Den 31. oktober 2025 afholdes et tværfagligt seminar om løfter og løftebrud i dansk politik på Aarhus Universitet. Deadline for abstracts er den 15. juni 2025.

”Fake news” var årets ord i 2017. Hvor står diskussion om og forskningen i fake news og nye offentligheder nu, otte år efter? Retorikuddannelsen og Center for Rhetorical Ideas inviterer til seminar fredag den 21. marts 2025 i 1584/112 kl. 11:15-14:00.

Tirsdag den 29. oktober 2024 kl. 13:15 forsvarer cand.mag Rebekka Lykke Ringgaard sin ph.d.-afhandling.

Aarhus University and The University of Copenhagen are pleased to invite PhD students in rhetoric to a PhD course on Rhetorical Criticism & Critical Rhetoric.

In relation to a forthcoming Special Issue of Rhetorica Scandinavica, the reserach seminar "Nyskabende Retorik!" takes place at Copenhagen University, April 12.

November 7, Rebekka Lykke Ringgaard holds her PhD thesis seminar. Opponents are Professor Lisa Storm Villadsen (KU), Associate Professor Elisabeth Hoff-Clausen (KU, and Associate Professor Esben Bjerggaard Nielsen (AU).

Kira Skovbo Moser has begun a new PhD project at CfR, finansed by the Faculty of Arts, AU. Read more under Projects.

Online seminar in order to celebrate Rhetorica Scandinavica's new speciale issue on social movements in the Nordic countries

"Trustworthiness: The Rhetorical History of Trust in the Nordics" is the first in a series of seminars, investigating the rhetorical creation and reproduction of trust in the Nordics. The seminar takes place 28th September 2023.

To sustain the Nordic region's unique tendency for trust into the future, we require a solid research-based understanding of how this tendency came about. This series of workshops fills this gap, by way of an historical exploration of the rhetorical creation and reproduction of trust in the Nordics.