Camp Rhetoric 2018: Precarious Times, Contested Identities

Camp Rhetoric 2018 occurs on Penn State’s University Park campus from March 30-31.

Registration Fee: Participants: $10 cash or check; Faculty speakers: Free

Key: BB = Burrowes Building; SB = Sparks Building

Friday, March 30th

1:00-2:00 PM: Grant-Writing Workshop led by Cristina D. Ramírez

BB 102

2:30-4:00 PM: Colloquium Address by Erin J. Rand

PROTECTing the Virtual Innocent; or, The Impossibility of Queer Children

Willard Building 262

4:00-6:00 PM: Social Hour

Champs; please contact Bre Mapston for details

6:00-8:00 PM: Dinner at India Pavilion

Cost: $20 cash (credit cards not accepted)

 

Saturday, March 31st

8:00 AM – onwards: Registration, BB 130

8:20-9:20 AM: Breakfast & Plenary Panel, BB 102

Center for Democratic Deliberation (CDD) Panel

Featuring CDD Director Bradford Vivian and Fellows Michelle Zaleski and Kris Klotz

9:35-10:25 AM: 1st Concurrent Panels – Works-in-Progress Presentations

1A, SB 124: Respondent Stuart Selber

Presenters:

  • Joanna Chromik, Indiana, Digital Citizenships: Memory and Immigrant Identities
  • Chris Adamczyk, RPI, Industrializing Cyberspace: Middle-Landscape Narratives at “Next Generation Computing and Big Data Analytics”
  • Kellie Marin, Penn State, The Aesthetics of Anonymity

1B, BB 102: Respondent Mary Stuckey

Presenters:

  • Richard Branscomb, Carnegie Mellon, “How to Fix Health Care”: Visual Rhetoric and the Politics of Legislative Promotion
  • Elizabeth Cooney-Petro, Syracuse, “I’m One More ‘Whooo’ Away from Going Topless”: Tig Notaro and Queering the Catcall
  • Derek Lewis, Penn State, Enchanting Séances: Imagining Futures, Recalling the Past

1C, BB 132: Respondent John Jasso

Presenters:

  • Miles Young, Penn State, “Not With Enticing Words”: A Rhetorical Theory of Charisma in I Corinthians
  • Madeline Denison, Northwestern, Lysistrata and the Tropology of Gender and Rhetorical Style
  • Curry Kennedy, Penn State, Shrewd as Serpents, Harmless as Doves: The Rhetoric of the Passio of Perpetua

1D, SB 309: Respondent Cristina D. Ramírez

Presenters:

  • Raymond Rosas, Penn State, Literacy Practices of Mexican Immigrants in Humanitarian “Sanctuaries” in Southern Arizona
  • Chris DiCesare, Syracuse, Haunting Sex: 1970s Socialist Sexual Politics and Possibilities in the US New Left

10:40-11:30 AM: 2nd Concurrent Panels – Thematic Discussions

2A, SB 124: Chair Janet Lyon, Panelists Liana Glew and John Smilges, Rhetorics of Disability

2B, BB 102: Chair Ekaterina Haskins, Panelist Allison Niebauer, Memory, Emotion, and Identity in Precarious Times

11:45 AM-12:35 PM: 3rd Concurrent Panels – Works-in-Progress Presentations

3A, BB 102: Respondent Stephen Browne

Presenters:

  • Kaitlyn Haynal Allen, Pitt, “Living Buildings”: The Rhetorical Framing of Nature in Sustainable Environmental Centers
  • Bryce Tellmann, Penn State, Finding the Great Plains People in the Buffalo Commons Proposal
  • Emily Smith, Penn State, Embodying the Archive: Constructing a Sensory-Inflected Theory of Public Memory Studies

3B, SB 124: Respondent Ebony Coletu

Presenters:

  • Deena al-Halabieh, Penn State, The Life of Omar Ibn Said and the Rhetoric of Arabic Slave Narratives
  • Samuel Todd Allen, Pitt, Comparative Monsterization: Entanglement of Disability, Race, and Gender in the Exhibitions of “The United African Twins”
  • John Rountree, Penn State, The Problem of Expertise: Lay Deliberations at the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review

3C, SB 309: Respondent Jack Selzer

Presenters:

  • Callie Maier, Penn State, In the Spirit of Morgan’s Canon: The Rhetorical Underpinnings of Comparative/Animal Psychology
  • Jennifer Saltmarsh, Pitt, How “Quorum Sensing” Caught Fire: A Metaphoric Prophecy of Bacteria-Human Symbiosis
  • Ben Firgens, Penn State, The Circulation of Bombs Between 1940 and 1945 and the Failure of the American Imagination

12:35-1:35 PM: Lunch on your own

Restaurant Guide for Camp Rhetoric

1:45-2:50 PM: Keynote Address by Cristina D. Ramírez

Barrio Rhetorics of Belonging: Recovering and Historicizing Hidden Rhetorics from Precarious Spaces

Foster Auditorium, Library East 102

3:05-3:55 PM: 4th Concurrent Panels: Works-in-Progress Presentations

4A, SB 124: Respondent Erin J. Rand

Presenters:

  • Marguerite Nguyen Lehman, Penn State, Coming Out for Whom? A Rhetorical Analysis of “The Closet” as Metaphor
  • Catherine St Pierre, Ohio State, A Corps of Composers: Literacy Sponsorship in the USMC
  • Jeff Nagel, Penn State, Passing On Protest: Complicating Activism in the Homophile Movement, 1965-1969

4B, SB 309: Respondent Xiaoye You

Presenters:

  • Robb Conrad Lauzon, RPI, Alternative interpretations of the Statue of Liberty in post-9/11 America
  • Ashley Rea, Penn State, Listening to the Cross-Cultural Archive
  • Matthew Ringard, Syracuse, An Azalea for John: Metronormativity and Queer Kinship in S-Town

4C, BB 102: Respondent Abraham Khan

Presenters:

  • Lulu Olaniyan, Syracuse, Representing Possibility: On Cognitive Mapping and Ideas of History in Star Trek
  • Michael Camele, Syracuse, Did Alt-Right Teens Dream of Pepe Schemes?
  • Michelle Zaleski, Penn State, Researching Translingually: Beyond Linguistic Knowledge

4:10-5:00 PM: 5th Concurrent Panels: Thematic Discussions

5A, SB 124: Chair Cheryl Glenn, Panelists Caroline Koons, Greg Coles, and Shannon Stimpson, Finding Burke in the Archives: Messiness, Collaboration, and Codependent Research

5B, BB 102: Chair Kirt Wilson, Panelists Morgan Johnson and Nikki Orth, Building Diverse Intellectual Communities of Excellence and Inclusivity—Constraints and Opportunities

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