Conference Schedule

Conference Schedule

Sunday location is 3rd floor of the conference center, room 301.

Sunday, September 22, 2024: Arrival of participants

12 - 6:00 pm:  PAC registration open (foyer of Salon C, 3rd floor of conference center)

2:30 pm - 4 pm: State of Higher Education and Rhetoric in Texas Panel (Room 301) 

4:00 pm - 5 pm:  Reception (Courtyard)

5:15 pm - 6:30 pm: Welcome and State of the Field Panel (Room 301)

6:30 onwards:  dinner on your own

 

All events on Monday and Tuesday will take place in Salon C on the third floor of the AT&T Conference Center.

Monday, September 23, 2024:

              8 am:  breakfast and continued PAC registration (breakfast in Tejas, 2nd floor).

              9 - 12:30: Plenary Sessions #1 & 2

              12:30 – 2 pm:  Lunch and Mentoring Panel

              2:15 – 5:30 pm:  Plenary Sessions #3 & 4

              6:30 – 8:30 pm:  Dinner and informal networking (Salon C)

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

              8 am:  breakfast (Tejas, 2nd floor)

              9 – 12:30:  Plenary Sessions #5 & 6

              12:30 – 2 pm:  Lunch and Publishing Panel

              2:15 – 3:45 pm:  Plenary Sessions #7 & 8

              6:00 – 8:30 pm:  Dinner and Closing Keynote Address

Wednesday, September 25, 2024:  Participants depart

Detailed Schedule of Events

12 - 6:00 pm:  PAC registration open (foyer on third floor, outside of Salon C)

2:30 pm - 4 pm: State of Higher Education and Rhetoric in Texas Panel (Room 301)

Chair:  Stacey Sowards, The University of Texas at Austin

Panelists:

Emma Frances Bloomfield, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Ann Burnette, Texas State University

Rebekah Fox, Texas State University

Kelly Happe, University of Georgia

Ersula Ore, Arizona State University

June Straight, The University of Texas at El Paso

Sarah Beck, Texas A & M University

Jaishikha Nautiyal, Southwestern University

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Reception (Courtyard)

5:15 pm - 6:30 pm: Welcome and State of the Field Panel (Room 301)

Chair:  Karma Chāvez, The University of Texas at Austin

Panelists:

Martin Law, Utah State University

Carlos Tarin, The University of Texas at El Paso

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Texas A&M University

Kirt Wilson, The Pennsylvania State University

Amy Young, Pacific Lutheran University

6:30 onwards:  Dinner on your own

8:00 - 9:00 am:  breakfast, informal networking in Tejas (2nd floor)

9:00 - 10:30 am:  Plenary Session #1 with Catherine Palczewski, The University of Northern Iowa

Title:  Practices of Looking at Rhetoric on the Edge of Livability, Grief, and Visibility

  • Chair: Faber McAlister, Drake University

Respondent #1: Caitlin Bruce, University of Pittsburgh
Respondent #2: Diana Martínez, Pepperdine University

10:30 - 11:00 am:  coffee and tea break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm:  Plenary Session #2 with Omedi Ochieng, The University of Colorado Boulder

Title: Apoconstitutive Violence

  • Chair: Eva Margarita, The University of Texas at Austin

Respondent #1: Matthew Houdek, Rochester Institute of Technology
Respondent #2: Rico Self, North Carolina State University

12:30 - 2 pm:  Lunch and Mentoring Panel

Chair:  Annie Hill, The University of Texas at Austin

  • Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University

  • Robin Jensen, University of Utah

  • Sarah de los Santos Upton, The University of Texas at El Paso

  • Sarah Hae-In Idzik, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Shiv Ganesh, The University of Texas at Austin

2:15 – 3:45 pm:  Plenary Session #3 with Tiara Na'puti, University of California, Irvine

Title: Activisms and Archipelagos

  • Chair: Noor Ghazal Aswad, University of Alabama

Respondent #1: José Castro-Sotomayor, California State University, Channel Islands
Respondent #2: Karrieann Soto Vega, The Pennsylvania State University

3:45 – 4:00 pm:  break

4:00 – 5:30 pm:  Plenary Session #4 with Jennifer LeMesurier, Colgate University

Title: Orienting Toward Sound

  • Chair: Ashley Mack, Louisiana State University

Respondent #1: Sabiha Khan, The University of Texas at El Paso
Respondent #2: Leslie Harris, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

5:30 pm:  break

6:30 – 8:00 pm:  Conference dinner and informal networking

8:00 - 9:00 am:  breakfast, informal networking (Tejas, 2nd floor)

9:00 - 10:30 am:  Plenary Session #5 with Ashley Hall, University of Iowa

Title: Moving Beyond ‘Respectable’ Feminist Theorizing

  • Chair: Ariel Seay-Howard, North Carolina State University

Respondent #1: Logan Rae Gomez, University of Utah
Respondent #2: Toniesha Taylor, Texas Southern University

10:30 - 11:00 am:  coffee and tea break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm:  Plenary Session #8 with Lamiyah Bahrainwala, Southwestern University

Title: Caste is Not a Metaphor

  • Chair: Suzanne Enck, University of North Texas

Respondent #1: Amber Kelsie, University of Colorado Boulder
Respondent #2: Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, University of Iowa

12:30 - 2 pm:  Lunch and Publishing Panel

Chair:  Jo Hsu, The University of Texas at Austin

  • David Cisneros, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Matthew deTar, Ohio University
  • Christa Olson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Phaedra Pezzullo, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Damien Smith Pfister, University of Maryland
  • Mary Stuckey, The Pennsylvania State University

 

2:15 – 3:45 pm:  Plenary Session #7 with Pamela VanHaitsma, The Pennsylvania State University

Title: The Erotic as Rhetorical Power on the Edge

  • Chair: Jay Childers, University of Kansas

Respondent #1: Emerson Cram, University of Iowa
Respondent #2: Tom Dunn, Colorado State University

3:45 – 4:00 pm:  break

4:00 – 5:30 pm:  Plenary Session #8 with Angela Aguayo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title: Collective Matters on the Edge

  • Chair: Lisa Corrigan, University of Arkansas

Respondent #1: Paul Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
Respondent #2: Raquel Moreira, Southwestern University

5:30 pm:  break

6:00 – 8:00 pm:  Keynote Address & Conference Dinner

Keynote Address:  Lisa A. Flores, The Pennsylvania State University

Title: Urgencies on the Edges

  • Chair:  Bryan McCann, Louisiana State University

Respondent:  Andre Johnson, The University of Memphis

Respondent:  Claire Sisco King, Vanderbilt University