Join us as Professor LuMing Mao presents his talk on “Reimagining the Global: Fluidity, Temporality, and Multiplicity” in HCW 7191 on April 13, 2023:
- 12-1 PM: brownbag social
- 4-5 PM: main presentation
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How should we write a global history of rhetoric in the twenty-first century?
How can we both recognize the inherent limitation of such a project and leverage its globality and otherness to bring about invention and intervention?
What methodological challenges should be acknowledged and respected as we learn to speak with the other across time and space?
Engaging with these questions, Dr. Mao’s talk aims to:
- reexamine binaries such as self/other and West/East and their corresponding frames of production and interpretation.
- call attention to ways of being and knowing that are emergent effects or consequences of encounters.
- propose a rhetorical togetherness that re-forms relation and separation, understanding and appropriation, and the global’s spatial ambition and its temporal limitation.
LuMing Mao is Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing & Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah. He also serves as Director of the Global U Humanities Summer Academy and Director of International Initiatives in the College of Humanities. His scholarship is located in comparative rhetoric, Asian/Asian American rhetoric, Chinese rhetoric, and translingual writing. Two of his current projects are the co-edited Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing and The Cambridge History of Rhetoric, Vol 5, Modern Rhetoric After 1900.