This will be an in person only event with no Zoom access.
Elaine Almeida is a Mass Communication doctoral candidate with minors in Gender and Womens Studies and Transdisplinary Visual Cultures. Her interests are in masculinities, ethnicities, care and sound.
2. Allyson Gross: “The People in the Freezers: Cryonics and the Golden Age of the Future”
Allyson Gross is a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture in the Department of Communication Arts. Her dissertation, Of Even Vaster Promise: Material Preservation and the Rhetoric of the Future, examines the preservation of material objects as a rhetorical response to crisis, uncertainty, and perceived apocalypse.
3. Gabriel Lake Carter: “Stigma as Technology: A Brief Rhetorical History of Drug Stigma”
Gabriel Lake Carter is a PhD Candidate in English with a concentration in Composition & Rhetoric and a minor in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Carter’s dissertation research draws on rhetorical studies, critical theory, and science & technology studies to research the complex phenomenon of drug stigma and potential strategies to counteract it.