Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Michael Leff to deliver final Lincoln's Rhetorical Worlds lecture on Oct. 13, 2009


Michael C. Leff, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis, will deliver the final lecture in the Lincoln's Rhetorical Worlds speaker series. The lecture, titled "Practice as Theory: Lincoln's Address to the Temperance Society, Feb. 22, 1842," will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 13th at 3:30 pm on the 3rd floor of the Levis Faculty Center on the Urbana campus.

While on campus, Professor Leff will also meet with the Rhetorical Studies Reading Group and visit Professor Martin Camargo's graduate seminar in the English department.

Check here for streaming video and audio featuring previous Lincoln's Rhetorical Worlds speakers.