{"id":4959,"date":"2025-04-23T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2025-04-23T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:06:03","slug":"book-talk-with-jon-radwan-contact-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2025\/04\/book-talk-with-jon-radwan-contact-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk With Jon Radwan: Contact Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4960 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2025\/04\/3109_jon-radwan-320.rev_.1744128768.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/> University Libraries is pleased to co-host a book talk with Jon Radwan, Ph.D., on his recent publication, <em>Ethics in Contact Rhetoric: Communication and The Dance of Bodies and Power<\/em>. Dr. Radwan is an associate professor of communication and director of the Institute for Communication and Religion in Seton Hall\u2019s College of Human Development, Culture, and Media. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 9:30 in the Common Area on the second floor of Walsh Library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the book:<\/strong> <em>Ethics in Contact Rhetoric<\/em> re-orients communication theory by centering touch and de-centering symbolic acts. Inspired by MLK\u2019s tradition of nonviolent power, a contact orientation highlights the incarnate and immediate ground of communication ethics. Ethical interactions are defined as bio-relational dances arcing steps of nurture, respect, justice and too often, violence. Centering humanity\u2019s physical mutuality is a vital move today. Communication is a thoroughly interactive art, but the West\u2019s ancient \u201cinstrumental\u201d tradition of rhetoric and its accompanying utilitarian ethic valorize individual agency over joint action. This book re-balances rhetorical theory by enabling critique of embodied relational patterns. Special emphasis is placed on engaging material injustice and discerning the role of rhetoric in social transformation. Critical case studies demonstrate contact rhetoric\u2019s rich heuristic and diverse applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time: 9:30 \u2013 10:45 am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: Walsh Library, Common Area (second floor)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please register for the event <a href=\"https:\/\/events.shu.edu\/event\/40556-book-talk-with-jon-radwan-contact-rhetoric\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/dl\/launcher\/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_N2NkNmViNmYtYjc5Yy00ODMyLTgzY2QtMmU5ZjRhZWNiYzQ5%40thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%252251f07c22-53b7-44df-b97c-a13261d71075%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522032cc40b-bcb8-4889-8c92-e0ccb4f1bef5%2522%257d%26anon%3Dtrue&amp;type=meetup-join&amp;deeplinkId=51b5ffb9-1014-4290-984c-0da1952d9775&amp;directDl=true&amp;msLaunch=true&amp;enableMobilePage=true&amp;suppressPrompt=true\">You can also join us on Teams.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Libraries is pleased to co-host a book talk with Jon Radwan, Ph.D., on his recent publication, Ethics in Contact Rhetoric: Communication and The Dance of Bodies and Power. Dr. Radwan is an associate professor of communication and director of the Institute for Communication and Religion in Seton Hall\u2019s College of Human Development, Culture, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2025\/04\/book-talk-with-jon-radwan-contact-rhetoric\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Talk With Jon Radwan: Contact Rhetoric&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,126,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-library-event","category-special-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4962,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}