The Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI) will host two special events lead by one of its founding members, Deirdre McCloskey, economist and economic historian, on November 5 and 6 -- Bourgeois Deeds: How Ideas Made the Modern World, and Lingonomics: Thoughts and Theorems about the Role of Language in an Economy.

For more information on these events, visit the POROI website: poroi.grad.uiowa.edu

McCloskey served as Professor of History and John F. Murray Chair in Economics at the University of Iowa from 1980-1999. She teaches also as Professor of Social Thought at Academia Vitae, Deventer, The Netherlands, and as Extraordinary Professor of Economics and of English, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Trained at Harvard as an economist, she has written 14 books and edited 7 more, and has published some three hundred and sixty articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, ethics, and law. She describes herself now as a "postmodern free-market quantitative Episcopalian feminist Aristotelian."