09-15 Proverbial Politics and Verbal Play

Saturday, November 04, 2:30 pm–4:30 pm
Parlor C

This live event will not be recorded.


Chair: Raymond Melton Javon Summerville (Fayetteville State University)

2:30 pm
"A Rising Tide Lifts all the Boats": John F. Kennedy's Maritime Phrases as Symbols of Life's Vicissitudes
Wolfgang Mieder (University of Vermont, emerita)

3:00 pm
Nursery rhymes as erosion control: keeping history rooted in the present
Gina M. Zimbardi ("A Tisket-Tasket" Podcast Host/Independent Researcher)

3:30 pm
“BLACK POWER” AND BLACK RHETORICAL TRADITION: THE PROVERBIAL LANGUAGE OF STOKELY CARMICHAEL
Raymond Melton Javon Summerville (Fayetteville State University)

Assembled Panel