The 2023 Festival of Speaking & Listening showcased 8 student finalists across two speaking contest days with speeches ranging from 'reliable models for traumatic brain injuries' to 'school shootings: a big problem for small towns.'
Six Sewanee students and two professors attended the Civil Resistance, Nonviolent Activism & Human Rights workshop at the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights, which took place from March 20 to 24 at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford.
Monday, October 3
5:00pm CDT
Gailor Auditorium
Join us for a lecture by Profs. Angela Ray & Paul Stob on lecturing, learning, & difference in the long nineteenth century.
*Book signing to follow.
Armed with a 70-year-old map and a dollar-store broom, CS&L Tutor Mitch Shakespeare uncovers a long-lost piece of Sewanee and Delta Tau Delta history on a sandstone bluff.
Eleven superb student speakers across disciplines and courses, six judges, and fifty-nine audience members participated in this year's annual Festival of Speaking & Listening.
CS&L Assistant Director Melody Lehn and Peer Tutors Amanda Schlegel (C'23) and Zach Shunnarah (C'23) recently attended the 21st Century Excellence at the Center Conference hosted by the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
Since the start of the pandemic, a period during which many people have felt much less ambitious than usual, O’Rourke has actually published three books! In addition to the introductions and section introductions, O’Rourke also has chapters in each of these books.
Professor Sean Patrick O’Rourke (Rhetoric and American Studies) published Like Wildfire: The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-Ins (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2020), co-edited with Professor Lesli K. Pace of Southeast Missouri State. The book is a part of USC Press’s Rhetoric and Communication series.
See details for our statement condemning racism.
Join Read SC and the Georgia Center for the Book for another On My Mind event. Editors Sean Patrick O’Rourke and Lesli K. Pace will discuss their companion books Like Wildfire: The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-Ins and the forthcoming On Fire: Five Civil Rights Sit-Ins and the Rhetoric of Protest. This virtual event is free and open to the public, but you must register on Eventbrite to receive the link to the Zoom webinar.
The Southern States Communication Association has awarded Dr. Sean Patrick O’Rourke the 2020 J. Donald Ragsdale Award for Mentoring.
A Lecture by Belinda A. Stillion Southard, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, University of Georgia
Professors Sean O’Rourke (Rhetoric and American Studies) and Melody Lehn (Rhetoric and Women’s and Gender Studies) have published the book Rhetoric, Race, Religion, and the Charleston Shootings: Was Blind but Now I See with Lexington Books in its “Rhetoric, Race, and Religion” Series.
Center for Speaking & Listening tutor Maren Czura blogs about her latest experiences in the Czech Republic.
Author and professor David Frank will speak on the Long Civil Rights Movement.
More than sixty students and faculty watched the Democratic Primary Debate on September 12, 2019 at the Bairnwick Women’s Center.
The Clevenger conference, one of the oldest and most prestigious undergraduate research forums in the field of rhetoric, attracts students from as far away as the University of Puget Sound and Florida Atlantic University and nearly everywhere in between.
Fifteen finalists participated in four public speaking contests in the 2019 Festival of Speaking & Listening, held on April 23, 24, and 25.
Assistant Professor Melody Lehn was recognized on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 with the university’s citation for Excellence in Teaching.
University of Texas-Austin Professor Patricia Roberts-Miller to speak on "The Pleasures of Outrage: Why We Love Demagoguery"
On September 14 at noon in the Mary Sue Cushman Room, the Office of Civic Engagement’s “Yea, Sewanee Votes!” program, the Center for Speaking & Listening, and The Sewanee Purple will host a lunch conversation with award winning journalist Morton Kondracke entitled “Restoring the Political Center.”
