Contact: Michelle Cowan mcowan and Samantha Dine (dinesa).
Subject: Seeking Presenters for Rhetoric SIG Panel at ABC 2025
The Rhetoric Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Association for Business Communication (ABC) is organizing a panel for the 2025 ABC conference in Long Beach, CA.
Call for proposals below:
The nature of work is always changing. Remote work policies are in flux. Communication channels are forever evolving and proliferating. Diversity, inclusion, mental health, and disability policies are shifting in response to political and commercial forces. Finding jobs with adequate compensation has become nearly impossible in certain housing sectors.
Many jobs are dwindling or threatened by economic conditions as well as AI. Even as young adults face discouraging rhetoric about the job market, older generations complain that new hires are not meeting expectations. Inundated with uncertain discourse and mixed messages, students may worry they are inadequately prepared for the transition from college work to corporate workspaces.
The nature of work is dependent on how we talk about work. Work-related discourse happens in all areas of life, including the classroom. The Rhetoric Special Interest Group of the Association for Business Communication (ABC) is organizing a panel focused on the ways rhetoric around work shapes work and those doing the work.
We encourage members or prospective members of the Association for Business Communication with scholarly interests in rhetoric to submit their ideas for presentations that could be part of a 4 to7 person panel at the 2025 Association for Business Communication conference in Long Beach, California, on October 15-18. Ideas may be related to corporate work, academic work, pedagogy, and workplace communication as examined through a rhetorical lens.
To submit an idea, please complete this form (https://forms.gle/JtP9xs6zSeaxwcqV9) no later than March 16, 2025.
Questions should be sent to the Rhetoric SIG co-coordinators: Michelle Cowan (mcowan) and Samantha Dine (dinesa).