Final Program for 15th Biennial Public Address Conference

Final Program for 15th Biennial Public Address Conference

We are pleased to announce the final program and schedule for the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference, September 29-October 1, 2016 at the Genesee Grande Hotel in Syracuse, New York. This and other details regarding lodging, registration, participant bios, and the history of PAC can be found on the PAC 2016 website: http://pac2016.vpa.syr.edu/

Planners and Hosts

Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies
Syracuse University

15th Biennial Public Address Conference
Syracuse University

September 29-October 1, 2016


SCHEDULE

Thursday 9/29

4:30-5:45pm Opening Reception

6:00-6:15pm Conference Welcome

Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University

Charles E. Morris III, Chair, Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University

6:15-8:00pm Keynote Session

Carole Blair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Conceits of Context: Diffident Reflections"

Chair: Angela Ray, Northwestern University

Respondents: Lisa Flores, University of Colorado

Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington

Friday 9/30

8:00-8:45am Breakfast

9:00-10:30am Plenary Session #1

Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University, "Eloquence in a Parodic Age"

Chair: Shawn Parry Giles, University of Maryland

Respondents: Karma Chávez, University of Wisconsin

Jay Childers, University of Kansas

11:00am-12:30pm Plenary Session #2

Samantha Senda-Cook, Creighton University, "Rethinking Resistance through Place"

Chair: Danielle Endres, University of Utah

Respondents: Johanna Hartelius, University of Pittsburgh

Damien Pfister, University of Nebraska

12:30-1:45pm Lunch

2:00-3:30pm Plenary Session #3

Kristan Poirot, Texas A & M University, "Traditions of (Miss) Remembering: Place, Personae, and Purpose in Black Freedom Commemorative Contexts"

Chair: Ebony Coletu, Pennsylvania State University

Respondents: Mary Stuckey, Georgia State University

Antonio De Velasco, University of Memphis

4:00-5:30pm Plenary Session #4

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, University of Iowa, "Attending to el Grito: Decolonizing the Rhetoric of (Social) Movement"

Chair: Kristen Hoerl, Butler University

Respondents: Matthew May, Texas A&M University

Phaedra Pezzullo, University of Colorado

Saturday, 10/1

8:00-8:45am Breakfast

9:00-10:30am Plenary Session #5

Jiyeon Kang, University of Iowa, "Captivated by Shared Grievances: The Image Vernacular of South Korea's 2008 Internet Protests"

Chair: Cara Finnegan, University of Illinois

Respondents: Claire Sisco King, Vanderbilt University

Ned O'Gorman, University of Illinois

11:00am-12:30pm Plenary Session #6

Kelly Happe, University of Georgia, "Speech, Biopolitics, and the Possibility of Address"

Chair: Jason Edward Black, University of Alabama

Respondents: Ersula Ore, Arizona State University

Dave Tell, University of Kansas

12:30-1:45pm Lunch

2:00-3:30pm Plenary Session #7

Isaac West, Vanderbilt University, "Netflix and Judge: Fragmentation, Popular Culture, and Making a Murderer"

Chair: Andrew Hansen, Trinity University

Respondents: Bryan McCann, Louisiana State University

Daniel Brouwer, Arizona State University

4:00-5:30pm Plenary Session #8

Sara L. McKinnon, University of Wisconsin, "Necropolitical States: Transnational Imaginations of Violent Mexico"

Chair: Lisa Villadsen, University of Copenhagen

Respondents: Annie Hill, University of Minnesota

Timothy Barney, University of Richmond

6:30pm Cocktails

7:30-9:30pm Closing Banquet and Celebration of Stephen Lucas

Chair:               Robert Asen, University of Wisconsin

Speakers:         Susan Zaeske, University of Wisconsin

Michael Hogan, Davidson College

Paul Stob, Vanderbilt University

Honoree:          Stephen Lucas, University of Wisconsin

Farewell Remarks & Announcement of 2018 Host:

Kendall R. Phillips, Dept. of Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University