The Public Work of Rhetoric in Times of Crisis: Reimagining Science’s Public Engagement from Scientist-Citizens to Scientist-Activists

Beskrivelse

Public rhetoric of science is more critical than ever as we face global crises such as pandemics and climate change, and as misleading “alternative facts” proliferate in our post-truth era. In this lecture, I discuss my research connecting scholarly conversations from the fields of rhetoric of science, political rhetoric, and local modalities of public engagement, to explore their productive encounters in the contexts of public science and activism. In this work, I advocate for the development of experts’ self-awareness as “scientist-citizens”, namely scientists that see themselves as fully integrated in public life, and I work to re-imagine public science for our emerging post-pandemic and climate-altered world.

Periode	22 sep. 2023
Sted for afholdelse	Institut for Kommunikation