Spring 2018 CHRC Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Daniel O'Keefe
Center for Health and Risk Communication | College of Arts and Humanities
Friday, May 4, 2018 12:00 am - 1:00 pm
Skinner Building,
200
<p> We are pleased to announce the Center for Health and Risk Communication's Spring 2018 Distinguished Speaker - Dr. Daniel O'Keefe, the Owen L. Coon Professor of Communication at Northwestern University. Dr. O'Keefe's talk is entitled:</p> "Relative message persuasiveness: Why it matters, how to assess it, and how to pretest for it" About Dr. O'Keefe: "Daniel J. O’Keefe is the Owen L. Coon Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on persuasion and argumentation. He has received the National Communication Association’s Charles Woolbert Research Award, its Golden Anniversary Monograph Award, its Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division Distinguished Scholar Award, and its Health Communication Division Article of the Year Award, the International Communication Association’s Best Article Award and its Division 1 John E. Hunter Meta-Analysis Award, the American Forensic Association’s Daniel Rohrer Memorial Research Award, the International Society for the Study of Argumentation’s Distinguished Research Award, and teaching awards from Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, and the Central States Communication Association. He is the author of Persuasion: Theory and research (Sage Publications)." Look forward to seeing you at the event! FYI, if you missed a previous talk given by a CHRC Distinguished Speaker, you can view the recorded talk on our website at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://healthriskcenter.umd.edu&source=gmail&ust=1520439205587000&usg=AFQjCNE7t-zdZg3DKARmlfPYJkJhhxT_pA" href="http://healthriskcenter.umd.edu/" target="_blank">healthriskcenter.umd.edu</a>. <a href="/sites/default/files/arhu/poster-okeefe.pdf"></a>