Stories about "Rhetoric"
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Seeking lessons — and hope — in the depths of disaster
Friday, April 17, 2020 10:32 am
Meet members of the Bates faculty who are watching COVID-19 and wondering what it has to teach us in terms of the human experience.
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Moviemakers aren’t the only winners in Bates Film Festival Awards
Friday, January 31, 2020 9:03 am
The process is prized by the students who pick the award-winners, too.
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A field guide to conspiracy-theory rhetoric
Thursday, September 26, 2019 3:16 pm
If you want to understand what’s driving a particular conspiracy theory, advises rhetoric professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano, try to understand the perceived evil behind the theorists’ stories.
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Exacting, empathetic, authentic: Kelley-Romano receives Kroepsch teaching award
Thursday, April 11, 2019 2:17 pm
She's known off campus for research on campaign rhetoric and alien abduction stories, but her students love her for keeping things real.
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Look What We Found: Stephanie Kelley-Romano’s alien pop-up book
Thursday, November 1, 2018 4:33 pm
Walk into Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Stephanie Kelley-Romano’s…
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Slideshow: Presidential politics vs. (not-real) smallpox crisis, hour by hour
Friday, November 4, 2016 11:35 am
A mock White House campaign that's been going full tilt on campus since September went to warp speed on Oct. 25: There's a crisis in America!
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2015 ‘Inside Africa Fashion Show’ shares clothes, stories behind them
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 11:45 am
Bates College presents its fourth Inside Africa Fashion Show on March 7.
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Neither naive nor cynical, Oscar winner Stacey Kabat ’85 reflects on her domestic-violence activism
Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:00 am
A national leader in the fight against domestic violence, Kabat won an Academy Award for the 1994 film "Defending Our Lives."
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Kabat ’85 returns to discuss domestic abuse and Oscar-winning ‘Defending Our Lives’
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 4:28 pm
Stacey Kabat's visit includes a public screening and discussion of this powerful documentary on domestic violence.
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Debaters Blackburn and Stewart bring home national championship
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 1:00 pm
In the storied history of Bates debate, the victory is believed to be the first national title by a Bates varsity team.