Wednesday November 16, 2011 - National Communication ...

412029 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM New Orleans Marriott Preservation Hall 8 - Second Floor
Enduring Voices: African American Women in Academia
Sponsor: Women's Caucus
Chair: Monica Flippin Wynn, Jackson State Univ
Presenters:
Preselfannie McDaniels, Jackson State University
Natalie Tindall, Georgia State University
Respondent: Meta G. Carstarphen, University of Oklahoma
412031 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM New Orleans Marriott Preservation Hall 10 - Second Floor
Imagining LGBTQ Futures: Analyzing Voice through the Voices of the It Gets Better Project
Sponsor: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Communication Studies Division
Chair: Kristen Cole, Univ of New Mexico
Respondent: Jeffrey Bennett, University of Iowa
"'It Gets Better' as Conflict Transformation: A Framework for Analyzing Social Change Campaigns" Leah Sprain,
Colorado State University
"An Underlying Exigency: (Susto) Heredado, an Internet Meme, and Story-telling as Voice in the It Gets Better
Project " Eric Aoki, Colorado State University
"Giving Universal Voice to Sympathy: The 'It Gets Better' Campaign as Catalyst for Inclusion" Allison Burr-Miller,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Linda Baughman, Christopher Newport University
"Storytelling in a Public Meeting: Analyzing Joel Burns’ 'It Gets Better' Speech" Laura W. Black, Ohio University
412051 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM New Orleans Marriott Mardi Gras A - Third Floor
Women, Work, and Wobblies: Labor Union Voices across Time, Cultures, and Rhetorical Spheres
Sponsors: Convention Theme Group, Public Address Division
Chair: Matt May, North Carolina State University
Respondent: Kirt H. Wilson, Penn State University
"'Other Peoples’ Kitchens': Working-Class Black Feminism in the Rhetoric of Claudia Jones" Jennifer A. Keohane,
Univ of Wisconsin, Madison
"Disposable Labor: Navajo Uranium Miners and Indigenous Articulations of Work, Alienation, and Solidarity" Casey
Kelly, Butler University
"Hobohemia: Vernacular Surrealism in the Rhetoric of the Industrial Workers of the World" Matt May, North
Carolina State University
"Navigating Labor Sisterhood in a Man’s World: The Rhetoric and Activities of Industrial Labor’s Mary Harris 'Mother'
Jones" Mari Boor Tonn, University of Richmond
412052 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM New Orleans Marriott Mardi Gras B - Third Floor
Voicing Race/Disrupting Whiteness: Critical Whiteness Studies as a Voice for Social Consciousness
Sponsors: Convention Theme Group, Critical and Cultural Studies Division
Chair: Aimee Carrillo Rowe, University of Iowa
Respondent: Thomas Nakayama, Northeastern University
"Locating Whiteness, Challenging Privilege: A Journey into the Borders of Performativity" Susana Martinez Guillem,
Univ of Colorado, Boulder