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Ohio State Well-Represented at 2009 Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference

This year Ohio State faculty and graduate students will be well-represented at the 7th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference at Michigan State University on October 7 -10, 2009. OSU is sending 21 presenters, who will participate in 14 different panels. Conference attendees will get to hear OSU scholars present on a wide range of intersecting topics including gender and race, disability, and digital spaces.

This year's conference explores the connection between the theme, "Enabling Complexities: Communities/Writing/Rhetoric," and scholarly communities and practices. For more information on the conference, please visit http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/~femrhet/. For a complete schedule of OSU presentations, please see below:

Presenter Name	Name of Paper	Name of Session	Date/Time/Location of Session
Vera Dukaj	Rhetorical Agency in an Interactive Digital Age	Gender and Social Networking Sites	Thursday 8:00-9:15 AM Room 104B
Jim Fredal	Bullshit and Gender	From Velma to Vids: Women, Words, and Pop Culture	Thursday 10:30-11:45 AM Room 104B
Valerie Kinloch	"You Don't Know My Name, Girl!" Family, Race, and Place, or On Being Called Out	"Enabling Complexities: Communities/Communication/Rhetoric," Through Expressing Black Women's Intellectual Traditions	Thursday 10:30-11:45 AM Room 105B
Elaine Richardson	PHD 2 Ph.D.	"Enabling Complexities: Communities/Communication/Rhetoric," Through Expressing Black Women's Intellectual Traditions	Thursday 10:30-11:45 AM Room 105B
Tiffany Anderson	The Crutch of a Race: Blackness as Disability in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy	Gender and the Rhetorical Construction of Disability in 19th-Century Women's Writing	Thursday 2:00-3:15 PM Room 101
Brenda Brueggemann	Posts on Passing: Corresponding with Mabel Hubbard Bell	Gender and the Rhetorical Construction of Disability in 19th-Century Women's Writing	Thursday 2:00-3:15 PM Room 101
Heather Thompson-Gillis	Sympathetic Disassociation: The Cultural Work of Julia Pastrana and Beth March	Gender and the Rhetorical Construction of Disability in 19th-Century Women's Writing	Thursday 2:00-3:15 PM Room 101
Cassandra Parente	Becoming a Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson's Rhetorical Subversion	Defying and Defining Convention: Historical Women in Masculine Discourse Communities	Thursday 2:00-3:15 PM Room 107
Carolyn Skinner	Entering the Field: Early Women Physicians and the Conventions of Medicine	Defying and Defining Convention: Historical Women in Masculine Discourse Communities	Thursday 2:00-3:15 PM Room 107
Barbara Petronelli	Uppity Rural Womyn: Shaping Identity in Online Spaces	Complicating Identity: Women's Identity Construction in Digital Locales	Friday 8:00-9:15 AM Room 103A
Kelly Bradbury	A Women's Movement: Locating Women in Past and Present Views of Intellectualism	Reflecting the Women's Movement: Ideas, Museums, Disciplines	Friday 8:00-9:15 AM Room 106
Genevieve Critel	Complexifying the Digital Divide: Reading Minority Women's Digital Literacy Narratives	Rhetorics of Complexity and (Apparent) Contradiction: Crafting Spaces for Seemingly Contradictory Identities for Ourselves and Our Students	Friday 8:00-9:15 AM Room 107
Melanie Yergeau	FYI: Autistic Women and Autistic Writers Exist, and They Might Even Be Modified by Adjectives Such As "Successful" Rather Than "Egocentric" or "Mindblind"	Rhetorics of Complexity and (Apparent) Contradiction: Crafting Spaces for Seemingly Contradictory Identities for Ourselves and Our Students	Friday 8:00-9:15 AM Room 107
Elizabeth Weiser	Rhetorical Theory/Rhetorical Action: The "Disappeared" Women Rhetors of the 1930s	Working the Room: Women in the Burkean Parlor, circa 1930	Friday 8:00-9:15 AM Willy Room
Nan Johnson	Feminist Historiography: A Collaborative Workshop	Workshop	Friday 2:00-3:15 PM Room 103A
Wendy Wolters Hinshaw	Writing Us In: Authorizing Prison Writing for Change	Collective Action Hero(ines) and Villains: Activist Rhetorics for Change	Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Room 104A
Susan Delagrange	Making Movies, Inventing Academic Identitites	Documenting Gender	Saturday 8:00-9:15 AM Room 104A
Katie DeLuca	MySpace, My Photos, and "Me:" Rhetorical Performances of Gendered Identity on Social Networking Sites	Finding Space(s) for Feminism: Museums, Memorials, and MySpace	Saturday 10:30-11:45 AM Room 103A
Jen Herman	Planting the Seeds of a Feminist Rhetoric of Science: Materiality, Access, and Conflict in COSI Columbus's "Gregor Mendel" Exhibition	Finding Space(s) for Feminism: Museums, Memorials, and MySpace	Saturday 10:30-11:45 AM Room 103A
Lauren Obermark	Rhetorical Representations of History: The Liberty Memorial and the National World War I Museum	Finding Space(s) for Feminism: Museums, Memorials, and MySpace	Saturday 10:30-11:45 AM Room 103A
Jacqueline Jones Royster	Candied Yams	Recipes for Rhetoric: Improvisation, Invention, and Delivery	Saturday 2:00-3:15 PM Room 101

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