Registration 12:30 - 1:30 Cabrillo 101
Session 1:30-2:45
Session 2 3:00-4:15
Session 3 4:30-5:45
Session 4 6:00-7:15
Dinner 7:30-9:00
Session 1 1:30-2:45
Session 1 A
Student panel Cabrillo 102
Undergraduate Student Papers in Religious Ethnography
Chair: Derrick Rosenior, Vanguard University
“An ethnographic look at small business rhetoric in an Indian American setting through a religious perspective”
Jillian Diepersloot, Vanguard University
Kimberly Gower, Vanguard University
“A face negotiation analysis of how the Christian culture influences the interaction patterns and behavior of Christian youth”
Christine Aquino, Vanguard University
Lauren Breeding, Vanguard University
“Surf Culture and it intersection with Christianity in the ‘Save Trestles’ campaign in San Onofre, California”
Chris Norman, Vanguard University
Jenna Migliuri, Vanguard University
“Into the Lion’s Den: An Ethnographic analysis of the Christian gay community”
Caleb M. Stewart, Vanguard University
“An ethnographic view of the role of religion in the preservation of their national culture among El Salvadorian immigrants to America”
Lizeth Guevara, Vanguard University
“Ethnography and cultural diversity in the Philippines”
Anne Martin, Vanguard University
Session 1 B Communication Studies
Cabrillo 104
Interpersonal Communication, Religion, and Spirituality: Contexts of Interaction
Chair: Calvin Troup, Duquesne University
Respondent: Ronald C. Arnett, Duquesne University
“Conversations about Religion: The Importance of Relational Frames and Relational Context”
Colin Hesse, Arizona State University;
Alan C. Mikkelson, Whitworth College
“Quality of Marriage: The Relationship Between Loneliness, Spirituality and Marital Satisfaction”
Carolyn M. Anderson, University of Akron
“Unconventional Wisdom: Recognizing Anamnesis in All Phases of Worship”
Doyle W. Srader, Northwest Christian College
Session 1 C Mediated Communication
Cabrillo 202
Digital Media and the Digital Media Environment: New Issues and Opportunities for the Church
Chair: Anthony Wachs, Duquesne University
“Patterns of Religious Faith Development in a Mediated Environment”
Benson Fraser, Regent University
J. D. Keeler, Regent University
"I speak digital – how will you reach me?’: An Ontological Crisis in Emerging Communication Environments among Youth and Youth Leaders”
William Riddell, Christian Life College
"The Role of Digital Media in Communicating Christ-Centered Ideas"
William Brown, Regent University
Session 2
3:00-4:15
Session 2A: Rhetoric Cabrillo 102
If Books Could Kill: Philip Pullman, Children's Literature, and the Death of God
Chair: TBA
Arguments of Dust: The Subtle Logic of Philip Pullman
John Joseph Jasso, University of Pittsburgh
An Ungodly Spell: A Tolkienian Response to Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” Trilogy
Anthony M. Wachs, Kansas State University
Imagine There’s No Heaven: Philip Pullman and the End of Liberal Toleration
Lee Cerling, U. of Southern California
Session 2B
Undergraduate Student Papers Cabrillo 104
Point Loma Nazarene University: Student Papers
Chair: Gordon L. Forward, Point Loma Nazarene University
“Memorable Messaging: Spiritual Formation at a Religiously Affiliated Institution”
Alison Sansom, Point Loma Nazarene University
“The Effects of Communication, Religiosity, and Organizational Support on Student Commitment at a Church-Related University”
Natalie Daugherty, Point Loma Nazarene University
Heather Michel, Point Loma Nazarene University
Danica Sandberg, Point Loma Nazarene University
Christy Schmidt, Point Loma Nazarene University
“The Influence of Argumentativeness and Religiosity on Conflict Management Style Choice”
Bethany Akin, Point Loma Nazarene University
G. L. Forward, Point Loma Nazarene University
Chris Gutierrez, Point Loma Nazarene University
Nicole Villanueva, Point Loma Nazarene University
“MySpace or YourSpace? Self-disclosure on Online Social Networks”
Anna Runion, Point Loma Nazarene University
Session 2C Mediated Communication
Cabrillo 202
UnCONVENTIONal Representations of the Holocaust – Part I:
Performance, Print, Motion Pictures
Chair: Daniel S. Brown, Grove City College.
Respondent: Roy Schwartzman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
“Communication Studies Bears Witness to the Holocaust: An Unusual and UnCONVENTIONal Partnership”
Daniel S. Brown, Grove City College.
“Parodic Translation: Bearing Witness to the Children of the Double-Cross in Chaplin and Benigni”
Elisabeth Ross, Northwestern University.
“Theatrical Investigation of the Lebensborn Program: Scripting and Performing Himmler’s Third Reich’s Eugenics Plan”
Tim Good, DePauw University.
“The Trouble with Icons: An UnCONVENTIONal Critical Consideration of the Ways in Which Holocaust Iconography Complicates Popular and Political Understanding of and Intervention in Contemporary Mass Atrocity”
Christina Morus, Villanova University.
“Holocaust Denial: Using Burke’s Grotesque to Analyze Iranian Holocaust Denial Cartoons”
Suzanne Larson, Southern Utah University
M. Elizabeth Wittwer, Southern Utah University
Adam Bair, Southern Utah University
Session 3 4:30-5:45
Discussion and planning for interested participants:
- Rhetorical Studies Cabrillo 102
- Communication Studies Cabrillo 104
- Mediated Communication Cabrillo 202
Session 4 6:00-7:15
Session 4A Rhetorical Studies
Cabrillo 102
Texts and Embodied Action: Rhetorical Perspectives on Ancient and Contemporary Themes
Chair: Thomas Carmody, Vanguard University
“Killing God and Sexualizing Children: The Nietzschean Rhetoric of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials”
Marc T. Newman, Regent University
“Rewriting Postmodernism: The Comic Frame, Brian Mclaren, Postmodernism, and the Emergent Church”
Joseph Bailey, Hardin-Simmons University
“Consolatory rhetoric: Persuasion in Dagaaba Funeral Rituals and Symbolic Display”
Anthony Naaeke, Marymount Manhattan College
Session 4 B Communication Studies
Cabrillo 104
Jesus as Critical Theorist: An unConventional and Biblical Application of the Critical Tradition
“Dialectical Materialism and the Kingdom of Heaven: Detachment and Scripture”
Curt N Wanner, Toccoa Falls College; Brett Robinson, University of Georgia
“Social Justice as Divine: The Bible and a Call to Action”
Brett Robinson, University of Georgia
“Empowerment in Death: The Realized Self in Scripture”
Jerry E. Fliger, Toccoa Falls College
Session 4 C Mediated Communication
Cabrillo 202
Title:
The Word, Image, and Embodied Action in Mediated Contexts
Chair: TBA
Respondent: TBA
“Religious and Sexual Imagery in Music Videos – Unconventional Pairings”
Cheryl Ann Hampton, Spring Arbor University
Tanja Morgan, Spring Arbor University
Shanise Davenport, Spring Arbor University
Ellen Young, Spring Arbor University
“The Excommunication of Don Imus”
Linda Steiner, University of Maryland
“I Once Was Lost, but Now am Found”: Rhetorical Religious Terministic Screens in the Television Show, “Lost”
Todd V. Lewis, Biola University
Dinner 7:30-9:00
Return to convention hotel(s)