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Past Agora Series Events

Spring 2023

Date: January 27th, 3:00-4:30 PM (Hybrid Presentation)

Speaker: Dr. David Marshall

Presentation: "What the Humanities Do"

Description: 

David Marshall on his presentation:

"Working as Co-Director of the Humanities Center at Pitt with Carla Nappi, I've sometimes found myself tongue-tied in a very particular place.  On the one hand, I'm deeply convinced of the worth and distinctiveness of the humanities.  On the other hand, when I'm called upon to articulate these things to non-humanities folks, I find the words I use echoing in my head a bit.  In those moments, it feels like I hear what I'm saying as discourse - "this is what people say when they're talking about this kind of thing."  And it's a classic rhetorical problem: the habits you've developed to speak about something to other folks who also do that thing will not be what you need when you talk to folks who do not share that thing with you.  I want to be better at this, and so I've begun a research project called "What the Humanities Do."  This talk represents a first experiment within that project, and it takes up three recent books that engage with the core problem - Eric Hayot's Humanist Reason (2021), Rens Bod's World of Patterns (2022), and Lorraine Daston's Rules (2022).  I think these books show that we don't have to make strong claims about the absolute distinctiveness of the humanities to demonstrate their worth, and I'll explain this claim in the talk."

Fall 2022

Date: December 2nd, 3:00-4:30 PM

Speaker: Reed van Schenck

Presentation: “Gamer Publics: Livestream Debate Networks and the Mediation of Argumentation.”

 

Date: October 14, 3:00-4:30 PM

Title: Paradoxes of Human Rights

Speaker: Michael Goodhart, Department of Political Science and GSWS Program

Speaker Details: Dr. Goodhart is a political theorist who works on questions of inequality, justice, human rights, and connected topics at the intersection of a variety of disciplines. He is the author of several books, including Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World and Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization. He sits on a numeber of editorial boards, is on the steering committee for the Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance, and recently held a fellowship with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.

 

Date: October 28, 3:00-4:30 PM

Speaker: Deborah Danuser   

Title:  “Femvertising the STEM Gap: An Analysis of Olay’s Campaign to Promote STEM to Girls”

Speaker: Alex Holguin   

Title:  “Resilient Research Programs.”

 

Date: November 11th, 3:00-4:30 PM

Speaker: Weiming Gorman

Presentation: “From Textual Subjects to Voracious Feminists: Rethinking Constitutive Rhetoric.”

Please come and listen to this vital work at the intersection of rhetoric and feminism!

Spring 2022

February 4, 2022 3:00-5:00

Dr. Paul Johnson will be presenting a talk on his new book I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States (University of Alabama Press). Dr. Johnson's book examines a variety of texts--ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets--to outline the populist character of conservatism in the United States.  

Fall 2021

October 8, 2021 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Pandemic Teaching Please join your fellow department members for a conversation about the challenges and possibilities of our current teaching situation. A panel of department instructors will share some of their experiences, thoughts, and suggestions and then we will open up to a larger discussion. Please come to hear and learn from others as well as to share your own frustrations, suggestions, and activities for engaging our students.  Department (and beyond) teachers at every level are invited and welcome to attend.

 

October 22, 2021, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

AGORA: Graduate Student Pre-Conference Presentations (Session 1)

“The ERA: What Happened to Constituent Power?” by Kelly O’Donnell

“Seeing versus Believing: Teaching Digital Rhetoric in a Post-Truth World” by Reed Van Schenk

 

October 29, 2021, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

AGORA: Graduate Student Pre-Conference Presentations (Session 2)

“Is Google Everywhere? A Study of the Structure and Control of Google’s Page Ranking System” by Mehul Bhushan

“Amazon.com Product Reviews: A Case Study of the Solidification of Polarized Politics” by Christine Choi

Spring 2021

February 19, 2021, 3:00-5:00
Department of Communication, Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Fellows
Virtual webinar

“Asian Americans for Action and the New York Asian American Movement in the 1960s and 1970s”

Corinne Sugino

“Returning to Mayberry amid the 2020 Social Crises: An Oral History”

Max Dosser

“Long Beach in Transit: Mobility Justice and the Production of Space in Long Beach, California”

Kamiran Dadah

 

April 2, 2021, 3:00-5:00pm
"From Academia to Industry: Insights on Leveraging a Humanities Ph.D."
Virtual webinar
Niq D. Johnson, Ph.D.

Fall 2020

October 16, 2020, 3:00-5:00
“Cybernetics in the Republic”
1501 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Michele Kennerly, Penn State University

Spring 2020

January 10, 2020 3:00-5:00
“A Poison More Deadly than Arsenic: Judicial Authority and Childhood in Euro-American Obscenity Doctrine from 1708-1896”
208B Cathedral of Learning
Al Primack, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

 

January 27, 2020, 6:00-7:00pm
“Colores institucionales en mi barrio: El desafio con arte graffiti/Institutional Colors in my Neighborhood: The Challenge of Graffiti Art”
Community of Christ, 1805 Tonapah Street Beechview​
Gloria Talamantes (GLOE), Creator of Brown Walls Project in Chicago Illinois
Reception to follow
Cosponsored by Humanities Center, Year of Creativity, and Global Studies Center

 

January 31, 2020 3:00-5:00
“Lacanian Anxieties: Trans* Surgeries, Countertransference, and the Fantasy of the Whole”
208B Cathedral of Learning
Matthew Lovett, University of Pittsburgh
Cosponsored by Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies

 

February 24, 2020, 5:00-6:00pm
“Changing the Narrative from Crisis to Art”
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, East Liberty Branch
Joe Schipani, Flint Public Art Project
Cosponsored by Humanities Center, Year of Creativity, and Global Studies Center

 

February 28, 2020, 3:00-5:00
A&S Summer Research Fellows Presentation
1501 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
"The rhetoric of Gab: race, populism, and sovereignty in the symbolic construction of digital platforms"
Graduate student
“What’s Haunting Detroit? Ghosts, Signs, and the Writing on the Wall.”
Rachel Clancy
“Vanlife and van-living: the rhetoric of mobility as product and resistance”
Kory Riemensperger

 

CANCELED: March 16, 2020, 12:00- 1:00pm
“Development of Street Art as Community Experience in Latin America”
Lunch Provided
4130 Posvar Hall
Ricardo Klein, University of Valencia, Spain
Cosponsored by Humanities Center, Year of Creativity, and Global Studies Center

 

POSTPONED UNTIL October 16, 2020:
March 20, 2020, 3:00-5:00
“The Forest as a Term of Rhetorical Art”
1501 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Michele Kennerly, Penn State University

 

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: (stay tuned for new dates)
April 10, 2020, 3:00-5:00
“The Unbearable Utopianism of the Blackpill: Incels, Rhetoric, Sexuation”
1501 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Calum Lister Matheson, University of Pittsburgh

 

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: (stay tuned for new dates)
April 14, 2020, 9:00am-6:00pm
“What is Creative Placemaking? And Do Universities Have a Role to Play in It?”
602 Cathedral of Learning
Shoshanah B. D. Goldberg-Miller, The Ohio State University
Christiane Leach, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Oli Mould, Royal Holloway, University of London
Henry Reese, City of Asylum Pittsburgh
Janera Solomon, Kelly Strayhorn Theater
David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

 

POSTPONED UNTIL April 2, 2021 : 
April 17, 2020, 3:00-5:00
“Know Your Worth: Insights for Successfully Leveraging a Humanities Ph.D. Beyond the Professoriate”
1501 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Niq D. Johnson

Fall 2019-20

September 6, 2019, 3:00-5:00
“The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race & the Making of Americans”
208B Cathedral of Learning
Anjali Vats, Boston College
 

September 27, 2019, 3:00-5:00
“Fear and the First Amendment”
208B Cathedral of Learning
Kevin Johnson, California State University—Long Beach
Co-Sponsored by the Rhetoric Society of America
 

October 3, 2019, 2:00-4:00
“Free To... Be Black as Hell”: Black Feminist Pedagogies and Writing Lives in the Makings of 21st Century Freedoms”
4303 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Dr. Carmen Kynard, Texas Christian University
Co-Sponsored by DBLAC, the Center for Urban Education, the Department of Communication, the Department of English, and the Department of English’s Composition Program
 

October 11, 2019, 3:00-5:00
Department of Communication, Graduate Student Pre-Conference Presentations
208B Cathedral of Learning

“‘Trumped Up Charges’: Demonstration, Dissent, and the Defense of DisruptJ20.”
Rachel Clancy

“Driving into the Future while Looking in the Rearview Mirror: Innovation Communication, Transportation Policy Mobilities, and Uber Urbanism”
Curry Chandler

“Jack Ryan: Becoming a Sovereign Agent”
Kelly O’Donnell
 

October 25, 2:00-5:00
Transnational, Hemispheric, and Cold War Arts: A Collective Book Launch
602 Cathedral of Learning

Caitlin Bruce, University of Pittsburgh

Harris Feinsod, Northwestern University

Jennifer Josten, University of Pittsburgh
 

October 25, 7:00 (doors open at 5:30)
Disability & the Future: A conversation on conserving and promoting human diversity with author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Senator John Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman St., Pittsburgh
Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Disability Studies Reading Group and the Center for Bioethics

November 8, 2019, 3:00-5:00
Department of Communication, Graduate Student Pre-Conference Presentations
208B Cathedral of Learning

“A Stranger in Wakanda: Erik Killmonger and Black Natal Alienation”
Charles Athanasopoulos

“Reading the Adpocalypse: Precarity on YouTube”
Kory Riemensperger

“Anti-blackness and Asian Victimhood in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard”
Corinne Sugino
 

November 22, 2019, 3:00-5:00
Book Release: On Becoming Neighbors: The Communication Ethics of Fred Rogers (University of Pittsburgh Press)
208B Cathedral of Learning
Alexandra Klaren, Johns Hopkins University

Spring 2019

January 25, 2019, 3:00-5:00
602 Cathedral of Learning
Book Release & Reading: Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age
Calum Matheson, University of Pittsburgh

February 8, 2019, 7:30pm
Wilkinsburg Community Forge 1256 Franklin Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221
“Redeveloping a People’s Movement: Power and Public Participation in Chicago”
Nicole Marroquin, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

March 1, 2019, 3:00-5:00
208B Cathedral of Learning
Department of Communication, Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Fellows
“The MIT Braillemboss, 1972-1984”
Daniel Beresheim

“Arguments in Brick: Agonism in Amsterdam School Architectural Design”
Sarah Constant

“Paradox and Truth in the Constitutional Origin: The Rhetoric of Mythical Constitutionalism in Japan from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century”
Tomonori Teraoka

April 12, 2018, 3:00-5:00
208B Cathedral of Learning
“PROTECTing the Figure of Innocence: Child Pornography Legislation and the Queerness of Childhood”
Erin Rand, Syracuse University

Fall 2018-19

September 7, 2018, 3:00-5:00
“The Year of the Angry White Male: The 1994 Midterm and the Conservative Populist Crisis”
208B Cathedral of Learning
Paul Johnson, University of Pittsburgh

September 28, 2018 3:00-5:00
“Spatial Debilities: Slow Life and Disaster Capitalism in Palestine”
1500 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University

October 19, 2018 3:00-5:00
208B Cathedral of Learning
Department of Communication, Graduate Student Pre-Conference Presentations
“Proud to be Autistic: Rejecting dominant metaphors of Autism and reclaiming Autism as identity”
Jessica Benham

“Are These HITs Worth Turking for? The Paradoxical Reality of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Precarious Labor in the Sharing Economy”
Ambrose Curtis

“Blurred Borderlands: Sustainability and the Urban/Nature Divide at the Frick Environmental Center”
Kaitlyn Haynal

November 2, 2018, 3:00-5:00
208B Cathedral of Learning
Department of Communication, Graduate Student Pre-Conference Presentations
“Withheld Medicalization: The FDA’s General Considerations for the Clinical Evaluation of Drugs and the Construction of the Female Medical Subject”
Hillary Ash

“Playing at the Funerary Pyre: Rhetoric at Play in Plato’s Menexenus”
Ryan Blank

“‘All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud Wasn’t Out to Destroy Western Civilization’: The Lost Object of White Nationalism”
Rishi Chebrolu 

November 30, 2018, 3:00-5:00
“Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture”
208B Cathedral of Learning
Dana Cloud, Department of Communication and Rhetorcial Studies, Syracuse University

Spring 2018

January 19, 2018, 3:00-5:00
“‘A mongrelized product of Islam’: The FBI's Quest to Render the Nation of Islam Illegitimate in the Early Cold War”
208B Cathedral of Learning
Sydney Pasquinelli, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

February 2, 2018, 3:00-5:00
Explorations in the History of Rhetoric
208B Cathedral of Learning

“By Beauty Destroyed: Ancient Greek Anxiety Concerning the Fragility of the Stronger in Sophocles’ The Women of Trachis”
Birney Young, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

“Oratory and writing in Vico’s early works: A reading of the transformation of rhetoric”
Giuseppe Moro, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

February 15, 2018, 5:30-7:00
“‘Every Black Child is as Good as Queen Victoria’s Son’: Clandestine Learning and the Rhetoric of Radical Reconstruction”
3106 Posvar Hall
Angela Ray, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University

February 23, 2018, 3:00-5:00
Department of Communication, Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Fellows
208B Cathedral of Learning

“‘Pretty Brilliant Too’: Oral Histories of the Advertising Rhetoric in and Creation of Verizon’s ‘Inspire Her Mind’ Commercial”
Deborah Danuser

“An exploratory investigation of secondary school administrators’ perspectives on digital communication technologies and rural school environments”
Alvin J. Primack

“Expecting the Unexpected: Kairotic Moments and Rhetorical Intervention in Birth Narratives”
Robin Zwier

March 23, 2018, 3:00-5:00
“‘HIV is the New Diabetes’:  Paranoia, Precarity, and the Politics of Sedentary Analogies”
208B Cathedral of Learning
Jeffrey Bennett, Department of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University

April 20, 2018, 3:00-5:00
“Animated States: The Aesthetics, Politics, and Technology of Soviet and German Cel Animation, 1930-1940”
208B Cathedral of Learning
Olga Blackledge, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

Fall 2017-18

September 8, 2017, 3:00-5:00
“The Weimar Origins of Political Theory”
208B Cathedral of Learning
David Marshall, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

September 29, 2017, 3:00-5:00
Politics, Social Movements, and the Law
208B Cathedral of Learning

“Bound by Heredity: Disability and Reproductive Justice in Buck v. Bell” Sept
Hillary Ash, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

“Youth Sexting, Child Pornography Law, and the First Amendment: Toward an Alternative Media Production and Distribution Model for Evaluating Youth Sexual Expression”
Alvin Primack, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

“Why Do Social Movements Fail? An Analysis of Occupy Cal and Robert Reich’s Mario Savio Memorial Lecture”
Birney Young, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

October 5, 2017, 6:15-7:30
“Revolutionary Pedagogy:  An Africological Counterpoint to Cultural Injustice”
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Molefi Kete Asante, Department of African American Studies, Temple University
(Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies)

October 20, 2017, 3:00-5:00
“Political Imaginaries and Political Argument”
332 Cathedral of Learning
Mary Stuckey, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State University

October 27, 2017, 3:00-5:00
“Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, the Media, and the War on Terror”
332 Cathedral of Learning
Deepa Kumar, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University

November 10, 2017, 3:00-5:00
Space, Difference, and Resistance
208B Cathedral of Learning

“Visualizing Urban Displacement through a Lefebvrian Lens: Aesthetic Spatial Practice and Mediated Differential Space”
Curry Chandler, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

“‘The Battle of Sacramento’: An Analysis of White Nationalism, Space, and Circulation”
Rishi Chebrolu, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

“‘We Have Chosen to Act’: Collective Rhetoric and Resistance at the Santa Cruz Birth Center”
Robin Kanak Zwier, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

Spring 2017

January 13, 2017, 3:00-5:00
“Trump, Twitter, and the Short Circuits of Technoliberalism”
602 Cathedral of Learning
Damien Pfister, University of Maryland

February 3, 2017, 3:00-5:00
“I, The People: American Conservatism, Political Theory, and the Populism’s Discontents”
208A Cathedral of Learning
Paul Johnson, University of Pittsburgh

February 17, 2017, 3:00-5:00
“The Dangerous Public Fantasies of Post-racialism and the Black Bogeyman”
G24 Cathedral of Learning
Ronald Jackson, University of Cincinnati

February 24, 2017, 3:00-5:00
208A CL
Department of Communication, Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Fellows
“Media Accessibility: Narratives from People with Disabilities”
Jessica Benham

“Make Your Own Adventure: The Materiality and Circulation of Noncommercial Games for the Early Home Computing Environment”
Logan Blizzard

“‘Don’t be mad at me because I don't trust you’: Community Engagement in Neighborhood Redevelopment”
Curry Chandler

March 24, 2017, 3:00-5:00
“‘At One Point We All Rebelled’: Hip Hop Graffiti Grrlz and the Performance of Feminist Masculinity”
208A CL
Jessica N. Pabón, SUNY Newpaltz

March 31, 2017, 3:00-5:00
“Writing the Revolution: Feminist Rhetorics of the Second Wave”
232 Cathedral of Learning
Bonnie Dow, Vanderbilt University

April 21, 2017, 3:00-5:00
“Emotional Icons: Celebrity, Digital Culture, and Networks of Affect”
602 Cathedral of Learning
Claire Sisco King, Vanderbilt University

Fall 2016-17

Calum Matheson, University of Pittsburgh
“Psychosis and Rhetoric: What Does the Sovereign Citizen Mean?”
September 16, 2016, 3:00-5:00
208B Cathedral of Learning

Thomas Nakayama, Northeastern University
“Digital Whiteness”
October 7, 2016 3:00-5:00
602 Cathedral of Learning

Department of Communication, Graduate Student Pre-Conference Presentations
“‘A Legitimate Alternative?’: Inconclusive Findings as an Argumentative Resource in the Regulation of E-Cigarettes”
Daniel Beresheim

“Medicine or Quackery? The Argument Surrounding Research of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) at the National Institutes of Health”
Deborah Danuser

“Symbolically Transferring the Abject: Intersex Narratives and Affect in the Documentary Intersexion”
Al Primack
October 28, 2016, 3:00-5:00
208B Cathedral of Learning

Emily Deering Crosby, University of Pittsburgh
November 18, 2016, 3:00-5:00
208B Cathedral of Learning
“A Rhetorical Eye-Con: The Ageless Americana of Patsy Cline”

Caitlin Bruce, University of Pittsburgh
“Painting Publics: Transnational Graffiti Scenes as Spaces of Encounter”
December 2, 2016, 3:00-5:00
208B Cathedral of Learning
“Painting Publics: Transnational Graffiti Scenes as Spaces of Encounter”

Spring 2016

January 15, 2016, 3:00-5:00
206 Cathedral of Learning
“Across the Great (Fire)Wall: China and the Global Internet”
Hong Shen, University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon University

January 22, 2016, 3:00-5:00
602 Cathedral of Learning
"At the Feet of Rhetorica"
Debra Hawhee, Pennsylvania State University

January 29, 2016, 3:00-5:00
602 Cathedral of Learning
“Recovering the Rhetoric of Mathematics”
Edward Schiappa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

February 5, 2016, 3:00-5:00
Lower Lounge, William PItt Union
“In Search of the Clitoris”
Susan Wells, Temple University 

February 25, 2016, 3:00-5:00
602 Cathedral of Learning
“There was a Beep the Entire Time I was Working, or Performing Autistic Honesty at the Academic Masquerade Ball”  -
Jessica Benham
“Selling with Science: An Exploratory Look at the Role of Science in Television Commercials” –
Deborah Danuser
“Burke and #BlackLivesMatter: A Study in Framing Race”-
Samuel Allen & Hillary Ash
"Time for Slime: Reinforcement of Hegemonic Equilibrium Through Compensatory Fiction" –
Tyler Brunette

March 18, 2016, 3:00-5:00
206 Cathedral of Learning
Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Fellows
“The Fight for Inclusion: Women, Activism, and the Early HIV/AIDS Epidemic”
Hillary Ash
“‘Does this Filter Make my Brisket Look Fatty?’: A Media Ecological and Rhetorical Exploration of Austin, TX and Pittsburgh, PA Food Cultures”
Jennifer Reinwald
“Hand Transplants and the Meaning of ‘Success’ in Non-Life-Saving Experimental Medicine: An Oral History from the Patients’ Perspective”
Emily Ruppel

April 8, 2016, 3:00-5:00
602 Cathedral of Learning
“Martin Heidegger’s 1924 Lecture Course on Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Key Research Implications”
Daniel Gross, University of California, Irvine

Fall 2015-16

September 11, 2015, 3:00-5:00
208A Cathedral of Learning
“Big Data and Global Knowledge: A Protagorean Analysis of the United Nations’ Global Pulse”
Johanna Hartelius, University of Pittsburgh

October 2, 2015, 3:00-5:00
206 Cathedral of Learning
“Arguing Animus”
Peter Campbell, University of Pittsburgh

October 23, 2015, 3:00-5:00
206 Cathedral of Learning
“Remixing Colorblind: Race, Education and Opportunity”
Sheena Howard, Rider University

November 13, 2015, 3:00-5:00
206 Cathedral of Learning
Department of Communication, Graduate Student Pre-Conference Presentations
“Between Control and Constraint: Charting Three Rhetorics of Patient Agency”
Ellen DeFossez
“I’m Not an Expert, But…”
Kaitlyn Haynal
“Hashtags and the Tetrad: Organizing Social Media Campaigns”
Jennifer Reinwald

December 4, 2015, 3:00-5:00
602 Cathedral of Learning
“The Scales of Rhetoric: Inside the Dilemma of Sympathy and the Sensible Knave”
John Poulakos, University of Pittsburgh

Spring 2015

Robert Hariman, Northwestern University
"Seeing Society: Sociological Optics in Public Culture"
Friday, February 20, 2015, 3:00pm
208B Cathedral of Learning

Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Fellows
“Our Movies Made Children: Metaphor and the Infantilization of Film in the Payne Fund Motion Picture Studies”
Tyler Brunette
“Renegotiating Archival Absence: Black Women, Agency and the Issue of Reproductive <Freedom>”
Ashley Hall
“When the Rainbow is Not Enuf: Activism & the Everyday in London’s Black Gay and Lesbian Activist Ephemera”
Dominique Johnson
Friday, March 20, 2015 3:00pm-5:00pm
206 Cathedral of Learning

Michael Hyde, Wake Forest University
“The Interruption that We Are:  Communication Ethics, the Lived Body, and Our Posthuman Future”
Friday, March 27, 2015, 3:00pm-5:00pm
208B Cathedral of Learning

Todd Reeser, University of Pittsburgh
“Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance"
Friday, April 10, 2015, 3:00pm-5:00pm
206 Cathedral of Learning

Janet Skupien, University of Pittsburgh
“‘Don’t think, but look!’: Understanding Wittgenstein’s Anti-Theoretical Stance”
Friday, April 17, 2015, 3:00pm-5:00pm
206 Cathedral of Learning

Fall 2014-15

Lester Olson
“Public Memory of Christopher Isherwood’s Novel, A Single Man:
Communication Ethics, Social Differences, and Alterity in Media Portrayals of Homosexuality”
Friday, September 12, 2014, 3:00pm
206 Cathedral of Learning

Nancy Struever, Johns Hopkins University
“Fashions in Body-Talk: Rhetoric and Medicine, Rhetoric and Neuroscience”
Friday, September 26, 2014, 3:00pm
206 Cathedral of Learning

James Wynn, Carnegie Mellon University
“Can Winning Be Losing?: Citizen Science and the Politics of Redevelopment”
Friday, October 10, 2014, 3:00pm
206 Cathedral of Learning

Megan Foley, University of South Carolina
“Helen, Rhetoric’s Eidōlon”
Friday, October 24, 2014, 3:00pm
206 Cathedral of Learning

Department of Communication, Graduate Student Pre-Conference Presentations
William Upchurch
“Gamification in Education: Past and present patterns, and future trends”
Emily Deering Crosby
“Burke’s ‘Urge to Purge’: Exploring Rhetorical and Bodily Dualities for Today’s Critical Scholars”
Larissa Brian
“Spectacles of Terror and Ecstasy: Dispossessed Language and the Consumption of (Anti)-Blackness in Interracial Pornography”
Friday, November 7, 2014, 3:00pm
206 Cathedral of Learning

Spring 2014

Roundtable on Journal Article Publishing

Friday, April 4, 2014 3:00pm
208B Cathedral of Learning

Sarah Bishop
"It’s Just What We Saw in the Movie”: Refugees Encounter U.S. Media"
Christopher Fischer
"I am going into the country to begin!" Kenneth Burke's turn to nature"
Derek Griesbach
"Anthropocene Project"
Friday, March 21, 2014 3:00pm
208A Cathedral of Learning

Fadoua Loudiy
"Symbolic justice, memory and state-sponsored violence"
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 3:00pm
332 Cathedral of Learning

Caitlin Bruce
"Mujeres en el Arte: Making Spaces Feel Public"
Friday, January 24, 2014 3:00pm
208B Cathedral of Learning

Emily Cram
"Isn't that the Place?": Geographic Securitization, Queer Senses of Place, and Transformative Feelings after Matthew Shepard
Friday, January 17, 2014 3:00pm
208B Cathedral of Learning