Engagement and Repair in Precarious Times

July 20-22, 2024

Tentative Schedule 

Saturday, July 20 - Behavioral Sciences Building, Room 105

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Check In

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Welcome and Orientation, Kevin Barge

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Break

2:15 pm - 4:00 pm Case 1

Repairing a Perceived “Competency Tradeoff”: Defining and Leveraging DEI for High Performance in Wildland Firefighting Teams by Jody Jahn

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Break

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Reflection

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Break

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Dinner & Drinks Reception - Illegal Pete’s Roof Top (320 Walnut St, Fort Collins, CO 80524)

Sunday, July 21- Behavioral Sciences Building, Room 105

8:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast at the Behavioral Sciences Building Atrium and Patio

8:30 am - 9:45 am Projects-in-Progress 1, Facilitator: Joshua Barbour

• Bridging the Digital Divide: Co-Designing Engaged Methods for Meaningful Inclusion by Jasmine R. Linabary, University of Arizona; Katrina Douglass, University of Arizona; Nitika Mehta, University of Arizona; Meghana Rawat, Utah Valley University; Danielle J. Corple, Wheaton College

• Building and Repairing African Open Source Software Communities through Collective Intelligence by Robert J. Razzante, Independent Scholar; Samson Goddy, Open Source Community Africa; and Ruth Ikegah, Open Source Community Africa; John A. Meluso, The Vermont Complex Systems Center at the University of Vermont

• The Problems and Prospects of Mobile Public Warning in Japan and the United States: A Sister Cities Collaboration by Hamilton Bean, University of Colorado Denver; Kensuke Takenouchi, Kagawa University; Ana Maria Cruz, Kyoto University

• When Engaged Partnerships Go Wrong: A Conversation about Critical Reflection and Repair by Kellie Carstensen, University of Memphis

• “You must be high-functioning”: Communicative Disenfranchisement and Work in the Process of Late-in-Life Autism Identification by Abigail D. Hazlett, University of Texas at Austin

9:45 am - 10:00 am Break

10:00 am - 11:45 am Case 2

Prison Pedagogies and Possibilities by Ben Boyce, Meghan R. Cosgrove, and Stephen John Hartnett

11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch at the Behavioral Sciences Building Atrium and Patio

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Projects-in-Progress 2, Facilitator: Kevin Barge

• IM SAFE: Engaging Aviation Science Education with Communication Research by R. Tyler Spradly, Stephen F. Austin State University

• Lived Experiences of Journalists: A Cooperative Inquiry Exploring Institutional Solutions by Jessica Pettengill, Michigan State University

• Organizing Memories: Communicative Dynamics of Hyperlocal Disaster-related Decision Making in Communities by Jiayu Sun, University of Texas at Austin

• Possibilities of Engaged Scholarship in Non-Western Cultural Contexts: Addressing Mental Health Problems among Chinese Adolescent Population by Kai Kuang, Tsinghua University

• Serving God or Man? An Inquiry into Church Organizational Practices by Autumn Buzzetta, Colorado State University

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Break

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Projects-in-Progress 3, Facilitator: Elizabeth Williams

• Communicating a Name Change: A Re-Pairing of Strategic Communication Practitioners’ Relationships with Community-Based Organizations by Erin O'Farrell, University of Utah

• Community: Understanding Us-ness by Brittany L. Peterson, Ohio University, and Samuel Taylor, Ohio University

• Encountering the Nuts and Bolts of Engaged Scholarship by Tamanda Chabvuta, Colorado State University

• Reproductive Justice Work as Repair: The Complexities of Engaging with Communities Defined by Precarity by Amy K. Way, Villanova University

• Serving to be Free: Experiences of Military Members Who Fought for U.S. Citizenship by William T. Howe, Texas Tech University; Onyinyechi (Beatrice) Nwoko, Texas Tech University; and Luana Peters Garcia Buriche Coutinho, Texas Tech University

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Break

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Case 3

Exploring Collaborative Possibilities for Engaged Pedagogy and Research to Confront Campus Food Insecurity by Jasmine R. Linabary, Kylie J. Johnson, Ziyu Long, and Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Reflection, Facilitators: Jasmine R. Linabary and Patricia Parker

Monday, July 22 - Eddy Hall, Room 100

8:30 am - 9:45 am Projects-in-Progress 4, Facilitator: Anna Wiederhold Wolfe

• Beyond Performative Repair: Perspectives on Accountability from the Intimacy Field by Dani R. Soibelman, University of Colorado Boulder

• Disrupting Marginalization through HEP: Relational Community Building across Power Asymmetries by Jelena Petrovic, Stetson University; Julia Metzker, Evergreen State College; and Melinda Hall, Stetson University

• Interrupting Privilege: Building Capacity Through Reparative Community-Engaged Scholarship by Mercy Bertero, University of Washington; Joel Allen, University of Washington; Josh Griffin, University of Washington; Julie Feng, University of Washington; Shannon Advincula, University of Washington; Ralina Joseph, University of Washington; and Carmen Gonzalez, University of Washington

• Speaking in Service: Engaging Oral Communication as a Means of Repairing Relationships between Universities and Communities by Megan Fitzmaurice, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Transitioning Out of Academia by Jed August Chalupa William, D. Ruckelshaus Center

9:45 am - 10:00 am Break

10:00 am - 11:30 am Aspen Collective Statement Reflection & Next Steps, Facilitators: Jasmine R. Linabary and Patricia Parker

Conference Venue and Accommodations

Thank you for your interest in attending the 2024 Engaged Communication Scholarship Conference in Fort Collins, Colorado. Please check back in the coming months for the conference program and details about the venue. The conference runs from Saturday at 1:00 PM until Monday at 1:00 PM (Fort Collins time).

The conference will be held at the Behavioral Sciences Building (Room 105) on Saturday and Sunday and Eddy Hall (Room 100) on Monday. Parking will be free on campus on Saturday and Sunday. Registrations can pay for parking on campus for Monday during registration. We recommend parking on surface lots right near the Behavioral Sciences Building and Eddy Hall.

Getting to Fort Collins

Travelers typically fly to Denver, CO. Here are two shuttle services provide transportation from Denver to Fort Collins that you may wish to consider.

Landlind https://landline.com/landline/

Groome Transportation https://groometransportation.com/fort-collins-loveland/?&sd_client_id=fbc4f4c0-2417-4afd-8386-d985a8c935d0

Conference Lodging

We recommend that participants secure lodging as soon as possible (even a provisional reservation), and we recommend staying in one of the following locations.

The Armstrong (https://thearmstronghotel.com/)

• A boutique hotel in Old Town Fort Collins.

• 10% discount on available rooms

• Discount available July 17-25

https://reservations.travelclick.com/109713?groupID=4248182

The Hilton (https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/fnlcohf-hilton-fort-collins/)

• A hotel just south of campus. A 10-minute walk to where the conference will be held.

• $179/night; per room, per night for a standard room with one king or two double beds.  This rate will increase by $15 for each additional guest in the room.  This block has discounted $5 overnight parking. 

• Discount available July 19-23

https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/aspenengagedconference/

Or call 800-768-0605 and ask for the ASPEN ENGAGED CONFERENCE with the booking code 93P.  You will be able to book in the block at the discounted group rate of $ 179.00 per room, per night for a standard room with one king or two double beds.  This rate will increase by $15 for each additional guest in the room.  This block has our discounted $5 overnight parking. 

CSU Dorms (https://ces.colostate.edu/guest-housing/)

• On campus lodging.

• Range of prices (single/double; AC/no AC) $70.55 to $108.36 (includes one meal per night)

• Booking available starting in April

The Elizabeth (https://www.theelizabethcolorado.com/)

• A Marriott Autograph property in Old Town Fort Collins.

• No discount available

Hotel Share and Carpooling Program

To help participants manage the costs of the conference, we have a clearing house for those who would like to share a hotel room and/or carpool for those who plan to fly into Denver. If you would like to participate, please contact us by July 1st. We will connect people as soon as they submit, so please consider letting us know of your interest as soon as possible.