Schedule of Rhetoric and Public Address Sessions
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Friday, April 15, 2011
******Business Meeting
8:00-8:45 am Rhetoric and Public Address Jefferson
THUR 9:00-10:15 Georgetown A
Rhetorical Explorations of Technology, Stasis, "Change" and Tropes: Works in Progress
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Chair: Annette M. Holba, Plymouth State University
Respondent: Benjamin R. Bates, Ohio University
"Synthetic Ethos in Communication Technology: Appearing Artful in a "Knack" Environment"
Richard L. Talbert, Duquesne University
"Stasis and Civic Discourse: An Exploration of Cicero's Rhetorical Theory"
Kasey Clawson, Duquesne University
"Understanding Rhetoric of "The Change" in Tunisia since 1987"
Mohamed Ali Elhaou, University Paris 13; IUT Illkirch Strasbourg
"Synecdoche and the Dialectic of Correspondence"
R. J. Green, Purdue University
THUR 9:00-10:15 Jackson
Power, Subjectivity, and the Hope of Rhetorical Community
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Chair: Elesha Ruminski, Frostburg State University
Respondent: Lisa Gring-Pemble, George Mason University
"Collective Memory, Historicism, and the Noir Detective"
R. J. Green, Purdue University
"Communities and Online Congregation: Examining Spaces of Self-Expression and Egocentrism"
Rebecca Ivic, Purdue University
"Dissoi Logoi: The Practice of Rhetorical Freedom"
Tillman Russell, Purdue University
"The Ties That Bind: An Exploration of Universal Visual Metaphors"
Shavonne Shorter, Purdue University
THUR 10:30-11:45 Georgetown B
Rhetorical Power in the Public Sphere
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Chair: Christine Hirsch, SUNY Oswego
Respondent: Ann Atkinson, Keene State College
"Retail Resistance: Whirl-Mart's Symbolic Construction of the New Public Sphere"
Jade Olson, University of Maryland
"Ethos and Ego-Function in Activist Blogging"
Jessica Sheffield, University of South Carolina
"Acting as IF: Performative Parody as an Embodied Mode of Judgment"
Christopher J. Gilbert, Indiana University
"A Rhetorical Study of Civic Engagement Rhetoric and Practices at Wake Forest University"
Patty Ann Green, Wake Forest University
THUR 4:30-5:45 Jackson
"The Three R's" – Religion, Race and Rhetoric: Exploring the Power of Influence of Rhetorical Discourse in the Pluralistic Public Sphere
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address and Intercultural Communication
Chair: Melbourne Cummings, Howard University
Respondent: Deybii Thomas, Howard University
"Praising God in Black & White: An Analysis of the Rhetorical Power of Contemporary Christian Music and Black Gospel Music"
Kesha Morant Williams, Eastern University
Tayo Banjo, University of Cincinnati
"Paul Tillich and James Cone on the Rhetoric of Liberation Theology and the Nature of God"
Algernon A. Williams, Clinical Pastoral Care and Counseling
"Exploring the Uses of Religious Rhetoric in Political Addresses to Black Audiences"
Dante L. Johnson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
"From Bondage to religious Freedom: A Rhetorical Analysis of Barack Obama's Speech on Faith in American Politics"
Deandre J. Poole, Florida Atlantic University
FRI 9:00-10:15 Georgetown B
Epideixis, Education, and Civic Participation: Beyond Critique and Cajolery
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Chair: Lawrence J. Prelli, University of New Hampshire
"Acknowledging What Is: Epideictic, Evangelical Identity, and the Possibilities of Civil Discourse"
Jeffrey Ringer, University of New Hampshire
"Mining the Prospects of Sacred Display: An Exploration of Epideictic Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century Pulpit"
Michael DePalma, University of New Hampshire
"Epideictic Invention and the Contemplation of the Wonderful"
Lawrence J. Prelli, University of New Hampshire
"Epideictic Rhetoric: A Remedy for Mere Opinion?"
Erich Werner, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
FRI 10:30-11:45 Georgetown B
Ethos, Power, and Divergent Voices
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Chair: Valerie Lynn Schrader, Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill
Respondent: Ronald C. Arnett, Duquesne University
"Harry Potter and the Paradoxical Critique of Celebrity Culture"
Trevor Parry-Giles, University of Maryland
"When One Wife Just Isn't Enough: (De)Constructing Divergent Voices in the Big Love Controversy"
Heather M. Stassen-Ferrara, Hamilton College
"Struggling for Ethos in Environmental Controversies"
Michael Bannon, University of Pittsburgh
FRI 1:30-2:45 Georgetown B
Power, Propaganda, and Rhetoric in Public Address
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Chair: Ann Atkinson, Keene State College
"Propaganda Dramas, Rhetorical Crises, and Prudential Possibilities in Public Address"
Jennifer Heusel, Indiana University, Bloomington
"Suicidal Soldiers or Wounded Warriors: rhetoric of Victimage in defense of Military Suicides"
Christina M. Knopf, SUNY, Pottsdam
"Realism and Liberalism in George W. Bush's Speech to the United Nations September 12, 2002"
Aaron Noland, James Madison University
"Ubiquity and the Rhetorical Presidency: The Functions and Power of the Saturday Presidential Address Genre in the Obama Administration"
Joshua Scacco, University of Texas at Austin
FRI 4:30-5:45 Georgetown B
The Rhetorical Power of Values, the Economy, and Liberty
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Chair: Brent Sleasman, Gannon University
"Concrete Values in Edgar Gardner Murphy's Child Labor Reform: A Middle Ground"
Elizabeth Gardner, University of Maryland
"Colonizing the Capitalist Economy: A Theoretical Reconceptualization of the System-Lifeworld Architecture"
Sean Luechtefeld, University of Maryland
"Defining Religious Freedom: The Rhetorical Construction of Liberty in the Fight Over Proposition 8"
Eric Miller, Pennsylvania State University
SAT 9:00-10:15 Jackson
Power, Memory, and Rhetorical Narratives
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Chair: Kristy Maddux, University of Maryland
Respondent: Kristy Maddux, University of Maryland
"American Projector: S. W. Boggs and the Cartographic Vision of the State Department in the Early Cold War"
Timothy Barney, University of Maryland
"J. Edgar Hoover and the Case of the Narrated Spectacle: Media Control and Undemocratic power"
Stephen Underhill, University of Maryland
"The Manifestations of Memory in Spain: Memory, Politics and the Development of a Hegemonic Narrative"
Daniel E. Stofleth, Syracuse University
"Rhetorical Bullying: Silencing the Other through Free Speech"
Ken Bohl, Duquesne University
SAT 3:00-4:15 Washington
Voice, Ambiguity, and Power
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Chair: Brent Sleasman, Gannon University
Respondent: Valerie Lynn Schrader, Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill
"Creating a Symphony of Words: Using Voice as a Musical Instrument to Elicit Specific Emotional Responses"
Steven D. Cohen, University of Maryland
Thomas E. Wei, Harvard University
Daniel DeFraia, Harvard Extension School
Christopher Drury, Harvard Extension School
"Through a Glass Darkly: Bill Clinton's Call to Embrace Ambiguity to Create Consubstantiality"
Brian T. Kaylor, James Madison University
"The Power of Illustrating Statistics: A Visual Rhetorical Criticism of Chris Jordan's Prison Uniforms"
Dante Morelli, Suffolk County Community College
SAT 4:30-5:45 Adams
Top Competitive Papers in Rhetoric and Public Address
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Chair: Annette M. Holba, Plymouth State University
Respondent: Trevor Parry-Giles, University of Maryland
"Freedom From Fat is Freedom to Fight: A Foucauldian Reading of Mission: Readiness' Too Fat to Fight Report"
Anne Gerbensky-Kerber, Ohio University
Benjamin R. Bates, Ohio University
"Recovering Foucault's Physiological Approach to Parrhesia"
Benjamin R. Bates, Ohio University
"Cross Meanings in the Cross Removal: The Rhetorics of the Los Angeles County Seal Controversy"
Don Waisanen, Baruch College, City University of New York