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03/05/2024
ECA 2024 Convention: Rhetoric & Public Address Interest Group Business Meeting and Programming List
Hi Rhetoric & Public Address interest group members,
I'm happy to share some information with you regarding our Business Meeting and programming at the 2024 conference in Cambridge. This year, I've opted for a virtual business meeting outside of the conference in hopes of freeing up everyone's time at the conference for other activities. Our business meeting will be Monday, March 18 at 4:00pm via this Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/j/96947444507 All ECA members are invited to attend. We hope that you will join us, and please encourage anyone who is interested in ECA's Rhetoric and Public Address interest group to Zoom in as well.
I've also attached a list of ECA's RPA programming below. We have some really interesting sessions planned on a variety of topics, and we'd love for you to join us for them!
Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to seeing you all at the virtual business meeting and in Cambridge very soon!
Valerie
Valerie Lynn Schrader, Ph.D.
Chair, Rhetoric & Public Address Interest Group, Eastern Communication Association
Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences, Penn State Schuylkill
vls146@psu.edu
MONDAY, MARCH 18
4:00-5:00pm Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/96947444507
Rhetoric & Public Address Virtual Business Meeting
THURSDAY, MARCH 21
8:30-9:45AM HARVARD SQUARE B
Top Competitive Papers in Rhetoric & Public Address
Chair: Abbe Depretis, Carnegie Mellon University
Respondent: Valerie Lynn Schrader, Penn State University - Schuylkill
Your Plastic Diet: Visual Arguments and Visual Enthymemes Transcending Science
Samantha Hannah, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
Jim A. Kuypers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
Luke Williams, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
Image Repair of Fake News: The Washington Elm in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Josh Compton, Dartmouth College
Changing the Currents of Public Memory to Change the Tide: Whose History is Represented I the Gorgas House Museum at the University of Alabama?
Laura R. Stewart, University of Alabama
Learning from the Past: A Rhetorical Analysis Applying Blair, Dickinson and Ott’s Assumptions of Public Memory to the Film Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story
Hayley Salen, Penn State University – Schuylkill
11:30AM-12:45PM AMESBURY B
Making Connections between Rhetoric, Health Communication, and Debate
Chair: Jason Edwards, Bridgewater State University
Respondent: Benjamin R. Bates, Ohio University
Something Careless This Way Comes: Medical Errors in Popular Culture
Heather J. Carmack, The Mayo Clinic
Casual Radicalization and Rapid Groupthink: An Analysis of Argument on Reddit
Jeffrey St. Onge, Ohio Northern University
Navigating Currents of Critical Approaches: Organizing Rhetorical Criticism through the McGee-Leff Debate
Rick Olsen, UNCW
1:00-2:15PM AMESBURY D
Public Address of 1974, Fifty Years Later
Chair: Theodore Sheckels, Randolph Macon College
The National Recurring Nightmare: Ford’s Inaugural Speech Fifty Years Later
Christina M. Knopf, SUNY – Cortland
Barbara Jordan’s Defense of the Constitution during the Nixon Impeachment Hearings Fifty Years On: Are the Currents of History Requiring a Fresh Defense?
Carl Hyden, Morgan State University
Mo Udall in 1974 on What’s Wrong with Our Elections and Our Governance: Still Relevant Fifty Years Later?
Theodore Sheckels, Randolph Macon College
Four Years after Earth Day and “Environment” is Stood on Its Head: Nixon and the 1974 Spokane International Exposition on the Environment
Tom Duncanson, Green Citizen Diplomacy Project
4:00-5:15PM CENTRAL SQUARE
Mentoring Works In Progress Roundtable
Chair: Carla Rae Richards, Duquesne University
Respondents: Guillermo G. Caliendo, Temple University
Ryan P. McCullough, West Liberty University
David Seitz, Penn State University – Mont Alto
Gregory Griffin, University of Arkansas
Concord Epideictic: Thoreau’s Neighbor’s in Praise and Blame
Eric Miller, Bloomsburg University
Burkean Identification in College Recruitment Videos
Janelle Gruber, Penn State University – Schuylkill
History, Sex Positivity, and an Erotic Carnival: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Museum of Sex
Carrie Murawski, Roanoke College
Fetterman, Disability, and Debate: Reimagining Ableist Rhetoric through Political Debate
Grant Cos, RIT
FRIDAY, MARCH 23
8:30-9:45AM REMINGTON
Exploring Current Issues in a Post-Fact World of Fake News and Comedy
Chair: Tim Barney, University of Richmond
Respondent: Trevor Parry-Giles, University of Maryland
“Fake News:” 2016 Presidential Elections and the Rhetoric of Ignorance
Guillermo G. Caliendo, Temple University
That’s What She Said: Comedy as Inoculative Incongruity in Gisele Fetterman’s Primary Acceptance Speech
Brian Snee, University of Scranton
Rebecca Mikesell, University of Scranton
Hegemonic Discourse Crafters, Argumentation, and the Utility of Hatred in a Post-Face Society
Steven Joseph, Paradise Valley Community College
11:30AM-12:45PM CENTRAL SQUARE
From Pink Heels to Atomic Trials: Examining the Rhetoric of Barbie and Oppenheimer in Shaping Cultural Narratives
Chair: Christine Choi, University of Pittsburgh
Respondent: Ronald Walter Greene, University of Minnesota
The “Pink Revolution:” Barbie, Systems of Representation, and the Discourse of Pleasure
Guillermo G. Caliendo, Temple University
Just a Girl, Living in a Girl’s World: Barbie’s Revival of the “Everyday Woman” in the Age of Social Media
Maria Tsangarakis, Syracuse University
“Releasing Oppy’s Tension:” A Critical Analysis of Oppenheimer’s Female Characters
David Seitz, Penn State University – Mont Alto
The Barbie Movie’s Exploration of Feminism and Hegemony
Abbe Depretis, Carnegie Mellon University
