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Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine

an independent scholarly organization that promotes rhetorical scholarship and facilitates networking across disciplines and institutions.

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  • ARSTM@RSA 2026 Preconference Call for Papers

    The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) invites submission of individual papers, paper sessions, and panel discussions for the 2026 RSA preconference. The theme of this year’s pre-conference is impact. The etymological origins of impact trace to seventeenth-century Latin for “push into, drive into, strike against.”[1] In today’s universities, impact often…

  • 2025 NCA ARSTM Preconference Call for Papers

    The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) calls for submissions for the annual NCA preconference, to be held on November 19th, 2025.  In 2025, the ARSTM preconference theme will be Plastics/Plasticity. In more than one sense, plastics are in the air. Often moldable, foldable, or otherwise deformable, plastic materials also lend…

  • ARSTM @ NCA 2025 Call for Submissions

    Communicate to Elevate The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) invites submission of individual papers, paper sessions, and panel discussions for the 2025 NCA convention. We invite submissions that respond to the convention theme—Communicate to Elevate—as it pertains to the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine. Submissions are due March 31, 2025.…

  • ARSTM Preconference at NCA 2024 – Call for Submissons

    Method/ology in the Rhetoric of Science, Technology and Medicine The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) calls for submissions for the annual NCA preconference, to be held on November 20th, 2024.  In 2024, the ARSTM preconference will focus on research method/ology.  Research methods in the rhetoric of science, technology and medicine…