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.