2.A) 1:30-2:45 p.m.
The Intersection of Language and Rhetorical Power in Urban Space, in Military Service, and in Serving Time
1. James J. Floyd, University of Central Missouri:
“The Power of Uncontested Terms and Terministic Screens in the Rhetoric of Military Service”
2. Kathleen Rettig, Creighton University:
“Rethinking Incarceration”

2.B) 1:30-2:45 p.m.
The Power of Gender in Language
1. Mitzi M. Brunsdale, Mayville State University:
“Pippi and Kalle and How They Grew: Power-Role Reversal in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Triology”
2. Michelle Resene, University of South Dakota:
“Is It Really the Shrew That Shakespeare Is Seeking to Tame? The Shifting Dynamic of the ‘Sister’ Pair in Shakespeare’s Early to Middle Comedies”
3. Michelle Sauer, University of North Dakota:
“Queer Time and Lesbian Temporality in Medieval Discourse about the Side Wound”

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3.A) 3:00-4:15 p.m.
Language and Power in the Sonic and the Graphic
1. Tatjana Schell and Kellam Barta, North Dakota State University:
“Differentiation in Regional Pronunciation of the Word ‘Bison’”
2. Steven Hammer, North Dakota State University:
“From Electric Dylan to the iPad DJ: The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Sonic Authenticity”
3. Christine Grossman, North Dakota State University:
“Beyond ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’: The Power(s) of Cartoon Mice as Literary Devices to Confront Xenophobia—Case in Point, Art Spiegelman’s Mausand Anti-Semitism”

3.B) 3:00-4:15 p.m.
The Power of Language in Middle and Early Modern English
1. Sean Flory, Jamestown College:
“Poetic Prophecy and Controlling the Queen: The Poet as Politician in The Faerie Queene”
2. Jason Miller, University of North Dakota:
“Monstrous Sabotage: Merlin’s Role in the Rise and Fall of Arthur’s Kingdom in the Middle English Prose Merlin”

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4.A) 4:30-5:45 p.m.
Le pouvoir et la langue de française: Truong, Montesquieu, Ionesco
1. Holly Baker, University of South Dakota:
“‘Becoming Suspect’: Performing Subaltern Subjecthood and the Problem of Language in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt”
2. Sante A. Viselli, University of Winnipeg:
“Quelques réflexions sur l’Amérique du Nord dans l’oevre de Montesquieu”
3. Vincent L. Schonberger, Lakehead University:
“The Revitalization of the Power of Language in the Avant-Garde Theatre of Eugène Ionesco”

4.B) 4:30-5:45 p.m.
Cyborgs and Software: Examining Language’s Intersection with the Power of Technology
1. Chris Lindgren, North Dakota State University:
“Applying Rhetorical and Literary Analyses to Software”
2. Andrew Mara, North Dakota State University:
“Identity as a Chimera Builder”

5.A) 8:30–9:45 a.m.
Rhetorical and Metaphorical Power in the Language of Religion
1. Dale Sullivan, North Dakota State University:
“St. Paul, Rhetoric, and the Discourse of Power”
2. Russel Hirst, University of Tennessee:
“A Fusion of Powers Human and Divine: Augustine’s Tabernacle Analogy”
3. Alexandra Glynn, North Dakota State University:
“‘Early Christians’ as Text in the 2nd Century of the Roman Empire”

5.B) 8:30–9:45 a.m.
Language as a Weapon: Marginalization and Resistance in Central American and Mexico
1. Carol Pearson Martinson, North Dakota State University:
"Language as Weapon: Anacristina Rossi and La Loca de Gandoca”
2. Paul Worley, University of North Dakota:
“‘Get the Rich!’: Maya Language and Rehearsing the Revolution in Armando Dzul Ek’s ‘Chan weech’”

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6.A) 10:00-11:15 a.m.
Employing the Language of Christianity in Attempting to Invoke the Power of the Trinity
1. Carolyn D. Baker, Mayville State University:
“Not Guilty!: The Protestant Puritan Bible Hermeneutics of Anne Hutchinson”
2. Mark William Brown, Jamestown College:
“Language, Symbol, and ‘Non-Symbolic Fact’ in D. G. Rossetti’s ‘Woodspurge’”

6.B) 10:00-11:15 a.m.
The Power of Language in Fiction and Traveling Writing
1. David A. Godfrey, Jamestown College:
“The ‘Old Word Jugglery’: Language, Self, and Society in Edith Wharton’s Work”
2. Eric Furuseth, Minot State University:
“Listening to Eudora’s Welty’s Stories: An Enchanted Northerner’s Education”
3. Christopher Lozensky, University of South Dakota:
“Henry Morton Stanley and the Fetishisms of Victorian Travel Writing”

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7.A) 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
The Threatening Power Language: Attempts to Squelch David Wojnarowicz and His Response
1. Laura McLauchlan, independent scholar:
"Through Sewn Lips: Rereading the Journals of David Wojnarowicz"
2. Jessica Shumake, University of Arizona:
“The Anti-Christ at the Smithsonian: David Wojnarowicz’s Contested Legacy”