Academic Conference Presentations
Plec, E. (2019). Bodies of Water. Poster Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Vancouver, B.C. Crocker, L., Plec, E., Hafen, S., Craig, E. & Gordon, J. (2019). Animals, Nature & Human Relationships. Preconference workshop presented at the Western States Communication Association convention, Seattle. Plec, E. (2018). Animated Animal Nativity Stories: Making Sense of The Star. Presented at the International Society for Anthrozoology conference, Sydney, Australia. Parrish, A. & Plec, E. (2017). Animal Rhetorics. Workshop to be presented at the Rhetoric Society of America conference. Clarke, T., Peeples, J. A., Peterson, T. R., Plec, E., Rogers, R., Salvador, M. &, Schwarze, S., (2017). Celebrating the Life, Work and Contributions of Dr. Christine Oravec. Presented at the Western States Communication Association conference. Salvador, M., Rogers, R., Callister, D., DeLaurier, M. Plec, E., & Peterson, T. R. (2016). Innovating, Collaborating and Converging on the Transhumanist Agenda for Environmental Communication. Roundtable presented at the Western States Communication Association conference, San Diego. Plec, E., Hartnett, S. J., Mina, A., Christian, E. B., Lovaas, K., Badger, L., Wood, J. K., Novek, E. & McCann, B. (2015). Prison Communication: Embracing a Decade of Opportunities for Activism, Research and Education. Roundtable presented at the National Communication Association conference, Las Vegas. Sery, J., McCann, B., Hartnett, S. J. & Plec, E. (2015). Problems and Possibilities for Prison Reform: PCARE and the Role of Scholarly Intervention. Roundtable presented at the Western States Communication Association conference, Spokane. Plec, E., Schutten, J., & Schneider, J. (2015). Internatural Communication Praxis: Experiencing the Positive. Workshop delivered at River’s Wish Animal Sanctuary in conjunction with the Western States Communication Association conference, Spokane. Plec, E. (2015). Serving on Governing Boards: Institutional and Disciplinary Insights. Presented at the Western States Communication Association conference, Spokane. Plec, E. (2014). Invoking the Past, Transforming the Present: Oregon's death penalty discourse. Presented at the National Communication Association, Chicago. Plec, E. (2014). (Black) Man vs. Cheetah: Perpetuation and transformation of the rhetoric of racism. Presented at the National Communication Association, Chicago. Plec, E. (2014). Dissenting from Anthropentric Cultures: The Internatural Communication paradigm. Presented at the Eastern Communication Association conference, Providence. Plec, E. (2013). Environmental Communication Curriculum. Poster presented at the International Environmental Communication Association conference, Uppsala. Plec, E. (2012). Raising the Voice of Environmental Communication: How did we get here and where are we going? Presented at the Western States Communication Association convention, Albuquerque. Plec. E. (2011). Animal-Human Dialectics: Toward a Rhetoric of Behaviorism. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, El Paso. Plec, E. (2010). A Natural fit? Nontraditional students and undergraduate research opportunities. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Francisco. Pettenger, M. & Plec, E. (2010). Selling Green: Contrasting Corporate and Citizen Discourse. Presented by the first author at the International Studies Association Convention, New Orleans. Plec, E. (2010). Sustaining Communities of Interest: Environmental Communication Outreach. Presented at the Northwest Communication Association conference, Coeur D’Alene, ID. Plec, E. (2009). Environmental Communication : Advances in Community Based Practices. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (2009). Conversation Partners: An Approach to Experiential and Intercultural Service Learning. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (2009). Learning to Howl: Animal-Human communication on a sled team. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Portland, Maine. Plec, E. (2009). Moral liability and the rhetoric of Olympic boycott movements: Toward a complicity theory of discrimination. Top paper award. Presented at the Northwest Communication Association conference, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2009). “It didn't look like this before”: Rural Landowners’ Responses to a Watershed Council Outreach Effort. Presented at the Western States Communication Association conference, Phoenix/Mesa. Plec, E. (2008). Making Sustainable Connections: Service Learning and Community Based Research in Environmental Communication. Pre-conference presentation at the National Communication Association Convention, San Diego. Plec, E. (2008). The Great White Hype: Rhetoric and racial biology in coverage of the 1968 Olympic Protest. Top Paper Award. Presented at the Third Summit on Communication and Sport, Clemson, SC. Plec, E. (2007). The Forum and Decorum: Public memory of the 1968 Olympic Protest. Presented at the Public Memory and Ethnicity Conference, Portland, OR. Plec, E. (2007). Rural perspectives on rivers and watersheds: Environmental rhetoric (and resistance) in the backwoods. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Chicago. Plec, E. (2007). Moving to the next level: Transforming conference papers into journal articles or theses. Workshop presented at the Northwest Communication Association Convention, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2007). Beneath the Surface Frames: The Discourse of Nativism in Oregon’s Anti-Immigrant Movement. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Seattle. Schwarz, S., Willard, B., Plec, E., Depoe, S., and Gray, J. (2006). Teaching Environmental Communication: A Site for Connection and Action. Short course presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio. Plec, E. (2006). Contemporary Native American rhetoric: Wilma Mankiller and the rhetorical construction of Indian sovereignty. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio. Plec, E. (2006). The Discourse of innocence in Sr. Helen Prejean’s The Death of Innocents. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio. Plec, E. (2006). All our relations: Wilma Mankiller’s rhetoric of feminist ecology. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio. Plec, E. (2005). Poisoning a people, poisoning a planet: Farmworkers, environmental justice, and the material rhetoric of pesticides. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Jekyll Island. Plec, E. & Mayhead, M. (2005). Building bridges: The Politics of the personal in Queen Noor’s Leap of Faith. Presented at the Northwest Communication Association Conference, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2005). Tlatelolco: The iconography of public memory. Presented at the Northwest Communication Association Conference, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2004). Looking back, moving forward? Public memory and the reconstruction of racial history. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (2004). Dolores Huerta: Activist woman orator. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (2004). Moving forward, looking back: Action and Reflection in the Environmental Communication Course. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (2004). Critical approaches to media literacy and terrorism. Presented at the Northwest Communication Association Convention, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2004). The Rhetoric of migrant farmworkers. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Albuquerque. Plec, E. (2003). The Dialogic of animal-human communication. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach. Plec, E., Carey, C., Bullis, C., Peterson, T. R., Senecah, S., & Willard, B. (2003). Ways of learning: Service learning in Environmental Communication. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Silver Falls. Plec, E. & Marafiote, T. (2003). Ambivalency and hybridity in environmental discourse. Presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Silver Falls. Plec, E. (2003). From orality to literacy to visuality. Presented at the Western States Communication Association convention, Salt Lake City. Plec, E. (2003). La Noche Triste: Cultural trauma and memory in Mexico City. Top Paper Award. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Salt Lake City. Plec, E. (2003). Schismatics as critical rhetorical praxis. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Salt Lake City. Plec, E. & Marafiote, T. (2002). Ambivalency and articulations of the nature/culture dualism in environmental discourse. Top Paper Award. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans. Plec, E. (2002). Tlatelolco: Memory, performance and textual trauma. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans. Plec, E. (2002). Frank Waters’ ecofeminist sensibility. Presented at the Frank Waters Centennial Celebration, Taos. Plec, E. (2002). Whitey’s Olympics: The Discourse of discrimination in international sport. Presented at the International Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference on Argumentation, Amsterdam. Plec, E. (2001). Frank Waters’ dialogic sensibility. Presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Vancouver. Plec, E., Bullis, C., Cantrill, J., Cox, R., Hendry, J., Jaehne, D., Marafiote, T., Neuwirth, M., & Peterson, T. (2001). Bridging communication theory and environmental activism. Panel presented at the Conference on Communication and the Environment, Cincinnati. Plec, E. (2001). Signifying Civil Rights and Black Power: Contemporary implications of historical representations. Presented at the Twelfth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, July. Anderson, J., Colvin, J. & Plec, E. (2001). Liberation pedagogy and the introductory communication course. Presented by first author at the Central States Communication Association Convention, Cincinnati. Plec, E. (2001). Media studies and classroom praxis. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Coeur D’Alene. Plec, E. (2000). The rhetoric of athletic protest: Reading the 1968 Olympics as a speech act. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Seattle. Plec, E. (2000). Outcasting: A representative anecdote for sensational youth homicide. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Seattle. Plec, E. (2000). Narrative, counternarrative, and historical memory: Critical Race Theory and the emancipatory potential of documentary film. Presented at the NCA Summer Conference on Communication and Cultural Politics, Iowa City. Plec, E. (2000). Listening and utterance: An exploration of eco-dialogics. Top Student Paper Award. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Sacramento. Schuetz, J. & Plec, E. (2000). The women of the Clinton scandal: Linda Tripp. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Sacramento. Plec, E. (1999). Positioning non-unitary subjectivities: Poetry as discursive empowerment for adolescent girls. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (1999). Applying rhetorical methods to health communication. Presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago. Plec, E. (1999). Critical rhetoric and Frank Waters: Making connections. Presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Santa Fe. Plec, E. (1999). Rethinking the war: Toward an ecology of drug and crime policy. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Vancouver. Plec, E. (1998). Rhetorical visions in safe-sex public service announcements. Presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, Denver. Plec, E. (1996). Falling to pieces: A generic approach to eulogistic music and the aircraft deaths of three generations of pop stars. Presented at the Speech Communication Association Convention, San Diego. Plec, E. (1996). Twentieth century Pueblo Indian culture and The Man Who Killed the Deer: An inscriptive analysis. Presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Albuquerque. |
Community (Invited) Presentations
Moderator, “In the Executioner’s Shadow.” Film screening and dialogue with Gov. John Kitzhaber, OSP Superintendent Frank Thompson, Capital Attorney Jeff Ellis, and Chief Justice Paul DeMuniz, 2019. Emcee, Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Annual Meeting, 2015, 2016, 2018. Moderator, “The Conversation: Oregon’s Death Penalty Up Close.” Filmed conversation with Gov. John Kitzhaber, OSP Superintendent Frank Thompson, and DOC Director Dave Cook. Willamette University, 2017. “Encomium of Christine.” Invited presentation: “Celebrating the Life, Work and Contributions of Dr. Christine Oravec.” Presented at the Western States Communication Association conference, Salt Lake City, 2017. “Environmental Communication Mix & Mingle with Book Authors” International Communication Association convention, Puerto Rico, 2015 “Technocratic Green: The Framing of ExxonMobil’s Energy Solutions” Understanding Sustainability conference, Portland State University, 2010. “Why can’t we all just get along? Dealing with Difficult People” Oregon Library Association conference, Keizer, 2009 “El Plan & Chicano Movement Rhetoric” MEChA Regional Conference, Western Oregon University, 2009. “Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Meditation on the Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality” Gender Equality Symposium Lecture, Gongju National University of Education, Gongju, Republic of Korea, 2008. “The Art of Successful Advocacy” Keynote Lecture, State of Oregon Long-Term Care Ombudsman Conference, Eugene, 2008. “Giving a Successful Powerpoint Presentation,” Summer Bridge Program, Western Oregon University, 2008. “The Bitter Roots of Education” Keynote Lecture, Student Enrichment Program TRiO Day, Western Oregon University, 2008. “Cesar Chavez & the Rhetoric of Social Change” Cesar Chavez Leadership Conference, Western Oregon University, 2008. "Visual Rhetoric and the Olympic Games," Lecture at Tong Ji-Huxi University, Shanghai, 2007. "Environmental Communication," Lecture at ZhenJiang University, Hangzhou, 2007. “Safe Zone Workshop” Student Health and Counseling Center Staff Workshop, Western Oregon University, 2007. Student Services Staff Workshop, 2013. “Environmental Communication” Forum for Values, Science & Religion, Independence OR, 2007. “Remembering Edward Said: Justice and Humanity in the Modern World” Philosophy Club Lecture, Western Oregon University, 2003. “Becoming a Master Student” Student Enrichment Program, Western Oregon University, 2003. “The Politics of Normativity” Diversity Brown Bag Series, Western Oregon University, 2002. |