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Lydia McDermott

Listed at 14 conventions, 2011–2025, 20 listings.

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

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2000200520102015202020251998 2011: speaker (1)2012: speaker (1)2013: speaker (1)2014: chair (1)2014: speaker (1)2015: chair (1)2016: chair (1)2017: facilitator (1)2017: speaker (2)2018: chair (1)2018: speaker (1)2019: chair (1)2020: chair (2)2020: speaker (1)2021: facilitator (1)2022: facilitator (1)2024: speaker (1)2025: speaker (1)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2011Theorizing Bodies
“A Womb of One’s Own: A Wandering Rhetoric”		Speakers Ohio University, Athens → Ohio University
2012Performance and Voice in the Acts of Rhetoric and Writing
“Echo, the Ventriloquist: A Rhetoric of Throwing Voices”		Speakers Ohio University, Athens → Ohio University
2013Mapping Our Discursive Homes across Disciplinary, National, and Digital Borders
“Mapping our Discursive Homes across Disciplinary Borders”		Speakers Ohio University, Athens → Ohio University
2014Between Open and Closed, Queer PossibilityChair Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA → Whitman College
2014Between Open and Closed, Queer Possibility
“Lives Ajar: When Queer Opening Leads to Trans Closing”		Speakers Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA → Whitman College
2015Feminist Workshop: Teaching, Service, and the MaterialCo-Chairs Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA → Whitman College
2016Feminist Workshop: Action through CareCo-Chairs Whitman College → Whitman College
2017Cultivating Balance in Caregiving: A Cross-Generational ConversationFacilitators Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA → Whitman College
2017Cultivating Transnational Feminist Critique: The Rhetoric of Human Rights under Scrutiny
“Is Access to Midwifery a Basic Human Right? The Rhetorical Ecology of Global Midwifery”		Speakers Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA → Whitman College
2017Feminist Workshop: Intersectionality within WritingSpeakers Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA → Whitman College
2018Feminist Rhetorics and Digital Humanities: Challenges and OpportunitiesSpeakers Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA → Whitman College
2018Feminist Workshop: Feminist Rhetorics of ResistanceCo-Chairs Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA → Whitman College
2019Living Feminist Lives: Materialities, Methodologies, and PracticesChairs Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA → Whitman College
2020Knee-Jerk Reactions and Just Plain Jerks: Challenging
“Love in the Face of Trauma Spectacle and White Fragility”		Speakers Whitman College → Whitman College
2020Rhetoric’s Histories: Traditions, Theories, Pedagogies, and PracticesChairs Whitman College → Whitman College
2020Building Coalition across CommonplacesChairs Whitman College → Whitman College
2021Coalition as CommonplaceWorkshop Facilitators Whitman College → Whitman College
2022Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other Prerecorded/ScheduledRoundtable Leaders Whitman College → Whitman College
2024Rhetoric’'s Histories: Traditions, Theories, Pedagogies, and Practices—Sponsored SIGSpeaker(s) Whitman College → Whitman College
2025Creative-Critical Multimodal Play as Rhetorical Pedagogy and PracticeSpeaker(s) Whitman College → Whitman College

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