University Of Alabama At Birmingham:

Birmingham AL

04 February, 2022

10:21 AM

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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. This press release was produced by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The views expressed here are the author's own.