Sustainability

Keynote Address: From Family of Man to Biotic Community: 
Global Warming as Sustainability Primer
Tarla Rai Peterson, Boone & Crockett Chair, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University

Session 1 10:30-noon

1a. An Assignment’s Journey: From the Practicum to the Classroom (MU 206 Chrysocolla)
“Sustainability in the TA Practicum” William H. Thelin (University of Akron)
“Developing Sustainable Social Constructionist Pedagogy: A lesson Plan from Prussian Blue and Propaganda to Indoctrination” Abbey Kanzig (Bowling Green State University)
“A Layering of Generative Themes” Kara Taczak (University of Akron)
Chair: Barbara Kirchmeier (ASU)

1b. Consumer Literacies, Globalism, and Corporate Advertising (MU 209 Yavapai)
“Constructing Truth in Environmental Documentary Film: The Visual Rhetorics of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth” Jeff Bergin (Arizona State University, Tempe)
“Seeking Truth in Green Advertising: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love G.E.” Ginger Hanson (Arizona State University, Tempe)
“Insatiability and Globalism” Sarah Jackson (Arizona State University, Tempe)
Chair: Kathleen Hicks (ASU)

1c. Sustaining Online Writing Communities through MUVEs, Hive Networks, and Bibliographic Bloc/ks (MU 211 Yuma)
“Blogging in Bloc/ks: Towards Real-Time Annotated Bibliographies” Geoffrey V. Carter (Saginaw Valley State University)
“Second Life as the Uncanny” Robert Leston (St. John’s University)
“Are You My Friend? A Look into the Sustainability of On-line Networks” Sarah Arroyo (California State University, Long Beach)
Chair: Ryan Skinnell (ASU)

1d. Community Literacies (MU 213 Santa Cruz)
“ Teaching Sustainability in the Context of Local Food System Development” Constance L. Falk (New Mexico State University)
“Vernacular Local Publics and the Problem of Sustainability” Elenore Long (Eastern Washington University)
“Sustainability and the Climbing Community: A Rhetorical Study of the Access Fund” Kate Ryan (University of Montana)
Chair: Maureen Daly Goggin (ASU)

1e. Rhetorical Narratives of Place (MU 215 Pinal)
“Rhetoric of Reconciliation in Jeppes' Reef, South Africa” Shelley Hawthorne Smith (University of Arizona)
“Sustainability Narratives and Kenneth Burke’s Guilt-Redemption Cycle: Jared Diamond, Anthropology, and the Case of Easter Island” Keith Miller (Arizona State University, Tempe)
“Words to Make the Springs Flow Again: Protecting the Headwaters of the San Antonio River” Sally Said (University of the Incarnate Word)
“‘The Only Weapon we have is Publicity’: The Rhetorical Protests of Owens Valley” Alexandra Sartor (University of California, Irvine)
Chair: Dawn Penich-Thacker (ASU)

Lunch Break: noon-1:30

Session 2 1:30-3:00

2a. Film Genres and Huckin’s Critical Discourse (MU 206 Chrysocolla)
“White Cultural Sustainability through the Silence of the Ethnic Voice” Gina Guzman (Texas State University, San Marcos)
“Huckin’ and Jivin’: Dancing Around Dominant Discourse and Sustaining Stereotypes” Jennine Krueger (Texas State University, San Marcos)
“I Hate you Because I Can: Critical Discourse Analysis of the Entertainment Industry” Falana Thomas (Texas State University, San Marcos)
Chair: Octavio Pimentel (Texas State University, San Marcos)

2b. Rhetorics of Public (and Private) Spaces: The Discernable and the Hidden (MU 209 Yavapai)
“Discerning the Legible City: The Social, Economic, and Spatial Future of Kent, Ohio” John M. Ackerman (University of Colorado, Boulder)
“Missing in Action: Information in the Public Debates Over Global Warming” Marlia E. Banning (Kent State University)
“The Nine Mile Canyon Coalition: The "Rhetoric of Public Space" in Sustaining Cultural and Natural Resources” Lynda McNeil (University of Colorado, Boulder)
“Land Use Rhetoric: Language, Classification, and Public Opinion” Paul Walker (Murray State University)
Chair: Karyn Riedell (ASU)

2c. Assessing Writing, Assessing Self (MU 211 Yuma)
“Sustaining Sobriety through Acts of Literacy” Jamie Beatty (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
“Writing Assessment across the Curriculum: Sustaining Interdisciplinary Relationships in the face of Pedagogical Difference” Jennifer Large (University of Utah)
“Identifying and Sustaining a Responsive Curriculum to Gender” Maureen Mathison & Natalie Stillman-Webb (University of Utah)
Chair: Cynthia Roses-Thema (ASU)

2d. The Edge of Ok: Finding the Value of Teaching Sustainability Across Disciplines in a Technological University (MU 213 Santa Cruz)
Panel: Angela Beck, Patric McElwain, Richard Theis & Patricia Watkins (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
Chair: Jeanne Dugan (ASU)

2e. Landscapes and Literacies: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Literacies of Sustainability in the Learning Community (MU 215 Pinal)
Panel: Gabriel Judkins (chair), Emily Cole, Ronald Dorn & Peter Goggin (Arizona State University, Tempe) Tierra Leonard (Northern Arizona University) April Brannon (California State University, Fullerton)

Afternoon Refeshments in Gold Room (MU 203)

Session 3 3:15-4:45

3a. Rhetorics and Literacies of Eco-Feminism and Race (MU 206 Chrysocolla)
“Her Vision, Her Voice: Sustainability and the Legacy of Women’s Eco-literature” Shari M. Childers (University of Texas, Dallas)
“‘To Act and Sustain Action’: Historicizing Ecofeminist Rhetorics of Sustainability” Kirsti Cole (Arizona State University, Tempe)
“Dispelling the Myth of a Race Neutral Freshman Composition Classroom” Charise Pimentel (Texas State University, San Marcos
Chair: Elizabeth McNeil (ASU)

3b. Nature Goes Online: Electronic Literacies of Sustainability (MU 209 Yavapai)
“The Sustainability of (Un)Authorized Online Collaborations: Contrasts in Individuation, Identity, and Community” Ryan Lang (New Mexico State University)
“The Ethos of Blogging: Strategies for Sustaining Readers” Cassandra McClure (New Mexico State University)
“Nature Goes Online: Environmental Education on Yellowstone National Park’s Website” Patricia Webb (Arizona State University, Tempe)
Chair: Christine Helfers (ASU)

3c. Earth Narratives: Canyons, Cowboys, and Characters (MU 211 Yuma)
“Writing Glen Canyon: Stages of Grief--and of Resurrection” Peter Friederici & Annette McGivney (Northern Arizona University)
“Sustainable Stories: Implications of Incorporating the Earth as Character in Fiction and Other Writing” Kate Niles (Fort Lewis College)
“What Does Cowboy Poetry Have to Do with Sustainability?” Nika Nordbrock (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
Chair: Michael Perry (ASU)

3d. Investigating Student/Consumer Literacies of Sustainable Food Production (MU 213 Santa Cruz)
“Whatever the Scientists Say: An Analysis of First Year Writing Students’ Responses to the Rhetoric of Biotechnology” Kathleen Hicks (Arizona State University, Tempe)
“Consuming or Being Consumed: Rhetorical Strategies, GM Foods, And Patent Law” Susan Ghiaciuc (James Madison University)
“Analysis of Symbolic and Instrumental Framing in the Marketing of Organic Cereals” Christopher Ervin (University of South Dakota)
Chair: Richard Hart (ASU)

3e. Teaching Sustainability: Politics and Research (MU 215 Pinal)
“Teaching Sustainability: Gateways to Developing Rhetorical Literacy at a Land Grant Southwest Border University” Susanna Shelton Clason (New Mexico State University)
“Depoliticizing Sustainability and Immigrant Issues: Exploration into Icelandic Municipal School Policy Documents” Ingólfur Ásgeir Jóhannesson (University of Akureyri)
“Teaching Sustainability through Action Research” Erik Juergensmeyer (University of Arizona)
Chair: Sherry Rankins-Robertson (ASU)

Saturday, October 27

Session 4 9:00-10:30

4a. Human Worlds, Living Worlds: Sustainability, Usability, Habitability (MU 202 Alumni Lounge)
Panel: Joni Adamson & Randel Hanson (Arizona State University, Polytechnic) Philip Bernick (Arizona State University, Tempe)
Chair: Maureen Mathison (University of Utah)

4b. Questioning Sustainability (MU 209 Yavapai)
“The Error of Expertise: An Exploration of the Sustainability of Pedagogic Authority” Kirk Branch (Montana State University)
“Literacies of Unsustainability: "Environmental Literacy in America", a critical examination of the NEETF literacy program” Randy Chulick (New Mexico State University)
“Mired in Rhetorics of Crisis: Is a Literacy of Sustainability Possible?” Wendy Olson (Washington State University-Vancouver)
Chair: Susan Davis (ASU)

4c.Bourdieuian/Critical Perspectives on Sustainability (MU 211 Yuma)
“Murdering Mother Muir: Escaping Preservationist Rhetoric in order to Restore Hetch Hetchy” Leigh Bernacchi (University of Utah)
“Transforming the Urban Jungle: City as Sustainable Sphere” Hedra Bledsoe (Arizona State University, Tempe)
“What are We Sustaining?” Judy Holiday (Arizona State University, Tempe)
Chair: Elenore Long (Eastern Washington University)

4d. Sustainability in Popular Culture (MU 213 Santa Cruz)
“Don't Think of the Environment: Ecological Denial and the Cultural Mythology of Survival Stories” Douglas F. Christensen (University of Utah)
“User-Centered Technology and Sustainable Practices: Toward a Rhetoric of Use” Anne Mareck (Michigan Technological University)
“Representations of Non-scientist Authorities in Popular Science Articles” Sarah Perrault (University of Nevada, Reno)
Chair: Thomas Skeen (ASU)

4e. The Sustainable University, Composition, Classroom, and Campus (MU 215 Pinal)
“‘Bridging the Ivory Towers’: Creating Effective Translateral Discourses” Bradford Gyori (Arizona State University, Tempe)
“Sustainability, Cognition, and WAC” Mark Waldo (University of Nevada-Reno)
“Sustainability in the Undergraduate Classroom: Lessons from a Course in Environmental Rhetoric” Jacqueline Wheeler (Arizona State University, Tempe)
Chair: Mick Parsons (ASU)

Session 5 10:45-12:15

5a. Engaging the Challenge of Teaching Sustainable Literacy Practices (MU 202 Alumni Lounge)
“Literacy Autobiographies: Translating Personal Experience Into Academic Genres” Sergio Castillas (University of Washington)
“Out-of-School Literacy: Alternative, Sustainable Modes” Sundy Watanabe (University of Utah)
“The Riddle Prompt: Prompting Students to Demonstrate Transferable Knowledge in First Year Writing Without Putting Words in Their Mouths” Sarah Read (University of Washington)
Chair: Jill Richards Young (ASU)

5b. Sustaining Learning Among Second Language and At-Risk Learners (MU 209 Yavapai)
“Reconsidering the Sustainability of Local Adult ESL Literacy Program: Moving from ‘My Students Don't Know Anything’ to ‘No, they Just Don't Know Much English Yet’” Maria Pilar Milagros Garcia (New Mexico State University)
“Retaining as Sustaining: Motivating At-Risk Students as Critical Praxis” Patricia Malesh (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Chair: Fify Juliana (ASU)

5c. Sustain(able) Rhetorics of Place (MU 211 Yuma)
“How the Global Warming Movement Can Transform the Doxa While Sustaining its Kairotic Position” Steven Accardi (Arizona State University, Tempe)
“Sustaining Place: Writing Majors and Sustainability in Composition Studies” Jennifer Clary-Lemon (University of Winnipeg)
“Sustainability and the Biofuel Economy: Hybrid Landscapes, Geospatial Modeling, and the Space of Rhetorical Agency” Carl G. Herndl (Iowa State University)
Chair, Peter Goggin (ASU)

5d. Sustainable Paradigms: Ethical, Professional, and Aesthetic (MU 213 Santa Cruz)
“Complex Publics and Dwelling as Sufficiency” Thomas Rickert (Purdue University)
“Sustainability as the Ground of Professional Writing” Byron Hawk (George Mason University)
“Networked Ethics as Sustainable Aesthetic Expression” Adam Koehler & Scot Barnett (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Chair: Kirk Branch, Montana State University

5e. Sustaining Chaos: Rethinking Assessment in Order to Reconstruct the Sustainable Teaching of Writing (MU 215 Pinal)
“Assessment as the Key to Sustainability” Michael M. Williamson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
“Pedagogical Panels: Using Assessment to Sustain a Patchwork Writing Department” April Sikorski (St. John’s University)
“Sustaining the Self: Negotiating and Assessing the Values and Place of Expressivist Pedagogy in a New, Sustainability-Based Writing Program” Roseanne Gatto (St. John’s University)
“Recirculating Visions—Assessing Sustainability-Based, Community Scholarship” Brian Cope (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Chair: Flurije Salihu (ASU)

2007 Conference Chair:
Peter Goggin, Department of English, ASU Tempe

Assistant Chairs:
Dawn Penich-Thacker and Anjanette Darrington, Department of English, ASU Tempe