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Seth Kahn

Listed at 18 conventions, 2004–2026, 38 listings.

Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 2004: facilitator (2)2005: chair (1)2005: speaker (1)2006: chair (2)2007: speaker (1)2009: chair (1)2009: speaker (2)2010: chair (1)2010: speaker (1)2011: facilitator (1)2011: speaker (1)2012: chair (2)2013: chair (1)2013: speaker (1)2014: chair (1)2014: respondent (1)2014: speaker (2)2015: chair (1)2015: speaker (1)2016: chair (1)2016: speaker (1)2017: facilitator (1)2017: speaker (3)2018: respondent (1)2018: facilitator (1)2020: facilitator (1)2023: speaker (1)2024: speaker (2)2026: chair (1)2026: facilitator (1)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2004RHETORICIANS FOR PEACEFacilitators West Chester University, PA → West Chester University
2004Qualitative Research NetworkFacilitator West Chester University, PA → West Chester University
2005War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength: Rhetoricians for Peace in Orwellian TimesPresenters West Chester University, PA → West Chester University
2005Qualitative Research NetworkChairs West Chester University, PA → West Chester University
2006The Activism(s) of Rhetoric: Rethinking Rhetorical Theory as Activist PracticeChair West Chester University, PA → West Chester University
2006Qualitative Research NetworkChairs West Chester University, PA → West Chester University
2007Should Teachers Take Sides in Political Controversies?
“‘Radical’ Doesn’t Always Mean ‘Partisan’”
Speakers West Chester University, PA → West Chester University
2009Labor Rhetoric and Academic Organizing: Possibilities and PredicamentsChair West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2009Labor Rhetoric and Academic Organizing: Possibilities and Predicaments
“If I Don’t Do It, Nobody Will’: Writing Program Faculty Fulfilling Management Responsibilities”
Speakers West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2009Troubling Boundaries: Social Action and Composition
“Teaching Writing and Rhetoric in the Chester County Peace Movement”
Speakers West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2010Reloading the Canon: Invention, Organization, and Academic Democracy
“Reclaiming Shared Governance”
Speakers West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2010Labor CaucusChairs West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2011Writing and Working for Change: Working Class Politics in CCCC
“Creating Workers, Expanding the Space of Labor: A History of the Labor Caucus”
Speakers West Chester University of Pennsylvani → West Chester University
2011Labor Organizing in Hard TimesDiscussion Leaders West Chester University of PA → West Chester University
2012Labor Caucus SIG MeetingCo-Chairs West Chester University, PA → West Chester University
2012Open Working Meeting of the Labor CaucusChair West Chester University, PA → West Chester University
2013The Contingent Academic Workforce: Myths, Facts, Prospects
“Refracting Disciplinarity through the Lens of Contingency”
Speakers West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2013Labor Caucus Special Interest GroupCo-Chairs West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2014Con Job: Stories of Adjunct and Contingent LaborRespondents West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2014Labor Caucus Special Interest GroupCo-Chairs West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2014The Problem of Speaking for/with/as Contingent Faculty: Navigating Networks of Advocacy
“From Self-Interest to Shared Interest: Advocating among Tenure-Track Faculty for Contingent Labor Equity”
Speakers West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2014The Labor-Friendly Writing Program/CenterSpeakers West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2015From Wyoming (Resolution) to Indiana (Resolution): A Working Session on a Work in Progress (SponsoredSpeakers West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2015Composing Pedagogies of LaborCo-Chairs West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2016Advocacy through Tutor Cultural Awareness and ActionChair West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2016Mobilizing Tenure-Track Faculty for Adjunct EquitySpeakers West Chester University → West Chester University
2017Austerity, Labor Conditions, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education: Leveraging Writing for DemocraticSpeakers West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester
2017Cultivating Balance: Personal, Research, and Teaching Strategies for Contingent FacultyFacilitators West Chester University, PA → West Chester University
2017Intersectionality: Rhetorics of Labor, Identity, and Coalition Politics for Writing Studies Activists
“Trans Justice, Economic Justice: An Intersecting Dialogue”
Speakers West Chester University → West Chester University
2017Moving Labor Advocacy from Conversations to ActionSpeakers West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester
2018Working Conditions for Contingent Faculty: Why OurRespondents West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2018Interrogating Composition in the 21st CenturyWorkshop Facilitators West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2020Training Academic Labor ActivistsFacilitators West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2023Overcoming Obstacles to Academic Labor Solidarity
“Tenure, Autonomy, and Solidarity”
Speakers
2024Ten Years after the Indianapolis Resolution: Accomplishments, Missed Opportunities, Lessons Learned & New DirectionsSpeaker(s) West Chester University of PA → West Chester University
2024Tools and Strategies for Building Labor Solidarity and Acting CollectivelySpeaker(s) West Chester University of PA → West Chester University
2026Committee on Academic Freedom, Tenure/Renewal/Reappointment, and Employment Security MeetingCommittee/Assembly/Caucus Chair West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University
2026Organizing Responses to Attacks on Academic Freedom and Professional AutonomyWorkshop Leader West Chester University of Pennsylvania → West Chester University

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