LY #43 Not all parties...

Conventions are great for parties and whatnot.  Especially whatnot.  Not that I've experienced a lot of whatnot at conventions but I've heard other people have.

In my experience, the conventional convention experience involved figuring out where the best parties were going to be (besides the Utah party) and trying to find someone going to it -- or just walking the halls of a convention hotel looking for bodies clustered outside of doors, signalling a party within.  Parties used to mean free food and wine.

Not that all my conventional conventioneering involved going to parties, of course.  Conventions are also a great way for community college teachers to connect with others of the breed, get new ideas for teaching and be inspired by new thinking in one's areas of expertise.  Over the past few years I've enjoyed listening to graduate student research on social media and movies.

I've also held up my end of the social contract by writing a few things.  I wanted to share them with you but today when I looked on my school computer I discovered that I didn't have an electronic copy of my vita!  Ack!  It was gone!

Hilton Anaheim, WSCA Convention Hotel, 2014

Then I remembered that when the old COCC.edu bit the dust, Barbara Klett or her minions secreted a copy of my old webpages, complete with my vita.  So herewith is the info about my conventional papers.  I found the CD with the webpages and cut a pasted and voila!  Here's my years.  Hopefully I'll have one more G.I.F.T.S. presentation in Anaheim before I hang up my disciplinary guns.

Convention Papers

Western States Communication Association 2011

“Consumers, Co-Creators or Contributors:  The Construction of Audience Identity through the Station Homepage”                                                              

Western States Communication Association 2010

“Managing Assessment and Artists in an Age  of Unexpected Abundance:  Is there an App for that?” 

Western States Communication Association 2007

 "Rubrics for Public Speaking"                                                                                      

Pacific Northwest Division of the Community College Humanities Association,  2004

 “Wrestling with Romantic Love”                                                                                 

Community College Humanities Association 2002

  “I love New York On Film”                                                                                           

Popular Culture Association   2000

 “Murder and Deviance in Wartime New York:  The Lonergan Case”                                        

National Communication Association   1998

 “Notes on Identity, Narrative and the Andersonian Experience.”                                              

Western States Communication Association    1997

"The Pain Now, the Happiness Then:  Dialogics, Dialectic and Dying in Shadowlands"                                                                                                                              

Western States Communication Association   1996

"The Texas Primary Decision:  A National Drama of Racial Equity and Federal  Power During Wartime."                                                                                                   

Pacific Northwest American Studies Association   1994

"Life and Liberalism When the Negro Went to War."                                                                  

Popular Culture Association   1993

"Savage Breasts and Buffalo Soldiers:  Life, the Negro, and Wartime"     

Western States Communication Association   1992

  "The Arsenal on Fire"                                                                                                                        

National Council of Teachers of English   1991

  "On Becoming a Woman:  Teaching as Transformation"                                                            

Western States Communication Association   1991 

"(You Can't Scare me!) I'm Workin' for the Union."

"A Barthesian Strategy for the Management of Rhetorical Marginalization."

Popular Culture Association  1991

"Riots, Pictures and the Construction of White Liberalism During the 2nd World War."

International Conference on the Outsider  1988

"Dialogue of Limits:  The Utilities of Deviance and Deterioration in Life, 1937-1938."                                                   

International Communication Association  1988

"The Bitter Epic:  An Aesthetic Containment of the Great Depression."          

Western Speech Communication Association  1988

"Accommodating Revolution:  Media Effects, Academic Marxism and Radical Practice."                                                                                      

American Studies Association   1987

"Seeing Japanese:  The Constitution of the Enemy Other in Life Magazine, 1937-1942."                                               

Speech Communication Association   1986

"The Panoptic Elements of Speech Communication:  Power Relations in the Basic Course."

  "A Challenge to Love:  The Concept of Community in the Gay Movement's Response to the AIDS Crisis."

Popular Culture Association   1986

                "Anarchy and Order in the Erotica of Tom of Finland"