Wednesday November 16, 2011 - National Communication ...

213157 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM Sheraton New Orleans Salon 828 - Eighth Floor
Producing Publics, Dis/empowering Subjects: Research in Biopower and Institutional Discourse
Sponsor: Critical and Cultural Studies Division
Chair: Kelly Happe, University of Georgia
Respondent: Barbara Biesecker, University of Georgia
"Biopolitics and the Possibility of an Ethical Bioethics: Treating Mentally Ill Prisoners" Stuart Murray, Ryerson
University
"Biopower, Genetics, and Ethics: Feminist Considerations" Kelly Happe, University of Georgia
"The Sabido Method: Entertainment-Education and the Cultural Labor of Bio-Political Governance" Ronald Walter
Greene, Univ of Minnesota, Twin Cities
213158 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM Sheraton New Orleans Salon 829 - Eighth Floor
The Voice of Religion in Television, Books, and "Sermons"
Sponsor: Religious Communication Association
Chair: Teresa Federico Morales, Georgia State University
Respondent: John Katsion, Northwest Missouri State Univ
"Homilies and Horsemen: The Scripture in the CW’s Supernatural" Joseph M. Valenzano, University of Dayton; Erika
Engstrom, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"The Purpose-Driven Life: An Ideological Worldview Marked by Internal Contradiction" Shannon A. Montgomery,
Georgia State University
"Brian McLaren’s (Polyphonically) Novel Approach to the Bible: Hearing God Amid Many Voices" John B. Hatch,
Eastern University
"Inflecting the Local Voice of a Global Genre: The Islamic Khutba in the United States" David Klope, Mount Mercy
University
5:00 PM
215143 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM Sheraton New Orleans Grand Ballroom C - Fifth Floor
NCA Opening Session: Rebuilding Community after Crisis
Sponsor: NCA National Office
Chair: Rich West, Emerson College
Presenters:
Jim Pate, New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity
Andrew Shahan, Arise Academy
Lawrence R. Frey, Trinity University/University of Colorado, Boulder
6:15 PM
218100 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM Sheraton New Orleans Napoleon Ballroom - Third Floor
Sponsor: NCA National Office
Presenters:
Lynn H. Turner, Marquette University
Rich West, Emerson College
NCA Welcome Reception
Friday