3203 PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FIRST FOUR YEARS: ASSESSING HIS CHANGING RHETORICAL STYLE
8:45 – 10:00 Sunday, February 19 Fiesta III
Chair: Nicholas Butler, Arizona State University West
- President Obama’s Professorial Rhetoric: Tempering the Extremes — Joshua A. Gonzalez, David B. Hingstman, University of Iowa
- Tragedy in Tucson: A New Call for Civility — Clark D. Olson, Arizona State University – John Genette, Black Mountain Communications — Jennifer Linde, Arizona State University
- Barack Obama: Campaigning in Poetry, Governing in Prose – Pat Ganer, Cypress College
3303 STRIVING FOR IDENTITY, STRIVING FOR CHANGE: IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE IN COLLEGE FORENSICS
10:15 – 11:30 Sunday, February 19 Fiesta III
Chair: Michael K. Middleton, University of Utah
- Dialogues of Difference: Racially Ambiguous Bodies and the Performative Challenge of the Other — Ryan Castillo, California State University Long Beach
- “I Am (Not) My Hair”: Embodying Resistance and Theorizing Race Through/In Forensics — Jesus I. Valles, Jasmine McLeod, California State University Long Beach
- Performing Self/Performing Other: Disrupting Identity in College Forensics Performance — Maurianna Shelbourn, University of Utah
- Performing Identity, Owning Performance: Topic Ownership in Forensics — Ben Miller, California State University Long Beach
3603 FINAL DEBATE ROUND
2:30 – 3:45 Sunday, February 19 Fiesta III
This presentation will be the final Parliamentary Debate round from the Western States Communication Association Tournament.
Chair: Robert Becker, Northwest College
4403 TEACHING ARGUMENTATION ON THE INSIDE: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION OF DEBATE ACTIVITIES WITH INMATES AT A MAXIMUM-SECURITY MALE PRISON
2:15 – 3:30 Monday, February 20 Fiesta III
Co-Presented by Western Forensics Association & Communication and Instruction Interest Groups
Chair: Jackson B. Miller, Linfield College
- Teaching Debate at the Oregon State Penitentiary – Robert Trapp, Willamette University
- Involving Students in Teaching and Demonstration Debates — Jackson B. Miller, Linfield College
- Serving as a Teaching Assistant and Debating in the Visitor’s Room – Kole Kracaw, Linfield College
- A Different Kind of Tournament – Clara Martinez, Linfield College
4603 COMPETITIVE PAPERS IN FORENSICS
5:15 – 6:30 Monday, February 20 Fiesta III
Chair: Robert Becker, Northwest College
- Rhetorical Invention as Resistance: Toward a New Capitalist Discourse* — Stephen E. Rahko, Indiana University Bloomington
- Speaking from the Margins: Negotiating Barriers to Women’s Participation and Success in Policy Debate** — Stephanie Eisenberg, San Francisco State University
- Public Controversy and Debate over Gangsta Rap: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Emerging Discourses in the Public Culture Leading to the 1994 Senate Hearing “Shaping Our Responses to Violent and Demeaning Imagery in Popular Music”* — Byron B. Craig, Indiana University Bloomington
Respondent: Jeanine Congalton, California State University Fullerton
*Debut Paper
**Top Student Paper, Western Forensics Association
