Thanks for joining us at Kairoticast.
Our goal at Kairoticast is to show that rhetoric, with all its big, academic and effete sounding ideas, is really quite applicable to our every day lives. [Read More]
Episode 107 – Banned Books and the Narrative
Sunday was the beginning of Banned Books Week. As you know, Banned Books Week is a big deal around here.
I got a little preachy in my classes and gave them quite a sermon on banned books. But I took a different tack than I usually do. This time I didn’t talk about censorship or free speech. I don’t know how much that really hits home sometimes. This time I talked about how book challenges are a matter of equity. [Read More]
Episode 106 – Decoder Ring
This week in class we were talking about what the Supreme Court actually does. And, not surprisingly, there were plenty of people who did not really understand it. And that’s okay. I think most Americans don’t. But we were talking about how the SCOTUS reviews laws and decides whether they are Constitutional or not and one student raised her hand and said, “What about ‘The Purge’ law?” [Read More]
Episode 105 – American Exceptionalism
I want to tell you a little story:
There were these people who were all living together, bound together by their religion. But they were eventually expelled from where they lived because of their religious beliefs. [Read More]
Episode 104 – The Point
Monday was my first day back at school and I can’t begin to tell you how miserable it was. [Read More]
Episode 103 – Putting Rhetoric in its Place
Hello, and welcome to this special episode of Kairoticast. Today we are happy to be taking part in The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2022.
The theme of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival is “Rhetoric: Spaces and Place in and Beyond the Academy.” The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival takes place August 22-25. This is the 3rd Annual Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival, and we hope to grow the list of participants and listenership going forward. We hope The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival continues to be an annual event. The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2022 hashtags are: #tbrpodcastcarnival2022 and #placesspacesinbeyond. The keynote speaker for The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival is Dr. Madison Jones, Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric/Natural Resources Science and Founder of the DWELL Lab at the University of Rhode Island. That episode will be released August 25th. [Read More]