8:00 – 8:45 a.m.
Registration and Coffee
2110 Languages and Communication (LNCO)
9:00 a.m.- 10:15 a.m.
Tanner Auditorium, Carolyn Irish Tanner Building
General Welcome: Robert Newman, Dean, College of Humanities,
Announcements: Maureen Mathison, University of Utah
Introduction, Keynote Speaker: Peter Goggin, Arizona State University
“Immigration, Minutemen, and the Subject of Democracy”
Since the inaugural moment of democracy (and one marker might be Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine debating the "rights of man"), both the right and left have claimed to be on the side of social justice. Today's minutemen and immigrants' rights marchers also claim social justice and, thus, continue the problematic that democracy has become and always has been. This paper takes issue with standard left critiques of the minutemen as racist and anti-democratic and attempts, instead, a broader critique of the fusion of oligarchy, democracy, and the nation-state.
Session I: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
I.A. Monkeywrenchers, Mavericks, and Obama Girls: Insiders, Outsiders, and Outliers in the Comp/Rhet Classroom (Roundtable Discussion)
Orly Hersh, Harrison Carpenter, Julia Willis, Angela Buchanan, University of Colorado, Boulder
Moderator: Susan Miller, University of Utah
I.B. Approaches to Activist Inquiry
“Writing Social Justice: Building Capacity for Peace with Montana’s law ‘Indian Education for All’,” Heather Bruce, University of Montana
“Photographic Performances of Reconciliation in the ‘New’ South Africa,” Katherine Mack, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
“On Presuppositional Silences,” Tom Huckin, University of Utah
Chair: Gae Lyn Henderson, Utah Valley University
I.C. Social Injustices in Higher Education: Race, Life, Place
“Asian Americans and the Disambiguation of the Discourses that Surrounds Them,” Irene Maya Ota, University of Utah
“Building Invisible Engines: Home Life, Split Identities, and the Cognition as Social Justice Issue in the Commuter College,” Isabel Gardett, University of Utah
“The Elimination of the University of Nevada Writing Center, Mark Waldo, University of Nevada- Reno
Chair: Jonathan Balzotti, University of Utah
I. D. Literacy, Sustainability, and Social Justice in Small Places
“Before Citizenship Schools: The Highlander Folk School of Learning Johns Island,” Kirk Branch, Montana State University
“The Evolution of a Rural Activist Writer,” Kim Donnehower, University of North Dakota
“Rhetorics of Place and the Quest for Sustainable Socio-Environmental Management in Oceanic Communities, Peter Goggin, Arizona State University
“Drawing Pedagogical Implications from Rhetorics of Small Places,” Elenore Long, Arizona State University
Chair: Maureen Mathison, University of Utah
Lunch Break; 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Session II: 1:30p.m. – 3:00p.m.
II.A. Social Justice Through Public and Counterpublic Discourse in Online Environments
“Female Online Book Discussions on www.WeightWatchers.com,” Nicole Pfannenstiel, Arizona State University
“Palestianian Hip Hop Artists Constructing Impressions,” Riki Meier, Arizona State University
Political Blog Community, dailykos.com,” Ginger Hanson, Arizona State University
Chair: Sarah Bosarge, University of Utah
II B. Theory, Practice, Reality: Paradoxes and Dilemmas in the Classroom
“Teacher Identity and the Heroic Teacher Myth,” Karen Henderson, Montana State University
“”Negotiating the Tensions in Grammar Instruction: An Ethnography,” Shauna Wight, University of Utah
“Pedagogy of Friendship: The Rhetoric of Praise and Blame in the Classroom,” Doug Christensen, University of Utah
Chair: Glenn Newman, University of Utah
II.C. Theme and Variation: Music and the Question of Rhetoric as Discipline
“Sounding Off: Postdisciplinary Music Lessons for Rhetoric,” Matthew Levy, Pacific Lutheran University
“Musical Worlding as the Philosophical Grounds for a Public Rhetoric,” Byron Hawk, George Mason University
“Listening to Reason: Rhetoric and Creative Writing in Harmony,” Adam Koehler, Manhatten College
Chair: Peter Goggin, Arizona State University
II.D. Confronting Social Change and Agency in Service-Learning (Roundtable Discussion)
Ashley Holmes, Faith Kurtyka, Rebecca Richards, Jenna Vinson, University of Arizona
Moderator: Elenore Long, Arizona State University
II. E. The Problem of “The Public” in Communicating Science Across “Social” (Roundtable Discussion) Lauren DeGraffenried, Montana State University; Sara Perrault, University of California- Davis; Sarah Read, University of Washington; Doug Downs, Montana State University
Moderator: Erin Huebner-Gloege, University of Utah
Session III: 3:00p.m. – 4:45p.m.
III.A. Complexities in Social Justice Pedagogy (Roundtable Discussion)
“Filling in the Absences: Social Justice as a Form of Analysis,” William Thelin, University of Akron
“Silenced Students: Culture Clashes in Democratic Classrooms,” Jennie Giaconia, University of Akron
“’Fists as Well as Hands’: Race, Class and Lateral Mobility in Non-Selective College,” Ann Larson, Hunter College
“A Simulacrum of Social Justice: Does Distance Learning Deliver on Its Promise to Access Education for All?” Angela Bilia, University of Akron
Chair: William Thelin, University of Akron
III.B. Autonomy and Socialization: The Double-Edge of Civic Engagement
“Scripting the Body: Elocution, the Performance of Identity and the Paradox of Autonomy,” Rosanne Carlo, University of Arizona
“Socializing Democracy: The Engaged Pedagogy of Jane Addams,” Rachael Wendler, University of Arizona
“Kitsch, Community, and Literacy: Toward a Politics of Engagement,” Jessica Shumake, University of Arizona
Chair: Tiffany Rousculp, Salt Lake Community College
III.C. Communities in the Crossfire: Risk as a Rhetorical Resource in the Battle for Group Identities and Futures
“The Ad Hominem Risk: The Jim Rogers and Jim Gibbons Correspondence,” Zach Bankston, University of Nevada, Reno
“Claiming the Armenian Genocide: How Risk Manifests Itself in the Rhetorical Communities of Armenian Genocide,” Barrie Meadows, University of Nevada, Reno
“Greedy Homeowners and the Subprime Underclass: Examining Rhetorical Constructions of Risk Agents in the ‘Mortgage Mess,”’Crystal Broch Colobini, University of Nevada, Reno
Chair: Joshua Lenart, University of Utah
III. D. Out with the Old, In with the New: Pedagogies for Social Justice
“Rethinking Research in First Year Writing,” Kathleen Smyth, University of Utah
“We Don’t Need No Education: Critical Pedagogy and Breaking Through the Wall of Student Resistance in Freshman Composition Courses,” Micaela Young, Montana State University
“Redefining Education: Hiphop and the Writing Classroom,” Octavio Pimentel and Blanca Loya, Texas State University, San Marcos
Chair: Kirk Branch, Montana State University
Friday Reception in the Faculty Lounge
2110 LNCO
Saturday, October 24, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Registration
2110 LNCO
Session IV: 9:30 a.m. – 11:00a.m.
IV.A. The Rhetoric of Rights: Legal Language and the Composing of Social Justice
“SB81: Composing Identities and Writing Rights of Mexican-American Immigrants and the
Criminalization of Social Justice for Utah Citizens,” Matthew Jackson , Brigham Young University
“The Rhetoric of Legal Language and the Criminalization of Identities: Re-writing Human Rights for American Indians,” Brigham Young University
“The Risks of Pushing Politicized Pedagogies: Ethics and Composing Human Rights in the College Composition Classroom,” Brigham Young University
Chair: Natalie Stillman-Webb, University of Utah
IV. B. The Possibilities and Limitations of Filmic Narratives for Social Justice Transformation
“Star Trek, the Classroom, and the Trope of Social Justice, Robert Cedillo, University of Nevada, Reno,
and Al Harahap, San Francisco State University
“Escapes to the Promised Lands: The Landscape of Inclusion and Revolt in the British and American Queer as Folk, Margaret Johnson, Idaho State University
“’It’s All in the Game’: Fiction, Reality and a West Baltimore Gunslinger,” Matt Driscoll, University of Utah
“The Stylized Feminism of Anita Los, 1912-1930: Rhetorics of Indirection, Technologies of Mass Production,” Jason Barrett-Fox, University of Kansas
From Utah to Hollywood: The Red/Ford Effect,” Joshua Lenart, University of Utah
Chair: Bonnie Kyburz, Utah Valley University
IV.C. Social Justice and the Author/Ethos Behind the Text
“Latino Students Writing in Spanish: Autobiographical Narrative as Social Justice,” Sally Said, University of the Incarnate Word
“Rainbow Sweatbands and Anti-Racist Resumes: Framing Identity in Social Justice Writing,” Eugene Tachinni and Audrey Thompson, University of Utah
“The SNCC in the Mississippi Delta: “Everyone Has Some Part of Freedom’s Light,” Andrea Lewis, Arizona State University
Chair: Kathleen Smyth, University of Utah
IV.D. Social Change Rhetoric: The City and Its Citizens
“Negative Identity Rhetoric in ESL Programs for Immigrant Americans,” Justin Larsen, Utah Valley University
“Engaging Place, Engaging Difference,” William DeGenaro, University of Michigan-Dearborn
“Big City Values: Rhetorics of Trust in Place,” Gae Lyn Henderson, Utah Valley University
Chair: Thomas Huckin, University of Utah
Session V: 11:15a.m. – 12:45p.m.
V. A. Consuming Social Justice
“The Activist Consumer? The Rhetoric of Civic Consumption,” Lonni Pearce, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Software Licenses as Social Justice: The Ethical Transformation of the General Public License (GPL),” Ryan M. Lang, New Mexico State University
Chair: Patti Wojahn, New Mexico State University
V. B. Constructing Systems of Difference: Up/Down Hierarchies, In/Out Norms
“Shame and Arrogance in Lillian Smith’s Justice Rhetoric, Judy Holiday, Arizona State University
“The Accessible Parking Space as Social Barometer,” William E. Smith, Western Washington University
Chair: Doug Christensen, University of Utah
V.C. Barriers, Walls and Separations:
“The Rhetorical Effects and Significance of Barriers and Walls: Specifically Those Produced by Government, Sarah Orme, Brigham Young University
“The Classroom as a Model for Intercultural Exchange: Deconstructing the Borderland,” Kyle Jeffries, University of Utah
Chair: Sundy Watanabe, University of Utah
V.D. Case Studies in Environmental Social Justice
“Competing Narratives in a Nuclear Landscape: Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Narrative Imagination of the United States’ Only Deadly Nuclear Accident,” Rick Kmetz, University of Nevado- Reno
“Silent Mine: Hierarchies of Expertise and the Poisoning of Libby, Montana,” Marcia Kmetz, University of Nevado- Reno
Chair: Aaron Phillips, University of Utah
Maureen Mathison, Chair University of Utah Peter Goggin, Co-Chair, Arizona State University
Jay Jordan, Jonathan Balzotti, Doug Christensen, Isabel Gardett, Erin Huebner-Gloege, Joshua Lenart, Glenn Newman, Fiona Harris-Ramsby, Kathleen Smyth, Polly Light, Lisa Shaw
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We would like to thank the University Writing Program
for their generous support of the 2009 conference
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