Rhetoric is at the heart of citizenship. Rhetoric is key when citizenship is debated and performed. Rhetoric is key to changes in notions of citizenship. This panel features theorists, critics and educators from the fields of English, Communication Studies, Political Theory, and Education who discuss promises and problems inherent in notions and practices of rhetorical citizenship as it is conceived, practiced and problematized in various settings in North America and Europe. The panelists will approach the topic from theoretical angles concerned with policy-making, public opinion formation, dialogue across disagreement, and ethics. They will situate their comments around communicative practices and habits such as coordination, collaboration and cooperation as well as framing, priming, agenda setting. Further, the notion of rhetorical citizenship will be chronicled, exemplified and complicated via case studies of non-citizen refugees seeking asylum, discursive responses to public violence across time, and performative invocations of citizenship in public health controversies. Organizer: Lisa Villadsen Confirmed presenters, in alphabetical order: Robert Asen, Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture, Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Jeffrey A. Bennett, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Iowa, USA Simone Chambers, Professor, Political Science, Director of Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Canada Robert Danisch, Associate Professor, Drama and Speech Communication, University of Waterloo, Canada Rosa Eberly, Associate Professor, Communication Arts and Sciences, and English, Penn State University, USA David Kerr, Consultant Director of Education at the NGO Citizenship Foundation in London, Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor in Citizenship Education at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Christian Kock, Professor of Rhetoric, Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Lisa Villadsen, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Alessandra Beasley von Burg, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Wake Forest University, USA