Speeches of
Global Leadership
A Video Conference Exchange:
Uppsala University Sweden &
Stanford University, USA
February 23, 2009
Goals of Today’ Workshop
• To get to know students from
across the world
• To exchange diverse cultural
perspectives on speeches
• To learn how speeches are
situated rhetorically & culturally
• Focus on rhetorical strategies,
persona, Doxa and the canons
of style, arrangement, and
delivery
Today’s Schedule
18.20-18.30 / 9.20-9.30am (10 minutes)
Getting to Know Teams in a Cross-Cultural
Context
Location: Rooms A, B, C, D, E & F at
http://switchboard.stanford.edu.
Activity: Introduce yourselves by name, age,
course of study, place of origin. Use the white
board to write down names and emails; if you
like, take a group photo of your teams using the
webcam and post it on the whiteboard.
Today’s Schedule (continued)
18.30-19.00 / 9.30-10.00 am (30 minutes)
Rhetorical Analysis of Rhetoric in Speeches
Activity: In your globally-distributed team,
rhetorically analyze the speech assigned to your
group.
Today’s Schedule (continued)
19.00-19.20/ 10.00-10.20 (20 minutes)
Collaborative Group Work
Activity: Open Question Session about your own
research projects, your universities, or your
cultures. Then, prepare a statement from your
team to present to the other groups. Answer the
following:
Today’s Schedule (continued)
19.20-19.30/ 10.20-10.30 (10 minutes)
Presentation of Team Statements
Activity: Presentation of knowledge; teaching
other students about cross-cultural learning and
developing your own skills of active listening