Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture

  

 

Pearson Higher Education is proud to sponsor the Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture Series. As publishers committed to the discipline of communication, Pearson Higher Education is dedicated to working together with the National Communication Association to further research, disseminate vital information, and encourage participation in the field of communication.

About the Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture  

In 1994, the Administrative Committee of the National Communication Association established the Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture. The Arnold Lecture is given in a plenary session each year at the annual convention of the Association and features the most accomplished researchers in the field. The topic of the lecture changes annually so as to capture the wide range of research being conducted in the field and to demonstrate the relevance of that work to society at large.

The lecture has been named for Carroll C. Arnold, professor emeritus of Pennsylvania State University. Trained under Professor A. Craig Baird at the University of Iowa, Arnold was the co-author (with John Wilson) of Public Speaking as a Liberal Art, author of Criticism of Oral Rhetoric (among other works), and co-editor of The Handbook of Rhetorical and Communication Theory. Although primarily trained as a humanist, Arnold was nonetheless one of the most active participants in the New Orleans Conference of 1968, which helped put social scientific research in communication on solid footing. Thereafter, Arnold edited Communication Monographs because he was fascinated by empirical questions. As one of the three founders of the journal Philosophy and Rhetoric, Arnold also helped move the field toward increased dialogue with the humanities in general. For these reasons and more, Arnold was dubbed “The Teacher of the Field” when he retired from Penn State in 1977. Arnold died in January of 1997.

 

NCA 98th Annual Convention
Paradoxes of Collaboration
Friday, November 16, 2012 • 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. • Dolphin Hotel • Orlando, FL
Marshall Scott Poole, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will deliver the 2012 Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture "Paradoxes of Collaboration." Collaboration lies at the intersection of communication and community. This lecture will consider collaboration as a fundamental communicative process that is simple, yet complex, beneficial yet dangerous, safe yet risky, everyday yet mysterious. Communication scholars of all stripes have studied collaboration for over two thousand years and their insights and omissions tell us much about communication and community. Collaboration also holds important keys to our future, and we will explore its potential in new media and communication technologies, new ways of organizing, new vistas for democracy and deliberation, and new avenues for scholarship.

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NCA 97th Annual Convention
Voice Lessons for Social Change
November 18, 2011 • Sheraton New Orleans • New Orleans, LA
The Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, "Voice Lessons for Social Change," was be delivered by Brenda J. Allen, University of Colorado, Denver. Professor Allen explored how communication scholarship about voice can inform efforts to effect social change. She reviewed relevant research and share lessons learned for addressing pressing social problems.  

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 NCA 96th Annual Convention 
Seduction and Sustainability: The Politics of Feminist Communication and Career Scholarship
November 15, 2010  • Hilton San Francisco  • San Francisco, CA
The Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, "Seduction and Sustainability: The Politics of Feminist Communication and Career Scholarship," was presented by Patrice M. Buzzanell, Ph.D., Purdue University. This lecture acknowledged the work that communication scholars and researchers across academe have done toward enhancing better quality of life and inclusionary processes on individual, group, and institutional levels. These efforts have known no methodological, theoretical, epistemological, or contextual boundaries. Buzzanell explored both struggles and possibilities as communication scholars work toward enhancing inclusion and creating sustainable institutional change in academe and other life realms. 

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 NCA 95th Annual Convention
Discursive Struggles of Relating
November 12, 2009 • Hilton Chicago • Chicago, IL
The Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, "Discursive Struggles of Relating," was presented by Leslie A. Baxter, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor at the University of Iowa. Relating is a cacophony of disparate, often competing, discourses. Meaning-making emerges out of this dialogic agitation in which discourses bump up against each other in ongoing interplay. This view of relating is the central tenet of Relational Dialectics Theory, a theory of communication and relationships developed by Baxter and her colleagues and grounded in the philosophy of dialogism articulated in the 1930s by Russian literary and cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. Baxter discussed the discursive struggles that animate relating in a variety of relationship types, as well as some broader implications for how we can approach the study of communication from a dialogic lens.

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 NCA 94th Annual Convention
Coming to Terms with Cultures
November 21, 2008 • Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel • San Diego, CA
The Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, "Coming to Terms with Cultures," was presented by Gerry F. Philipsen, University of Washington. We all live in a world not only of culture, but of cultures, and in our lives we face moments when we struggle to come to terms with the cultures that surround us. In the 2008 Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, Gerry F. Philipsen, University of Washington, presented a framework, grounded in research, for how individuals can come to terms with the cultures of their life worlds. The talk emphasized communication strategies for dealing with four different situations in which: (1) a dominant culture can work against your purposes, (2) you seek to challenge or undermine a dominant culture, (3) you seek to integrate within one life two cultures that are crucial to your identity, or (4) you seek to reconstruct your life when a culture that had been a source of strength to you begins to crumble around you.

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Past Lectures  

2007
Michael J. Hyde, Perfection, Postmodern Culture, and the Biotechnology Debate 

2006
Carole Blair, Civil Rights/Civil Sites: "...Until Justice Rolls Down Like Waters" 

2005
Judee Burgoon, Truth, Deception, and Virtual Worlds 

2004
Celeste Condit, How Should We Study the Symbolizing Animal 

2003
Kenneth Andersen, Recovering the Civic Culture: The Imperative of Ethical Communication 

2002
Dwight Conquergood, Communication in Action: Capital Punishment in America 

2001
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Three Tall Women: Radical Changes to Criticism, Pedagogy, and Theory 

2000
James Carey, The Responsibilities of Intellectuals in the Age of Electrical Machines 

1999
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Civility and Discontents: Lessons Learned Studying Decorum in the U.S. House of Representatives 

1998
Bruce Gronbeck, Paradigms of Speech Communication Studies 

1997
James McCroskey, Why We Communicate the Ways We Do: A Communibiological Perspective 

1996
Ellen Wartella, The Context of Television Violence 

1995
David Zarefsky, The Roots of the American Community 

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NCA thanks Pearson/Allyn & Bacon for its continued support of the Arnold Lecture. NCA also thanks the many friends, colleagues, and students of Carroll Arnold who honored his scholarly contributions with their personal donations to the Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture Fund.

Janis Andersen Peter Andersen Kenneth Andersen Ronald Applbaum Susan Applbaum Carroll C. Arnold Deborah Atwater Robert Avery Wallace Bacon Harold Barrett Charles L. Bartow Samuel Becker Thomas W. Benson Roy Berko Goodwin Berquist Erwin Bettinghaus Jane Blankenship Don Boileau John Waite Bowers Irving Brown Robert Brubaker Joseph Bulsys Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Noreen M. Carrocci Ingeborg G. Chaly Kristin F. Chaudoin Sister Joan Chittister Timothy Y. Choy Kenneth Cissna Herman Cohen Celeste Condit Martha Cooper E. Sam Cox Ralph B. Culp John Daly Arlie Daniel Suzanne M. Daughton Arthur F. Dauria Robert Doolittle Nancy Dunbar Robert Dunham Margaret Eadie William Eadie Flo Beth Ehninger Lois Einhorn Donald Ellis Keith Erickson Walter Fisher Paul Friedman

Gustav Friedrich Linda Fuller D. C. Gila Susan Gilpin James Golden Dennis S. Gouran Richard Gregg Leland Griffin Bruce Gronbeck Roderick P. Hart Kenneth Harwood Gerard Hauser Nola Heidelbaugh Kathryn Hening Thomas Hopkins Robert Hopper Fredric Jablin Carol Jablonski Anita C. James Kathleen Hall Jamieson J. Vernon Jensen Bonnie Johnson Christopher Johnstone Henry Johnstone Lynne Kelly Corwin P. King Dennis R. Klinzing Mark Knapp Roberta L. Kosberg Kathleen Kougl Manuel I. Kuhr Robert Kully Reiko Kuramoto James M. Lahiff Dale Leathers Beverly Whitaker Long Stephen Lucas Jeanne Lutz Cheryl Malone A. Jackson McCormack James McCroskey Sherrie L. McNeeley Martin Medhurst Paul Messaris N. Edd Miller Ray Nadeau Mary Newman Thomas Nilsen Victoria O’Donnell

Thomas Olbricht Thomas J. Pace Arlie Parks Stanley Paulson Douglas Pedersen Sue D. Pendell Mary Pettas Gerald Phillips Darrell T. Piersol Linda Putnam Sharon Ratliffe Loren Reid Beatrice Reynolds Richard D. Rieke Stanley Rives Lawrence Rosenfeld Alan Rubin Rebecca Rubin Akira Sanbonmatsu Joan Sanbonmatsu Father Leo Sands Thomas Scheidel Patricia Schmidt Robert L. Scott David Seibold Barbara Sharf Daniel Shurman Malcolm Sillars Herbert Simons Craig R. Smith Jo Sprague Hermann Stelzner Nathan P. Stucky Jerry Tarver Anita Taylor Robert Tiemens Kathleen J. Turner Richard Vatz Paul A. Walwick Steven A. Ward Robert Welch Molly Wertheimer Eugene White Harold E. Wisner James A. Wood Julia Wood Margaret Wood David Zarefsky

If you are interested in supporting the Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture as one of its benefactors, please send your contribution to The Arnold Lecture Fund, National Communication Association, 1765 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036.