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Irene Papoulis

Listed at 22 conventions, 1998–2025, 32 listings.

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2000200520102015202020251998 1998: speaker (1)1999: speaker (1)2004: speaker (1)2005: speaker (1)2006: speaker (1)2007: chair (1)2007: speaker (1)2008: chair (1)2008: speaker (1)2009: chair (1)2009: speaker (1)2011: chair (1)2012: chair (1)2012: speaker (1)2014: chair (1)2015: speaker (2)2016: speaker (3)2017: chair (1)2017: speaker (2)2018: speaker (1)2019: speaker (1)2020: speaker (2)2021: speaker (1)2022: speaker (1)2023: speaker (1)2024: speaker (1)2025: speaker (1)

speakerchairrespondentfacilitatorother Grey band: 2000–2003, not in the corpus.

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
1998Swapping Stories: An Expressivist and a Rhetorician Seek Common Ground
“Swapping Stories: An Expressivist and a Rhetorician Seek Common Ground”
Presenters Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
1999Re-Envisioning the Personal
“Making Feelings Visible: Anger, Fear, Sadness, and the Politics of Arguing Differently”
Presenters Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2004Emotion and Advocacy: How the Personal Helps Composition Matter
“Nagging Emotions in the Writing Classroom: Fear, Anger, and Guilt as Obstacles to Advocacy”
Presenters Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2005Writing from and for Reading: The Challenge of Difficult Texts
“Blocks to Access: Emotional Barriers to Reading Difficult Texts”
Presenters Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2006The Invitations of Genre: Dialogue, Desire, and Versions of the “I”
“Versions of the ‘I’ in Non-Autobiographical Genres: The Pleasures of Constraint”
Speakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2007Genres as Invitations into Academic Identities
“Academic Genres and Pre-College Identities in 2-year and 4-year College Students: Parallels and Divergences”
Speakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2007Comfort and Discomfort in the Writing Classroom: A Day of Inquiry and ExperienceChair Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2008Ethical Challenges in Reading, Writing, Teaching Creative
“First, Do No Harm: The Ethics of Encouraging Brutal Honesty”
Speakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2008Reclaiming the Wisdom Traditions for Education: A Preview of the 2008 Summer Conference of the NCTECo-Chairs Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2009Teaching for Change: Strategies, Obstacles, and PossibilitiesChair Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2009Teaching for Change: Strategies, Obstacles, and Possibilities
“Emotional Obstacles to Teaching for Change”
Speakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2011Zen and the Art of Writing Teacher MaintenanceChair Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2012Gateways to Self and Others: Examining ContemplativeChair Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2012Writing Teachers Writing: Deepening Our Passion for Our Own Writing
“Writing about an Emotion”
Speakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2014Zen and the Art of English Teacher MaintenanceCo-Chairs Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2015Risk and Resilience: Women’s Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition
“They Always Say You Can Learn from Failure, and Sometimes You Actually Can”
Speakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2015Writing and Teaching Creative Nonfiction: Risks and Rewards (Sponsored by the Creative Nonfiction Standing
“Excavating Emotions in Creative Nonfiction”
Speakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2016Creative Nonfiction: Exploring the History and Imagining the Future of an Active GenreSpeakers Trinity College → Trinity College
2016Zen and the Art of English Teacher Maintenance: Finding Wiser Ways of Being, Teaching, and InhabitingSpeakers Trinity College → Trinity College
2016Writing Teachers Writing: Words in/as ActionSpeakers Trinity College → Trinity College
2017Cultivating Creative Nonfiction for Imaginative Habits of Mind
“The Anxiety of Academic Self-Exposure: Creative Nonfiction, Elbow’s ‘Responding Guidelines,’ and Millennial Sensibilities”
Speakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2017SIG for the Creative Nonfiction Standing Group: PeterChairs Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2017Cultivating Our Creative Capacities: Writing TeachersSpeakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2018Language-Oriented and Labor-Oriented Reflections on Writing about Women’s Professional Lives in Rhetoric
“Engaging with Shame: How My Sense of Inadequacy Turned into an Essay”
Speakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2019Performing Our Lives: Creative Nonfiction and (the ArtSpeakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2020Who Are Our Students? Reclaiming Identities in the Humanistic Classroom
“Are Students Too Self-Absorbed? The Move from Superficial Image-Consciousness to Potent Self-Acquaintance in a Personal Essay Writing Class”
Speakers Trinity College, Hartford, CT → Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2020Writing Creative Nonfiction: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
“Exploring Your Relationship with Dancing”
Speakers Trinity College → Trinity College
2021Writing Creative Nonfiction: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
“Exploring Your Relationship with Dancing”
Speakers Trinity College → Trinity College
2022Who Are Our Students? Strategies for Confronting the Complexities of Their (and Our) Identities
“Are Students Too Self-Absorbed? From Superficial Image-Consciousness to Potent Self-Awareness in a FY Writing Class”
Speakers Trinity College → Trinity College
2023Who Are Our Students, and What Do They Hope For?
“What Hopes Might a Student’s Apparent ‘Self-Absorption’ Conceal?”
Speakers Trinity College → Trinity College
2024Writing Freely against Scarce Time: A Creative Nonfiction Writing WorkshopSpeaker(s) Trinity College → Trinity College
2025Creative Nonfiction Standing Group Business MeetingSpeaker(s) Trinity College → Trinity College

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