Tina M. Harris, NCA First Vice President, Louisiana State University
Jeanetta D. Sims, NCA President, University of Central Oklahoma

You spoke and we listened. More than 460 NCA members responded to NCA’s member survey and expressed a desire for healing, encouragement, and emotional support. You’ll enjoy this space to learn strategies for keeping ourselves sane, tips for coping, and vehicles of community critical to our well-being.

Moderator: John M. Sloop, Vanderbilt University

Tara Cyphers, Acquisitions Editor, Ohio State University Press
Aurora Bell, Acquisitions Editor, University of South Carolina Press
Kristen Hop, Acquisitions Editor, University of Alabama Press
Archna Patel, Acquisitions Editor, Pennsylvania State University Press
Judith Lakamper, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Michigan State University Press 

Panelists will talk about their research projects, discuss the role of the grant in their research and careers, and provide advice to future applicants about how to best position their work for the award. Funded projects to be discussed include Communication as Currency: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study of a Non-Profit Financial Literacy Program for Low Income Families, Using Culture Centered Approach to Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy Among Marginalized Pakhtun Community in Pakistan, Developing and Testing a Communication Skills Training Program to Improve Pediatricians’ Conversations about Medical Uncertainty, and Black Lives Matter: Perspectives from the Ground.

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Moderator: Benjamin R. Warner, University of Missouri

Angela Gist-Mackey, University of Kansas
Sayyed Fawad Shah, Auburn University
Charee Thompson, University of Illinois
Andre Johnson, University of Memphis

Panelists will talk about their research projects, discuss the role of the grant in their research and careers, and provide advice to future applicants about how to best position their work for the award. Funded projects to be discussed include Communication as Currency: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study of a Non-Profit Financial Literacy Program for Low Income Families, Using Culture Centered Approach to Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy Among Marginalized Pakhtun Community in Pakistan, Developing and Testing a Communication Skills Training Program to Improve Pediatricians’ Conversations about Medical Uncertainty, and Black Lives Matter: Perspectives from the Ground.

In this VLO, registrants will learn how to create an inclusive classroom environment in the current political climate, understand the relationship between risks to individuals and risks to institutions, and about strategies for promoting public pedagogy in an era of misinformation.

Speakers:

• Michael Lechuga, The University of New Mexico
• Shauntae Brown White, North Carolina Central University
• Angela Kariotis, Brookdale Community College
• Moderator: Katherine Thweatt, SUNY Oswego

The rapid rise of authoritarianism in the United States is the problem of power, but also of culture and communication. That is why the field of communication studies has a unique responsibility in developing communicative strategies to counter authoritarian rhetorics and fictions. To do that, however, we need to understand the thorough line between the current authoritarian turn in the US, the rise of authoritarianism in Europe, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This virtual learning opportunity will feature Ukrainian, European, North American, and Russian scholars who will address and analyze the ways in which rhetorics of land, peace, and identity have been weaponized by Russia against Ukraine; translated into the larger European geo-political contexts, and strategically adopted to organize the authoritarian thought in the United States. We will argue that understanding the Ukrainian invasion and Russian neo-imperialism within a larger European context is essential to creating a robust response to authoritarianism in North America.

Speakers:

• Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Colorado State University
• David Boromisza-Habashi, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Zenia Kish, Ontario Tech University
• Marina Levina, University of Memphis
• Moderator: Marina Levina, The University of Memphis