| Speaker name: |
Doyle Srader |
| Topic: |
Who do you think you are? Identity and argument. |
| Series: |
 = College Speaker Series |
| Date: |
3/6 |
| Time: |
5:30 pm |
| Location: |
Boynton 104 |
| Admission: |
Free |
| Presentation description: |
Doctors, lawyers, educators, police officers, military officers, and people in many other lines of work think of themselves as professionals. This means they've adopted an identity that they all built together through a collective workshop-style effort. However, the professional identity is almost always controversial; people inside and outside the profession will disagree about its essence, privileges, ethics, constraints, and other dynamics. As professionals argue, both among themselves and with outsiders, the definition of their profession changes, but as the definition changes, the arguments they are able to make also change. I examine this two-way relationship through a number of case studies, including the Nuremberg doctors' trial, Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher's decision to sign a death warrant and place his medical license at risk, Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer's public debate over the appropriateness of citing foreign decisions in United States Supreme Court opinions, and Michael Chertoff's claim to supervisory authority over American public health agencies in the week before Hurricane Katrina. |
| Speaker biography: |
Doyle Srader teaches in the Department of Communication at Stephen F. Austin State University. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Communication Studies from Baylor University, and his Ph.D. in Speech Communication from the University of Georgia. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the American Forensic Association's 2004 dissertation of the year award. Doyle is a former debate coach, having assisted at Baylor and Georgia, and served as acting director of speech and
debate at Arizona State University. He was elected to the national steering committee of the National Debate Tournament, and helped coach two teams to a second and third place finish at that tournament in the same year, the best performance by a public school in the tournament's history. He has published an article in the peer reviewed journal Argumentation and Advocacy, and has presented papers at the National Communication Association convention, and the Southern States Communication Association, including the top paper in argumentation for 2006. |
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| Seating Capacity: |
70 |
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Free |
| University Sponsor: |
Department of Communication
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| Contact Person: |
Elizabeth Spradley
espradley@sfasu.edu
936.468.1381 |
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