SCHEDULE.

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9:00-Until

  Registration

9:00-10:30am

 Session Ia

• Steven Specht, Utica College, “Konokol and Kernels of Corn: The Complexity of Communicating Rhythmic Patterns”

• Dave Roberts, Utica College, “The Healing Road: How Movement, Music and Nature Can Help Us Resolve Ambiguity and Improve Human Capability and Performance”

• Jason Wiens & Isabelle Groenhof, University of Calgary, “Sound Pedagogies: Interventions in the Audio Archive”

11:00-12:30am

 Session IIa

• “Silence, Sound, Image, and Performance Images”

• • Nathan Long, Stockton University • Terry Moore, Independent Scholar

  Session IIb

• Gregory Michna, “Archival Silences and the Rhythm of Everyday Life: Reconstructing the Childhood of Stephen Williams, 1694-1704”

• Mary Ruth Wallen, Big Sandy Community and Technical College, “Music, Memory, and Mournful Performance in Hardy’s Unexpected Elegies Thomas Hardy’s Unexpected Elegies”

• •L. Patrick Burrows, Harvard University, “‘I had to have this talk with you’: Dolly Parton and the Hospitality of Silence at Dollywood”

2​:00-3:30pm

  Session IIIa

• Theresa Flanigan, The College of Saint Rose, “Performing Woman’s Speech in Renaissance Florence: Lucrezia Tornabuoni’s Sacred Narratives”

• Leslie Boldt, Brock University, “Unintelligibility, Invisibility, Inaudibility: The Search for Meaning in Silence”

• Amalia Oswald, Virginia Commonwealth University, “Women, Action, and Satire in Frances Burney’s Evelina”

Session IIIb

• “Silence, Sound, Rhythm, and Performance, An Instillation”

  • Lee Simmons, Middle Georgia State University

  • Charlie Agnew, Middle Georgia State University, “Calligraphic Line Series”

• Daniel J. King, Ohio University, “NEW OLD IMAGES: Reconsidering Personal and Forgotten Photographs”

4​:00-5:30pm

 Session IVa

• Susan Cumings, The University at Albany, SUNY, “Listen Louder: Disabled YouTubers, Counterpublics, and Relational Ethics.”

• William P. Boyce, University of Virginia, “Pop Cultural Icon/-ography: A Queer Triptych of Tragic Desire”

• Nathan Long, Stockton University, “Coming Out in Silence”

 Session IVb

• Julia Finch, Morehead State University, “Rhythm in the Making: Chester Cornett and His Rocking Chairs”

• Juanita Dixon, Eagle Arts Academy, “Providing a Voice for Appalachia’s Silenced Art Students”

• Barbara Kutis, Indiana University, “The Performance of Parenting in the Video Art of Guy BenNer.”

6​:30-8:00pm Plenary

Open Mic

• Mary Ann Janda

• Floyd Miklic

• Daniel King

• Dave Roberts

• Nathan Long

• Catherine Swender

• Steven Specht

​9:00-10:30am

  Session Ia

• Russell Fail and Amy Smith, Purdue University Global, “The Banana We Eat Today is Not the Bananas Our Grandparents Ate”

• Keith W. Hamon, Middle Georgia State University, “The Rhythm of Community in the College Classroom”

• Dan Thero, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Life in Simulation? An End to the Rhythm and Performance of Life or Much Sound and Fury?”

 Session Ib

• “Silence, Sound, Image, and Performance Images”

  • Amy Tudor, Bellarmine University • Linnéa Franits

​11:00-12:30pm

 Session IIa

• John Phillips, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, “Gerald Murnane at the Border”

• Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht, Purdue University Global, “Martha Nussbaum: Emotions, Passion, and Care”

• Emily Moore, King’s College, London, “Urban Rhythm and Identity in the works of Virginia Woolf”

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 Session IIb

• Catherine Swender, Spring Hill College, “‘Hear Me, Cease to Speak, That I May Speak’: Poetic Conversations with Silence”

• Dean Thompson, Presbyterian College, “Taking Them Forward with Silent Film”

• Stefan Wiecki, Presbyterian College, “Creative Pedagogy in Practice: Students Create Documentaries and Escape Rooms”

2:00-3:30pm

 Session IIIa

• Brett Bebber, Old Dominion University, “Revisiting Racism in Modern Football: the Mesut Ozil Controversy and Apologetic Performance”

• Kevin P. Morris II, Syracuse University, “Soundscaping Trauma: Coping with Black (Male) Vulnerability in the Age of Mass Incarceration”

• Guy V. Beckwith, Auburn University, “The Machine Takes Center Stage: Images of Technology in Ancient Greek Drama”

Session IIIb

• Jane Blanchard, Independent Scholar, “The Variable Villanelle”

• Raymond Boisvert, Siena College, “Albert Camus: Silence, Nihilism, Love”

• Esther Murillo-Miklic, The College of Saint Rose, “Don Quijote’s Journey from Literature to the Arts”

• Ali Aljohani, Independent Scholar, “Language Maintenance or Shift? A Sociolinguistic Investigation into the Use of Arabic Language in USA”

​4:00-5:30pm

 Session IVa

• Ali Aljohani, Independent Scholar, “To Be Polite, You Should Follow These Principles! Politeness and Pragmatic Competence of Saudi Learners of English: An Inter-cultural Analysis”

• Chingshun J. Sheu, National Taiwan Normal University, “Cinema as Deep Healing: Sound, Silence, Rhythm, and Performance in Christopher Makoto Yogi’s Film “August at Akiko’s”

• Myra Mendible, Florida Gulf Coast University, “Moments of Silence Amid the Din of War: Brian Turner’s My Life as a Foreign Country”

 Session IVb

• Roberta Wall, Independent Scholar, “Connection Through Silence” •Floyd Miklic, Independent Scholar, “Social Anxiety”

• W.E. Gray, Independent Scholar, “Home Cooks and Culinary Performance”

​7:00-8:00 Plenary

The Forrest Shearon and Percy Miller Memorial Event

• River Guerguerian, Percussionist