2022 Conference Program Directory of Environmental Rhetoric Panels Camp Presentations

NCERW Business Meeting: Coffee “Meet & Greet” Friday, May 27, 2022 at 10:00-11:00 a.m. Bristol Room

NCERW Sessions:


  • C11 - Environmental Narratives of Change, Sponsored by the National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing

Friday, May 27, 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM, Essex A, 4th Floor


  • D11 - Environmental Rhetoric as Resistance & Resilience, Sponsored by the National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing

Friday, May 27, 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM, Essex A, 4th Floor


Environmental Rhetoric Panels and Presentations Strand:

Session: B-23 - Room: Laurel D

  • Reinhabiting the Earth: Charging Environmental Conversations

  • Chair(s): Elisa Cogbill-Seiders Panelists: Lisa Phillips, Russell Mayo, Justin Everett, Lindsay Jacoby


Session: C16

  • Towards an Epistemology of Change: Plato and the Rhetoricity of Knowledge Room: Heron Rhetorical Theory's Interventional Potential in Scientific Discourses

  • Chair(s): Mohammed Iddrisu

  • A Posthuman Epideixis: Detaching Blame and Causality in Environmental Disasters Daniel Richards


Session: C27 Room: Harbor E

  • Transforming Belief: Rhetoric, Religion, and Climate Change

  • Chair(s): Mari Ramler Panelists: Emma Bloomfield, John Purfield, Chaim McNamee


Session: D-19 - Room: Kent C

  • New Stewards: Changing Climate after Denial

  • Chair(s): James Zeigler Panelists: Evin Groundwater, Roxanne Mountford, James Zeigler, Erin Brock Carlson


Session: D26Room: Harbor D

  • Plagued Hospitality: Biopolitics Amidst the Host of Hosts

  • Chair(s): Stuart Murray Panelists: Dave Tell, Diane Davis, Stuart Murray, Bernice Hausman


Session: E20 - Room: Laurel A

  • The Rhetoric of Climate Change and Technology: Living in and Making Sense of the Anthropocene

  • Chair(s): Emma Bloomfield Panelists: Marcia Allison, Kundai Chirindo, Esben Nielsen, Mitch Reyes


Session: I15 Room: Galena

  • From Precarity to Invasion: Nonhuman Rhetorics in Times of Global Climate Change

  • Chair(s): Jennifer Clary-Lemon Panelists: Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Donnie Sackey


Session: I21 Room: Laurel B

  • Time, Memory, and the Environment

  • Chair(s): Atilla Hallsby Panelists: Kurt Zemlicka, Savannah Downing, Scot Barnett, John Lynch


Session: K01 - Room: Atlantic

  • Time for Change? What Rhetorical Constructions of Time Reveal About Environmental Risks to Public Health

  • Chair(s): Ana Cooke Panelists: Ana Cooke, Elisa Cogbill-Seiders, Erin Gangstad


Session: K02 - Room: Bristol

  • Ecological Actions in the Face of Crisis

  • Chair(s): Cody Hunter

  • “Anthropause” and Aftershocks: Post-Pandemic Attunement Elizabeth Baddour

  • Interacting Ecologies Across Time: COVID-19 in Border Communities William Ordeman

  • Future Publics: Citizenship and Belonging in Climate Activism Haley Schneider

  • In Motu Rhetoric: Environmental Refugees and Non-Place-Ness Alessandra Von Burg


Session: L04 Room: Dover A

  • Everyday Exigencies

  • Chair(s): Megan Mapes

  • Yinz Smell That?: Embodied, Everyday Rhetoric Surrounding Pittsburgh's Polluted Air and Water Cody Januszko


Session: L22Room: Laurel C

  • The Environmental and Climate Crisis

  • Chair(s): Nkenna Onwuzuruoha

  • Markers of Time: Repeat Photography, Landscape Images, and Environmental Issues Pam Axtman-Barker

  • The visual rhetoric of global youth activism for climate justice: Childhood subjectivities and the global inequalities of image events Frida Buhre

  • Redefining the Climate Crisis as a “Security” Threat: The Biden Administration’s Progress and Limitations in Addressing this Charge to Change Heidi Hamilton

  • Outlaws for Environmental Change in a Comic Book World: A Charge Against Corrupt Industries in a BIPOC Graphic Novel Elvira Carrizal-Dukes


Session: N-12 - Room: Essex B

  • Climate Questions Chair(s): TBD Change is Good? Emergent Ethics’ Challenge to the Promises of Emergent Rhetorics Tom Bowers

  • “Catalog Conservation: The Environmental Rhetoric of Outdoor Clothing Catalogs” Michaelann Nelson

  • Becoming Cassandra: Reading the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report as an Indictment Steven LeMieux

  • Self-Emptying: Climate Crises and a Buddhist Rhetoric/Ethics Ralph Cintron



Virtual Programs

Session: K04V

  • Anthropocene Rhetorics (Virtual)

  • A Fungal Future for Ecological Rhetoric Ian Ferris

  • Embodying Climate Numerically: Exploring the Quantitative Rhetoric of Climate Change Activists and Advocates Daniel Libertz

  • Partnering with Puffins 2: Virtual Cthulucene Michael Salvo

  • The Noösphere as Naturalistic Fallacy in Geoengineering Discourse Ehren Pflugfelder


Session: L03V

  • Rethinking Environmental Rhetoric (Virtual)

  • Back to the Future: The Visual Rhetoric of the Green New Deal Matt Bellinger

  • From Wonder to Action: Rhetorical Strategies for Conservation Communication Laura McGrath

  • Rhetorical Hexis and Changing Environmental Beliefs Ehren Pflugfelder

  • “Birds Used to Live Here:” George Mason Students Speak for the Trees: Illustration in Environmental Discourse and Rhetoric After the Fact Kathryn Meeks