"Arts of Praise and Blame: Characters of Public Address"
The 10th Biennial Public Address Conference
2006

The Department of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University is pleased to host the Public Address Conference in Nashville, TN on October 5-8, 2006

Organizing Committee: Lynn Clarke, Anne T. Demo, Kassian A. Kovalcheck, Charles E. Morris III, John M. Sloop, and Bradford Vivian

Highlights

• Stephen Browne, Pennsylvania State University, keynote address
  • Respondents: Susan Zaeske, University of Madison-Wisconsin and Jim Jasinski, University of Puget Sound
• Public Address Conference to honor Bruce Gronbeck, University of Iowa
  • Remarks by Celeste Condit, University of Georgia
• Epideictic Panel: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University and Mike Leff, University of Memphis

Presenters:

Denise Bostdorff, College of Wooster, on George W. Bush, Epideictic Advocacy, and the War in Iraq

Robert Hariman, Northwestern University, on Parody and Public Culture

Cara A. Finnegan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on Praising Photography's Witness: Image Vernaculars and American Visual Traditions

Bonnie J. Dow, University of Georgia, on Praising Perseverance: Rhetoric and the Death of Susan B. Anthony

Dana Cloud, University of Texas, on Sitting Out the Anthem: The Uses and Abuses of Collective Ritual

Eric King Watts, Universityof North Carolina, on The Aesthetic and Moral Judgments of Epideixis: Exploring the Voices and Values of Langston Hughes and George S. Schuyler in "The Nation"

William Keith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, on Celebrating Democracy: The Epideictic Character of Public Speaking and Debate in the Early Field

GEORGE W. BUSH'S SECOND INAUGURAL PANEL

John Murphy, University of Georgia
Stephen Hartnett, University of Illinois
Thomas Goodnight, University of Southern California
Shawn Parry-Giles, University of Maryland