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Laura Sparks

Listed at 7 conventions, 2011–2023, 7 listings.

changes of institution This name appears at several institutions in sequence and is read as one person changing jobs.

Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 2011: speaker (1)2012: speaker (1)2013: speaker (1)2015: speaker (1)2017: speaker (1)2019: speaker (1)2023: speaker (1)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2011The (Im)Possibilities of Rhetorical Witnessing: Theory, Methodology, and Pedagogy
“Rhetorical Witnessing and Public Performance in Anne Askew’s Examinations”
Speakers Indiana University, Bloomington → Indiana University Bloomington
2012Encountering the Visual: Rhetorical Stances of Skepticism, Cynicism, and Iconoclasm
“Citizen Cynics: Encountering Abu Ghraib, Again”
Speakers Indiana University, Bloomington → Indiana University Bloomington
2013You Are Here: Rhetoric, Response, and Respect
“Made and Unmade After Abu Ghraib: Digital Media and the Rhetoric of Torture”
Speakers Indiana University, Bloomington → Indiana University Bloomington
2015Insert Your Picture Here: Locating the Self with Digital Images
“The Body Image: Selfies, SkinneePix, and Our Malleable Digital Bodies”
Speakers California State University, Chico → California State University, Chico
2017Composing in Repair: What We Learn from Makers and Making
“Rhetoric and Invention in a Time of Torture”
Speakers California State University, Chico → California State University, Chico
2019What’s in a Name? Let’s Treat That as a Real Question
“‘Execute Justice, Not People’: Rhetorical Delivery and the Digital Matter of Human Rights Activism”
Speakers California State University, Chico → California State University, Chico
2023Crawling into FYW
“Hope in Numbers: Nonscalability and Transformative Relationships in the First-Year Composition ‘Jumbo’”
Speakers California State University, Chico → California State University, Chico

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