Rhetoric
The image is a section from the painting The Nine Muses, Polyhymnia (Rhetoric), by Johann Heinrich Tischbein, 1781. Image in the public domain.
Modern rhetoric explores the role of language, communication and communication technologies in politics, culture and society.
The rhetoric research at Uppsala university is historically as well as theoretically oriented with expertise in ancient argumentative art and early modern rhetorical culture, contemporary political rhetoric, propaganda and rhetorical-philosophical anthropology.
To read more about our publication series, please visit: Uppsala Rhetorical Studies URS/SRU Studia Rhetorica Upsaliensia and Occasional papers of URS/SRU Miscellanea rhetorica Upsaliensia
Latest Publications
- Om en bestridbarhetens etik i algoritmernas tidsålder: Recension av Sine N. Just: Controversial Encounters in the Age of Algorithms: How Digital Technologies Are Stifling Public Debate and What to Do About It. 224 sidor. Bristol University Press, 2025.Ekeman, Karl, 2025
- Grekisk retorikLindqvist, Janne, 2025
- Populisten: en omöjlig typ: eller varför populisten är så svår att definieraEkeman, Karl, 2025
- Dissensus Rhetoric in Youth Climate Justice ActivismBuhre, Frida, 2025
- Bricoleuren: en typisk retoriker?Rosengren, Mats, 2025
Latest Dissertations
- In Want of a Sovereign: Metapolitics and the Populist Formation of the Alt-RightEkeman, Karl, 2023
- Härskarhyllning och påverkan: Panegyriken kring tronskiftet 1697 i det svenska ÖstersjöväldetEkblom, Birgitta, 2022
- Allt är våld!: En undersökning av det moderna våldsbegreppetGorgis, Mirey, 2022
- A European State of Mind: Rhetorical Formations of European Identity within the EU 1973–2014Schou Therkildsen, Louise, 2022
- The Epistemology of Rhetoric: Plato, Doxa and Post-TruthBengtson, Erik, 2019