• Conference Directors:
  • Erik Doxtader
  • Mindy Fenske
  • John Muckelbauer
  • Sponsored by:
  • Program in Rhetoric & Composition
  • Program in Speech Communication & Rhetoric
  • USC Department of English
  • USC College of Arts and Sciences

Rhetorical Questions

The 2nd South Carolina Conference on
Rhetorical Theory

15-17 October 2009

The University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina

 

- TENTATIVE SCHEDULE -


Thursday, 15 October 2009

7:30-9:00 pm Pre-Conference Discussion: Asking After Questions
Location: TBA, check your conference folder upon arrival.
All conference delegates are welcome to attend.

Friday, 16 October 2009
Unless noted, all events will be held in the Hilton Columbia Center, 924 Senate St.

8:30-9:00 Registration/Continental Breakfast
(Outside the Carolina Wren Room)
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
(Carolina Wren Room)
9:30-11:00 Session I: Crisis and Confidence
  • Steven Mailloux Professor, Loyola Marymount University)
  • Carole Blair (Professor, University of North Carolina)
  • Stuart  J. Murray (Professor, Ryerson University)
  • C. Jan Swearingen (Professor, Texas A&M University)
11:00-11:15 Recess & Refreshments
11:15-12:45 Session II: Materiality v. Language
  • Christine Harold (Professor, University of Washington)
  • Samuel McCormick (Professor, Purdue University)
  • Carolyn R. Miller (Professor, North Carolina State University)
  • John M. Sloop (Professor, Vanderbilt University)
12:45-2:15 Lunch Break
2:15-3:45 Session III: Institutional Life
  • Thomas Rickert (Professor, Purdue University)
  • Ronald Greene (Professor, University of Minnesota)
  • Byron Hawk (Professor, George Mason University)
  • Victor J. Vitanza (Professor, Clemson University)
3:45-4:00 Recess & Refreshments
4:00-5:30 Session IV: Critique’s Possibility
  • Michael Leff (Professor, University of Memphis)
  • Maurice Charland (Professor, Concordia University)
  • Mindy Fenske (Professor, University of South Carolina)
  • Kelly Pender (Professor, Virginia Tech)
5:30-7:30 Conference Reception – The Liberty Taproom and Grill

 

Sunday, 27 October 2009
(All events in the Hilton)

8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast (Outside the Carolina Wren Room)
9:30-11:00 Session V: In Cruelty’s Name
  • Philippe-Joseph Salazar (Professor, University of Cape Town)
  • Barbara A. Biesecker (Professor, University of Georgia)
  • Christopher Swift (Professor, Texas A&M University)
11:00-11:15 Recess & Refreshments
11:15-12:45 Session VI: Addressing Animality
  • Christine Garlough (Professor, University of Wisconsin)
  • Diane Davis (Professor, University of Texas)
  • Gerard Hauser (Professor, University of Colorado)
  • John Muckelbauer (Professor, University of South Carolina)
12:45-2:15 Recess & Refreshments
2:15-3:45 Session VII: Speaking of Eros
  • Chris Lundberg (Professor, University of North Carolina)
  • Erik Doxtader (Professor, University of South Carolina)
  • Bradford Vivian (Professor, Syracuse University)<
3:45-4:00 Recess
4:00-5:30 Session VIII: Rhetoric’s Justice
  • Sarah Burgess (Professor, University of San Francisco)
  • Thomas Crocker (Professor, University of South Carolina)
  • John Lucaites (Professor, Indiana University)<
  • James Martel (Professor, San Francisco State University)
  • Brooke Rollins (Professor, Louisiana State University)
5:30-6:00 Concluding Remarks & Anticipations