English grad students have no idea about the Communications Spring 2011 Colloquium Series. But here's the schedule for it, so now you have no excuse, fellow English folk! Our own Dr. Frank Farmer is going to be speaking, which is nice. I've briefly summarized the series below, but click the link above to get time and place details.

Feb 9 -- Dr. Rachel Griffin, U of Southern Illinois (specializations: intercultural communication, critical race theory, gender issues, critical pedagogy)

Feb 23 -- Dr. Frank Farmer

Mar 9 -- Dr. Mary Banwart (political coms) and Dr. Tom Beisecker (legal coms)

Mar 29 -- Dr. Debbie Hawhee, of Penn State (rhetorical studies)

Apr 13 -- Christine E. Crouse-Dick, KU Coms grad student