The Agora and other Speakers Series
Every few weeks during Fall and Spring terms, the Communication Department sponsors a symposium featuring a speaker from either inside or outside the department.
Future Agoras:
TBA
Previous Agora and other speakers include:
G. Thomas Goodnight from Annenberg School of Communication
University of Southern California
"ECONOMIC BUBBLES IN A DIGITAL AGE"
Friday, November 6, 2009 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Heather Liebling
"From the City to Suburbia: How Lucy and Molly Negotiated 1950s New York"
Carleton Gholz
“An Ordinary ChristianWorkingman: The Diary of Raymond Dibello, a Worker Writer of the1960s"
Friday, October 30, 2009
204 Cathedral of Learning
David Nye from The University of Southern Denmark
"The Night the Lights Went Out: A History of American Blackouts"Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:30pm
208B Cathedral of Learning
Brent Malin
"Electrifying Speeches:The Technologizing of the Voice in the Early 20th Century US"
Friday, September 11, 2009 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Ronald Jackson
"Inscribing Racial Bodies and Relieving Responsibility: Examining Racial Politics in Crash."
Friday, March 27, 2009 2:00pm
208B Cathedral of Learning
Shanara Reid-Brinkley presents:
"Redeeming Inner-City Youths"
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 2:30pm
1109B Cathedral of Learning
Dr. Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar from Northwestern University
"Violence, Democracy and the Fatigue of Rhetoric"
Friday, March 6, 2009, 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Arts & Sciences Summer Research Grant Student Agora
Presenting:
Joseph Packer
"Alien, Jesus, and Alien Jesuses:the Plurality of Worlds Debate in 1800s America"
Thomas Dunn
"From Silhouette to Statute Crafting a Visual Rhetoric of Queer Heroism"
Friday, February 27, 2009, 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Arts & Sciences Summer Research Grant Student Agora
Presenting:
Josh Beaty
"Desert Bloom: The Emergence of Israeli Cinema and Its International Exhibition"
Friday, February 20, 2009, 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Dr. Barbara Warnick, Dr. John Lyne, Dr. Lester Olson, Michelle Gibbons
Professional Development Agora II:
Publishing My Work in an Academic Journal
Friday, January 30, 2009, 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
The Future Rhetoricians:
Brent Saindon
"The Machine and the Garden:American Environmental Discourse in the Designs of Maya Lin"
Tom Dunn
“Remembering Saint Matthew:Rhetorical Transformations in the Public Memory of Matthew Shepard”
John Jasso
"The Psyche and the Logos:The Platonic Corpus as Rhetorical Theory"
Friday, November 14, 2008, 3:15pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Dr. Jaon Leach
"Frontiers of Science: Science Cartoons and Mid -20thCentury Popular Science Rhetorics
Friday, November 7, 2008, 3:15PM
204 Cathedral of Learning
Drs. Lynn Clarke, Brent Malin and Shanara Reid-Brinkley
"Entering and Succeeding on the Job Market"
Friday, October 31, 2008, 3:15PM
204 Cathedral of Learning
Herbert W. Simons, professor of Strategic & Organized Communication at Temple University and director of NCA-Forum"The Ohio Debate:Dilemmas and Strategies"
Friday, March 7, 2008 3:00 pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Takuzo Konishi
"Is it Philosophy or What? Toward a History of Informal Logic"
&
Liangyu Fu
"Open the Book, Open the Mind: Science Book Printing in China, 1870-1920"
Friday,February 29,2008 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Katie O'neill
"Amournful Fashion: Form, Function, and Meaning of Baltimore's R.I.P T-Shirts"
Joe Sery
Holy Sh*t: The First Amendments's "Ofiliation" of the Sacred and the Profane
Friday, October 26, 2007 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Brent Saindon
"Dutch Schultx' Cut Man: William S. Burroughs and the Sutured Life Narrative"
Candi Carter-Olson
"Women on the Bus: Little Magazines and Women Beat Editors"
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:00pm
337 Cathedral of Learning
Lester Olson (University of Pittsburgh)
James J. Kimble (Seton Hall University)
"Ventriloquism and Visual Rhetoric: Expropriating, Commodifying and Reanimating the 'We Can Do It' Poster in Collective Memory"
Friday, January 5, 2007 3:00pm
CL 206
David R. Shumway
"A New Kind of Star: Rock & Roll and the Politicization of Celebrity."
Friday, December 1, 2006: 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Brent Heavner
"The more things change the more pollution
stays the same: a discussion of the discourse of environmental history
as it relates current enronmental policy."
Carleton S. Gholz
"An Intervention into the Roots of Techno:
Dissemination and Reception in Detroit 's Gay, Black Underground"
Autumn Boyer
"After Tuskegee : Rhetoric, Race, and Bioethics in an Era of Distrust"
Friday, November 10, 2006: 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Cecil A. Blake
“The African Origins of Rhetorical Theory: the Rhetoric of Ptah-Hotep”
Friday, October 20, 2006: 3:00pm
204 Cathedral of Learning
Gavin Illsley and Fraser Campbell (Oxford University)
John Rief and Carly Woods (University of Pittsburgh)
“This House Would Lift the Smoking Ban.”
October 6, 2006: 1:00 PM
English Nationality Room
For more information on future Agoras, please call 412-624-6569.
