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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE |
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Conference Theme:
Arts of Praise and Blame: Characters of Public Address
Schedule:
Thursday, October 5
5:00-7:00 pm Conference registration
5:30-7:00 pm Welcome Reception
7:00-9:00 pm Opening Session
Opening comments by Gordon Gee, Chancellor of the University, and John M. Sloop, Chair of the Department of Communication Studies.
Chair: Brad Vivian, Vanderbilt University
Keynote: Stephen Browne, Pennsylvania State University
“Memory Agonistes: Cycles of Epideictic in American Cultural History”
Response: Susan Zaeske, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Response: Jim Jasinski, University of Puget Sound
Friday, October 6
8:00-9:30 am Conference breakfast and registration
8:30-10:15 am Session I
Chair: Vanessa Beasley, University of Georgia-Athens
Presenter: Denise Bostdorff, College of Wooster
"George W. Bush, Epideictic Advocacy, and the War in Iraq"
Response: David Henry, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
10:30-12:15 Session II
Chair: Mari Boor Tonn, University of Maryland
Special Topic: George W. Bush’s Second Inaugural
John Murphy, University of Georgia
Stephen Hartnett, University of Illinois
Thomas Goodnight, University of Southern California
Shawn Parry-Giles, University of Maryland
12:15-1:30 pm Lunch in presentation hall
1:30-3:15 pm Session III - The Third Annual Cody Davis Lecture
Chair: Kristy Maddux, University of Georgia
Presenter: William Keith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Celebrating Democracy: The Epideitic Character of Public Speaking and Debate in the Early Field”
Response: Michael Hogan, Pennsylvania State University
3:30-5:15 Session IV
Chair: Maurice Charland, Concordia University
Presenter: Robert Hariman, Northwestern University
“Parody and Public Culture”
Response: Robert Asen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
5:15-7:00 Dinner (on your own)
7:00-8:30 Session V
Chair: John Lyne, University of Pittsburgh
Presenters: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University and Michael Leff, University of Memphis
“Epideictics: Concerning the History and Status of the Biennial Public Address Conference”
Saturday, October 7
8:00-9:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:15 Session I
Chair: Jason Edward Black, University of Alabama
Presenter: Cara Finnegan, University of Illinois
"Praising Photography's Witness: Image Vernaculars and American Visual Traditions"
Response: John Lucaites, Indiana University
10:30-12:15 Session II
Chair: Kirt Wilson, University of Minnesota
Presenter: Bonnie J. Dow, Vanderbilt University
“Praising Perseverance: Rhetoric and the Death of Susan B. Anthony”
Response: Lisa Gring-Pemble, New Century College, George Mason
University
12:15-1:30 Lunch in presentation hall
1:30-3:15 Session III
Chair: Marcia Dawkins, University of Southern California
Presenter: Dana Cloud University of Texas
“Sitting Out the Anthem: The Uses and Abuses of Collective Ritual”
Response: James Aune, Texas A&M University
3:30-5:15 Session IV
Chair: John Lynch, University of Cincinnati
Presenter: Eric King Watts, University of North Carolina
“The Aesthetic and Moral Judgments of Epideixis: Exploring the Voices and Values of Langston Hughes and George S. Schuyler in The Nation”
Response: Charles Nero, Bates College
6:30-8:00 Banquet Dinner Honoring Bruce Gronbeck, University of Iowa
Introduction: John M. Sloop, Vanderbilt University
Remarks: Celeste Condit, University of Georgia
Honoree’s Comments: Bruce Gronbeck
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