Friday, February 25th
10:00 AM (EST) Opening Remarks
10:15 - 10:30 AM "A Rhetorical Analysis of the CDC’s Messages on Mental Health and Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Amber Holland and Folasewa Oluwaseun Olatunde, North Carolina State University
10:35 - 10:50 AM "Stay Safe Out There: Health Citizenship's Role in Local Communities during COVID-19" by Jennifer M Reeher, University of South Carolina
10:55 - 11:10 AM "Surviving Through Disconnected Patience: Procedural and Ambient Rhetoric in Death Stranding" by Travis-Merchant Knudsen, North Carolina State University
11:10 - 12:00 PM Lunch Break
12:00 - 1:00 PM Keynote: "Becoming Service-Worthy: Rhetoric(s) for Accessing Care After Abuse" by Megan Fletcher, North Carolina State University
1:15 - 1:30 PM "Framing the "Stop Anti-Asian Hate": An Intercultural Visual Analysis of Asian Non-Profit Organization Websites" by Chenxing Xie, North Carolina State University
1:35 - 1:50 PM "Self-Mutilation, Voluntary Sterilization, and Gender Experimentation: Metaphor and Risk in Anti-Transgender Legislation" by Kristina Bowers, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
1:50 - 2:45 PM Afternoon Break
2:45 - 3:00 PM "Decolonizing the Literate Subject: The Multimodal Language System of Black Twitter" by Maurika Smutherman, North Carolina State University
3:05 - 3:20 PM "Cultural Survival Rhetoric on BIPOC Facebook Pages" by Codi Renee Blackmon, East Carolina University
3:25 - 3:30 PM Closing Remarks
3:30 - 4:00 PM VR Social (via Mozilla Hubs)
Saturday, February 26th
10:20 AM (EST) Opening Remarks
10:35 - 10:50 AM "Communicating for the Future: Multimodality in the HBCU Writing Center" by Maurika Smutherman, North Carolina State University
10:55 - 11:10 AM "The Conversation”: Recognizing Classroom Labor Contingencies as Sites for a Post-Critical Rhetoric of Generosity" by Benjamin McCarthy, North Carolina State University
11:10 - 12:00 PM Lunch Break
12:15 - 12:30 PM "Interactive Documentary: A Medium for Social Change and Survival" by Lindsey Reich, North Carolina State University
12:35 - 12:50 PM "Survival and Satire: Rhetoric and the Modern Comic Frame" by Craig Hawley, University of South Carolina
12:50 - 1:45 PM Afternoon Break
1:45 - 2:00 PM "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Semiotics: Archives, Indigenous Practices, Glowing Cats, and the Anthropocene Classroom" by John Purfield, University of South Carolina
2:05 - 2:20 PM "Nature vs. Culture and Human Response-ability: Rethinking COVID-19 as a Wild Object" by Paolena Comouche, University of South Carolina
2:25 - 2:40 PM "Revisiting the Nature, Scope, and Function of Rhetoric for the Anthropocene" by Cynthia Rosenfeld, North Carolina State University
2:45 - 3:00 PM Closing Remarks
3:00 - 4:00 PM VR Social