CFP: IRW 2026 – Rhetorical Flows

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IRW 2026 Site: Buenos Aires

Call for Proposals:

The Planning Committee for the 5th Biennial International Rhetoric Workshop invites international PhD students, emerging scholars, and established researchers to come together and consider the myriad ways that our contemporary and established traditions of rhetorical theory, pedagogy, and criticism inform global flows of meaning-making.

In the heart of Buenos Aires, at the Centro Cultural Paco Urondo (Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UBA), the workshop will center on the theme, “Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities and Cultures of Resistance,” inviting participants to reflect critically with and from a city that has long been a site of poetic militancy, political mobilization, and intercultural exchange. Named for Francisco “Paco” Urondo — poet, journalist, academic, and activist who fused literary creativity with resistance to authoritarianism — this Center locates us amid a legacy of words as weapons, ideas as action, and networks of solidarity that transcend borders and boundaries. Buenos Aires itself, with its histories of migration, contestation, memory, and re­appropriations of public space, offers a vital ground for exploring how rhetorical practices flow across languages, geographies, traditions, time, peoples, and cultures. We welcome proposals that draw on this spirit: whether tracing the circulation of rhetorical forms, investigating collaborative practices of dissent, or imagining new solidarities that respond to both local and global urgencies.

This year’s theme, “Rhetorical Flows: Building Transnational Solidarities & Cultures of Resistance,” prompts us to examine the notions of:

1. Solidarity in a global, yet increasingly divided world; and
2. Strategies of rebellion against—and critical engagements with—the gaps between the affluent and the poor, technology and nature, artificiality and authenticity, generations and communities.

In preparation for the 5th International Rhetoric Workshop 2026, we invite submissions on the themes of solidarity, transnationality, and resistance.

Submission Guidelines:

• Please submit proposed abstracts (no more than 250 words) to the Submission Form. We are accepting proposals in English and Spanish.
• The content of the abstracts should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and expected contribution to the field.
• The deadline to apply is March 21, 2026.
• Applicants can expect to hear back by April 20, 2026

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