{"id":1387,"date":"2018-08-14T21:52:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T02:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2018-08-14T22:41:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T03:41:40","slug":"dr-elif-guler-presents-at-the-international-conference-on-global-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/2018\/08\/14\/dr-elif-guler-presents-at-the-international-conference-on-global-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Elif Guler presents at the International Conference on Global Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG-6120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1389\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG-6120-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG-6120-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG-6120-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG-6120-1024x769.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Dr. Elif Guler, Coordinator and Assistant Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/rhetoric\/\">Professional Writing at Longwood<\/a>, has recently presented her study,\u00a0\u201cThe Rhetorical Understanding of Agency in\u00a0<i>The<\/i>\u00a0<i>Wisdom of Royal Glory<\/i>\u00a0and its Implications for the Contemporary World,\u201d at IAFOR&#8217;s International Conference on Global Studies in Barcelona, Spain (July 2018). Upon invitation to the conference entitled, &#8220;Fearful Futures: Cultural Studies and the Question of Agency in the Twenty-First Century,&#8221; Dr.\u00a0Guler was also asked to serve as a senior reviewer for IAFOR and invited to publish her study as a chapter in an intercultural rhetoric book contracted with the Southern Illinois University Press.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dr. Guler&#8217;s presentation covered some of the results of her studies recovering non-Western principles of rhetoric with a particular focus on the Turkish rhetorical tradition. Specifically, the presentation focused on an 11th-century Turkish text&#8217;s\u00a0education of an ideal agent who has to study language so s\/he can effectively and morally communicate with and utilize authority and power. Dr. Guler also discussed\u00a0the implications of this text, which originated in the Karakhanid Empire of Central Asia, for a rhetorical construction of a collective identity&#8211;an identity which (rather than a race, an ethnicity, or being a lawful member of a society) relies on one\u2019s act of following the\u00a0<em>tore<\/em> (a certain set of moral principles that are supposed to govern an individual\u2019s behavior).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Elif Guler, Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Professional Writing at Longwood, has recently presented her study,\u00a0\u201cThe Rhetorical Understanding of Agency in\u00a0The\u00a0Wisdom of Royal Glory\u00a0and its Implications for the Contemporary World,\u201d at IAFOR&#8217;s International Conference on Global Studies in Barcelona, Spain (July 2018). Upon invitation to the conference entitled, &#8220;Fearful Futures: Cultural Studies and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50227],"tags":[243859,428557,43535,378991,379012],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-modern-languages","tag-elif-guler","tag-professional-writing","tag-rhetoric","tag-turkish-rhetoric","tag-turkish-rhetorical-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}