Wednesday November 16, 2011 - National Communication ...

313029 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM New Orleans Marriott Preservation Hall 8 - Second Floor
Interpreting the Past, Critiquing the Present
Sponsors: American Studies Division, Public Address Division
Chair: Sara A. Mehltretter Drury, Wabash College
Respondent: David Henry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Ad Hominem and the Rhetoric of History: Battle Scenes from the Texas Textbook Wars" Josh Reeves, North
Carolina State University
"President Barack Obama’s 2009 Address at the NAACP Centennial: Narrative, Synecdoche, and the American
Dream" Marissa Lowe, University of Illinois
"Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Decorum'" Rachel Rigdon, Northwestern University
"Sanity as a Joke: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and the Ironic Intellectual" Joseph Faina, Univ of Texas, Austin
313031 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM New Orleans Marriott Preservation Hall 10 - Second Floor
Examining LGBTQ Activism and Support, Past to Present
Sponsor: Caucus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns
Chair: Thomas R. Dunn, Univ of Georgia
Respondent: Bradley Gangnon, Minnesota School of Business
"Voice of The Temperamentals: A Portrayal of Gay Activism Before Stonewall" Billy W. Catchings, University of
Indianapolis
"Memory and the Heteronormative Frame: Looking at the Stonewall Anniversary through the Eyes of the News
Media" Mac Pogue, Lewis & Clark College
"'The Government Has No Business': The Impact of Proposition 8 Rhetoric on Marriage Equality, Gender Binaries,
Hegemony and Alternative Voices" Mike Bergmaier, Penn State University
"Understanding the Soulforce Equality Ride as a Toxic Tour: Themes and Implications" Leland G Spencer, University
of Georgia
"Needed Allies: Actively Supporting LGBTQ University Students" Kristina Drumheller, West Texas A&M Univ; Sara
Northrup, West Texas A&M University; Reagan Maldonado, University of North Texas; Heidi Naguib, West Texas A&M
Univ
313051 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM New Orleans Marriott Mardi Gras A - Third Floor
Competing Voices, Conflicting Stories: An Assessment of Environmental Voice and Discourse in
Commercial News Media
Sponsors: Convention Theme Group, Environmental Communication Division
Chair: Laura A. Lindenfeld, Univ of Maine
"'Spill, Baby, Spill': An Examination of Competing Voices and Discourses in Commercial News Coverage of the 2010
Gulf Disaster" Ellen Moore, University of Washington
"News Constructions of Voices and Actors in the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Recovery Narrative" Anders Hansen,
University of Leicester
"The Transformation of Weather, from 'Spectacle' to 'Voice' for the Environmental Other" Richard J Doherty, Univ of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
313052 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM New Orleans Marriott Mardi Gras B - Third Floor
International Student Voices on the American College Campus: Are They Heard?
Sponsors: Convention Theme Group, International and Intercultural Communication Division
Chair: Rick Malleus, Seattle University
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