PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

Resistance and the Politics of Aesthetics. National Communication Association. Chicago, Illinois. November 2009. Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division. Competitively selected panel.

What Will Your Life Be Like in Five Years: Without Freedom of Expression It May Not Matter.” National Communication Association.  Chicago, Illinois. November 2009. Five Years Out Programs. Competitively Selected Panel.

Theorizing Resistance: Political Aesthetics/Aesthetic Politics for a Critical Cultural Agenda. National Communication Association. Chicago, Illinois. November 2009. Competitively selected panel.

The Rhetoric and Politics of Aesthetics. Southern States Communication Association. Virginia Beach, Virginia, April 2009. Competitively selected panel (presented in abstentia).

Theorizing Resistance in an Age of Globalization: A Roundtable. National Communication Association. San  Diego, California, November 2008. Critical and Cultural Studies Division. Competitively selected panel.

Identity, Resistance, and the Beautiful State. National Communication Association. San Diego, California, November 2008.  Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division. Competitively selected panel.

Free Trade and the 2008 U.S Presidential Election. Georgia State University Public Forum, in Conjunction with the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Atlanta, Georgia. Invited guest speaker. October 2008.

Irresponsible Statecraft and Responsible Rhetoric. Rhetoric Society of America. Seattle, Washington. May 2008. Competitively selected panel.

Making Rhetoric Relevant In and Out of the Classroom and the University. Rhetoric Society of America. Seattle, Washington 2008. Competitively selected panel.

Global Constitutionalism in Transition. Visiting Scholars Program, Department of Speech Communication, Louisiana State University.  Invited guest lecturer. April 2008.

Commerce, Virtue and Governance in the Italian Renaissance. National Communication Association. Chicago, Illinois, November 2007. American Society for the History of Rhetoric.  Competitive paper.

‘Democracies’ in Transition: Faith, Resistance and Popular Reason in the New Europe. National Communication Association. Chicago, Illinois, November 2007. Public Address Division. Competitive paper.

Authority and the Role of the Elite. National Communication Association. San Antonio, Texas. November 2006.  Invited respondent.

On Productive Transgression. National Communication Association. San Antonio, Texas. November 2006. Competitively selected panel.

Ideological Criticism as Public Memory Critique. Rhetoric Society of America. Memphis, Tennessee.  May 2006. Competitively selected panel.

Sizing Up Public Memory.  Rhetoric Society of America. Memphis, Tennessee. May 2006. Competitively selected panel.

Rhetoric and the Role of Defining and Creating ‘Democracy.’ Southern Speech Association. Dallas, Texas. April 2006. Invited Respondent.

The Irrational and the Unreasonable. International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Biennial Wake Argumentation Conference. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. February 2006. Invited plenary speaker.

The Strange Powers of Spectacular Publics. National Communication Association. Boston, Massachusetts. November 2005. Rhetorical and Communication Studies Division. Competitively selected panel.

The Health of Protest and the Health of Democracy. National Communication Association. Boston, Massachusetts. November 2005. Public Address Division.  Competitively selected panel.

Creating Identity from Memory. National Communication Association. Boston, Massachusetts. November 2005. Rhetorical and Communication Studies Division. Invited respondent.

In Sickness and in Health: Mediating Nations, States, and Citizens. National Communication Association. Boston, Massachusetts. November 2005. Critical and Cultural Studies Division. Invited respondent.

Public Memory and Critical Theories of Discourse. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Workshop Series. Kent, Ohio, May 2005. Invited Paper.

The Divinity of Language: Secular Theology and the Politics of Recognition. Southern Communication Association. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 2005. American Society for the History of Rhetoric. Competitively selected paper, Top Paper Award.

The Competing Rhetorics of Economic and Political Liberalism. National Communication Association. Chicago, Illinois, November 2004. NCA Taskforce on the Digital Divide. Competitively selected panel.

Carnivalesque Protest and the Humorless State. National Communication Association. Chicago, Illinois, November 2004. Rhetorical and Communication Studies Division. Competitively selected panel.

A Brief History of the Rhetoric of Free Trade. Southern Speech Communication
Association. Public Address Division. Tampa, Florida, April 2004. Competitively selected paper.

The Corruption of Political Representation and the Economic Presidency.
Presidential Rhetoric Conference. College Station, Texas, March 2004. Invited Respondent.

The Expanding Role of Critical Theory in Communication Research. Western Speech Communication Association. Communication Theory Interest Group. Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2004. Invited Respondent.
    
Rhetorical Theory and National Identity. Western Speech Communication Association. Rhetoric and Public Address Division. Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2004. Competitively selected paper.

Communication as a Calling. Accepted for the National Communication Association, Miami, Florida, November 2003. Instructional Development Division.

Interview with Kate Carter on Grassroots Social Movements for the Athens Banner Herald. June 2003

Across the Trenches: A Yearlong 'Rhetoric Foundation Experience.' The National Communication Association. New Orleans, Louisiana. November 2002. Instructional Development Division. Competitively selected panel.

The Rhetorical Phronimos: Political Wisdom in Postmodernity. The National Communication Association. New Orleans, Louisiana. November 2002. Political Communication Division. Competitively selected paper.

Global Governance and the Critical Public. The National Communication Association. New Orleans, Louisiana. November 2002. Freedom of Expression Commission. Competitively selected panel.

Free Markets, Democracy, and Protest-Free Zones: Rhetorical-Political Strategies in Defense of Corporate Globalization. The Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada. May 2002

Global Statecraft and the Rhetoric of Free Trade: Rhetorical Strategies in the Battle Over Economic Globalization. The 29th International LAUD. Symposium o Social and Political Ideologies. Landau, Germany. March 2002

Global Constitutionalism and the Arguments Over Free Trade. The National Communication Association. Atlanta, Georgia. November 2001. Top competitive papers panel for the Commission on Communication and the Future.

Aristotelian Phronesis, the Critique of the Centered Subject, and Contemporary Conceptions of Practical Wisdom. International Society for Universal Dialogue Convention. Krakow, Poland. July 2001.

Taming 'Wild' Capitalism. International Society for the History of Rhetoric Convention. Warsaw, Poland. July 2001.

The Future of the WTO. Invited lecture with Kate Jones, Babson College. The William F. Glavin Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, October 5, 2000.

Global Constitutionalism and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment. Rhetoric and Constitution Conference. Montreal, Canada. September 2000.

State Character and Illusions of Democracy: Rhetorical Criticism and Collective Identity Critique. Rhetoric Society of America. Washington, DC. May 2000. Competitively selected panel.

Will Russia Survive? Invited Lecture with Marshall Goldman, Harvard University. The William F. Glavin Center for Global Entrepreneurial Leadership, March 8, 2000.

Political Memory, Globalization, and National Identity. The National Communication Association Conference on Argumentation. Alta, Utah, July 1999. Competitively selected panel.

National Identity and the Construction of Political Character in Germany, Russia, and Quebec. Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference. Harriman Institute, Columbia University. April 1999. Competitively selected paper.

Negotiating the 'Tyranny' of Consensus: Contemporary Language Philosophy, Identity Ethics, and Critical Rhetorical Theory. National Communication Association, November 1998. Competitively selected paper, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.

The Construction of Political Character in the Age of Nationalism. Public Address in an Electronic Age Conference. University of Iowa, September 1998. Competitively selected paper.

Identity Entrepreneurship in Post-Soviet Russia. Society, Language and Culture in Post-Communist Russia, the Other Former Republics of the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe Convention. Texas Tech University, April 1998.

Rhetorical Theory in the Twenty First Century: Limit Work as Identity Critique. National Communication Association, 1997. Competitively selected paper, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.

Strategies of Remembrance: The Fabrication of Quebecois Identity in the 1995 Secessionist Referendum. Western Speech Communication Association, 1997. Competitively selected paper, Language and Social Interaction Division.

Maintaining Imagined Community: The Dramatic Failure of Philipp Jenninger's Reichkristallnacht Address. Speech Communication Association, 1996. Competitively selected paper, Public Address Division.

Beyond the Modern Imaginary: The Crisis of Representation in Contemporary Critical Theory. Speech Communication Association, 1996. Competitively selected paper, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.

Toward a Poststructural Rhetorical Critical Praxis: The Implicit Normative Framework in the Texts of Michel Foucault. Speech Communication Association, 1995. Competitively selected paper, Rhetorical Theory Division.

Justifying resistance: Limit Work, Transgression, and the Problematization of Feminist Identity. Speech Communication Association, 1995. Competitively selected panel, Women's Studies Division.

Holocaust Denial on Television: The Political (Ab) use of History. Speech Communication Association, 1995. Competitively selected paper, Freedom of Expression Communication.

Epochal Deformations of the Second Advent: Political Theology from Lactantius to Augustine. Speech Communication Association. November 1994. Competitively selected paper, American Society for the History of Rhetoric.