Events

Steven Bucci is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense. He oversees the policy issues involving the defense domains, National Guard operational issues, Domestic Counter Terrorism, and readiness exercises. He was the Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and served through the 9/11 attack and the Global War on Terrorism. He led a team of twenty-five other colonels to Baghdad to directly assist the Coalition Provisional Authority leadership in the final six-month period leading to the transfer of sovereignty.

Amy Sedaris is best known for her role as Jerri Blank in the television series and 2006 movie adaptation of Strangers with Candy, and, most recently, for sharing her domestic skills in the satirical guide to entertaining I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. Sedaris has appeared in the movies Elf, School of Rock, Maid in Manhattan, the film version of Bewitched and on television in Rescue Me, Monk, Just Shoot Me!

Graham R. Fleming is a professor of chemistry and Deputy Laboratory Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has been at the forefront of a major revolution in the biophysical sciences, leading investigations into ultrafast chemical and biological processes, in particular, the primary steps of photosynthesis. Fleming earned his Bachelor's of Science degree from the University of Bristol and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of London.

Jane Elliott, the adaptor of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, will lead a three-hour presentation teaching about the anatomy of prejudice. The Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, which she developed in her Riceville, Iowa, classroom, was the subject of the Peabody Award-winning documentary "The Eye of the Storm" and the follow-up PBS/FRONTLINE production "A Class Divided." She will show clips and discuss that film and explore with the audience the problems of racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, and ethnocentrism, and ways to eliminate them from ourselves and our environment.

Daniel L. Everett is chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and a professor of anthropology and linguistics at Illinois State University. Everett began his linguistics work in 1977 as a missionary with SIL International (Summer Institute of Linguistics) in Brazil, where he studied the indigenous language Pirahã. He eventually began and completed an Sc.D. in linguistics at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His current research is concerned with understanding how cultural values constrain language.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.

The English department and ISUComm are co-hosting the Great Plains Alliance for Computers & Writing (GPACW) Conference on November 7-8, 2008. The theme of the conference is multimodal communication pedagogies. The keynote speaker is Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University.