The 2026 Robert Mayberry Memorial Lecture


Wednesday, March 25, 2026
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Community, Faculty, Students


Lecture by Robert Terrill

"DIRT SPEECH AND DECORUM" 

Drawing on Mary Douglas’s seminal concept of “dirt” as “matter out of place,” this presentation defines and examines a rhetorical strategy that exposes how discourse and action are strategically framed as “out of place.” 

About the speaker: Robert E. Terrill, Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of English at IU Bloomington and PhD graduate of Northwestern University, advances a dynamic practice of rhetorical criticism devoted to inventing powerful discursive resources that equip individuals and communities to participate in civic culture.

ROBERT MAYBERRY MEMORIAL LECTURE 

QUESTIONS: 

PETER ZHANG [email protected] 

LAKE SUPERIOR HALL 174 


Location Information


LSH 174, Allendale Campus

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Contact Information


Prof. Peter Zhang, [email protected]


Hosting Department, Organization, or Business


School of Communications

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This event was added to the calendar by Peter Zhang (zhangp@gvsu.edu) on Friday, February 20, 2026 and was last updated on Monday, February 23, 2026 at 12:16 p.m.