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Dates: March 4-7, 2010 Barack Obama’s meteoric rise from a little known Illinois state Senator in 2004 to President of the United States in 2008 was made possible in large part by his exceptional media strategies and rhetorical performances. President Obama’s image, words, and family have all become a part of the world-wide phenomenon that is Barack Obama. This conference will bring together rhetoric, media, and political science scholars to explore and analyze Barack Obama’s image politics, communication practices, and rhetorical strategies. Scholars will present papers on such topics as the visual politics of Obama, Obama and leadership, Obama and civil rights, Obama’s rhetorical style, and other topics relevant to the Obama phenomenon. Bonnie Dow will deliver Texas A&M’s annual Kurt Ritter Lecture in Political Rhetoric during the conference on the image politics/media coverage of Michelle Obama. One goal of the conference is to draw together both established and junior scholars (including graduate students) who are interested in the Obama phenomenon. Therefore, the conference will feature both plenary speakers and contributed paper presentations. A second goal of the conference is to draw together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who are interested in the Obama phenomenon. Therefore, rhetorical, presidential, media, and political science scholars will serve as plenary speakers and respondents. Plenary and contributed papers and responses will be competitively selected to appear in a planned edited conference volume. Scholars interested in contributing a paper to the conference should submit a one-page abstract to: Dr. Jennifer Mercieca Deadline for abstract submissions is October 1, 2009; notifications of acceptance will go out November 1, 2009; completed papers are due February 1. For more information contact conference organizers Dr. Jennifer Mercieca, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University (mercieca@tamu.edu) or Dr. Justin Vaughn, Department of Political Science, Cleveland State University (j.s.vaughn@csuohio.edu). |
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