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05/29/2009Call for Papers 2010Charting a Course: Meeting New Horizons101st Annual Convention
Charting a Course: Meeting New Horizons
Baltimore, Maryland
Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor
April 22-25, 2010
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2009
This year, 2010, is the start of a new century of communication for the Eastern Communication Association. The convention theme prompts reflection about what comes next in our narrative. "Charting a course" implies a sense of direction, a temptation to definitiveness restrained by an inability to grasp what lies beyond our reach, what we cannot predict. The metaphor of "meeting new horizons" captures an emergent moment between what we already know and what is unknown and "Other," inviting responsiveness to what we cannot control. We set our sights to focus on the future as we seek engagement with what is yet to come. A sense of excitement laced with caution races through us; propelled by wonder at what might be, we set forth boldly and in good company to meet our collective future. Whatever we encounter, we will face it together, rejoicing. What may we yet discover? What may we yet learn?
Baltimore's history is marked by many who charted new courses to meet new horizons, inviting a hopeful future. Frederick Douglass learned to read and first heard of the abolitionist movement in Baltimore. The birthplace of Thurgood Marshall, first African American Supreme Court Justice, home of Cab Calloway and Billie Holiday, and site of the oldest Catholic cathedral in the United States, this harbor town of ships and marble steps reminds us that all things are possible with vision, tenacity, and courage. The 2010 convention theme, "Charting a Course: Meeting New Horizons," invites members to cast a vision forward to what might spring forth with the meeting of new horizons, in the "between" of past and future, defining a new and ever elusive "now."
As we ready ourselves for the 101st convention of the Eastern Communication Association, let this theme draw us forward to submit papers and panels that chart new courses to meet new horizons, imagining what our future may hold. The 2010 convention will feature Focus on the Future programming, short courses, poster sessions, roundtables, and panels. Proposals addressing the convention theme but not directly related to one of the interest group areas should be sent to Janie M. Harden Fritz, ECA First Vice-President.
We set sail from Baltimore in 2010. All hands on deck!
Contact Information for ECA 2010
Primary Convention Planner:
Janie M. Harden Fritz
First Vice President
Duquesne University
412-396-6558
harden@duq.edu
Associate Convention Planners:
Leeanne M. Bell
Second Vice President
Stevenson University
f-belll@mail.vjc.edu
Annette M. Holba
Director of Marketing
Plymouth State University
aholba@plymouth.edu
Stephanie Verni
Director of Publicity and Promotion/Local Arrangements Coordinator
Stevenson University
sverni@stevenson.edu
Timothy J. Brown
Focus on the Future Coordinator
West Chester University
TBrown@wcupa.edu
Benjamin Bates
Short Course Coordinator
Ohio University
batesb@ohiou.edu
Lisa Millhous
Coordinator of Undergraduate/Graduate Poster Sessions
West Chester University
lmillhous@wcupa.edu
Carl Hyden
Liaison to Local Colleges and Universities/Equipment Coordinator
Morgan State University
carl.hyden@morgan.edu
Donna Rongione
Liaison to State Communication Associations
Community College of Baltimore Count (CCBC)
drongione@ccbcmd.edu
Heather E. Harris
Graduate School Fair Coordinator
Stevenson University
hharris@stevenson.edu
Chip Rouse
Program Editor and Producer
Stevenson University
chiprouse@stevenson.edu
2010 Interest Group Planners
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American Society for History of Rhetoric
David Dzikowski
Penn State University
Dept. of Communication
234 Sparks Building
University Park, PA 16802
dxd4@psu.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[13795,Applied Communication Division,layout_details]
Christina McDowell
Duquesne University
600 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
(412) 396-6446
mcdowel338@duq.edu
Argumentation and Forensics
Fran Mindel
Department of Communication Studies
Morgan State University
1700 East Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore MD 21251
(443) 885-3330
fran.mindel@morgan.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[13886,Communication & Technology,layout_details]
Cathy Wright
George Mason University
Dept. of Communication
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
cwright5@gmu.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[13851,Communication Law & Ethics
,layout_details]Martin Wallenstein
John Jay College
Dept. of Communication
899 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10019
mwallenstein@jjay.cuny.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[13885,Communication Traits
,layout_details]James C. McCroskey
Dept. of Communication Studies
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Birmingham, AL 35294
(205) 934-3877
emaill@JamesCMcCroskey.com
TCSLINKTONEWS[14836,Community College
,layout_details]Michelle Simpson
College of Southern Maryland
8730 Mitchell Road
LaPlata, MD 20646
msimpson@csmd.edu
Jessica Papajcik
Stark State College
6200 Frank Ave, NW
North Canton, OH 44720-7299
jpapajcik@starkstate.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[14790,Health Communication,layout_details]
Benjamin Bates
Ohio University
Dept. of Communication
Lasher Hall
Athens, OH 45701
(740) 593-9163
batesb@ohiou.edu
Instructional Communication
Katie Neary Dunleavy
La Salle University
Dept. of Communication
1900 West Olney Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19141
dunleavy@lasalle.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[12621,Intercultural Communication,layout_details]
Juliette Storr
Penn State-Beaver
Dept. of Communication
101 Administration Building
Beaver, PA
(724) 773-3575
jms1015@psu.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[15287,Institute of General Semantics,layout_details]
Lance Strate
Fordham University
441 E. Fordham Road
Faculty Memorial Hall, Room 434A
Bronx, New York 10458
strate@fordham.edu
(718) 817-4864
TCSLINKTONEWS[15811,Interpersonal Communication,layout_details]
Linda Sampson
Communication Department-EN C012
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, CT 06515
(203) 392-5560
SampsonL1@SouthernCT.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[12597,Interpretation and Performance Studies
,layout_details]Annette M. Holba
Plymouth State University
17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264-1595
(603) 535-5000
aholba@plymouth.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[15767,Kenneth Burke Society,layout_details]
David McMahan
Missouri Western State University
Dept. of Communication
207 Murphy Hall
St. Joseph, MO 64507
(816) 271-4443
mcmahan@missouriwestern.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[15812,Lambda Pi Eta,layout_details]
Andrew Jared Critchfield
The George Washington University
Organizational Sciences & Communication
600 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-1874
ajc@gwu.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[13850,Media Communication,layout_details]
Gordon Coonfield
Villanova University
Dept. of Communication
800 Lancaster
Villanova, PA 19085
gordon.coonfield@villanova.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[13839,Media Ecology,layout_details]
Thom Gencarelli
Communication Dept.
Manhattan College
Riverdale, NY 10471-4098
(718) 862-7490
thom.gencarelli@manhattan.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[12598,Nonverbal Communication
,layout_details]Brandi Frisby
West Virginia University
Dept. of Communication
108 Armstrong Hall -- Box 6293
Morgantown, WV 26506-6293
bfrisby@mix.wvu.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[12842,Organizational Communication,layout_details]
Danette Ifert Johnson
Ithaca College
Dept. of Communication
407 Muller Center
Ithaca, NY 14850
djohnson@ithaca.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[12602,Philosophy of Communication,layout_details]
Cem Zeytinoglu
Communication Studies
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
East Stroudsburg PA 18301-2999
Fine Arts 226
(570) 422-3911
czeytinoglu@po-box.esu.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[14866,Political Communication,layout_details]
David Lavasseur
West Chester University
Dept. of Communication
West Chester, PA 19383
dlevasseur@wcupa.edu
Rhetoric and Public Address
Nneka Ifeoma Ofulue
Department of Communication
2130 Skinner Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7635
Office: Skinner 2112
(301) 405-6532
niofulue@umd.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[14791,Theory and Methodology,layout_details]
Susan Jasko
California University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Communication
115 Chesnic Drive
Canonsburg, PA 15317
(724) 986-3479
jasko@cup.edu
TCSLINKTONEWS[12767,Voices of Diversity,layout_details]
Cerise Glenn
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Department of Communication
102 Ferguson Bldg.; PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
(336) 334-5297
Voicesofdiversity@gmail.com
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