Wednesday November 16, 2011 - National Communication ...

210093 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM Sheraton New Orleans Rhythms I - Second Floor
Working Class Voices: Labor Activism and Public Argument
Sponsors: Argumentation and Forensics Division, Convention Theme Group
Chair: Ryan McGeough, Florida Atlantic University
Respondent: Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University
"Declaring Independence at the 1935 AFL Convention: The Working-Class Style of John L. Lewis" Steve Martin,
Ripon College
"Labor Voices, Public Memory and Public Argument" Ryan McGeough, Florida Atlantic University
"Reinhold Niebuhr’s Labor Movement Rhetoric: The Evolution of an Ethics of Rhetoric" Joe E. Rhodes, Louisiana
State University
"Voice and Identity in the Visual Rhetoric of The National Association of Letter Carriers" Mark Glantz, Coker College
210095 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM Sheraton New Orleans Rhythms III - Second Floor
Workshop on Voices of Gender and Race in Commercials: Amplified, Muted, Translated,
Transmogrified?
Sponsors: Convention Theme Group, Visual Communication Division
Chair: Kathleen J. Turner, Davidson College
Presenters:
Sheri R. Bleam, Adrian College
Victoria Chen, San Francisco State Univ
Katherine Grace Hendrix, Univ of Memphis
Claire Sisco King, Vanderbilt University
Roseann M. Mandziuk, Texas State University, San Marcos
Christina Moss, North Carolina State
Karla D. Scott, St. Louis University
Sarah Stein, North Carolina State University
Kathleen J. Turner, Davidson College
210101 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM Sheraton New Orleans Napoleon A1 - Third Floor
Listening to Alien Zombie Warriors: Intersectional Approaches to Colonialism, Race, Gender, and
Empire
Sponsor: Critical and Cultural Studies Division
Chair: Peter Odell Campbell, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Respondent: Peter Odell Campbell, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"De-contextualizing the Warrior: 'Supporting our Fighting Men and Women' as an Emergent Cultural Trope" Peter
Ehrenhaus, Pacific Lutheran University
"Re-civilizing Alien Blackness and Re-inscribing White Racial Redemption in Avatar" Dexter B. Gordon, Univ of Puget
Sound
"Shadows upon the Landscape: Occidentalizing Neocolonialism in the Cinematic Reclamation of German Euro-White
Masculinity in The North Face" Derek Buescher, Univ of Puget Sound
"Taking a Bite out of Empire: Post-Imperial Tropes in Contemporary Zombie Films" Susan Owen, University of Puget
Sound
210103 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM Sheraton New Orleans Napoleon A3 - Third Floor