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            |   Theory and Practice at the Crossroads   |
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                   A Graduate Student Colloquium

                Department of Speech Communication

              California State University, Northridge

                          Saturday May 18
                           Sunday May 19
                               1996

               http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/conf96/

              Speech Communication Department Building

                               SP101

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>> Saturday, May 18 <<
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10:00 AM:   Virtually-Becoming-Human:
~~~~~~~~    Speech Communication Enters the Twenty-First Century
            (Opening Remarks)
            Ben Attias

10:15-11:45 AM: Ethnographic Excursions:  
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  National, Corporate, and Nomadic Cultures

    Kurt Lowry, "Swapping Stories, Meeting Minds: 
    An Ethnography of Swap Meet Vendors' 
    Personal Narratives as Normative Discourse" 
    <hcspc016@csun.edu>
    
    George Nshanyan, "Preserving Cultural Identity: 
    The Armenian Youth Of Glendale." 
    <hbspc073@csun.edu>
    
    Skye MacPherson "The Many Families at Kinko's:  
    A Metaphorical Analysis of Organizational Communication" 
    <hbspc069@csun.edu>

12:00 - 1:25 PM:    LUNCH BREAK
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1:30-3:30 PM:  "Race" in Black and White:    
~~~~~~~~~~~~    Theorizing Identity and Difference 
                in the White Supremacist Institution

    Dianne Davis, "A Thin Line Between 'Fitting In' and 'Selling Out':  
    Deconstructing Racial Perceptions and Discrimination in White America" 
    <hbspc148@huey.csun.edu>
    
    Corinna J. Moebius, "Where We are Comin' From an Goin' to:  
    Placing as a Means for Black Students to Claim Communal Territories" 
    <hbspc055@csun.edu>
    
    Daniel Makagon, "Everywhere and Nowhere: 
    The Difficulty in Detecting the 'Whiteness' Virus"  
    <hbspc078@csun.edu>

    Monica Turner, "The Great Divide" 
    <hbspc074@csun.edu>

3:45-5:45 PM:   Critical Theory and Critical Practice:  
~~~~~~~~~~~~    The Politics of Method and Radical Social Change

    Vrej Elyasi, "Cultural Diversity in Organizations" 
    <hbspc153@csun.edu>
    
    Cathy Kruska, "Strategic Subversion:  
    An Intervention for the Self-Fulfilling Prophesy"  
    <ckruska@ix.netcom.com>
    
    Skye MacPherson, "Cultural Ideologies:  In Communication Theory 
    the Personal is Political and the Political is Theory" 
    <hbspc069@csun.edu>
    
    Kurt Lowry, "In Search Of...  America the Beautiful: 
    Voices from Our Past as Contemporary Redressive Action." 
    <hcspc016@dewey.csun.edu>

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>>  Sunday, May 19 <<
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10:00 AM-12:00 PM:  Imperial Domination and Intercultural Communication:  
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Critical Communication Studies in an International Frame

    Kathy Kwon, "The Universality of Human Experience?" 
    <hbspc059@dewey.csun.edu>
    
    George Nshanyan, "Forgotten Pioneers: The Mexicans of Simi Valley"  
    <hbspc073@csun.edu>
    
    Susan Whitney, "The Exclusion of the Third World Feminine Voice 
    Within the Western World" 
    <hbspc072@csun.edu>
    
    Daniel Makagon, "The Imperial Power Strikes Again:  
    The Problem With Criticizing Dancehall's 'Batty Boy' Lyrics"  
    <hbspc078@csun.edu>

12:00-1:00 PM:  LUNCH BREAK
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1:00-3:30 PM:   Sex-in(g) the Text:  Genders and Sexualities in Representation
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    Monica Turner, "Dismantling the Matriarchy; 
    Woman Racing Black in a Patriarchal Universe 
    of Discourse." 
    <hbspc074@csun.edu>

    Karen Leong, "Lesbians, their Children, and the Law." 
    <hbspc075@csun.edu>
    
    Tristen M. Lazareff "A Closer Look at 'Normal Sex'" 
    <tml39743@csun.edu>
    
    Carla Swift, "Pornography and the Economy of the Phallus" 
    <hbspc010@csun.edu>
    
    Christopher Skiles, "Women in Law Enforcement: 
    Dramatized Narratives and Organizational Realities" 
    <hcspc008@dewey.csun.edu>

3:45-4:45 PM:   Bringing it all Back Home:  
~~~~~~~~~~~~    The Discipline and the Department

    Jessica Brow & Monica Turner, "Subaltern Voices:  
    A Study of the Minorities and Minority Voices Represented 
    in the Journals of the SCA"  
    Jessica Brow <hbspc076@csun.edu>  Monica Turner <hbspc074@csun.edu>
    
    Dianne Davis, Kathy Kwon, and George Nshanyan, 
    "Theory in Context:  A Review of the Department"
    Dianne Davis <hbspc148@csun.edu>, Kathy Kwon <hbspc059@csun.edu>,
    George Nshanyan <hbspc073@csun.edu>

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM:  Roundtable Discussion:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   The Current State of the Discipline 
                    and The Future of the Department
                    (Conference Room)