Wednesday November 16, 2011 - National Communication ...

412073 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM New Orleans Marriott Jackson - Fifth Floor
Dragons and Dresses and Ducklings, Oh My!: Performing LGBTQ Representations from Children’s
Picture Books
Sponsors: Caucus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns, Performance Studies Division
Chair: Amy K. Kilgard, San Francisco State University
Presenters:
Allen Conkle, San Francisco State University
Ruth A. Gildea, San Francisco State University
Amy K. Kilgard, San Francisco State University
Rebecca Prather, San Francisco State University
Susan B. Shimanoff, San Francisco State University
Respondent: Stacy L. Holman Jones, California State University, Northridge
412093 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Sheraton New Orleans Rhythms I - Second Floor
The Tucson Shootings: Voices of Political Civility and Blame Assessment
Sponsors: Convention Theme Group, Political Communication Division
Chair: Judith S. Trent, Univ of Cincinnati
Respondents: Mary L. Kahl, SUNY, New Paltz; Kathleen E. Kendall, University of Maryland; Richard E. Vatz, Towson
University; Mitchell S. McKinney, Univ of Missouri, Columbia; Theodore F. Sheckels, Randolph-Macon
College; Paula J. Youra, Lynchburg College; Danielle Wiese Leek, Grand Valley State Univ
"A Bipartisan Deal: Stopping the Voices in Cyberspace" Danielle Wiese Leek, Grand Valley State Univ
"A Call for Recovery and a Recovering of Civility: President Obama’s Tucson Address" Mary L. Kahl, SUNY, New
Paltz
"In Defense of Principled Incivility" Theodore F. Sheckels, Randolph-Macon College
"President Barack Obama’s Memorial Address and Sarah Palin’s Charge of 'Blood Libel': Responding to the Tragedy
in Tucson" Mitchell S. McKinney, Univ of Missouri, Columbia
"Sarah Palin’s 'America's Enduring Strength' Speech: Civil Discourse or Blood Libel?" Paula J. Youra, Lynchburg
College
"The Tucson Shootings: Which Play Did You See?" Kathleen E. Kendall, University of Maryland
"The Tucson Shootings: Caused by Political Motives or by Mental Illness?" Richard E. Vatz, Towson University
412095 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM Sheraton New Orleans Rhythms III - Second Floor
Voiceless: Strategies for Confronting the Transcendent
Sponsors: Convention Theme Group, Religious Communication Association
Chair: S. David Zuckerman, California State Univ, Sacramento
"Silence as Rhetorical Response to the Ineffable: Unprogrammed Quaker Meeting for Worship" James W. Crocker-
Lakness, Univ of Cincinnati
"Infinite Moment: Musicality and Transcendence in Christian Worship Services" Andrea Terry, Cuesta College
"Voicing vs. Performing Love: Contact and Communion in John Paul II’s "Theology of the Body"" Jon P. Radwan,
Seton Hall University
"Voiceless Communication through Iconography in First and Secondary Oral Cultures." Christine Gunn-Danforth,
Joahre
"Seeing Silence: Style, Cinema, and Transcendence" Mark A. E. Williams, California State Univ, Sacramento