Schedule of Events
Thursday, October 3
5:00-6:00 pm—Conference Registration
5:30 pm—Welcome reception
7:00-9:00 pm—Opening Session
Chair and Discussion Leader: John M. Murphy, University of Georgia
Keynote Address: Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, University of Minnesota
Response: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University
8:00-8:30 am—Continental Breakfast and Conference Registration
8:30-10:15 am—Session I
Chair and Discussion Leader: Mari Boor Tonn, University of Maryland
Presentation: “Terrorism at Democracy’s Rhetorical Frontier,” Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University
Response: Gordon R. Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh
10:15-10:30 am—Break
10:30am -12:15 pm—Session II
Chair and Discussion Leader: John Louis Lucaites, Indiana University
Presentation: “From the Symbolic to the Material and Back: Violence and its Reality in Our Lives,” Fernando Delgado, Arizona State University
Presentation: “How Well-Intentioned Facilitation Efforts Contribute to Escalation of Violence in the Dialogue Among Citizens Who Participate in Intractable Environmental Disputes,” Tarla Rai Peterson, University of Utah
Response: James Arnt Aune, Texas A & M University
12:15-1:30 pm—Lunch (in hotel)
1:30-3:15 pm—Session III
Chair and Discussion Leader: Kevin M. DeLuca, University of Georgia
Presentation: “Lucy Lobdell’s Queer Circumstances: Violence and Transgenderism in the 19th Century,” John Sloop, Vanderbilt University
Response: Rosa A. Eberly, Pennsylvania State University
Response: Lester Olson, University of Pittsburgh
3:15-3:30 pm—Break
3:30-5:30 pm—Session IV
Chair and Discussion Leader: Mary Stuckey, Georgia State University
Presentation: “9/11 and Echoes of the Nuclear Age: The Negative Sublime,” G. Thomas Goodnight, Northwestern University
Response: David Henry, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Response: Carol Winkler, Georgia State University
“Executing Democracy: The Waiting Room, The Death Penalty, &Conversations Toward Community”
Stephen L. Hartnett, University of Illinois
To
execute may mean to complete a plan, to fulfill a task; or it may mean to
murder in the name of the law, to kill a criminal--depending on how one
understands the word execute, capital punishment may be seen as necessary to
defend the rule of law or as an act that threatens democracy. This presentation
tackles the complexities of executing democracy by reflecting on The Waiting
Room, an interactive art installation that functions as a traveling
community forum where citizens from all walks of life come together to talk
about crime, violence, and democracy. Using slides of the art and video clips of
past conversations in Texas, California, Boston, and Tennessee, this
presentation demonstrates how The Waiting Room creates public spaces for
wondering about the politics of executing democracy.
8:00-8:30 am—Continental Breakfast and Conference Registration
8:30-10:15 am—Session V
Chair and Discussion Leader: Angela Ray, University of Memphis
Presentation: “Representing Terrorism, Rebuilding Community: Congressional Testimony of Post-Civil War Violence,” Kirt Wilson, University of Minnesota
Response: Stephen Browne, Pennsylvania State University
10:15-10:30 am—Break
10:30am -12:15 pm—Session VI
Chair and Discussion Leader: Frederick J. Antczak, University of Iowa
Presentation: “Textual Action and Conceptual Innovation in Henry Highland Garnet’s Address to the Slaves of the United States of America,” Jim Jasinski, University of Puget Sound
Presentation: “Constructing Communities through Race Violence and Resistance: Rituals of Lynching and the Campaign for Anti-Lynching Legislation,” Peter Ehrenhaus, Pacific Lutheran University and A. Susan Owen, University of Puget Sound.
Response: Susan Zaeske, University of Wisconsin, Madison
12:15-1:30 pm—Lunch
1:30-3:15 pm—Session VII
Chair and Discussion Leader: Tom Lessl, University of Georgia
Presentation: “Presidential Therapies and the Events of September 11: Memesis, Methexis, and Nationalism in the Rhetoric of George W. Bush and The West Wing,” Shawn and Trevor Parry-Giles, University of Maryland
Response: Dana Cloud, University of Texas
Response: Christine Harold, University of Georgia
3:15-3:30 pm—Break
3:30-5:30 pm—Session VIII
Chair and Discussion Leader: Lynn Clark, Vanderbilt University
Presentation: “In the Middle of Reconciling Speech,” Erik Doxtader, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Response: William Lewis, Drake University
6:00 pm—Cocktail reception
7: 00-9:00 pm—Conference Banquet Honoring Robert L. Scott for his contributions to Public Address Studies
Presentation: Robert Hariman, Drake University
Response: Robert L. Scott, University of Minnesota
Sunday, October 6
No official conference events scheduled; departure.