RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION
First-Day Conference Schedule

November 20, 2024
Hilton Garden Inn New Orleans Convention Center

New Orleans, Louisiana

#RCA2024

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**Times and schedule are subject to change.

 

8:00am-8:00pm

Continuous Registration: (Metropolitan)

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No additional cost is necessary beyond membership

8:30-9:00am

Conference Opening (includes continental breakfast service)

Room: TBA

9:00am-10:15am

Session 1A-Room: TBA

Rhetoric of the Christian Left: Religious Communication for the Greater Regard

Session 1B-Room: TBA

Current Lesser Regard Issues That Negatively Impact the Church from Working in Unity to
Accomplish the Greater Regard: Church Ministry

Session 1C-Room: TBA 

The Chronicles of Narnia: Communication with Greater Regard

10:30am-11:45am

Session 2A: Room: TBA

Vice Presidents Roundtable | Black Feminist Voices for Greater Cultural Regard in Religious
and Other Spaces

Session 2B-Room: TBA

The Intersection of Culture, Politics, and Religion: Regarding the Disregarded Description

Session 2C-Room: TBA

RCA 2024 Scholarship Awards Panel I

12:00pm-1:15pm

Business Meeting: Lunch is served

1:30pm-2:45pm

Session 3A-Room: TBA

Regarding the Disregarded: Religious Communities and Thinkers, Franz Fanon’s “The Damned
of the Earth,” and Engagement with Injustice

Session 3B-Room: TBA

Communicating Leadership through Greater Regard for Religious Communication:
Three Case Studies

Session 3C-Room: TBA

To Include or Not to Include, Is It Really a Question? On Discussing The (Dis)Placement of
Inclusion in Religious Discourses

3:00pm-4:15pm

Session 4A-Room: TBA

President’s Roundtable | Religion and Politics: A Reflection on the Election

Session 4B-Room: TBA

Nonverbal Communication, Culture, and Worship

Session 4C:-Room: TBA

RCA 2024 Scholarship Awards Panel II

 

4:30pm-5:45pm

Session 5A-Room: TBA

RCA Top Student Papers Panel

Session 5B-Room: TBA

Persuasions of God: The Inventions of Theorhetoric

Session 5C-Room: TBA

The Rhetoric of Faith

 

6:00pm-8:00pm

Awards Banquet-Room: TBA

6:00pm-Dinner Served
6:30-7:00pm-RCA Scholarship Awards Program
7:00-7:30pm-RCA Scholar of the Year Keynote Address
7:30-8:00pm-Post Conference Mingle