The 10th Nordic Conference for Rhetorical Research will take place at the University of Oslo, Blindern Campus, in Sophus Bugges hus.
A PDF document with the program and other information is here.
Tuesday 9 June
- 1800-1930: Reception, Oslo City Hall (Fridtjof Nansens plass)
Wednesday 10 June
- 0830-0900: Registration & Coffee – Lobby
- 0900-0930: Welcome, Vice Rector Mathilde Skoie – Auditorium 1
- 0930-1030: Keynote Lecture, Prof. Ekaterina Haskins – Auditorium 1
- «Commemorating An Inconvenient Past Amid an Uncertain Present: The Resistant Memory Commons in Russia»
- 1030-1100: Coffee Break – Lobby
- 1100-1230: Parallel Sessions – Seminar Rooms 1-5
- 1230-1330: Lunch – Eilert, Frederikke, Niels, etc.
- 1330-1530: Parallel Sessions – Seminar Rooms 1-5
- 1530-1600: Coffee Break – Lobby
- 1600-1730: Parallel Sessions – Seminar Rooms 1-5
- 1900-2100: Informal Get-Together, The Whisky Bar (Rådhusgata 28)
Parallel Sessions: Wednesday first session
| Title | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
WA1 – Pre-Suasion: Preconditions of Rhetoric | Christopher Tindale, «Creating Exigency» Jens E. Kjeldsen, «The Art of Being Persuaded: Using Rhetorical Listening to Change Your Mind» Agnieszka Kampka, «The Civic Future of the City: Rhetorical Practices in Online Public Consultations» | Seminar Room 1 |
WA2 – Rhetorical Literacy and Democratic Documents | Hilde Reinertsen, «Following the Auditors’ Gaze: Documents, Democracy, and the Making of Authoritative Audit Reports» Ewa Modrzejewska, «Critical Visual Literacy in Data-Driven Democratic Discourse» Stefan Rimm, «A Civic Rhetorical Repertoire: Competences, Dispositions, and the Democratic Promise of Rhetorical Education» | Seminar Room 2 |
WA3 – Rhetorical Traditions in the Heart(s) of Europe | Marco Antonio Prieto, «The Rhetoric of Dissent from the Church? Beyond the Rhetoric of Democratic Consensus in Brussels» Louise Zamparutti, «Italy’s Anne Frank and the Rhetoric of the Foibe: Is Fascism Becoming the New Democracy? » M. Zsombor Tóth, «Rhetoric and Democratic Traditions in Contemporary Europe: A Hungarian Perspective» | Seminar Room 3 |
WA4 – (American) Institutions in Flux | Tom Are Trippestad & Hilmar Mjelde, «Making Schools Bait Again – Populism on the Curriculum» James Daniel Rushing, «War Machine: Democracy, Neoliberalism, and the Case of UC Berkeley» Brooke Hubsch, «Crisis on the Court: The Rhetorical and Democratic Significance of Public Judicial Crises» | Seminar Room 4 |
Parallel Sessions: Wednesday second session
| Title | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
WB1 – PANEL: A Rhetorical Perspective on Fact-Checking: Ethos, Audiences, and the Establishment of Knowledge Claims | Sabina Schousboe, Mette Bengtsson, Frida Hviid Broberg, Rasmus Rønlev | Seminar Room 1 |
WB2 – Power in Place | Kristian Bjørkdahl, «The Kairotope and Democratic Literacy, or, What Actually Happens on Eidsvoll Square?» Frederik Appel Olsen, «Speaking Lava to Power: Vulkangruppen, Eco-Sabotage, and Rhetorics of Masked Resistance in Post-Pandemic Europe» Charlotte Hidle, «The ‘Coast’ as Place, Strategy, Argument, and Identity» Agnieszka Szurek, «Rhetorical Citizenship at the Grassroots: Local Biographies and the Making of Democratic Ideals» | Seminar Room 2 |
WB3 – A Greener World Is Possible | Frida Buhre, «The Long-Term Resilience of Climate Activism? Protest Rhetoric in Times of Conservative Backlash» Emma Noble, «Democracy on the Natural Resource Management Stage: A Case Study of Black Canyon City and the I-17 Improvement Project» Erik Bengtson & Johanna Männikkö, «Framing the Green Transition: Evaluating Energy Retailers’ Use of Cultural Frames in Social Media Advertising» | Seminar Room 3 |
WB4 – Snakker du «demokratisk»? | Lisa Källström & Lennart Hellspong, «Den demokratiska dialogen: Varför är den så svår?» Janne Krogh-Bjørnerud, «Stillhet som retorisk praksis i demokratiet» Alexander Stagnell, «Byråkraten Odysseus: Centralbankerna och folkets vilja» Janne Lindqvist, «Född ur demokratin? Myten om retorikens demokratiska ursprung» | Seminarrom 4 |
WB5 – Locus Oratoris: Talerens plass | Iben Brinch, «Den inviterte intellektuelle: Stedets retorikk og demokratiets iscenesatte offentlighet» Marie Lund, «Kirsten Marie Larsdatter, Danmarks første kvindelige folketaler» Barbro Wallgren Hemlin, «Gud hjelpe den som för lifstiden är dömd att hålla Tal för Bönder: Biskop Esaias Tegnër som kyrklig talare» Lisa Källström, «When Democracy Breaks: Fragmentation as Testimony and Political Practice in Elin Anna Labba’s Novel Far inte till havet» | Seminar Room 5 |
Parallel Sessions: Wednesday third session
| Title | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
WC1 – PANEL: Anerkjennelsens retorikk | Eirik Vatnøy, Gudrun Kløve Juuhl, Yasemin Nurcan Hacioglu, Frida Hviid Broberg, Frederik Appel Olsen, Thore Keitum Fisker, John Magnus R. Dahl, Louise Schou Therkildsen, Ida Vikøren Andersen | Seminarrom 1 |
WC2 – PANEL: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Rhetorical and Emotional Argumentation within the Framework of Næss’ Work on Argumentation | Magne Reitan, Jarmila Bubikova-Moan & Margareth Sandvik | Seminar Room 2 |
WC3 – Antiquity Now! | Mika Hietanen, «Navigating the Fog of Likelihood; the Eikotic Analysis Protocol as a Tool for Civic Diagnosis and Repair» Hans V. Hansen, «Friendship and Democracy» Marianne Pheiff, «A Conceptual Meeting between Classical Credibility and Modern Influence» | Seminar Room 3 |
WC4 – Skandinaviske demokratiers retorikk | Ellen Jonsson, «Till den svenska demokratins försvar – demokrati som nationell folkegenskap i andra världskrigets politiska debatt» Øivind Bratberg, «Making Sense: Unge velgeres retorisk-politiske refleksjoner» Joel Landberg, «Retoriken om demokratin» | Seminarrom 4 |
WC5 – PANEL: While Waiting for Godot: Journalistic Efforts to Prepare or Repair Democratic Conversation | Christine Isager, Rasmus Rønlev, Mette Bengtsson, Iben Brinch | Seminar Room 5 |
Thursday 11 June
- 0830-0900: Coffee – Lobby
- 0900-1100: Parallel Sessions – Seminar Rooms 1-5
- 1100-1130: Coffee Break – Lobby
- 1130-1230: Duelling Plenaries
- Generalforsamling, Nordisk Retorikkforening – Auditorium 2
- Roundtable: TBA – Seminar Room 1
- 1230-1330: Lunch – Eilert, Frederikke, Niels, etc.
- PhD Scholars Lunch Gathering, TBA
- 1330-1430: Keynote Lecture, Prof. Christina Matthiesen – Auditorium 1
- «Controversia and Critical Literacy – Lessons from a Comedy»
- 1430-1500: Coffee Break Extraordinaire – Lobby
- Stands/posters: Nordisk Retorikkleksikon / Rhetorica Scandinavica / Nordiske taledatabaser
- 1500-1630: Parallel Sessions – Seminar Rooms 1-5
- 1900-2200: Conference Dinner, Südøst (Trondheimsveien 5)
Parallel sessions: Thursday first session
| Title | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
TA1 – ROUNDTABLE: Rhetoric and Democracy in Struggle: Co-option, In/Coherence, Resonance, and Activism | Soumia Bardhan, Erik Bengtson, Frida Hviid Broberg, Frida Buhre, Rebecca Dingo, Matthew Houdek, Jade Onn, Karieann Soto Vega | Seminar Room 1 |
TA2 – Rhetoric of Professionals | Dorthea Roe, «The Doctor Is Out (or Busy Taking Selfies): Constraints of Traditional Health Expertise in the Platformed Public Sphere» Pamela Pietrucci & Leah Ceccarelli, «Care Perspectives for an Ethical Rhetoric of Science» Vetle Sjølie, «The Poetics of Bureaucracy: Creating Nature and Citizens through Nature Management Texts» | Seminar Room 2 |
TA3 – Demokrati, in vivo | Tommy Bruhn, «Tröghet, parlamentarisk demokrati och den retoriska situationen» Thore Keitum Fisker, «Neoliberal kinesiologi som demokrati-bypass» Anders Sigrell, «Kairos och demokrati» Anders Aanes, «Skriftkultur og dialektnasjon: Relasjonelle topoi i den norske dialektrørsla på 1970-talet» | Seminarrom 3 |
TA4 – Administrasjonens retorikk | Andreas Rovio, «Byråkratins avtryck: Konstitueringen av spelarsubjektet som gränskontrollant i Papers, Please (2013)» Merete Pettersen, «Retorisk handlekraft og retoriske strukturer i offentlig forvaltning – Tillitsreform i Nav som kaleidoskop» | Seminarrom 4 |
TA5 – Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Sideways, Back-and-Forth | Louise Anna Ladegaard & Sine Nørholm Just, «Freedom of Speech – The Freedom to Hate? Towards the Realization of Rhetorical Citizenship» Michael J. Hoppmann, «Laughing and Punching for Democracy» Truls Strand Offerdal, «Meta Debate» Anders Eriksson, «The Communist Manifesto as Political Rhetoric» | Seminar Room 5 |
Parallel Sessions: Thursday second session
| Title | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
TB1 – Roundtable: The Rhetorical History of Nordic Trust | Marie Lund, Hanne Roer, Jens Kjeldsen, Otto Fischer, Kjell Lars Berge, Truls Strand Offerdal, Jon Viklund, Kristian Bjørkdahl | Seminar Room 1 |
TB2 – The New School | Lisa Villadsen & Frida Hviid Broberg, «Sanctioning Listening: ‘Controversial’ Topics, Public Schools, and ‘the Child’ as Democratic Subject» Arlene Holmes-Henderson, «Rhetoric as Human Infrastructure: Educational Policy Developments in the UK» Eigil Hole Lønning, «A Teacher Promoted, but Not Invited: A Strategic Run-Up of Democratic Deficit during Reform?» | Seminar Room 2 |
TB3 – Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? | Ronnie Haidar, «Democracy and the Rhetoric of Human Dignity» Ingeborg van der Geest & Bart van Klink, «Commonplacing as Democratic Practice: Rhetoric in an Age of Deep Disagreement” Maria Załęska, «Rhetorical Awareness and Democratic Problem-Solving» | Seminar Room 3 |
TB4 – Doing Didactics in Democracy | Anne-Grete Kaldahl & Åge R. Diseth, «Students’ Perspectives on Oracy and Rhetoric in Upper Secondary Education» Anne Dehlie Glædesdahl, «Dinosauren i rummet: Stemme, retorik og skrivedidaktik – en arena for hvad?» Fredrik Söderquist, «Rhetorical Citizenship under Constraint: AI Literacy, Crisis Scenarios, and Democratic Accountability in Communication Education» | Seminar Room 4 |
TB5 – Negotiating Identity | Rebecca Kiderlen, «‘We, the People of India’ – Rhetorical Construction of Citizenship, Identity, and Nation in the Shaheen Bagh Protests» Sarah Hae-In Idzik, «Asian Adoptee Podcasts and Rhetorics of Asian American Relationality» Olagbenro Oladipo, «Country of Particular Concern: Identification and the Limits of Federalism in Nigeria» | Seminar Room 5 |
TB6 – PANEL: Narrating Rhetorical Agency | Solveig Kolstad, Kira Skovbo Moser, Stefan Iversen | Auditorium 2 |
Friday 12 June
- 0930-1000: Coffee – Lobby
- 1000-1200: Parallel Sessions – Seminar Rooms 1-5
- 1200-1300: Lunch – Eilert, Frederikke, Niels, etc
- 1300-1400: Plenary, Kristine Marie Berg + Jonas Kittelsen (XR) – Auditorium 1
- «Nordic Climate Activism and Democracy»
- 1400-1415: Closing, Auditorium 1
Parallel Sessions: Friday first session
| Title | Presenters | Room |
|---|---|---|
FA1 – PANEL: Rhetorical Types – a Panel Discussion | Karl Ekeman, Theodor Lalér, Patrik Mehrens, Otto Fischer, Mirey Gorgis & Mats Rosengren | Seminar Room 1 |
FA2 – Klart og konstruktivt ... eller? | Sophie Lysholt Hansen, «Konstruktiv og fortællende journalistik som drivkraft for klimaengagement: Problemer, traditioner og potentialer» Marit Jordanger, «Klarspråk og dokumentpraksis i offentlig naturforvaltning» Johan L. Tønnesson, «Kritisk blikk på ‘klarspråk’» | Seminarrom 2 |
FA3 – Rhetorical Leadership | Luca Leoni, «Framing Crisis, Shaping Democracy: Rhetorical Construction of National Unity in George W. Bush’s Post-9/11 Discourse» Shane Crombie, «The Rhetoric of Rejection: Analyzing the ‘Spoil the Vote’ Crisis in the 2025 Irish Presidential Election» Theodoros Karamitopoulos & Angeliki Sakellariou, «Rhetoric in Defense of Bourgeois Democracy: Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos’ Address to his Party’s Youth» | Seminar Room 3 |
FA4 – Democracy's Core | Johanna Männikkö, «A Rhetoric of Resonance?» Blake D. Scott & Lisann Penttilä, «Rhetoric and the Technicity of Democracy» Karolina Chodzińska-Bosak, «Toward a Philosophical Study of Eristic» | Seminar Room 4 |
FA5 – Normal, More or Less | Jon Martin Larsen, Audra Diers-Lawson & Anders Olof Larsson, «Heterosexuality in a Municipal Rhetorical Arena Created by Action Plans towards Inclusion of LGBTQ+: A Reminder of the Normal» Maryam Alavi Nia & Najat Mohammad, «‘Diagnosing Myself to Be Heard’: The Collapse of Physician-Patient Dialogue and the Reconfiguration of Rhetorical Agency and Trust in Migrant Women’s Healthcare in Norway» Ingeborg Hedda Paulsen, «Are ‘They’ Us Yet?: A Topological Analysis of Mental Health Issues in the Norwegian News Media» Laura Van Beveren, «Renegotiating Expertise within the Rhetorical Ecologies of Youth Mental Health» | Seminar Room 5 |