Welcome to the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Workshop

Professor Olga Kovbasyuko and Professor Carolyn Ross

and their students

January 15/16, 2009

Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law, Russia

Stanford University, USA

Focus on Cultural Identities

One of 400 captioned drawings from indigenous Andean Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s 800-page letter to King Philip III of Spain, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, Cuzco (Peru), 1613. Although Guaman

Poma delivered his letter, King Phillip never read it. (From Mary Pratt, “Arts of the Contact Zone,” Profession 91. New York: MLA, 1991. 33-40.)

- Mary Pratt, from “Arts of the Contact Zone,” Profession 91. New York: MLA, 1991. 33-40.)

I use this term to refer to social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power,

such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today.

The “contact zone”…

What makes a “contact zone” encounter positive and productive?

Goals of Today’s Workshop:

•To get to know students from across the world

•To understand diverse cultural communities and identities

•To learn how texts (visual/expressive) are situated rhetorically & culturally

Model Analysis: Image 1

Cybelle in Japan with male maids

Model Analysis: Image 2

Demonstration for Tibet in Dharamsala, India

Model Analysis: Image 3

Julia in Rajasthan, India

Model Analysis: Image 3

Carolyn’s coffee cup made of ceramic and rubber

Your Team’s Task Today

1. Introduce yourself and your team’s blog2. Explain your reasons for your post choices3. Share your cultural artifact4.Exchange and Answer questions!

After the Video Conference – continue the conversation on the CCR Blog!