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2012 James W. Carey Memorial Lecture by Professor Nathan Crick

Date: October 17, 2012
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Location: LHH 132

The School of Communications, the Communication Studies Major and
The Institute of General Semantics present:


The 2012 James W. Carey Memorial Lecture by Professor Nathan Crick,
Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Louisiana State University
 
 
Speaking on:

The Birth of the Spectacle: Persuasion, Power, and Production in Early Greek Tragedy
 
Wednesday October 17, 2012
7:00pm  LHH 132
 
Professor Crick explores the complex intersections between art, science, rhetoric, and democracy.  His focus is on the theory and practices of the Greek Sophists and the American Pragmatists. Professor Crick is author of Rhetorical Public Speaking (Allyn & Bacon, 2010)  and Democracy & Rhetoric: John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming (University of South Carolina Press, 2010).
 
 
"Creation, not acquisition, is the measure of a nation's rank; it is the only road to an enduring place in the admiring memory of mankind" (John Dewey).
 

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