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• April 5th-6th 2013 Chapel Hill, North CarolinaSponsored by the Department of Communication Studies Graduate Student Association at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Keynote Speaker: Dr. Dana Cloud, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Communication Studies Conference Schedule: Friday, April 5th Registration: 9:00am- Welcome: 9:30am-9:50am Dennis Mumby, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Panel #1: Organizing Equality? (10:00am-11:15am) Moderator: Kashif Powell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Presenters: Spoma Jovanovic and Ranata Reeder, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Dean Mundy, Appalachian State University Elizabeth Jeter, University of South Florida Panel #2: Discourses of (In)Equality (11:30am-12:45pm) Moderator: Freya Thimsen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Presenters: Lora Smith, Wake Forest University Jennifer L. Seifert, Ohio University Jessica Kerley, Syracuse University Alex McVey, George Mason University Lunch (12:45pm-1:45pm) Panel #3: Lessons in Equality (2:00pm-3:15pm) Moderator: Meredith Clements, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Presenters: Mark Cogdon Jr., Melissa Wheeler, and Kelvin McNeil, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Justin Rudnick, Ohio University Dan Subotnik, Touro Law School Keynote Introduction (3:30pm-4:45pm) Robert McDonald, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Keynote Address: Dana Cloud, University of Texas Lecture Title: Pushing the Boundaries of Liberalism: Revolutionary <Equality> in the Rhetoric of GetEQUAL Saturday, April 6th Panel #4: Education Roundtable Discussion (9:00am-10:15am) Presenters: Pam Kaylor, Ohio Dominican University, Stevie Munz, Justin Rudnick, and Jessica Furgerson, Ohio University Panel #5: Equality and Economic Development (10:30am-11:45am) Moderator: Carey Hardin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Presenters: George Scheer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Steven Ramirez, Loyola University Chicago Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Lunch (11:45am-12:45pm) Panel #6: Mediated (In)Equality (1:00pm-2:15pm) Moderator: Adam Rottinghaus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Presenters: Brett Lyszak, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rachel Leng, Duke University Cerise Glenn, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Panel #7: Equality and Difference (2:30pm-3:45pm) Moderator: Allison Schlobohm, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Presenters: Stevie M. Munz, Ohio University Marlo Goldstein Hode, University of Missouri Seth Mulliken, North Carolina State University Keynote Panel: Equality Roundtable Discussion (4:00pm-5:15pm) Moderator: Sarah Dempsey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Presenters: Dana Cloud, University of Texas Paul Turpin, University of the Pacific, California Patricia Parker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Conference registration is now live! You can register for this event here: http://equality.web.unc.edu/