Symbolic Violence Conference Schedule

 CONFERENCE CALENDAR
 (All plenary sessions will be held at the Cotton Exchange; all contributed paper panels will be held either at the Cotton Exchange or at the La Salle Hotel)

THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012

4:00-7:00 pm	REGISTRATION, COTTON EXCHANGE
7:00-8:30 pm	Keynote Address/Annual Kurt Ritter lecture: David Zarefsky, Northwestern University, “When, If Ever, Is Symbolic Violence Justified?” Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, University of Minnesota, respondent Martin J. Medhurst, Baylor University, Chair WELCOME RECEPTION, COTTON EXCHANGE

FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012

8:30-9:00	MORNING COFFEE, COTTON EXCHANGE
9:00-10:15	Randall Bytwerk, Calvin College, “Symbolic Violence in Nazi Anti-Semitic Propaganda” Trish Roberts-Miller, University of Texas, Austin, respondent Jennifer Jones Barbour, Texas A&M University, Chair
10:30-11:45	Christian Lundberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Evangelical Publics” Respondent:  Ryan Stark, Corban College Chair:  Dustin Wood, Texas A&M University
11:45-1:15	LUNCH, ON YOUR OWN (see list of restaurants within walking distance in your conference folder)
1:15-2:30	Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University, “Political Antagonism and Rhetorical Complementarity” Respondent: John Murphy, University of Illinois Chair:   Kurt Ritter
2:30-3:00	COFFEE BREAK, COTTON EXCHANGE
3:00-4:30	CONTRIBUTED PAPER PANELS Panel 1: (COTTON EXCHANGE) Chair:  Jennifer Mease, Texas A&M University Theorizing Violence and Culture Jeff Kurtz, Denison University, “Civility American Style” Pat Gehrke, University of South Carolina, “Propaedeutic to a Rhetoric of Violence” Isaac Clark Holyoak, Texas A&M University, “The Mormon Reformation and Collective Violence, Rene Girard and the Scapegoat Mark Ward, Sr., University of Houston-Victoria, “The Violent Organization:  Toward a Theory that Accounts for Violence as an Organizational Value Panel 2: (LA SALLE HOTEL) Chair:  Leandra Hernandez, Texas A&M University Mediated Violence Kristen Hoerl, Butler University, “Remembering the Rage and Regret of the Weather Underground in Televised Crime Drama” Kathryn Olson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “The Epideictic Function of Symbolic Violence in Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’” Glen Williams, Southeast Missouri State, “Primed for Mayhem and Glory” Cheryl Lozano-Whitten, Texas A&M University, “Arguing Moral Panics and Symbolic Violence: Healthcare Reform Protests and the Media”
4:45-6:00	Dana Cloud, University of Texas, Austin, “The Violence of Civility” Respondent:  J. Michael Hogan, Penn State University Chair:  James Arnt Aune, Texas A&M University
6:00-7:00	COCKTAIL HOUR, Enjoy Art Walk in Downtown Bryan
7:00-9:00	BBQ DINNER, Catered by J. Cody’s

SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012

8:30-9:00	MORNING COFFEE, COTTON EXCHANGE
9:00-10:15	CONTRIBUTED PAPER PANELS Panel 1 (Cotton Exchange): Chair:  Cheryl Lozano-Whitten, Texas A&M University Violence and Public Address Tiara Foster, Syracuse University, “Sights on Palin:  the Revealing of an American Enemy by Means of Enemyship and Metaphorical Analysis” Bryan McCann, Wayne State University,  “’Chrysler Pulled the Trigger’:  Black Rage, Objective Violence, and the Saga of James Johnson, Jr.” Adam J. Gaffey, “The ‘Flaming Sword’:  Violence, Speech and Henry A. Wallace’s 1948 Southern Tour” Jay Childers, University of Kansas, “Inciting Violence through Rhetoric in the Weak-Minded Foreigners:  The Narrative Explanation of Leon Czolgosz’s Assassination of President William McKinley” Panel 2 (LaSalle Hotel) Chair:  Catherine L. Langford, Texas Tech University The Law and Symbolic Violence Suzanne Condray, Denison University, “Symbolic Violence and Symbolic Speech:  Virginia v. Black” Brad Serber, Texas A&M University, “How Speech Laws Might Hurt Rather Than Help:  A Response to Mari Matsuda” Jeremiah Hickey, St. John’s University, “Death by Adjective: The Supreme Court’s Attack on Legislative Regulations of Violence, or, How Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia Stopped Worrying about Symbolic Violence by Employing Aesthetic Claims to Limit Legislative Restrictions on Violence” David Richardson, Texas A&M University, “Victimage Discourses and Snyder v. Phelps”
10:30-11:45	Theresa Beiner, University of Arkansas, Little Rock College of the Law, "Incivility in the Supreme Court Nomination Process Resulting from Support for Minority Group Members" Respondent:  Eileen Scallen, William Mitchell College of the Law Chair:  David Richardson, Texas A&M University
11:45-1:15	LUNCH, ON YOUR OWN (see list of restaurants within walking distance in your conference folder)
1:15-2:30	Adria Battaglia,  San Angelo State University,” Free Speech, Affect, and the Performative cases of the Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist and “Rape Lists Respondent:  Jeremiah Hickey, St. John’s University Chair:   Kristan Poirot, Texas A&M University
2:30-3:00	COFFEE BREAK, COTTON EXCHANGE
3:00-4:30	CONTRIBUTED PAPER PANELS Panel 3: (COTTON EXCHANGE) Chair:  Luke Lockhart, Texas A&M University Symbolic Nonviolence? Scott Stroud, University of Texas, Austin, “The Severity of Symbolic Non-Violence:  A Jain View on Argument and Intellectual Ahimsa” Meredith Neville, University of Kansas, “Rejecting Violence in Democracy:  An Analysis of Norman Morrison’s Self-Immolation” Catherine L. Langford, “The Displacement of Violence and the Violence of Displacement:  Discourse Not to Stop a Beating Heart”
	Panel 4: (LA SALLE HOTEL) Chair:  Adam J. Gaffey, Texas A&M University Case Studies Rosa Eberly, Penn State University, “’MamaDio! Austin, Austin, Austin:  Dallas and Dallastown;  Or, Getting from Point A to Point B” Kate Lockwood Harris, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Leaks and Tweets:  Rape Allegations, Intersections of Violence, and Julian Assange” Jeremy Rogerson, Texas A&M University, “Torture:  America’s Newest Form of Symbolic Violence” Heather A. Hayes, University of Minnesota, “Living to Die:  The Relationship between Discourse, Violence, and Unruly Arab Bodies”
4:45-6:30	Kevin de Luca, University of Utah, “ Beyond the Violence of Civil Disobedience: Practicing Activism with Rhetorical Force in a World of Infinite Violence”  Respondent:  Rosa Eberly, Penn State University Chair:  Sara Rowe, Texas A&M University
6:30-7:30	RECEPTION, COTTON EXCHANGE

SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2012

8:30-9:00	MORNING COFFEE, COTTON EXCHANGE
9:00-10:30	Erin Rand, Syracuse University, “’Gay Boys Kill Themselves’:  Engendering Violence in the Figure of the Suicidal Queer Teen” Respondent:  Dan Brouwer, Arizona State University Chair:  Isaac Clark Holyoak, Texas A&M University
10:45-12:00	Chair:  Jennifer Mercieca, Texas A&M University Joshua Gunn, University of Texas, Austin, “MARANATHA” Respondent:   Claire Sisco King, Vanderbilt University
12:00-12:15	Concluding Remarks