Engaging Theory
The Inaugural Conference on
Rhetorical Theory
24-25 October 2008
The University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
- TENTATIVE SCHEDULE -
Friday, 24 October 2008
Hilton Columbia Center, 924 Senate Street
8:30-9:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:30-11:00 Session I: Ontology's Returns
- Jeffrey Nealon (Penn State)
- Michael Hyde (Wake Forest)
- Stuart Murray (Ryerson)
- Lenore Langsdorf (Southern Illinois)
11:00-11:15 Recess 11:15-12:45 Session II: History, Historiography and Violence
- Barbara Biesecker (Georgia)
- Michelle Ballif (Georgia)
- Susan Jarratt (California - Irvine)
- Jeffrey Walker (Texas)
12:45-2:15 Lunch (on your own) 2:15-3:45 Session III: The Call of the Sacred
- Michael Bernard-Donals (Wisconsin)
- James Darsey (Georgia State)
- Chris Lundberg (North Carolina)
- Carol Poster (York)
3:45-4:00 Recess 4:00-5:30 Session IV: Technological Inventions
- Carolyn Miller (North Carolina State)
- Collin Brooke (Syracuse)
- Kevin DeLuca (Utah)
- Thomas Goodnight (Southern California)
- Thomas Rickert (Purdue)
5:30-7:30 Conference Reception – The Liberty Taproom and Grill (828 Gervais Street)
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Hilton Columbia Center, 924 Senate Street
8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast 9:30-11:00 Session V: Rhetorical/Theory
- Michael Leff (Memphis)
- Steven Mailloux (California-Irvine)
- Philippe-Joseph Salazar (Cape Town)
- Raúl Sánchez (Florida)
- John Muckelbauer (USC)/Erik Doxtader (USC)
11:00-11:15 Recess 11:15-12:45 Session VI: The Global Everyday
- Ron Greene (Minnesota)
- James Aune (Texas A&M)
- Barry Brummett (Texas)
- Christine Garlough (Wisconsin)
- Jenny Rice (Missouri)
12:45-2:15 Lunch (on your own) 2:15-3:45 Session VII: (Im)Possible Democracy
- John Sloop (Vanderbilt)
- Sarah Burgess (San Francisco)
- David Rieder (North Carolina State)<
- C. Jan Swearingen (Texas A&M)
- Bradford Vivian (Syracuse)
3:45-4:00 Recess 4:00-5:30 Session VIII: Signs of Ethical Life
- Diane Davis (Texas)
- Maurice Charland (Concordia)
- Lynn Clarke (Pittsburgh)<
- Brook Rollins (Louisiana State)
- Victor Vitanza (Clemson)
5:30-6:00 Closing Anticipations