Wednesday November 16, 2011 - National Communication ...

Suzanne Pullen, San Francisco State Univ
302012 8:00 AM to 9:15 AM New Orleans Marriott La Galerie 2 - Second Floor
Debut Papers in Performance Studies
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: Heather Carver, University of Missouri
Respondent: Heather Carver, University of Missouri
"Giving Voice to a Marginalized Performance Tradition in Contemporary Society" Devendra Sharma, California State
Univ, Fresno; Seema Gupta, San Jose State University
"Performing Depression Through 'The Maria Bamford Show'" Kate Gramlich, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
"Mr. President, Pull My Finger: Moving from the Tragic to the Comic with Protest Music" Eddie Glenn, University of
Kansas
"Nobody’s Baby but Mine: The Case of Ownership over Iran’s Young, Dead or Missing, Political Activists" Sareh
Afshar, New York University
"The Reality of Contingency: Performance as Materialized Trope and the Theorization of Rupture" Marjorie
Hazeltine, San Jose State University; Kurt Zemlicka, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
302013 8:00 AM to 9:15 AM New Orleans Marriott La Galerie 3 - Second Floor
Beakers, Biorhythms and Bytes: Advancing Women's Voices in Technology and Science
Sponsor: Feminist and Women Studies Division
Chair: Katherine J. Denker, Ball State University
"Gaining and Sustaining Voice as Women Scientist in Academe" Lorie Groll, Purdue University
"Getting Meta: A Review of Intersectional Approaches to Online Fan Studies" Mara Williams, University of Oregon
"I’m No Expert: Exploring Online Voices of Mother-to-Mother Advice" Molly Swiger, Baldwin-Wallace College
"Madam Speaker, We Have the Votes: Procuring Vocalic Space in the Health Care Reform Debate through Political
Style and Affect" Mary Anne Taylor, Univ of Texas, Austin
"The Scandal about Breastfeeding Online: Multiple Politics of Technological Mothering" Natalia Rybas, Indiana Univ,
East
"The Voice of Breast Cancer? Constitutive Rhetoric in Nancy Brinker's 'We All Come Together'" Wilson Katherine,
University of Cincinnati
"Women and Racial Minorities in STEM Fields: A Communication Perspective as a New Voice" John Nicholson,
Mississippi State Univ
302014 8:00 AM to 9:15 AM New Orleans Marriott La Galerie 4 - Second Floor
Disability and Activism in Communication
Sponsor: Caucus on Disability Issues
Chair: Karen L. Deardorff, Ohio University
Respondent: Bruce Henderson, Ithaca College
"Appreciative Inquiry and Disability Discourse: Time for a New Paradigm, Time for a New Voice" Vicki Crooks, Ohio
University
"Errors of Eros: Politics of Intimacy and Friendship In Neurodiversity and Cure Autism Movements" Nathan Crean-
Williams, Univ of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Representing the 'Real Voice' of Autism: An Analysis of the Social Movement Rhetoric of the Autistic Liberation
Front" Michelle Calka, Manchester College
"Words Do Matter: A Diachronic Analysis of Judicial, Legislative and Advocacy Rhetoric on Behalf of Public Support
for Children with Disabilities" Jane Elmes-Crahall, Wilkes University; Mark Congdon, University of North Carolina,