2019 Schedule
Check-In
8:00am-12:00pm – outside Academic Success Center 118
Breakfast
8:00am-8:30am – outside Academic Success Center 118
Coffee, bagels and pastries, yogurt, fruit, and juice
Session 1: Topics in New Media and Rhizomal Education
8:30-9:45 – ASC 118
“Analyzing Language Ecologies Through a Scientific Lens”
Kimberly Jenerette, Clemson University
“When the Facts You Find Are Not Your Own: Writing Worldviews with First-Year Composition Students”
Jacob Richter, Clemson University
“Ecology in the Writing Center”
Kerry Smith, James Madison University
“The Need for a Framework to Study Digital Literacy Among Language Learners”
Hazel Vega Quesada, Clemson University
Session 2: Ecologies of Digital Space/Time
10:00-11:15 – ASC 118
“Mimetic Behaviors: Transitioning from the Digital to the Physical”
Kelsey Woodburn, Western Carolina University
“HCI for All”
Octaviyanti Wahyurini, Clemson University
“Prehistoric Virtual Reality: Dinos as Totems in VR”
Kailan Sindelar, Clemson University
“Dark Media Ecology”
Jake Cowan, University of Texas at Austin
Concurrent Session 3A: Ecologies of the Self
11:30-12:45 – ASC 118
“Thoreau’s Journal: A New ‘Side of the Eye’ for Creating the ‘Possibility’ of Knowledge and Refinement”
Julie Edewaard, Clemson University
“The Queens & Princess: Beekeeping during the Financial Crisis”
Genevieve Arlie, University of Georgia
“I Learned It from Fanfiction: The Ecology of SexEd in BTS BDSM Fanfiction”
Macy Dunklin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“An Educated Person in the 21st Century”
Charissa Fryberger, Clemson University
Concurrent Session 3B: Science at the Margins: Interactive Exploration of Ecology as a Perspective for Science Policy
11:30-12:45 – Pearce Center Conference Room, Daniel Hall – 1st Floor
“How Does the Political Ecosystem Influence the Different Parts of the Healthcare System?”
Katie Jurewicz, Clemson University
“To What Extent Should Politics Influence the Science Education System?”
Cazembe Kennedy, Clemson University
“How Does the Political Ecosystem Change the Relationships of Knowledge and Technology?”
Grant Allard, Clemson University
Lunch Break
12:45-2:30 – Pearce Center foyer, Daniel Hall – 1st Floor
Boxed lunches with sandwiches and sides (vegetarian and vegan options available)
Lunchtime Featured Session: The Academic Job Hunt
1:00-2:15 – Pearce Center Conference Room, Daniel Hall – 1st Floor
Jenny Rice, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
Cynthia Haynes, Professor, Clemson University
April O’Brien, PhD, RCID program, Clemson University
Erin M. Goss, Associate Professor, Clemson University
(moderator) Michelle Smith, Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Concurrent Session 4A: Literary Ecologies, Past and Present
2:30-3:45 – Pearce Center Conference Room, Daniel Hall – 1st Floor
“Otherworlds and the Wry Questioning of Anglo-Norman Authority: Literary Ecologies in the Lais of Marie de France”
Lia Johnson, Clemson University
“The Tragic Other: Reading Frankenstein in the Time of Trump”
Paul Hyde, Clemson University
“Resistance from the Margins”
Sarah Watkins, Clemson University
“An Ecological Approach to Dystopian Literature: Linking the Realities of Economics and Science to Dystopian Social Critiques”
Crystal Ellwood, Western Carolina University
Concurrent Session 4B: Ecologies of Social Justice in the 21st Century
2:30-3:45 – ASC 118
“Talking Proper: The Role of Standard English in Race and Class-Based Oppression”
Hayley Neiling, Winthrop University
“New Open Networks of Southern Ecologies: Mergings and Mutations Through a Dialogic Framework”
Whitney Jordan Adams, Clemson University
“#MeToo in High School: How Young Adult Literature Combats Rape Culture”
Cassandra Grosh, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“A Rhetorical-Ecology of (Domestic Violence) Motives”
Charlotte Lucke, Clemson University
Session 5: Ecologies Writing, Ecologies Written
4:00-5:15 – ASC 118
“Nothing But Methods All the Way Down: (Provisionally) Categorizing Barthes’s Ternary Approaches to Writing”
Eric Reid Hamilton, Clemson University
“Repackaging the Reach of Dreams: News Coverage of DACA Rescindment by Three National Newspapers on Twitter”
Megan Pietruszewski, Clemson University
“A Team Effort: An Ecological Approach for Rhetorical Performance, Circulation, and Effective Civic Rhetoric”
Nikki Jones, Western Carolina University
Keynote Presentation: “The Anomaly of Evidence”
Jenny Rice, University of Kentucky
5:30-6:30 – ASC 118
Abstract: In this presentation, I adopt anomaly as a rhetorical strategy for rethinking what evidence is, does, and can do. While rhetorical theory provides us with frameworks for describing the content-specific aspects of evidence (e.g., representation, signification, ideology), these disciplinary models feel insufficient for explaining how evidence operates apart from its contents. Familiar frameworks of evidence emphasizing validity or empirical fidelity are too limited for understanding what is happening in the event of evidence. In order to invent new methods of seeing evidence, I theorize via the process of stylistic mercuriality, to borrow a phrase from Kenneth Burke. The unsettling, anomalous, and performative theory that follows seeks to invent and explore thought "to which the deliberator was not accustomed,” as Burke puts it. In short, this presentation calls for us to salvage the anomaly in evidence.
Acknowledgements:
We would like to offer special thanks to our sponsors, without whom this conference would not be possible. Please join us in thanking the English Department; the Humanities Hub; Steven B. Katz, Pearce Professor; David Blakesley, Campbell Chair; and the Pearce Center for Professional Communication.
Directions:
The Class of 1956 Academic Success Center (1) is located next to the bus circle on McMillan Road. Limited visitor parking is available on McGinty Court, which connects to McMillan Road via the bus circle. From the ASC, it is a short walk to Daniel Hall (33). The Pearce Center for Professional Communication is located on the 1st floor of Daniel Hall, on your right when you go through the main entrance in front of Strode Tower (118). Both the ASC and Daniel Hall have convenient access to Robert Muldrow Cooper Library (29), where you’ll find one of Clemson University’s two Starbucks locations.
8:00am-12:00pm – outside Academic Success Center 118
Breakfast
8:00am-8:30am – outside Academic Success Center 118
Coffee, bagels and pastries, yogurt, fruit, and juice
Session 1: Topics in New Media and Rhizomal Education
8:30-9:45 – ASC 118
“Analyzing Language Ecologies Through a Scientific Lens”
Kimberly Jenerette, Clemson University
“When the Facts You Find Are Not Your Own: Writing Worldviews with First-Year Composition Students”
Jacob Richter, Clemson University
“Ecology in the Writing Center”
Kerry Smith, James Madison University
“The Need for a Framework to Study Digital Literacy Among Language Learners”
Hazel Vega Quesada, Clemson University
Session 2: Ecologies of Digital Space/Time
10:00-11:15 – ASC 118
“Mimetic Behaviors: Transitioning from the Digital to the Physical”
Kelsey Woodburn, Western Carolina University
“HCI for All”
Octaviyanti Wahyurini, Clemson University
“Prehistoric Virtual Reality: Dinos as Totems in VR”
Kailan Sindelar, Clemson University
“Dark Media Ecology”
Jake Cowan, University of Texas at Austin
Concurrent Session 3A: Ecologies of the Self
11:30-12:45 – ASC 118
“Thoreau’s Journal: A New ‘Side of the Eye’ for Creating the ‘Possibility’ of Knowledge and Refinement”
Julie Edewaard, Clemson University
“The Queens & Princess: Beekeeping during the Financial Crisis”
Genevieve Arlie, University of Georgia
“I Learned It from Fanfiction: The Ecology of SexEd in BTS BDSM Fanfiction”
Macy Dunklin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“An Educated Person in the 21st Century”
Charissa Fryberger, Clemson University
Concurrent Session 3B: Science at the Margins: Interactive Exploration of Ecology as a Perspective for Science Policy
11:30-12:45 – Pearce Center Conference Room, Daniel Hall – 1st Floor
“How Does the Political Ecosystem Influence the Different Parts of the Healthcare System?”
Katie Jurewicz, Clemson University
“To What Extent Should Politics Influence the Science Education System?”
Cazembe Kennedy, Clemson University
“How Does the Political Ecosystem Change the Relationships of Knowledge and Technology?”
Grant Allard, Clemson University
Lunch Break
12:45-2:30 – Pearce Center foyer, Daniel Hall – 1st Floor
Boxed lunches with sandwiches and sides (vegetarian and vegan options available)
Lunchtime Featured Session: The Academic Job Hunt
1:00-2:15 – Pearce Center Conference Room, Daniel Hall – 1st Floor
Jenny Rice, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
Cynthia Haynes, Professor, Clemson University
April O’Brien, PhD, RCID program, Clemson University
Erin M. Goss, Associate Professor, Clemson University
(moderator) Michelle Smith, Assistant Professor, Clemson University
Concurrent Session 4A: Literary Ecologies, Past and Present
2:30-3:45 – Pearce Center Conference Room, Daniel Hall – 1st Floor
“Otherworlds and the Wry Questioning of Anglo-Norman Authority: Literary Ecologies in the Lais of Marie de France”
Lia Johnson, Clemson University
“The Tragic Other: Reading Frankenstein in the Time of Trump”
Paul Hyde, Clemson University
“Resistance from the Margins”
Sarah Watkins, Clemson University
“An Ecological Approach to Dystopian Literature: Linking the Realities of Economics and Science to Dystopian Social Critiques”
Crystal Ellwood, Western Carolina University
Concurrent Session 4B: Ecologies of Social Justice in the 21st Century
2:30-3:45 – ASC 118
“Talking Proper: The Role of Standard English in Race and Class-Based Oppression”
Hayley Neiling, Winthrop University
“New Open Networks of Southern Ecologies: Mergings and Mutations Through a Dialogic Framework”
Whitney Jordan Adams, Clemson University
“#MeToo in High School: How Young Adult Literature Combats Rape Culture”
Cassandra Grosh, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“A Rhetorical-Ecology of (Domestic Violence) Motives”
Charlotte Lucke, Clemson University
Session 5: Ecologies Writing, Ecologies Written
4:00-5:15 – ASC 118
“Nothing But Methods All the Way Down: (Provisionally) Categorizing Barthes’s Ternary Approaches to Writing”
Eric Reid Hamilton, Clemson University
“Repackaging the Reach of Dreams: News Coverage of DACA Rescindment by Three National Newspapers on Twitter”
Megan Pietruszewski, Clemson University
“A Team Effort: An Ecological Approach for Rhetorical Performance, Circulation, and Effective Civic Rhetoric”
Nikki Jones, Western Carolina University
Keynote Presentation: “The Anomaly of Evidence”
Jenny Rice, University of Kentucky
5:30-6:30 – ASC 118
Abstract: In this presentation, I adopt anomaly as a rhetorical strategy for rethinking what evidence is, does, and can do. While rhetorical theory provides us with frameworks for describing the content-specific aspects of evidence (e.g., representation, signification, ideology), these disciplinary models feel insufficient for explaining how evidence operates apart from its contents. Familiar frameworks of evidence emphasizing validity or empirical fidelity are too limited for understanding what is happening in the event of evidence. In order to invent new methods of seeing evidence, I theorize via the process of stylistic mercuriality, to borrow a phrase from Kenneth Burke. The unsettling, anomalous, and performative theory that follows seeks to invent and explore thought "to which the deliberator was not accustomed,” as Burke puts it. In short, this presentation calls for us to salvage the anomaly in evidence.
Acknowledgements:
We would like to offer special thanks to our sponsors, without whom this conference would not be possible. Please join us in thanking the English Department; the Humanities Hub; Steven B. Katz, Pearce Professor; David Blakesley, Campbell Chair; and the Pearce Center for Professional Communication.
Directions:
The Class of 1956 Academic Success Center (1) is located next to the bus circle on McMillan Road. Limited visitor parking is available on McGinty Court, which connects to McMillan Road via the bus circle. From the ASC, it is a short walk to Daniel Hall (33). The Pearce Center for Professional Communication is located on the 1st floor of Daniel Hall, on your right when you go through the main entrance in front of Strode Tower (118). Both the ASC and Daniel Hall have convenient access to Robert Muldrow Cooper Library (29), where you’ll find one of Clemson University’s two Starbucks locations.