The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR; []) is a bilingual scholarly society based in Canada that is open to scholars involved in the teaching or researching of rhetoric. While the CSSR was founded as a Canadian version of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, and while—as implied by its original name, the Canadian Seminar on the History of Rhetoric (CSHR)—it originally focused on the history of rhetoric, the CSSR now focuses on a range of rhetorical scholarship. Its membership typically includes scholars from North America and Europe (not just Canada) and its conferences typically include joint sessions with other societies as a "natural reflection of the interdisciplinary interests of
tsmembers."
The CSSR publishes an online
refereed journal, ''Rhetor'', and meets annually for an
academic conference
An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an Convention (meeting), event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic jou ...
, usually as part of the annual Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences run by the
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (), also known as the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, is a member-based organization and the national voice for researchers in the humanities and social sciences in C ...
.
[E.g., Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science]
Congress 2009
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Presidents
* 1980–1981 Judith Rice Henderson
* 1981 Raymond Stephanson
* 1981–1984 Joseph Schmidt
* 1985
Elaine Fantham
Elaine Fantham (born Elaine Crosthwaite, 25 May 1933 – 11 July 2016) was a British-Canadian classicist whose expertise lay particularly in Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and in the social history of Roman women. ...
* 1986–1988 Albert Halsall
* 1988–1990 John Stephen Martin
* 1990–1993 Albert Halsall
* 1993–1995 David Goodwin
* 1995–1997 Joanne S. Norman
* 1997–1999 Kim Fedderson
* 1999–2001 Philippa Spoel
* 2001–2003 Jennifer McLennan
* 2003–2005 Tracy Whalen
* 2005–2007 Sylvain Rheault
* 2007–2009 Shannon Purves-Smith
* 2009–2011 Rebecca Carruthers Den Hoed
* 2011–2013 Jeanie Wills
* 2013–2015 Pierre Zoberman
* 2015–2019 Tania Smith
See also
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List of learned societies
This is a partial list of learned societies, grouped by country.
International
* Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand
* Association for Computing Machinery
* Association for Information Science and Technology
* Assoc ...
References
External links
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International Society for the History of Rhetoric
History organizations based in Canada
Learned societies of Canada
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