Monday, March 30, 2009

Up next: Zaeske lecture and events, April 7-8

We are pleased to welcome Susan Zaeske as our final spring semester lecturer for the Lincoln's Rhetorical Worlds speaker series. Professor Zaeske will deliver her public lecture, "'The Sorrow-Quenching Draughts of Perfect Liberty': Temperate Bodies/Political Bodies in the Rhetorics of Abraham Lincoln and Frances E.W. Harper," on Wed., April 8, 3:30-5:30 pm, Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor. Please join us!

Professor Zaeske will also appear that morning at 11 a.m. on WILL-AM's "Focus 580" to discuss her award winning book, Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity (North Carolina, 2003). She will also meet with Professor Ned O'Gorman's Lincoln's Legacy class and discuss a selection of her published work with the Rhetorical Studies Reading Group.

Zaeske is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

No comments: