Conference Program

15th Wake Forest University Biennial Argumentation Conference

April 11-13, 2014

Annenberg Forum, 111 Carswell Hall

Friday, April 11
9:00am	Opening Remarks
9:15am	Keynote 1: Catherine H. Palczewski, University of Northern Iowa “Bodies that Argue: NWP’s Prison Special, Vulnerable Bodies, and Appeals to Civic Obligation” Annenberg Forum, Carswell Hall
10:30am	Panel 1: “Judging, Justifying, and Jeering” Chair and Respondent: David Cratis Williams, Florida Atlantic University Dale Hample, University of Maryland, “The Intrapersonal Dynamics of Serial Arguing” David Godden, Old Dominion University, and Frank Zenker, Lund University, “Of Drunks and Streetlamps-The Rational Merits of Denying the Antecedent and Affirming Consequents” Christopher Tindale, University of Windsor, “The Figure of the Theōros: Judgment and Persuasion in Argumentation” Matthew Pezzaniti, University of Windsor, “Justifying and Evaluating Inferences”
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Keynote 2: Hans V.  Hansen, University of Windsor “Looking good!  (... and being bad)”
2:30pm-5:30pm	Workshop I: Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse, Carswell 302 Leader: Frans van Eemeren, University of Amsterdam Workshop III: Virtue Argumentation Theory, Carswell 305 Leaders: Andrew Aberdein, Florida Institute of Technology, Daniel Cohen, Colby College Undergraduate Research Symposium, Carswell 301 Leaders: Gordon Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh, Sean O’Rourke, Furman University, and Jane Greer, University of Missouri-Kansas City
8:00pm	Opening Reception, in conjunction with Wake Debate reunion, Allan Louden’s house
Saturday, April 12
9:00am	Keynote 3: Ekaterina Haskins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute “Civic Dialogue in Uncivil Times: Spectatorship, Space, and Co-presence in Public Argument”
10:30am	Panel 3: “Rethinking Arguments of Victimage: Contemporary Political Rhetoric of Victimage in Post-Obama Conservatism” Chair and Respondent: Chris Lundberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cat Duffy, University of Southern California, "Putting the 'Freedom' in FreedomWorks: Ultimate Terms in the 2009 Health Care Reform Debates" Leah Moczulski, Wake Forest University, “It’s No Fluke: Rush Limbaugh and Conservative Victimage” Paul Elliott Johnson, University of Pittsburgh, “They’re Out To Get Us:” Logics of Victimage and Political Targeting in the IRS Scandal Panel 4: “Imprisoned Minds and Imprisoned Bodies” Chair and Respondent: Michael Hazen, Wake Forest University Sarah T. Partlow-Lefevre, Idaho State University and Justin Eckstein, Pacific Lutheran University, “Private or a Matter of Public Debate? Strategic Maneuvering and Intentional Derailment in Public Dialogue about Intimate Violence” Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Georgetown University, “Loss of Distance and the Public Intellectual: Twitter’s Impact on How We Communicate, and Think” Mikaela Malsin, University of Georgia, “The Counterpublic of Private Prison and Its Problems: The Texas Experience” Sydney Pasquinelli, University of Pittsburgh, “The Performance of Femininity in the Debate-Space” Jarrod Atchison and John Llewellyn, Wake Forest University, “The Ego Function of Conspiracy: The Fluoridation Controversy in Raleigh, NC”
12:00pm	Lunch
(Public Wake Debate 1:30pm-3:30pm
2:30pm-5:30pm	Workshop II: Normative Pragmatics, Carswell 302 Leaders: Jean Goodwin, Iowa State University, Scott Jacobs, University of Illinois, Beth Innocenti, University of Kansas Seminar I: Discourse Methods, Communication Ethics, and Global Controversies, Carswell 305 Leaders: G. Thomas Goodnight, University of Southern California, David B. Hingstman, University of Iowa    Undergraduate Research Symposium, Carswell 301 Leaders: Gordon Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh, Sean O’Rourke, Furman University, and Jane Greer, University of Missouri-Kansas City
7:30pm	Conference Dinner
Sunday, April 13
9:30am	Panel 4: “From Crime to Rhyme: Explorations of Argument and Social Controversies” Chair and Respondent: Allan Louden, Wake Forest University Eileen Hammond, Florida Atlantic University, “The Circulation of Mug Shot Photos as Rhetorical Texts” Kurt Zimlicka, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “What Makes Us Special: Definitionality and Public Moral Argument in the Debate Over the Concept of Dignity in Contemporary American Bioethics” Nate Woodfort, University of Pittsburgh, “The Controversy of ‘Mixed Race’: A Reflection on the Argumentation of the Multi-Racial Movement” Andrew Leslie, Davidson College, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Categorical Argument and the Same-Sex Marriage Controversy” Meg Zulick, Wake Forest University, “The Prophetic Mode of Discourse and the American Sublime: Whitman, Ginsberg, Dylan”
11:00am	Panel 5: “Arguing About Outer Space: Cosmology, Epistemology, Nostalgia, and Class” Chair: Jeffrey A. Kurr, Pennsylvania State University Joseph Packer, Central Michigan University, “The Timaeus as Scientific Myth” Matt Gayetsky, University of Pittsburgh, “Pale Blue Dots: Universal Wonder, Budgetary Battles, and the Voyager Moment” Jeffrey A. Kurr, Pennsylvania State University, “Argument from Apollo Nostalgia: The Moon Disaster Address Thirty Years Later” Taylor Hahn, University of Pittsburgh, “The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth: An Argumentative Analysis of Class-based Claims Surrounding Space Colonization” Respondent: Aaron Swanlek, University of Pittsburgh
12:15am	Closing Remarks