Department of Speech Communication
| Saturday, May 19: | ||
| 10:00 AM: |
Virtually-Becoming-Human: Speech Communication Enters the Twenty-First Century (Opening Remarks) |
Ben Attias |
| 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM: |
Ethnographic Excursions: National, Corporate, and Nomadic Cultures |
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"Preserving Cultural Identity: The Armenian Youth Of Glendale." |
George Nshanyan | |
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"The Many Families at Kinko's: A Metaphorical Analysis of Organizational Communication" |
Skye MacPherson | |
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"Swapping Stories, Meeting Minds: An Ethnography of Swap Meet Vendors' Personal Narratives as Normative Discourse" |
Kurt Lowry | |
| 11:45 AM - 1:25 PM: | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM: |
"Race" in Black and White: Theorizing Identity and Difference in the White Supremacist Institution |
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| "The Great Divide" | Monica Turner | |
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"A Thin Line Between 'Fitting In' and 'Selling Out': Deconstructing Racial Perceptions and Discrimination in White America" |
Dianne Davis | |
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"Where We are Comin' From an Goin' to: Placing as a Means for Black Students to Claim Communal Territories" |
Corinna J. Moebius | |
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"Everywhere and Nowhere: The Difficulty in Detecting the 'Whiteness' Virus" |
Daniel Makagon | |
| 3:45 PM - 5:45 PM: |
Critical Theory, Critical Practice: The Politics of Method and Radical Social Change |
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| "Cultural Diversity in Organizations" | Vrej Elyasi | |
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"Strategic Subversion: An Intervention for the Self-Fulfilling Prophesy" |
Cathy Kruska | |
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"Cultural Ideologies: In Communication Theory the Personal is Political and the Political is Theory" |
Skye MacPherson | |
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"In Search Of... America the Beautiful: Voices from Our Past as Contemporary Redressive Action." |
Kurt Lowry | |
| Sunday, May 19th, 1996 | ||
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: |
Imperial Domination and Intercultural Communication: Critical Communication Studies in an International Frame |
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| "The Universality of Human Experience?" | Kathy Kwon | |
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"Forgotten Pioneers: The Mexicans of Simi Valley" |
George Nshanyan | |
| "The Exclusion of the Third World Feminine Voice Within the Western World" | Susan Whitney | |
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"The Imperial Power Strikes Again: The Problem With Criticizing Dancehall's 'Batty Boy' Lyrics" |
Daniel Makagon | |
| 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM: | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 1:00 - 3:30 PM: |
Sex-in(g) the Text: Genders and Sexualities in Representation |
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"Dismantling the Matriarchy: Woman Racing Black in a Patriarchal Universe of Discourse" |
Monica Turner | |
| "Lesbians, their Children, and the Law" | Karen Leong | |
| "A Closer Look at 'Normal Sex'" | Tristen M. Lazareff | |
| "Pornography and the Economy of the Phallus" | Carla Swift | |
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"Women in Law Enforcement: Dramatized Narratives and Organizational Realities" |
Christopher Skiles | |
| 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM: |
Bringing it all Back Home: The Discipline and the Department |
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"Subaltern Voices: A Study of the Minorities and Minority Voices Represented in the Journals of the SCA" |
Jessica Brow and Monica Turner | |
| "Theory in Context: A Review of the Department" |
Dianne Davis, Kathy Kwon, and George Nshanyan |
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| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: |
Roundtable Discussion: The Current State of the Discipline and The Future of the Department |
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