<div dir="ltr">Dear Burkelers,<div><br></div><div>You may remember Dr. Jouni Tilli of Finland from the St. Louis and Belgium conferences. He's been a postdoc at my institution for two months. We've begun developing a joint book project that requires a lot of help. Although it's not a Burke project, there are Burke scholars who are good candidates for contributing to it. We're particularly interested in scholars who are European or who study European rhetoric.</div><div><br></div><div>The concept is simple enough: We're interested in the rhetoric of immigration (and anti-immigration) surrounding the refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the would-be ISIS Caliphate. We want to publish chapters that analyze the rhetoric of immigration in Europe and the United States. In particular, we'd like scholars who could write chapters on the United States, Germany, Hungary, France, Great Britain, Turkey, the European Union, and other select countries. A final chapter will offer a comparative analysis that draws upon these individual chapters.</div><div><br></div><div>We want each chapter to provide basic background on the political system of the country and its immigration history and policy to frame an analysis of discourse from the government and significant political players on the current immigration crisis. We want to consider how immigrants are constructed (e.g., as victims, as security risks) and what issues are tied to immigration rhetoric, such as economic, cultural, social, political, religious, humanitarian, and security issues.</div><div><br></div><div>The challenge is going to be identifying scholars with the background to pull this off. If you are interested in this project or know someone (especially Europeans) who might be interested, please let me know. We've discussed the project with an academic press and I believe we can land a publisher if we can pull together a good group of scholars.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope everyone had a good holiday!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Clarke<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Dr. Clarke Rountree<br>Chair and Professor of Communication Arts<br>342 Morton Hall<br>University of Alabama in Huntsville<br>Huntsville, ALĀ 35899<br><a href="tel:256-824-6646" value="+12568246646" target="_blank">256-824-6646</a><br><a href="mailto:clarke.rountree@uah.edu" target="_blank">clarke.rountree@uah.edu</a></div>
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