Keynote and Plenary Speakers
Keynote Conference Speaker
9.00-9.45 am, Isle Royale Ballroom
Dr. Dana Cloud, University of Texas-Austin
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Dr. Cloud will speak on her most recent book, “Writing about the Working-class in We ARE the Union: Dissent in the Ranks of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers”
Dana L. Cloud (PhD, University of Iowa, 1992, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of feminist, Marxist, and postmodern theory; social movements, particularly labor; race and gender in media; and rhetorical criticism. Her articles have appeared in Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication and Cultural Critique, and numerous anthologies. She is the author of two books, Consolation and Control in Popular and Political Culture: Rhetorics of Therapy (Sage, 1999) and We ARE the Union: Democracy and Dissent at Boeing (University of Illinois, 2011) and co-editor of one other, Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point Is To Change It (Peter Lang, 2006). A longtime activist for social justice, she lives in Austin with her family and pets.
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Dr. Cloud will speak on her most recent book, “Writing about the Working-class in We ARE the Union: Dissent in the Ranks of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers”
Dana L. Cloud (PhD, University of Iowa, 1992, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of feminist, Marxist, and postmodern theory; social movements, particularly labor; race and gender in media; and rhetorical criticism. Her articles have appeared in Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication and Cultural Critique, and numerous anthologies. She is the author of two books, Consolation and Control in Popular and Political Culture: Rhetorics of Therapy (Sage, 1999) and We ARE the Union: Democracy and Dissent at Boeing (University of Illinois, 2011) and co-editor of one other, Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point Is To Change It (Peter Lang, 2006). A longtime activist for social justice, she lives in Austin with her family and pets.
Plenary Speaker, A Sessions, Revolutionary 'Riting
10.00-10.20 am, Isle Royale Ballroom
Dr. Saku Pinta, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Independent Scholar
Dr. Pinta's talk is titled, “Perspectives on Revolutionary Writing and Working Class History: The Case of the Workers' Socialist Publishing Company (1914-1975)”
Saku Pinta, who was born in Finland, is an independent scholar, writer, and documentarian from Thunder Bay, Canada. He completed his PhD work at Loughborough University, United Kingdom, in political science. Dr. Pinta's work revolves around the intersections between anarchism and communism in what could be termed libertarian socialism. His publications include this perspective and include editorial work of Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red. He is also a filmmaker with a riveting documentary, To My Son in Spain, a history of Finnish Canadians in Spain's Civil War, to his credit. Saku is also a card-carrying member of the Industrial Workers of the World industrial union.
Independent Scholar
Dr. Pinta's talk is titled, “Perspectives on Revolutionary Writing and Working Class History: The Case of the Workers' Socialist Publishing Company (1914-1975)”
Saku Pinta, who was born in Finland, is an independent scholar, writer, and documentarian from Thunder Bay, Canada. He completed his PhD work at Loughborough University, United Kingdom, in political science. Dr. Pinta's work revolves around the intersections between anarchism and communism in what could be termed libertarian socialism. His publications include this perspective and include editorial work of Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red. He is also a filmmaker with a riveting documentary, To My Son in Spain, a history of Finnish Canadians in Spain's Civil War, to his credit. Saku is also a card-carrying member of the Industrial Workers of the World industrial union.
Plenary Speaker, B Sessions, Class in the Classroom
10.20-10.40 am, Isle Royale Ballroom
Dr. Aaron Goings, St. Martin's University, Lacey, Washington
Assistant Professor of History
Dr. Goings talk is titled, “Writing across Two Peninsulas: Labor, Ethnicity, and Radicalism in the Keweenaw and Olympic Peninsulas”
Aaron Goings is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Martin's University in Washington's Pacific Northwest. Originally from Aberdeen, Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, Dr. Goings' PhD dissertation was titled Red Harbor: Class, Violence, and Community in Grays Harbor, Washington. He is also the co-author of Community in Conflict: A Working-class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike, which recently won a Historical Society of Michigan Book Award in 2013.
Assistant Professor of History
Dr. Goings talk is titled, “Writing across Two Peninsulas: Labor, Ethnicity, and Radicalism in the Keweenaw and Olympic Peninsulas”
Aaron Goings is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Martin's University in Washington's Pacific Northwest. Originally from Aberdeen, Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, Dr. Goings' PhD dissertation was titled Red Harbor: Class, Violence, and Community in Grays Harbor, Washington. He is also the co-author of Community in Conflict: A Working-class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike, which recently won a Historical Society of Michigan Book Award in 2013.
Plenary Speaker, C Sessions, Working and Writing Across the Disciplines
12.30-12.50 pm, Isle Royale Ballroom
Dr. Elizabeth Flynn, Michigan Technological University
Professor Emeritus, Humanities Department
Dr. Flynn's talk is entitled, "The Copper Country Women's Heritage Project: An Archival Odyssey"
Dr. Elizabeth A. Flynn's work focuses primarily on feminist and transnational approaches to reading, writing, rhetoric, and technical communication and is both theoretical and historical in orientation. Her publications include the classic, Feminism Beyond Modernism and Feminist Rhetorical Resilience, editor.
Professor Emeritus, Humanities Department
Dr. Flynn's talk is entitled, "The Copper Country Women's Heritage Project: An Archival Odyssey"
Dr. Elizabeth A. Flynn's work focuses primarily on feminist and transnational approaches to reading, writing, rhetoric, and technical communication and is both theoretical and historical in orientation. Her publications include the classic, Feminism Beyond Modernism and Feminist Rhetorical Resilience, editor.
Plenary Speaker, D Sessions, Writing and Working Communities
12.50-1.10, Isle Royale Ballroom
Joel Feingold, City University of New York
Third-year PhD student in American history at the Graduate Center
Feingold's talk is titled, "Postwar Reaction and Popular Resistance: The Peekskill Songs and Riots of 1949"
Joel Feingold is a third-year PhD student in American history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research interests include labor, social movements, popular culture, radicalism, the twentieth-century United States, cities, Jewish history, Finnish-American history, and Black history. Feingold was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, and once served as a research fellow at the Finnish-American Historical Archive in Houghton-Hancock, Michigan
Third-year PhD student in American history at the Graduate Center
Feingold's talk is titled, "Postwar Reaction and Popular Resistance: The Peekskill Songs and Riots of 1949"
Joel Feingold is a third-year PhD student in American history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research interests include labor, social movements, popular culture, radicalism, the twentieth-century United States, cities, Jewish history, Finnish-American history, and Black history. Feingold was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, and once served as a research fellow at the Finnish-American Historical Archive in Houghton-Hancock, Michigan