For current registrants, instructions for accessing sessions are available here.
What is included with virtual convention registration?
- Access to nine live streamed sessions during the convention
- Access to six all virtual sessions prior to the convention
- Access to more than a dozen session recordings
- Access to any online business meetings held in conjunction with the Annual Convention
Virtual Registration Rates
| NCA Member Rate* | $45 |
| Student NCA Member Rate* | $35 |
| Life/Retired Member Rate** | $0 While registration is free, registration is required to access sessions |
*To qualify for the member registration rate, your membership must be current past December 1, 2022.
Sessions Included with Virtual Convention Registration
Live Streamed Sessions
- A Transnational Conversation about Structural Violence: From New Orleans to Palestine
- Community as Space and Place: Collective Activism and Advocacy by Groups in the Southwest United States (Competitive Papers)
- Honoring Place: Revisiting the Train Tracks Where Plessy v. Ferguson Began and Plessy AND Ferguson Celebrated People, Liberation, Advocacy, and Community
- Out of Breath: The Communicative Politics of Racialized Breathing
- Publishing Race Scholarship in Communication Studies: Challenges Faced by Scholars of Color and/or International Scholars in the Field
- Rhetoric's Racist Affects
- Spotlight Panel: Navigating and Engaging DE&I Practices at the Intersections of Teaching, Research, and Administration
- Spotlight Panel. Honoring Paul Farmer in Health Communication: Centering People, Liberation, Advocacy, Community, and Environment (PLACE) through Critical Health Communication Praxis
- The Accessible Panel Project: Exploring and Practicing Possibilities
Continue the conversation following these sessions in Discord.
Virtual Sessions - All sessions take place 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Central Time
- October 6 - The Role of Community in Community-Based Participatory Research with Dr. Barbara Israel and Angela Reyes
- October 13 - Decolonizing the Mind, Liberating the Soul with Dean Michael Yellow Bird
- October 20 - Disability Art on Lockdown; Or, Crip World-Making with Dr. Robert McRuer
- October 27 - Borderland Reckonings: Haunted Spaces and Landscapes of Memory on the Bordered Frontier with Dr. Cordelia Barrera
- November 3 - Communicating Being Human Being: The Transformation of the Race Discourse with Dr. Molefi Asante
- November 10 - If We Want to Heal, We Must Tell the Truth: Truth, Reconciliation and Racial Justice in the Midst of Ahistorical Narratives with Dr. Amber Johnson
Continue the conversation following these sessions in Discord.
Virtual Business Meetings
- November 8 at 3:30 p.m. Central Time - Health Communication Division
- November 11 at 3:30 p.m. Central Time - Language and Social Interaction Division