Check out some of my conference papers and talks:

  • Association for Core Texts and Courses, 2023 John Moist: “John Maynard Keynes' “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” and the Mythos of Progressive Economics,” Competitive Paper.

  • National Communication Association Convention (Seattle), 2021 John Moist: “Saving, Spending, and Surviving: Economic Rhetoric in the Promotion of Health Savings Accounts to those with Disabilities,” Competitive Paper.

  • Rhetoric Society of America, 19th Biannual Conference (Portland, OR), 2020 John Moist: “Noise Abatement and Noise Complaints: Hearing Disruption,” Competitive Paper (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)

  • National Communication Association Convention (Baltimore), 2019 John Moist: “Platforms of (Dis)Content: Scale and Modeling in the Platform Age,” Competitive Paper.

  • National Communication Association Convention (Baltimore), 2019 John Moist: “Building Wealth, Figuring Capacity: The PA ABLE Act and Rhetorics of Disability Policy,” Competitive Paper.

  • National Communication Association Convention (Salt Lake City), 2018 John Moist: “Shaping a Transition: Barack Obama, the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the Rhetorical President-Elect,” Competitive Paper.

  • Union for Democratic Communication Conference, 2018 John Moist: “The New Publishing: VaynerMedia, Mergers, and the Rise of Digital Platforms,” Competitive Paper.

  • Union for Democratic Communication Conference, 2018 John Moist: “App-Based Drivers, Organization, and the Politics of Labor Communication in a Changing Economy,” Competitive Paper.

  • Graduate Symposium on Critical Research in Communication, University of Illinois, 2017 John Moist: “Platforms of (dis)Content: How Advertisers and Publishers are Changing what we See and Read Online.”

  • Graduate Symposium on Critical Research in Communication, University of Illinois, 2017 John Moist: “Not of their Own Making: Uber and the New Economy.”

  • National Communication Association Convention (Dallas), 2017 John Moist: “Reductio Ad Absurdum: Paul Graham and the Search for the Economic Agent,” Competitive Paper.

  • Southern States Communication Association Convention (Greenville), 2017 John Moist: “An Awesome Responsibility to Withstand Her Barrage: William F. Buckley JR. and the Role of the University in Civil Society,” Top Student Paper Panel– Rhetoric and Public Address Division.

  • Southern States Communication Association Convention, 2017 John Moist: “A Thankless Compromise: YouTube, Uber, Gary Vaynerchuk, and the Language of Hustle,” Competitive Paper, Top Paper– Popular Communication Division.

  • National Communication Association Convention (Philadelphia), 2016. John Moist: “A People Set Apart: Misgendering and Rhetorical Violence,” LGBTQ Studies Division.

  • National Communication Association Convention (Philadelphia), 2016 John Moist: “Different in Every Way: Rhetorical Constructions of Mediated Difference in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Competitive Paper, Top Paper– Theater, Film, and New Multi-Media Division.

  • Southern Political Science Association Convention (New Orleans), 2015 John Moist and Michael Jones: “Truth be Told: The Irrelevance of Fact in Modern Political Discourse,” Competitive Paper.