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Critical Studies in Human Communication:
Theory and Practice at the Crossroads


A Graduate Student Colloquium

Department of Speech Communication

The California State University, Northridge

Saturday May 18
Sunday May 19
1996

Schedule of Events

Saturday, May 19:
10:00 AM:
Virtually-Becoming-Human:
Speech Communication Enters the Twenty-First Century

(Opening Remarks)
Ben Attias
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM: Ethnographic Excursions:
National, Corporate, and Nomadic Cultures
"Preserving Cultural Identity:
The Armenian Youth Of Glendale."
George Nshanyan
"The Many Families at Kinko's:
A Metaphorical Analysis of Organizational Communication"
Skye MacPherson
"Swapping Stories, Meeting Minds:
An Ethnography of Swap Meet Vendors' Personal Narratives as Normative Discourse"
Kurt Lowry
11:45 AM - 1:25 PM: LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM: "Race" in Black and White:
Theorizing Identity and Difference in the White Supremacist Institution
"The Great Divide" Monica Turner
"A Thin Line Between
'Fitting In' and 'Selling Out':
Deconstructing Racial Perceptions and Discrimination in White America"
Dianne Davis
"Where We are Comin' From an Goin' to:
Placing as a Means for Black Students to Claim Communal Territories"
Corinna J. Moebius
"Everywhere and Nowhere:
The Difficulty in Detecting the 'Whiteness' Virus"
Daniel Makagon
3:45 PM - 5:45 PM: Critical Theory, Critical Practice:
The Politics of Method and Radical Social Change
"Cultural Diversity in Organizations" Vrej Elyasi
"Strategic Subversion:
An Intervention for the Self-Fulfilling Prophesy"
Cathy Kruska
"Cultural Ideologies:
In Communication Theory the Personal is Political and the Political is Theory"
Skye MacPherson
"In Search Of... America the Beautiful:
Voices from Our Past as Contemporary Redressive Action."
Kurt Lowry
Sunday, May 19th, 1996
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Imperial Domination and Intercultural Communication:
Critical Communication Studies in an International Frame
"The Universality of Human Experience?" Kathy Kwon
"Forgotten Pioneers:
The Mexicans of Simi Valley"
George Nshanyan
"The Exclusion of the Third World Feminine Voice Within the Western World" Susan Whitney
"The Imperial Power Strikes Again:
The Problem With Criticizing Dancehall's 'Batty Boy' Lyrics"
Daniel Makagon
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM: LUNCH BREAK
1:00 - 3:30 PM: Sex-in(g) the Text:
Genders and Sexualities in Representation
"Dismantling the Matriarchy:
Woman Racing Black in a Patriarchal Universe of Discourse"
Monica Turner
"Lesbians, their Children, and the Law" Karen Leong
"A Closer Look at 'Normal Sex'" Tristen M. Lazareff
"Pornography and the Economy of the Phallus" Carla Swift
"Women in Law Enforcement:
Dramatized Narratives and Organizational Realities"
Christopher Skiles
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM: Bringing it all Back Home:
The Discipline and the Department
"Subaltern Voices:
A Study of the Minorities and Minority Voices Represented in the Journals of the SCA"
Jessica Brow and Monica Turner
"Theory in Context: A Review of the Department" Dianne Davis,
Kathy Kwon,
and
George Nshanyan
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Roundtable Discussion:

The Current State of the Discipline and The Future of the Department


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