Positive Communication Plenary Lecture Series—Happy Hours for the Communication Mind featuring:
§ Dr. E. James Baesler (Old Dominion University)— Opening the Mind, Engaging the Body, and Igniting the Spirit: Prayer as Religious/Spiritual Communication
§ Dr. Douglas Kelley (Arizona State University)—Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Restoring Personal and Relational Health
§ Dr. Lawrence Frey (University of Colorado)— Promoting Positive Social Change and Justice through Communication Activism Scholarship
Civil Rights Activism:
§ Positive Communication--Rhetorical Genealogy, Memory and the Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer. Maegan Parker Brooks (University of Puget Sound, Davis Houck (Florida State University), Martin J. Medhurst (Baylor University), Mary Stuckey (Georgia State) and Vergie Hamer Faulkner, Memphis, TN (Daughter of Fannie Lou Hammer). This panel explores the public speechmaking of civil rights activist and icon, Fannie Lou Hamer. With the publication of In Her Words: The Rhetoric of Fannie Lou Hamer, 1963-1976 (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), editors Brooks and Houck have collected 20 of Hamer’s speeches through years of archival work. Their discoveries, most of which are on audiotape, promise to add significantly to our understanding of Hamer, the civil rights movement, and Mississippi politics. Memphis resident Vergie Hamer Faulkner, the only surviving child of Fannie Lou Hamer, will share memories of her mother’s rhetorical activism.
Positive Communication Meditation:
§ Dr. Christine E. Kiesinger (George Washington University), Meditation & Mindfulness Practices to Enhance Positive Communication Within The Self: An Experiential Session
And much more . . . Click on the Speakers and Highlights Page for more details.
