AARST@NCA Convention CFP
NCA Annual Meeting
Submission deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2006
The American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology invites submission of program proposals and papers. Submissions may cover any area of rhetoric of science and technology, including but not limited to the rhetorical analysis and critique of (1) scientific and technological texts, practices and genres; (2) the production, deployment, invocation, and contestation of scientific ideas and technological visions in political, professional or disciplinary, and literary or social contexts (e.g., policy debates, scientific controversies, popular culture); and (3) discourses of reason and rationality, including reflexive engagement with the rationality of rhetoric of science as a discipline. Panel formats that facilitate engagement across the “two cultures” (i.e., humanistic/scientistic) divide are especially welcome, as are papers and panels that contribute to the theme of AARST’s pre-conference day meeting, “Science, Democracy, and the Public Interest: Eugenics, the Human Sciences, and the Emerging Post-Genomic Future.”
Note that the pre-conference meeting call for papers is available at [http://aarst.jmccw.org%3B/]http://aarst.jmccw.org; contact that meeting’s organizer, AARST First Vice President John Angus Campbell, via e-mail at [log in to unmask]
Submit completed papers, extended abstracts, and panel proposals through the NCA website http://convention2.allacademic.com/index.php?cmd=nca06 by Wednesday, February 15, 2006, in Microsoft Word, PDF, or RTF (rich-text) formats.
Completed papers should be no more than 25 pages in length and prepared as for blind review, with identifying information stripped from the body of the document as well as from associated electronic information (e.g., Word document “Properties”). They should include an abstract of 250 words or less to facilitate the assignment of a reviewer.
Extended abstracts should be no more than 5 pages in length and prepared as for blind review. The abstract should be forthright about the work in progress and that completed, emphasizing the nature of the argument to be developed or the theoretical expectations to be explored at length in the finished paper or presentation.
Panel proposals should consist of a concise and cogent thematic rationale for the panel, a list of panelists (including relevant institutional affiliations) along with a short description of each panelist’s presentation or role on the panel, and a descriptive abstract of 75 words or less to be included in the conference program.
Specify student papers: yes
Specify debut papers: yes
William J. White, Asst. Prof. of Comm. Arts & Sci., Penn State Altoona, 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona PA 16601. Phone: (814) 949-5689; e-mail: