University Of Alabama At Birmingham:

Press release from the University of Alabama at Birmingham:

February 03, 2022

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences will host Adam J. Banks, Ph.D., professor and rhetoric and composition leader, for a free virtual seminar Thursday, Feb. 10.

His presentation, “Funkentelechy: Toward a Black Vernacular Rhetoric of Technology,” will begin at 2 p.m. and focus on the connection between race, rhetoric and technology.

Banks is a professor and faculty director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. He is the author of the award-winning book “Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground.”

To register for this event, click here.

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