Scheduled Events

updated 9/28/10 {Tentative schedule - subject to change}

Thursday, September 30, 2010 - Reception 5:00pm - 6:00pm

*Reception in Holiday Inn Select Ballroom

Welcome and Keynote Address - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Barbara Warnick, Chair, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
Jim Knapp and/or John Cooper, Dean, Arts & Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Keynote Speaker:
Chair: Bonnie Dow, Vanderbilt University
Kirt Wilson, The Pennsylvania State University, “More than Civil Rights: The Fight for Black Freedom as a Human Rights Struggle”
~Respondents
Robert Terrill, Indiana University
Raymie McKerrow, Ohio University

*Tribute to Michael Leff - 8:15pm - 9:00pm
Moderator: Michael Osborn, University of Memphis
David Zarefsky, Northwestern University
John Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana and Champaign

Friday, October 1, 2010

*Light breakfast for registrants in Holiday Inn Select Ballroom - 7:30am

 Friday Morning Session - 8:00am - 9:45am
Welcome:  Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
Chair:  Martin Medhurst, Baylor University
Mary Stuckey, Georgia State University, “Entangling Alliances verses International
Commitments: The Development of Human Rights in Early Presidential Address”
~Respondents
Jeremy Engels, The Pennsylvania State University
Leroy Dorsey, Texas A & M

Friday Morning Session - 10:00am - 11:40am
C
hair: Ronald Arnett, Duquesne University
Erik Doxtader, University of South Carolina, "Words of Truth in a Toolbox, Rules of Law in No Time at All: United Nations' Transitional Justice Policy and the Critique of Legal Violence Yet to Come" ~Respondents
Jim Aune, Texas A & M
John B. Hatch, University of Dubuque

*Luncheon for registrants in the University Club followed by a public debate
12:00N - 1:45pm  

Introduction: Gordon Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: Shanara Reid-Brinkley, University of Pittsburgh
Tentative resolution: "This house believes amnesty is a necessary tool to address gross human rights violations in deeply divided societies."
Debaters: Marie-Odile Hobeika, University of Pittsburgh; Amber Kelsie, University of Pittsburgh; with touring British national debate champions Mary Nugent, University of Cambridge, and Lewis Iwu, BPP School of Law, London.

Friday Afternoon session - 2:00pm - 3:40pm
Chair: Charles Morris III, Boston College
James Darsey, Georgia State University, “Urvashi Vaid’s Cosmopolitan Argument for LGBT Rights ”
~Respondents
Karma Chávez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eric King Watts, University of North Carolina

Friday Public Lecture in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Welcome: Brent Malin, University of Pittsburgh
Welcome on behalf of the Rhetoric Consortium: James Wynn, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair
: Victoria Gallagher, North Carolina State University
Mari Boor Tonn, University of Richmond, “‘From the Eye to the Soul’:  Industrial Labor’s Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones and the Rhetorics of Display”
~Respondents
Lawrence Prelli, University of New Hampshire
Cara Finnegan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

*Reception in Frick Fine Arts cloisters 6:00pm - 7:00pm followed by dinner on registrants’ own 

Saturday, October 2, 2010

*Light breakfast for registrants in Holiday Inn Select in Ballroom - 7:30am
 
Saturday Morning Session - 8:00am - 9:45am

Welcome: John Lyne, University of Pittsburgh
Chair
:  Lisa B. Keränen, University of Colorado-Denver
Lisa A. Flores, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Negotiating Entry, Bordering Whiteness:
Rhetorical Subjectivity and the ‘Wetback Problem’”
~Respondents
Anne Demo, Syracuse University
G. Mitch Reyes, Lewis & Clark University

Saturday Morning Session - 10:00am - 11:45am
Chair: Shawn Parry Giles, University of Maryland
Bradford Vivian, Syracuse University, “The Paradox of Regret: Remembering and Forgetting the History of Slavery in George W. Bush's Goree Island Address”
~Respondents
Stephen H. Browne, The Pennsylvania State University
Mark McPhail, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater Greenhill

*Lunch Break on registrants’ own - 11:45am - 2:00pm

Saturday Afternoon Session - 2:00pm - 3:40pm
Chair: Robert Cox, University of North Carolina
Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Indiana University, “Re-Articulating Fetuses & Citizenship: From Neo-Liberal Anti-Abortion Icon to Intergenerational Environmental Justice Rights”
~Respondents
Tarla Rai Petersen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Texas A&M University
Stephen DePoe, University of Cincinnati

Saturday Public Lecture in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Welcome: Lynn Clarke, University of Pittsburgh
Chair: John M. Sloop, Vanderbilt University
Stephen John Hartnett, University of Colorado at Denver, “Speaking with the Damned: or, Prison Education, Social Justice, and Communication as a Human Right”
~Respondents
Gerard Hauser, University of Colorado at Boulder
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh

*Banquet to honor Professor David Zarefsky, Northwestern University Emeritus - 6:15pm cash bar Holiday Inn Select Ballroom; 7:00pm dinner

Moderator and Host:  Gordon Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh
Speakers:
Angela Ray, Northwestern University
Kathryn Olson, University of Milwaukee
*Unless otherwise specified on the schedule, sessions will convene at the ballroom at the Holiday Inn Select.
** If you would appreciate assistance because of a mobility issue, please feel welcome to contact the conference director, Lester C. Olson, at olson@pitt.edu and/or make your wishes known at the registration desk.

 

 

Contact:

Conference Director
Professor Lester Olson

Department of Communication

University of Pittsburgh

olson@pitt.edu