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8:00 to 9:15am

Digital Production and Consumption: From Camera to Podcast to DVD

9:30 to 10:45am

Getting Back on Track: Handling Fallacies/Derailments of Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discussions

11:00am to 12:15pm

A Case Study in Communicating Worldviews: Analyzing Prevent Child Abuse America’s “Reframing” Initiative

12:30 to 1:45pm

Faith-Intellect-Ethics in Health Disparities: Communicating Worldviews of Black Women's Health

2:00 to 4:45pm

Confronting Racism and Racial Stereotyping: Lessons from the Jim Crow Museum

5:00 to 6:15pm

Materiality and Space: The Prospects of Democracy

8:00 to 9:15am

The Role of Social Support when Dealing with Cancer, Diabetes, and Rape

9:30 to 10:45am

Representations in the Media

12:30 to 1:45pm

Finding, Keeping And Losing Faith In Feminist Alliances: Where are We and Where Can We Go From Here?

2:00 to 3:15pm

Top Four Student Papers

3:30 to 4:45pm

Rhetorical and Communication Theory Business Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

Ethics and the Media

8:00 to 9:15am

Crisis of Identity in Virtual Communites

9:30 to 10:45am

Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness

11:00am to 12:15pm

Narrative Medicine as Witness for the Self-Telling Body

12:30 to 1:45pm

Organizing Typically Hidden from View

2:00 to 3:15pm

Dialoguing "Latinidad": Honoring Alberto González

3:30 to 4:45pm

The Effect of Attachment on Relationships and Communication

5:00 to 6:15pm

Advances in Interpersonal Conflict Communication

8:00 to 9:15am

Training and Development Division Business Meeting

9:30 to 10:45am

Top Four Papers in the Language and Social Interaction Division

11:00am to 12:15pm

Sports, Globalization, and Interactive Media

12:30 to 1:45pm

Academic Freedom: Communicating Worldviews in the Academy

2:00 to 3:15pm

Expanding Theories of Stakeholder Relationships and Corporate Social Responsibility

3:30 to 4:45pm

Top Three Papers in Training and Development

5:00 to 6:15pm

Understanding the Relational World Through the Use of Relational Dialectics Theory: An Examination of its Past, Present and...

8:00 to 9:15am

Extreme Ethics, Extreme Measures: Debates On Torture in the ‘War On Terror.’

9:30 to 10:45am

Lambda Pi Eta Business Meeting

11:00am to 12:15pm

Lambda Pi Eta Awards Ceremony

12:30 to 1:45pm

Top Papers in Intercultural Communication

2:00 to 3:15pm

Top Student Papers in Intercultural Communication

3:30 to 4:45pm

Language and Social Interaction Division Business Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

Assessment Issues in the Basic Course

7:00 to 7:50am

Community College Section Business Meeting I

8:00 to 9:15am

Peace and Conflict in the Public Domain: Communicating Worldviews

9:30 to 10:45am

A "Relativist Void"?: Poststructuralism and the Question of Judgment in Rhetorical Theory

12:30 to 1:45pm

Applied Communication Division Meeting

2:00 to 3:15pm

African American Communication and Culture Division Business Meeting

3:30 to 4:45pm

Hang It Out To Dry Katrina’s Spun Tales

5:00 to 6:15pm

Community Engagement: Examining the Social Construction of Community Researchers/Members

8:00 to 9:15am

Communicating with Adolescents: Disclosures, Norms, and Implications for Well-Being

9:30 to 10:45am

Top Papers in GLBT Studies

12:30 to 1:45pm

Top Papers in Health Communication

2:00 to 3:15pm

Health Communication Business Meeting

3:30 to 4:45pm

LGBT Caucus Business Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

LGBT Social Hour

8:00 to 9:15am

Civility in the Classroom: Can We Teach Civility in an Uncivilized World?

9:30 to 10:45am

International and Intercultural Communication Division Business Meeting

11:00am to 12:15pm

Ethnography as a Site of Contested Meaning

12:30 to 1:45pm

GLBT Studies Division Business Meeting

2:00 to 3:15pm

The Obama Effect: Communicating a new worldview for the White House, the Nation and the World?

3:30 to 4:45pm

Political Communication Division Business Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

Political Communication Social Gathering and Reception

12:30 to 1:45pm

Realities, Relationships, Reflexivities, and Responsibilities: Kenneth Gergen's Legacy in Communication Studies

2:00 to 3:15pm

A Conversation on the Work of Mary Gergen

3:30 to 4:45pm

Honoring the Accomplishments and Career of Dean Gustav Friedrich

9:00 to 10:30am

Scholar to Scholar Session I

11:00am to 12:30pm

Scholar to Scholar Session II

1:00 to 2:30pm

Scholar to Scholar Session III

8:00 to 9:15am

Assessing A Variety of Communication Competencies

9:30 to 10:45am

The Status of Communication Education in the Nation’s Community Colleges: Who Are We and What Do We Do?

12:30 to 1:45pm

Instructional and Developmental Division Business Meeting

2:00 to 3:15pm

Communicating "Family" Views: The Top Four Papers in Family Communication

3:30 to 4:45pm

Family Communication Division Business Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

The Academy

8:00 to 9:15am

Beyond Cutlip: Reconsidering the History of Public Relations

9:30 to 10:45am

City of Big Shoulders, City on the Make: A Chicago Performance Hour

11:00am to 12:15pm

Philosophical Approaches to the Basic Course

12:30 to 1:45pm

Top Four Papers In Peace and Conflict Communication

2:00 to 3:15pm

Peace and Conflict Communication Division Business Meeting

3:30 to 4:45pm

Conversations with Leading Scholars: The Past, Present and Future Research on Human Communication and Technology - Part I

5:00 to 6:15pm

Conversations with Leading Scholars: The Past, Present and Future Research on Human Communication and Technology - Part II

8:00 to 10:45am

Communication Scholars and Deliberative Democracy: Connecting our Teaching, Research, and Service

12:30 to 1:45pm

Emerging Communication Initiatives in the People's Republic of China

2:00 to 4:45pm

Communicating World Views through Music: The Illusion of Life Rhetorical Perspective as a Teaching Tool

5:00 to 6:15pm

Reconsidering a Worldview: "Revisiting Flaherty’s Louisiana Story," an Experiment in Documentary, Performance, and Pedagogy

6:30 to 7:45pm

Sharing the Workload: Organizational Challenges in Contemporary Families

8:00 to 9:15am

(Re)Constructing Online Spaces: New Media Communication, Democracy, and Ethics

9:30 to 10:45am

Communicating and Embracing Difference in Families

12:30 to 1:45pm

www.stopandreflect.com: A Roundtable Discussion Exploring the Reality of How Hardware, Software, and Delivery Modalities...

2:00 to 3:15pm

A Theoretical Engagement of the Basic Course

3:30 to 4:45pm

Basic Course Division Business Meeting

8:00 to 9:15am

From Self to Society: Competitive Papers in Communication as Social Construction

9:30 to 10:45am

Affect and Social Cognition

12:30 to 1:45pm

Top 3 Papers in Group Communication

2:00 to 3:15pm

Group Communication Division Business Meeting

3:30 to 4:45pm

Communication and Social Cognition Division Business Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

The Best of the Best: Top Four Papers in Communication & Social Cognition

8:00 to 9:15am

Life and Death Performance

9:30 to 10:45am

G.I.F.T.S. #1: Great Ideas for Teaching Speech

12:30 to 1:45pm

Anticipating Madame President II: A Roundtable

2:00 to 3:15pm

Moral Rehearsal; Collecting, Creating and Challenging Performance Ethnography

3:30 to 4:45pm

Roundtable on the Works of Lewis R Gordon: Overcoming Disciplinary Decadence through Faith-Intellect-Ethics

5:00 to 6:15pm

2008 Convention Program Planners' Meeting

7:00 to 9:00am

NCA Chairs' Breakfast 2007: Getting Connected Inside and Outside

9:30 to 10:45am

Communicating Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities in Intercultural Settings

12:30 to 1:45pm

Synthetic Worlds and Second Lives: Human Communication and Online Role Playing Games

2:00 to 3:15pm

Top 4 Papers in Political Communication

3:30 to 4:45pm

Iconicity and the Urban Landscape: How Cities Affect Faith and Belief

5:00 to 7:45pm

Francine Merrit Award

8:00 to 9:15am

Keeping the Faith "When You're Down and Troubled and... Nothing Is Going Right"

9:30 to 10:45am

Representing Health in Print and Broadcast Media: Four Content Analyses

12:30 to 1:45pm

Sex, Violence, and Influence in Video Games and Fiction

2:00 to 3:15pm

Parasocial Interaction & Audience Responses

3:30 to 4:45pm

Feminist and Women Studies Division Business Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

Women's Caucus Business Meeting

8:00 to 9:15am

Feminist and Women Studies Division / Women's Caucus Executive Officers Business Meeting

9:30 to 10:45am

Having Faith in Teaching: Establishing a Toolbox of Understanding and Practice

12:30 to 1:45pm

Style, Bodies, and Improvisation in Organizations

2:00 to 3:15pm

Spotlight on Linda Park-Fuller

3:30 to 4:45pm

Conflict Theory and Its Practice: Connecting Students, Universities, and Communities

5:00 to 6:15pm

Advocay, Representation, and Place

8:00 to 9:15am

Applied Communication in Context: Risk, Crisis, and Emergency

9:30 to 10:45am

Seeking Funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities

12:30 to 1:45pm

Spiritual Perspectives on Popular Culture: From Cinema and Kitsch to Marketing and Holy Hip Hop

2:00 to 3:15pm

Antisociality and Sociopathy: Violence, Murder and Revenge

3:30 to 4:45pm

“Working Title: The Efforts of Performative History”

5:00 to 6:15pm

Communicating Worldviews: Solo Performances of Literature

8:00 to 9:15am

Reality Television and Content

9:30 to 10:45am

Rhetorical Critiques of American Mythology and War

12:30 to 1:45pm

Asian Pacific American Communication Studies Division & Asian Pacific American Caucus: Combined business meeting

2:00 to 3:15pm

Framing Asian and Asian American issues in media and public discourses

3:30 to 4:45pm

Teaching Employers How to More Effectively Integrate Employees with Disabilities: Communicating Socialization Messages

5:00 to 6:15pm

Division on Communication and the Future Business Meeting

8:00 to 9:15am

Organizing in Religious Settings

9:30 to 10:45am

Intersections of Applied Communication and Pedagogy

11:00am to 12:15pm

Making Better Social Worlds: Using CMM-based Research to Describe, Critique and Stimulate the Evolution of Worldviews

12:30 to 1:45pm

Performances of Motherhood in the Academy (and Beyond)

2:00 to 4:45pm

Directing The Communication Internship Program

5:00 to 6:15pm

ESL Student Transitions: Preparing ESL Students to Transfer to and be Successful in the Basic Course

8:00 to 9:15am

Mediating Diverse Worldviews: Ethnographically-Informed Teaching

9:30 to 10:45am

Business Meeting

12:30 to 1:45pm

Conversational Repair, Preference, and Turn in Japan and Germany

2:00 to 3:15pm

Top Papers in the American Studies Division

3:30 to 4:45pm

The Role of Broadcast Education in Community Colleges

5:00 to 6:15pm

Conquoring Pain and Loss

8:00 to 9:15am

Conversation Analysis Data Session

9:30 to 10:45am

Difference as Dominance and Resource in Public Address: Class, Race, and Sexuality

12:30 to 1:45pm

Words in their Speaking: Embodied Action, and Multi-modal Responsiveness

2:00 to 3:15pm

Ethics, Faith, and the Other: Top Student Papers

3:30 to 4:45pm

Communicating Common Ground Communicates World Views: All Partners Orientation/Partner Training/Networking/Business Meeting

8:00 to 9:15am

Leadership and Information Sharing in Small Groups

9:30 to 10:45am

Practical Advice for Students

11:00am to 12:15pm

Life after Retirement

12:30 to 1:45pm

Negotiating Family Identity in Contexts of Adoption, Bereavement, and Disability

2:00 to 3:15pm

Keeping Faith with the "Framers": Our Constitutional Crisis and the American Communication Landscape

3:30 to 4:45pm

“Of all Affairs, Communication is the Most Wonderful”: Pragmatism and Alternative Conceptions of Communication

3:30 to 4:45pm

Incorporating Civic Engagement into the Capstone

5:00 to 6:15pm

Communicating Worldviews in the Experiential and Service-learning Classroom from Three Perspectives: The Community Partner,...

3:30 to 4:45pm

Competitive Papers in Latina/o Communication Studies

5:00 to 6:15pm

Dimensions of Interaction Revealed by Gesture Analysis

6:30 to 7:45pm

Nonverbal Communication Division Business Meeting

3:30 to 4:45pm

College Board Standards for Speaking, Listening and Media Literacy: An Update

5:00 to 6:15pm

Constructing Identities In and Of Organizations

8:00 to 9:15am

Materiality and the Public Sphere: Forms of Publicity, Political Action, and Protest

9:30 to 10:45am

The Relevance of Journal Rankings: Editor, Publisher and Administrative Perspectives

12:30 to 1:45pm

Top Papers in Argumentation and Forensics

2:00 to 3:15pm

Argumentation and Forensics Business Meeting

3:30 to 4:45pm

Framing and Tailoring Health Messages

5:00 to 6:15pm

Time, Space, and Organizing Practices

6:30 to 7:45pm

Media Models and Theories

8:00 to 9:15am

Evaluating the Intersection of Foucault, Derrida, and Rhetoric

9:30 to 10:45am

Marking Spaces for the Development of Feminist Communities

12:30 to 1:45pm

Women and Agency: Challenging Definitions of Womanhood

2:00 to 3:15pm

New Approaches for Comprehending the Public Subject

3:30 to 4:45pm

Communication Apprehension and Competence Division Business Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

Communicating Jewish Worldviews: Emmanuel Levinas, Emma Lazurus, and Esther

6:30 to 7:45pm

Humor and Popular Culture

8:00 to 9:15am

Discourses of the Trans-African Body: Hoop, Hip-Hop, and Hegemony

9:30 to 10:45am

Women Faculty: How they are perceived In and Out of the Classroom.

12:30 to 1:45pm

Pop Culture, Politics and Digital Dialogue: Re-examining Aristotle’s Ethos in Modern Public Discourse

2:00 to 3:15pm

Restoring Faith in Public Intellectualism

3:30 to 4:45pm

Sites of Commitment, Questions of Practice: The Future(s) of Whiteness Studies

5:00 to 6:15pm

Critically Discussing Worldviews: Comparative Rhetoric and Method

6:30 to 7:45pm

Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Predict/Prevent Obesity, Substance Abuse, and Violence

8:00 to 9:15am

Media Matter: Media Uses and Representations of the Cultural "Other"

9:30 to 10:45am

Women in the Academy: Issues of Access V

12:30 to 1:45pm

Radical Roots I: Resolution D, Resolution O and the 30th Anniversary of the SCA Action on the Equal Rights Amendment

2:00 to 3:15pm

From Sorenstam to Sharapova: Gender, Sexuality and Fandom in Sports Media

3:30 to 4:45pm

Organizational Communication Case Study Research from Down Under

5:00 to 6:15pm

Gender, Sport, and the Media: Portraying Power and Patriarchy

6:30 to 7:45pm

New Vistas on the Individual-Organization Relationship: Explorations in Identification

8:00 to 9:15am

Working for Social Change: Social Movements, Activists, and Feminist Resistance

9:30 to 10:45am

Communicating Worldviews: Feminists of Faith

12:30 to 1:45pm

Gendered Violence, Victimization, and Persecution

2:00 to 3:15pm

Telling Stories and Making Sense in Organizations

3:30 to 4:45pm

Studies of Physician-Patient and Physician-Physician Communication

5:00 to 6:15pm

From Headbutts to Bush: Cross-Cultural Implications for Journalism & Photography

6:30 to 7:45pm

Critical Attempts at Recovery, Rehabilitation, and Restoration in Rhetorical Theory

8:00 to 10:45am

Beyond the Basics: Service-learning Issues for the More Advanced Practitioner

12:30 to 1:45pm

Civic Lessons on Ethics and Virtue in a Contested World

2:00 to 3:15pm

Negative Behavior in Close Relationships

3:30 to 4:45pm

Public Address, Capitalism, and Consumer Culture: Case Studies in Twentieth Century U.S. Public Life

5:00 to 6:15pm

Health Promotion and Intervention via Internet and Computer Games

6:30 to 7:45pm

Rhetorical Studies of Controversy and Resistance

8:00 to 9:15am

Rejecting the Worldviews of Others: The Communication of (In)Tolerance

9:30 to 10:45am

Changing World Views: Roles and Challenges of Mass Media in Revolutions

12:30 to 1:45pm

Why Physicians, Patients, and Sexual Partners do not Discuss Health Topics

2:00 to 3:15pm

Public/Vernacular Art and Social Change: Engaging the Visual in Communicating Alternative World Views

3:30 to 4:45pm

Navigating at the Intersections: How Collisions of Faiths Can Create Connections

5:00 to 6:15pm

What Democrats Talk About When They Talk About God

6:30 to 7:45pm

Theorizing Performance Studies from Diverse Faith Perspectives

8:00 to 9:15am

Reexamining the Meanings of Sexual Harassment in the Organizational Communication Theory, Research, and Teaching: From Local...

9:30 to 10:45am

Presidential Terror: The 2008 Campaign and the Future of the War on Terror

12:30 to 1:45pm

Problematic Interactions in Romantic Relationships

2:00 to 3:15pm

Papers of Concern: LBGT Essays

3:30 to 4:45pm

Theatre Division Top Papers

5:00 to 6:15pm

Faulty Group Decision Making in the ‘90s: Case Studies of Impeachment, Rwanda, and National Health Care Reform

8:00 to 9:15am

Communicating Influence and Support during Health Crises

9:30 to 10:45am

Helping Others: Advice and Support in Interpersonal Relationships

12:30 to 1:45pm

Sexy Time!: Communication and Sexual Behavior

2:00 to 3:15pm

Spirituality and Religiosity in Public Address: The Complexities of Civil Religion and Piety in the United States

3:30 to 4:45pm

Conflict in Close Relationships

5:00 to 6:15pm

Intersections of Faith, Intellect, Ethics and Law

8:00 to 9:15am

Exploring Cultural Worldview Through Narratives, Folklore and Performance

9:30 to 10:45am

Materializing Performances: Articulating Connections Between Material Culture and Performances of Belonging, Activism and...

12:30 to 1:45pm

Top Three Student Papers in Public Relations

2:00 to 3:15pm

Ethnography of Spirit IV: Communicating the Call

3:30 to 4:45pm

Narrative, Performance, and Politics: Expanding Worldviews in GLBT Studies

5:00 to 6:15pm

New Studies of Conversational Repair

8:00 to 10:45am

Believing, Understanding and Proceeding: Building a Communication Center that Reflects Integrity

12:30 to 1:45pm

Communicating Materialism: A View on the Actually Existing World

2:00 to 3:15pm

Top Four Papers: Communication Apprehension and Competence Division

3:30 to 4:45pm

Exploring the Ontological Foundations of Organization

5:00 to 6:15pm

Communicating Worldviews: Intercultural Challenges for Study Abroad and International Education

6:30 to 7:45pm

Freedom of Expression Business Meeting

8:00 to 9:15am

Knowledge About Gender Equity and Communication Skills: How Far Have We Progressed in Twenty-Five Years

9:30 to 10:45am

Identities, Empowerment, and Community: Qualitative and Rhetorical Approaches to Latina/o Communication Studies

12:30 to 1:45pm

Expanding Directions in Intercultural Theory and Research: Critical, Postcolonial, & Whiteness

2:00 to 4:45pm

Teaching the College Course in Persuasion/Social Influence: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice

5:00 to 6:15pm

Building Workplace Bullying Seminars: Grounding Training and Development in Strong Communication Scholarship

9:30am to 12:15pm

Communicating Science: Making Connections and Exploring Collaborations (Co-Sponsored with NCA Research Board)

12:30 to 1:45pm

Unexplored Issues in Media Violence Research

2:00 to 3:15pm

Top Papers in Feminist and Women Studies

3:30 to 4:45pm

Woolbert Award Panel 2007: 'Disciplining the Feminine' -- What Has (Not) Changed Since Its Publication

5:00 to 6:15pm

Of Class and Collars: Issues in Labor and Blue-Collar Work

8:00 to 10:45am

Rhetoric Society of America Business Meeting

12:30 to 1:45pm

Elementary and Secondary Education Section Business Meeting

2:00 to 3:15pm

Master's Education Section Business Meeting

3:30 to 4:45pm

Southern States Communication Association Executive Council Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

Central States Advisory Committee Business Meeting

6:30 to 7:45pm

Central States Communication Association Executive Committee Meeting

8:00 to 9:15am

Commission on American Parliamentary Practice Business Meeting

9:30 to 10:45am

Emeritus/Retired Section Business Meeting

12:30 to 1:45pm

Communication Assessment Division Business Meeting

2:00 to 3:15pm

NCA Student Clubs Business Meeting

3:30 to 4:45pm

NCA Student Clubs Awards Ceremony

8:00 to 9:15am

Ecotourism in Costa Rica: A Rhetorical Examination of Definitions, Cultural Perspectives, and Experiences

9:30 to 10:45am

Teaching Training and Development: Application and Engagement

12:30 to 1:45pm

Thinking Ethics through History: Communication Ethics, Rhetorical Politics, and Historical Studies

2:00 to 3:15pm

Encouraging an Engaged Citizenry: Service-Learning Across Communication Curriculums

3:30 to 4:45pm

Time-based Issues in Group Interaction

5:00 to 6:15pm

Sigma Chi Eta Awards Ceremony

8:00 to 9:15am

Dissecting the Classroom: Identifying and Modifying Instruction to Meet Diverse Populations

9:30 to 10:45am

“Contesting White Hegemony: Communicating Worldviews Through Conflicting Memories.”

12:30 to 1:45pm

The Art of the Adjunct: An Ethic of Excellence in Higher Education Instruction

2:00 to 3:15pm

Families and Relationships Legally Reimagined and Redefined

3:30 to 4:45pm

Cultivating Ethical Judgments in Pedagogy and Story

5:00 to 6:15pm

Bridging the Nature/Culture Divide: Symbolic Understandings of the Environment

8:00 to 9:15am

Successes and Challenges in Teaching Online Communication Courses

9:30 to 10:45am

Insider, Outsider: Telling Selves and Others

12:30 to 1:45pm

Auto/Ethnographic Explorations of American Lives

2:00 to 3:15pm

Audio Ethnography: Uncovering the Meanings of America

3:30 to 4:45pm

Writing and Performing Patient Bodies

5:00 to 6:15pm

Implementing Assessment Across the University: One Model for Communication Departments

8:00 to 9:15am

The Ego Online: Self and Identity

9:30 to 10:45am

Rhetoric and Language in Technology-Mediated Communication

12:30 to 1:45pm

Why Autoethnography Writes Me: Faith and the Process of Writing Lives

2:00 to 3:15pm

New Theoretical Models and Measurements Applied to the Internet

3:30 to 4:45pm

Social Interaction via Communication Technologies

5:00 to 6:15pm

What’s Rhetoric?: Reflecting on our Worldviews, Identities and Practices

8:00 to 9:15am

Nonverbal Communication in Interpersonal Relationships: Touch, Attractiveness and Politeness

9:30 to 10:45am

Interpersonal Communication in Mediated Contexts

12:30 to 1:45pm

Black Women Activists Building Body Politics

2:00 to 3:15pm

Communicating Worldviews through Study-Abroad Programs in Communication: Opportunities and Challenges

3:30 to 4:45pm

The Rhetoric of Culture: Public Discourse, National Rhetoric, and Generational Political Discourses of National Identity

5:00 to 6:15pm

Latino Mediamaking: Production and Mediations

8:00 to 9:15am

Infotainment and Politics

9:30 to 10:45am

Civic Engagement and Participation

12:30 to 1:45pm

Beyond the Private Sphere: Convention, Femininity, and Empowerment in the Women's Rights Struggle

2:00 to 3:15pm

NCA and the NEH: Forging a Stronger Relationship

3:30 to 4:45pm

Children’s Television and the Powers that Be: Industry, Advertising, and the FCC

5:00 to 6:15pm

American Studies Division Business Meeting

8:00 to 9:15am

What is the Status of Truth in Argument?: Public Argument and the Role of Context in Argumentation Evaluation

9:30 to 10:45am

Constructing our Health: Implications for Culture Specific Campaigns

12:30 to 1:45pm

Defining, Delimiting, and Negotiating Gender and Race

2:00 to 3:15pm

Social Support with Alternative Actors: Ethical Implications

3:30 to 4:45pm

Communicating the Worldviews of Adolescents and Families

5:00 to 6:15pm

Eastern Communication Association Executive Council Business Meeting

8:00 to 9:15am

High Speed Intellectual Buffet One

9:30 to 10:45am

Nation, Identity, Politics & Zombies: Rhetoric of Self and Other

12:30 to 1:45pm

Transnational Exigencies: Public Address across Borders

2:00 to 3:15pm

Communicating Worldviews: Teaching Ethics in the Leadership Course

3:30 to 4:45pm

White Scholars/African American Texts

5:00 to 6:15pm

Disciplining Publics: Exploring Spaces of Ethical Inquiry and Resistance

8:00 to 9:15am

Issues in GLBT Representation in Advertising, Music and Film

9:30 to 10:45am

Crisis Communication Strategies II

12:30 to 1:45pm

Bridging the Theory-Advocacy Divide: Application of Basic Course Pedagogy outside of the Traditional Realm of the Academy

2:00 to 3:15pm

Research on Immediacy, Emotion, and Advice Prestige

3:30 to 4:45pm

The Teacher-Student Relationship

5:00 to 6:15pm

Philosophies on the Academy and Instructional Processes

8:00 to 9:15am

How Media Affect Health: Cancer, Diet, Drug Use, and Sexual Behavior

9:30 to 10:45am

The Sometimes-Ugly Underbelly of Work Life: Bullying, Deception, and Envy

12:30 to 1:45pm

The Visual Canary in the Mineshaft of Communication: How Intellectual Property Shapes Intellectual Activity

2:00 to 3:15pm

Rhetorical Critique of Political Myth: The Trickster and other Mythic Figures in Rhetorical Theory and Practice

3:30 to 4:45pm

Audience Agency: Choices, Preferences, and Influences

5:00 to 6:15pm

The Ethics of Motherhood: Defining and Negotiating Balance in our Public and Private Lives

8:00 to 9:15am

The Politics of Motherhood in Public Discourse

9:30 to 10:45am

Communicating or Competing Worldviews: Negotiating the Tensions when Studying Spirituality and Communication

12:30 to 1:45pm

News Coverage: Ideology, Bias and Citizen Journalism

2:00 to 3:15pm

"My Freshman Year"--Revisited: Student Culture, the Public University and American Culture

3:30 to 4:45pm

Applied Communication in Context: Health Provider Communication

5:00 to 6:15pm

Community, Identity And Conflict In Theory And Practice: Exploring Urban Violence From An Interdisciplinary Perspective

8:00 to 10:45am

Increasing the Integrity of Student Learning Assessments in Interdisciplinary Programs

12:30 to 1:45pm

Media and Politics

2:00 to 4:45pm

Teaching CMM: Sharing Effective Methods for Teaching Concepts in the Theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM)

5:00 to 6:15pm

Faith, Trust, and Distrust in Organizations: An Examination and Discussion of Recent Research Trends and Practices Focusing...

9:30 to 10:45am

"Justice Talking" Comes to NCA: Taping of Live Debate for Broadcast on NPR

11:00am to 12:15pm

"Justice Talking" Comes to NCA: A Conversation about the Show and JT's Educational Mission

2:00 to 3:15pm

Top Three Papers in Public Relations

3:30 to 4:45pm

Public Relations Business Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

Exploring Transnational Feminist Ethnography in Communication: Creating New Theories, Methods, and Modes of Representation in...

8:00 to 9:15am

Nineteenth Century Public Address Concerning Women, Slavery, and "Two Souths" in the United States

9:30 to 10:45am

Atrocity Images, Cultural Trauma and Rhetorical Ambivalence

12:30 to 1:45pm

The Theatre and Film Scene in Chicago

2:00 to 3:15pm

Theatre Division Business Meeting

3:30 to 4:45pm

Academic Dishonesty as a Crisis of Faith and Ethics in Education

5:00 to 6:15pm

Top Freedom of Expression Scholarship

9:30 to 10:45am

Impossible Loyalties and Quiet Reverberations in Plato: Rhetoric as Performance, Invention, and Bonding

12:30 to 1:45pm

Materiality and Political Economy in the British Rhetorical Tradition

2:00 to 3:15pm

Communicating Worlds of Risk: Complicating Kairos in Three Case Studies of Biotechnology

3:30 to 4:45pm

Then and Now: The Prospect(s) of Rhetoric Revisited

8:00 to 9:15am

Voices of resistance and the limits of cultural politics

9:30 to 10:45am

Time and space in modernity

12:30 to 1:45pm

Nothing is Free: Commodifying Religion, Nature, Cancer and Your Redneck Backyard.

2:00 to 3:15pm

Reconstructing the Popular II: History, Hegemony, and Agency

3:30 to 4:45pm

Critical pedagogy and the politics of discourse

5:00 to 6:15pm

Spatial Rhetorics of Faith, Ethics, and Nostalgic Community

8:00 to 9:15am

Writing Public Culture

9:30 to 10:45am

Beyond the “US vs. THEM”: Using Reflective Strategies to Improve Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms

12:30 to 1:45pm

Real and Imagined: Interrogating Brown as Identity and Identification

2:00 to 3:15pm

Broadening Biomedical Worldviews: Critical Cultural Perspectives on Health and Disease

3:30 to 4:45pm

Authorizing the Democratic: Voice, Text, Figure

8:00 to 9:15am

"Forensics and the Art of the Hand-Off: The Experience of Students Transferring From 2-Year to 4-Year Programs"

9:30 to 10:45am

Finding the Public in Public Debate

12:30 to 1:45pm

Top Papers in Forensics and Argumentation

3:30 to 4:45pm

Assessing the Effectiveness of Urban Debate Programs: Challenges, Prospects, and Possibilities

9:30 to 10:45am

Screen Rhetorics: Environments of Communicative Practices

12:30 to 1:45pm

Papers on Communication, Culture and Society in Russia and the CIS

2:00 to 3:15pm

New Directions in the Historiography of Rhetoric

3:30 to 4:45pm

Forensics is Like…: Effects of Forensic Metaphors on How We View and Do Forensics

5:00 to 6:15pm

Communicating the American Imaginary in Public Discourse

8:00 to 9:15am

Black.White. and in Between: Illuminating the (Un)Critical Pedagogical Implications of Popular Cultural Texts

9:30 to 10:45am

“Lives in Progress” as Sites of Struggle: Style as a Cultural Phenomenon with Social & Political Implications

12:30 to 1:45pm

The politics of truth and memory

2:00 to 3:15pm

Critical Cultural Studies Division Top Student Papers

3:30 to 4:45pm

News media and the state

5:00 to 6:15pm

Lives On-Line: New work in critical cyberstudies

8:00 to 9:15am

Semiotic Worldviews on Theory and FIlm: Hegemony, Poststructuralism and Performative Works

9:30 to 10:45am

“Faithful” Empiricisms: The Rational and the Arational in Verbal/Visual Proofs in Science

12:30 to 1:45pm

A Two Topic Symposium on Communication Administration: Curriculum and Administration Experiences

2:00 to 3:15pm

Student Papers in Debate, Faith, and Argument

3:30 to 4:45pm

The Challenges and Opportunities for Research, Publication, and Pedagogy in the Information Age

5:00 to 6:15pm

From Simulations to Singapore: Papers Exploring World Views in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

9:30 to 10:45am

CEDA Business Meeting

12:30 to 1:45pm

Top CEDA Papers

2:00 to 3:15pm

The Debate Program and Accountability within the Academic Unit

3:30 to 4:45pm

The Growing Divide between Competitive Forensics and Academic Life and How to Cross the Divide

9:30 to 10:45am

Emic perspectives in the field of Chinese communication studies

12:30 to 1:45pm

Chinese Communication in Various Contexts

3:30 to 4:45pm

NFHS Speech Editorial Board Meeting

9:30 to 10:45am

States Advisory Council Business Meeting

12:30 to 1:45pm

Top Papers in Burkean Scholarship

2:00 to 3:15pm

Communicating Burke’s Worldview: "Toward a Symbolic of Motives"

3:30 to 4:45pm

Christian Imagination and the Dream of an African Democracy: The Rhetoric of Sir Garfield Todd

9:30 to 10:45am

Contrasting Japan-U.S. Worldviews

12:30 to 1:45pm

Tracing the History of 20th Century American Forensics

2:00 to 3:15pm

Symbolic Interaction and Communication

3:30 to 4:45pm

Japan-U.S. Communication Association Business Meeting

8:00 to 9:15am

Print, Privacy, and Politics in Modernist Rhetoric

9:30 to 10:45am

Business Meeting--Association for Psychoanalysis in Communication

12:30 to 1:45pm

ARST Business Meeting

2:00 to 3:15pm

Rhetorical Strategies, Liberal Imaginaries and Psychoanalysis

3:30 to 4:45pm

Phi Rho Pi Business Meeting

5:00 to 6:15pm

Passion, Power, and Performance: New Views on the Legacies of Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric

8:00 to 9:15am

Communicative Action: Christian Ethics, Practice, and Activism

9:30 to 10:45am

Semiotic Tensions: Frames, Methods, Shapes and Bodies

12:30 to 1:45pm

Business Meeting for the Semiotics and Communication Division

2:00 to 3:15pm

Competitive Papers in Media Ecology I

3:30 to 4:45pm

Rhetorical Perspectives on the History & Philosophy of Science

9:30 to 10:45am

Business Meeting of the Russian Communication Association--North American Branch

12:30 to 1:45pm

Critical studies in mediated Chinese communication

2:00 to 3:15pm

Top 3 Papers in Communication and Aging

3:30 to 4:45pm

Communication and Aging Division Business Meeting

9:30 to 10:45am

Communicating World Views: Integrating Faith at a Public Institution

12:30 to 1:45pm

Communicating Faith-grounded Worldviews through Approaches to Communication Theory: Incarnation, Action, and Discourse

2:00 to 3:15pm

Cyber-Religion: Issues in Mediated Religious Communities

3:30 to 4:45pm

What Would Jesus Say?: The Religious Right in the Public Square

2:00 to 3:15pm

Affirming the Contemporary Value of Forensic Programs

3:30 to 4:45pm

Promoting Scholarship: Competitive Papers in Forensics

9:30 to 10:45am

Communication and Economy: A Roundtable

12:30 to 1:45pm

Reconstructing the Popular I: Biopolitics, Violence, Ethics