First Seminar Session

Seminar I: Reading the American Landscape: Photography, Place, and Identity (Leaders: Kevin DeLuca and Anne Demo) Room

Seminar II: Visualizing Whiteness: Between the Global and the Local (Leaders: Thomas Nakayama and Raka Shome).

Seminar III: Iconic Photography and Public Culture (Leaders: John Louis Lucaites and Robert Hariman)

Seminar IV: Visual Rhetorics of Witnessing: Representation, War, and Cultural Trauma (Leaders: A. Susan Owen and Peter Ehrenhaus)

Seminar V: Material Memory: Exhibitionary Rhetorics and Politics (Leaders: Barbara Biesecker and Kenneth Cmiel)

Seminar VI: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Native American Performance (Leaders: Oscar Giner and William C. Trapani)

Seminar VII: The Socio-Imaging of Politics (Leaders: Bruce E. Gronbeck and James P. McDaniel)

Seminar VIII: Postmodern Media Communities: Signs, Symptoms, Visions of the Future (Leader: Ron Burnett)

Second Seminar Session

(see first seminar session for details)

Concurrent Competitive Paper Panels

Panel 1: Retheorizing Visability

• Meir Wigoder, “Blowing Up the Pose: The Politics of Photography Representation at a Standstill,” Tel Aviv University and Sapir College
  
• Bradford Vivian, “In the Regard of the Image,” Vanderbilt University
  
• John Schilb, “Toward a Rhetoric of Visual Fragments: The Videotape of In the Gloaming,” Indiana University

Panel 2: Visual Rhetoric and Mass-Consumer Culture

• Paul Frosh, “Performing Banality: Visual Ordinariness in Consumer Culture,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  
• Janiece Noton, “Maidenform’s “I Dreamed’ Ad Campaign: A Person [Un]Afraid of Public Places,” Arizona State University
  
• Kevin Moist, “Visualizing Postmodernity: 1960s Psychedelic Rock Concert Posters and Visual Community,” Unaffiliated

Concurrent Competitive Paper Panels

Panel 1: (Re)Visualizing the Nation

• Davinia Thornley, “Breaking with English: The Nation As Ethnoscape,” University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill
  
• Brian Lain, “The Politics of Japanese American (Place)ment: The Barracks in Los Angeles,” University of Iowa
  
• Raka Shome, “Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and White Feminity: Media/ting Diana,” Arizona State University

Panel 2: Visibility, Invention, and Agency

• Maureen Goggin, “’Art’ of the Needle: Rhetoricizing Needlework Samples,” Arizona State University
  
• Jane Sutton, “Weavers of Speech, c. 1911: The Appearance of ‘Woman’ Speaking in Public,” Penn State University: York
  
• Janice Edwards, “Visual Parody and the Rhetoric of War Imagery,” Western Illinois University

Panel 3: Visual Rhetoric in Space

• Martin A. Berger, “Whiteness in the Landscape,” State University of New York, Buffalo
  
• Joan Faber McAlister, “Safe at Home: Hereronormativity, Suburban Housing, and the Crisis of the American Family,” University of Iowa
  
• Gregory Clark, “Landscape as Rhetorical Experience,” Brigham Young University

Third Seminar Session

(see first seminar session for details)