Event schedule

Storytelling & Organizing Workshop

Workshop is already at capacity. See details at workshops

Dinner on your own or Meet & Eat

If you would like, meet in the Schoonover Lobby and graduate student ambassadors will greet you. You can join a group based on your food preference. We have prepared a list of restaurants in our Meet and Eat document.

Breakfast & Registration

Coffee Break

The best time to talk with speakers and attendees

Lunch

Break

Travel to Walter Hall Rotunda

Dinner

Breakfast & Announcements

Position Annoucements and Unveiling of next year's OCMC conference location

Closing

Conference Concludes

Lunch on your own

Storytelling & Organizing Workshop

Tour of Active Learning Classroom for Presenters

Opportunity to look at Schoonover 450 and get acquainted with the space

Welcome Reception & Cocktail Hour

Kenney Museum of Art

Asylum Tour

Tour of the famous Athens Asylum; Meet in front of Kenney Museum of Art. No need to register, just join.

Welcome

Session 1: Organizational Tensions & Crisis

• Authoring Organizational Tensions within the Roman Catholic Church: Women Religious Organize for Themselves
• Enacted Agression in the Workplace: The Perpetrator's Perspective and the Role of the Relationship
• Networks of Recovery in Disaster-Impacted Communities

Special Panel: The Job Search

Session 2: Supportive Communication in Organizations

Presentation Titles

• Unplanned Conversations at Work
• (De)Constituting Alcoholics Anonymous: The Four-Flows of Anonymous Communication
• Participation in Online Health Communities (OHCs) and Perceived Social Support: Elaborating Participation Forms and Incorporating the Role of Identification along with Interpersonal Bonds

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  Dron Mandhana PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin

  Email: mandhana.dron@utexas.edu

  Unplanned Conversations at Work

  Katie Kang PhD Student, Rutgers University

  Email: kkangwoni@gmail.com

  (De)Constituting Alcoholics Anonymous: The Four-Flows of Anonymous Communication

  Yaguang Zhu PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin

  Email: yaguang.zhu@utexas.edu

  Participation in Online Health Communities (OHCs) and Perceived Social Support: Elaborating Participation Forms and Incorporating the Role of Identification along with Interpersonal Bonds

Session 3: Discourses in Organizing: Food Justice, Resistance, and Food Security

Presentation Titles

• The Multiple and Competing Meanings of Food Security at a Government Development Agency
• Networks of Backlash and Identity: Organizing and Identification within r/TheRedPill
• Connecting People and Places to Foster Food Justice: A Poststructural Feminist and Aesthetic Account of a Social Benefit Organization

Special Panel: Engaged Scholarship

Lightning Round: Poster Session Introduction

Each poster presenter will have one minute to share about their research

Poster Session & Cocktail Hour

Wandering Scholars

Session 4: Well-being in Organizations

Presentation Titles

• The Communicative Co-Construction of Mental Health in Correctional Work
• Religious Leaders as Symphony Conductors: Providing Mental Healthcare by Orchestrating Organizational Collaboration
• Narratives of successes and strengths as a method toward employee resilience & well-being

Session 5: Design, Innovation, and Corporate Communication

Presentation Titles

• From Gun Control to Transgender Rights: Corporate Social Advocacy Communication and Its Effects on Attitudes Towards Controversial Social Issues
• Where Does Innovation Come From? Exploring the Dynamic Processes of Organizing and Managing Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• (Re)constructing the professional formation of engineers: A human-centered model of communication design