FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

 

8:30-9:00 Coffee & pastries MU 221 Arizona Ballroom - Hosted by FemRhet Conference 2015

 

9:00-10:15 Welcome and Keynote MU 221 Arizona Ballroom

Thomas Rickert, Purdue University

"Rhetoric and the Paleolithic: Notes Toward a Prehistory of Rhetoric"

 

10:30-noon SESSION I

 

Ia: Motion and Emotion Across Place and Space
MU 206 Copper

“More than a Feeling: The Transmission of Affect and Group Identity” Lauren Fine, Brigham Young University

“‘There is No Official Memo’: Negotiating the Space and Practice of Language Policy in Migration” Katherine Silvester, Indiana University

“Setting Us in Motion: Dancing With Rhetorical Intention” Paul Walker, Murray State University

Chair: Glenn Newman, ASU

 

Ib: First Year Writing in Flux
MU 225 Yuma

“Professionalism In Development: OWI at the University of Arizona” Dev K. Bose, University of Arizona

“Professionalism In Flux: The Challenge of WP Community Engagement” Jeremy Godfrey, University of Arizona

“Discourse Analysis in FYC as an Approach to the Thresholds of Academic Disciplines” Rebecca Robinson, Arizona State University

Chair: Maria Prikhodko, IUP

 

Ic: Mobility, Ambience, and Rhetoric On The Run (Panel Presentation)
MU 227 Pinal

“Ambience Chasers: On the Trail of Diffuse Rhetorical Agency” Jeremy Cushman, Western Washington University

“Take Me to the Movies: Locke & Knowledge Making in Motion” Shannon Kelly, Western Washington University

The Kinetic Energy of Agency: Understanding Rhetoric through Kinesis” Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Oregon State University

 

Id: Transitioning Beyond the Writing Classroom
MU 223 Yavapai

“From Novice/Outsider to Expert/Knower: Charting the Course of Knowing in the First-year Writing Classroom” Karen Gocsik, Univeristy of California, San Diego

“(Re)Collections: Using a Public Writing Exhibit to Move Beyond Institutional Boundaries in a Gen-Ed Writing Course” Lauren Goldstein, New Mexico State University

Chair: Sarah Perrault, UC Davis

 

Ie: Attuning and Detuning Kairos, Kinēsis, and Chora
MU 229 Santa Cruz

“Into the Wild: Discourses of Silviculture and Chōric Clearings” Jennifer Clary-Lemon, University of Winnipeg

“An Introduction to Rhetoric and Aesthetics: Coping with Kinēsis as Kairos through Hindsight” Eli Walker, Western Washington University

Chair: Sally Said, U Incarnate Word

 

If: Digital Ecologies: Playing the Game of Life
MU 224 Gila

“From Mountains to Minecraft: Unpacking the Naturalist’s Playground” Megan De Roover, Arizona State University

“Distributed Teaching and Learning Systems in Game-based Learning and Beyond” Jeffrey B. Holmes, Arizona State University

“Data Double: The Superhero You Never Wanted Transcending Space and Time?” Sarah M. Young, Arizona State University

Chair: Carlos A. Flores, ASU

 

Lunch Break noon-1:30

 

1:30-3:00 SESSION II

 

IIa: Mobilities and Ecologies of Place
MU 224 Gila

“Wonderment in Wandering: Toward a Peripatetic Epistemology and Place as Chôra Rosanne Carlo, College of Staten Island (CUNY)

“(Un)Comfortably Moving Out of the Comfort Zone: Life as Travel” Roberta Maierhofer, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

“Learning the Local City: Mobilities and Indigeneities” Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, University of Winnipeg

Chair: Gordon Titchener, ASU

 

IIb: Rhetorical Historiography: Publics and Counterpublics
MU 206 Copper

“(Re)Disciplining Rhetoric: Debates over Historiography and How Appropriating Pre-Aristotelian Practices of Rhetoric Can Inform Methods of ‘Doing’ Public Rhetoric” Phillip Goodwin, University of  Nevada, Reno

“‘Takin’ It to the Streets’: The Book Wagon and Mary Lemist Titcomb’s Place-based Rhetorics” Catherine Matthews Pavia, Brigham Young University

Chair: Jordan Loveridge, ASU

 

IIc: Rhetorical Resonance and Dissonance in Flux
MU 223 Yavapai

“The Miseducation of a Rhetor: Disciplinary Fluidity and Critical Concealment” James P. Beasley, University of North Florida

“Cultural Studies and Ethics in the Post-Pedagogy Classroom Ian Campbell, Western Washington University

“Disruptive Technologies: Dissecting Rhetorical Dissonance in Distance Education” Henrietta Nickels Shirk, Montana Tech

Chair: Rebecca Robinson, ASU

 

IId: Rhetorics In Motion: Shape-Shifting in the Age of Climate Change (Panel Presentation)

MU 227 Pinal

Gerri McNenny, Chapman University

Jan Osborn, Chapman University

Brian Glaser, Chapman University

Chair & Respondent: Ian Barnard, Chapman University

 

IIe: Online Writing Pedagogy in Motion: The Evolution and Migration of an Online Writing Program (Panel Presentation)
MU 229 Santa Cruz

Duane Roen, Arizona State University

Sherry Rankins-Robertson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Angela Clark-Oates, Arizona State University

Tiffany Bourelle , University of New Mexico

Andrew Bourelle, University of New Mexico

 

IIf: Crossing Borders: Opening Minds to the Complexity of the Immigration Issue and Its Effect on Local Communities (Panel Presentation)
MU 225 Yuma

Regina McManigell, Oklahoma City University

C. Joseph Meinhart, Oklahoma City University

Mark Griffin, Oklahoma City University

 

3:15-4:45 SESSION III

 

IIIa: Mixing and Remixing the Boundaries of Writing Instruction Research
MU 224 Gila

“Blurring Boundaries: New Perspectives on Models of Information Research and Writing” Matt Conner, UC Davis & Melissa Browne, UC Davis

“Turn Spotting: Tracing Keywords Across an Expanding Disciplinary Lexicon” Derek Mueller, Eastern Michigan University

“Revisiting Rhetorical Memory: The Rhythms and Algorithms of Digital Archives” Jonathan Stone University of Utah

Chair: Jennifer Clary-Lemon, UW

 

IIIb: Literacy Sponsorship, Teaching, and Mobility
MU 225 Yuma

“Sponsors of Illiteracy: A Political Primer” Kirk Branch, Montana State University

“The Rural in Motion: Redefining Rural Literacies within the New Mobility Paradigm” Kim Donehower, University of North Dakota

“I Shot an Arrow in the Air: Teachers as Targets in a Literacy Crisis, Redux” Patti Wojahn, New Mexico State University

Chair: Peter Goggin, ASU

 

IIIc: Editorial Sponsorship and Social Identity
MU 206 Copper

“Moved to Tears: How to Talk about Affect across Difference” Jennifer LeMesurier, Colgate University

“‘Please Allow Me Space in Your Distinguished Paper’: Letters to the Editor and the Black Press, 1916-1925” Sean Moxley-Kelly, Arizona State University

“Editorial Curation as Rhetorical Action: Considering the Development of Contemporary Editing through Lenses of Rhetorical Theory” Heidi Gabrielle Nobles, Texas Christian University

Chair: Sarah Jackson Young, ASU

 

IIId: Packaged Pedagogies: Exploring Standards, Outcomes, and Disciplinary Knowledge in Popular Writing Textbooks (Panel Presentation)
MU 227 Pinal

“'What it Means to be a Literate Person in the Twenty-First Century:' A Critical Genre Analysis of Common Core Implementation" Brad Jacobson, University of Arizona

"The Recontextualization of Genre and Genre-Based Pedagogy in First-Year Writing Textbooks" Christine Tardy, University of Arizona

"Tracing Notions of “Transfer” throughout Ten First-Year Writing Textbooks" Madelyn Pawlowski, University of Arizona

 

IIIe: Unsituating Rhetorical Situation: Rhetorical Motion in Space-Time (Panel Presentation)
MU 229 Santa Cruz

Doug Downs, Montana State University

Kimberly Hoover, Montana State University

Sadie Robertus, Montana State University

 

IIIf: Curating Literacy Narratives at an Undergraduate Videogame Symposium Using WordClouds to Encourage Deep Learning (Panel Presentation)
MU 223 Yavapai

Nancy Barron, Northern Arizona University

Sibylle Gruber, Northern Arizona University

A. Nicole Pfannenstiel, Northern Arizona University

 

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31

 

9:00 Coffee & Cookies MU 236 Mohave

 

9:30-11:00 SESSION IV

 

IVa: Mobile Writers: The Multilingual Classroom
MU 224 Gila

“Shifting to an Academic Identity or Linguistic Socialization: An Overt Act for Literacy and Equity” Brian D. Carpenter, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“Producing Transnational Identities: Digital Literacy Practices, Language Development, and First-Year Composition” Katherine E. Morelli, Arizona State University

“Nomadic Literacies of Internationally Mobile Multilingual Student Writers’ in a Freshman Multilingual Composition Class” Maria Prikhodko, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Tonya Eick, ASU

 

IVb: Paths, Tracks, and Systems of Motion
MU 225 Yuma

“The Tracks of our Tears: Railroads, and the Rhetoric(s) of Nostalgia” Gordon Titchener, Arizona State University

“Defining Reading is Still the Path”: Literacy and Metaphors of Motion” Amy Williams University of Utah

Chair: Maureen Mathison, UU

 

IVc: Gender in Flux
MU 227 Pinal

“You’ve Come a Long Way, Buddy? The March of Progress and the ‘Crisis’ of Masculinity” Judith Kearns, University of Winnipeg

“Applying an Ethics of Flourishing to a History of Rhetoric Classroom” Kathleen J. Ryan, Montana State University

“Changing Navajo Gender Identity in the Context of HIV Prevention and Treatment: A Challenge for Traditional and Western Healers” Sally E. Said, University of the Incarnate Word

Chair: Roberta Maierhofer, U Graz

 

IVd:

This Is the Place: Cultural Rhetorics of Settler Colonialism (Panel Presentation)
MU 223 Yavapai

Christie Toth, University of Utah

Mitchell Reber, University of Utah

Aaron Clark, University of Utah

 

IVe: Resolving the Teacher-Student Contradiction: Shifting Identities in Academia (Panel Presentation)
MU 229 Santa Cruz

“Towards a Pedagogy of Prosumption: Disrupting Knowledge Distribution in the Classroom” Marijel (Maggie) Melo, University of Arizona

“The Remedial Detour: A Study of Shifts in the Stigmatizing Rhetoric of Remediation” Daniel Bernal, University of Arizona

“Facilitating Spaces of Liberation in the College Composition Classroom: Transferrable Practices from Getting Ahead Workshops” Lori Bable, University of Arizona

 

11:15-12:45 SESSION V

 

Va: Minding your Ps & Qs, and Eyes, and Brains
MU 225 Yuma

“If You Take the Zombies Out of the Islands, do You Take the Islands Out of the Zombies?” Shawn P. Mitchell, Arizona State University

“Rods and Cones: Re-Reading Rhetorical Theory Through the Science of the Retina” Megan Poole, Texas Christian University

Chair: Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, UW

 

Vb: Bodily Convergences: Pain, Health, and Ink
MU 224 Gila

“Design, Medicine, Rhetoric, and Pain: Connecting Communities and Practices” Sarah Perrault and Susan Verba, University of California, Davis

“Cardio Bunnies and Iron Maidens: Twitter and Issues of Health Literacy” Hedra Taylor, Arizona State University

Chair: Patti Wojahn, NMSU

 

Vc: Shifting Spaces and Literacy Narratives
MU 229 Santa Cruz

“Just What is a Literacy Narrative?: Looking at Instructor Assignment Sheets to Further Theorize Literacy Narratives in the Composition Classroom” Rachel Buck, University of Arizona

“‘Just Visiting’: A Compositionist Chronicles Her Transition from the West to the Middle East to Teach First Year Writing” LeeAnn “Mysti” Rudd, Texas A&M-Qatar

Chair: Kirk Branch, MSU

 

Vd: Public Enemy: “By the Time I get to Arizona” (Panel Presentation)
MU 227 Pinal

“Popular Music and the Formation of Sphere Publics” Byron Hawk, University of South Carolina

“The Circulation of Isolation: Huey P. Newton, Tookie Williams, and Different Forms of Freedom?” Ben Harley, University of South Carolina

“Encountering Resistance: Turnstiles, Publicness, Materiality” Tony Stagliano, New Mexico State University

“Sensory Inquiry: The Publicness of Taste” Justine Wells, New Mexico State University

 

Ve: Arts of the Rhetorical: Making, Breaking, and Reshaping Knowledge through Aesthetic Praxis (Panel Presentation)
MU 223 Yavapai

“Intentional Aesthetic of Quilts Memorializing Migrant Deaths” Sonia Arellano, University of Arizona

“The Challenge of Ambient Rhetoric for the Political Left” Matthew Abraham, University of Arizona

“Reclaiming a Rhetorical Imaginary Through Precarious Aesthetics” Christopher Michael Brown, University of Arizona