RACE TALK: The HOSTS

David Frank is a distinguished scholar of debate, rhetoric, critical reasoning and public address. David’s research explores the role rhetoric and argumentation plays to resolve conflict without violence. He has published on rhetorical history and theory, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the rhetoric of Barack Obama, the use of the Holocaust to portray evil in American film, and on the prevention of mass atrocities and genocide. 

Mark McPhail is an educator and creative artist whose work integrates verbal, visual and visceral knowledge.  He is the author of several books and articles on aesthetics, rhetoric, race relations and epistemology and has exhibited his photography at galleries in the Midwest and Texas.   He holds the Van Zelst Visiting Lectureship in Communications from Northwestern University, and served as an Expert Witness for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.