Our Organization

The Society of the Third Sophistic is the student body organization of Clemson University’s Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design PhD program. We do a variety of work, including community service and activism, involvement in the graduate student government, hosting the Carolina Rhetorics Conference in tandem with the University of South Carolina and NC State, and serve the students of the RCID PhD program at Clemson University by providing support and the means to showcase and workshop their works, as well as serving to act as a public collection of resources gathered by members of S3S.

Additionally, the Society of the Third Sophistic holds weekly colloquia, alternating every Monday throughout each semester. All colloquia sponsored by Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID), an interdisciplinary PhD program offered by the College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities. RCID is the College’s first-and-only doctoral program and draws its faculty from the English, Communication Studies, Art, Architecture, Philosophy and Religion, History, and Languages Departments.