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Christina Knopf, Communication and Media Studies Department, presented at the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) conference held April 5 to 7 in Philadelphia. She presented a paper called “The Statue of Trumpery: Ironic Metaphor and the Visual ideograph,” which earned recognition as A Top Paper in Political Communication. She also participated in two roundtable discussions — “Invoking <Freedom>: Negative and Positive Freedom as Rhetorical Strategies in the Pandemic” and the “Scholars’ Roundtable: The State of U.S. Democracy in the Early 21st Century.” At the end of the conference, she became the new chair of the Rhetoric and Public Address interest group of ECA.