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ARSTM Preconference: “Evidence”
Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018
Salt Palace Convention Center, Room 258
9:00 am | Registration
9:30-9:40 am | Opening Remarks and Panel Setup
Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, University of Waterloo
9:40 – 10:40 am | Panel 1 | Session I
“Reading rhetorically with gephi-colored glasses”
Danielle M DeVasto, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
“Moralizing the evidence of materialisms”
Nathan Johnson, University of South Florida
Meredith Johnson, University of South Florida
“Threshold moments: An argument for rhetoric in vitro”
Jenell Johnson, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Amanda Friz, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Caelyn Randall, University of Wisconsin—Madison
CV Vitolo, University of Wisconsin—Madison
“Evidence about evidence: The challenge of Bayesianism and the rhetorics of statistical inference”
L. Paul Strait, University of Southern Mississippi
10:40 – 10:50 am | Morning Break
Coffee and lesser refreshments
10:50 – 11:50 am | Session II: Collaboration, Community, and Cross-Disciplinarity
“A pragmatist theory of evidence for cross-disciplinary collaboration”
Daniel Card, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
“Service learning as a model for legitimizing rhetorical evidence in transdisciplinary partnerships”
Lauren E. Cagle, University of Kentucky
“Improving methods for sustained collaborative response to complex problems”
Michelle McMullin, Purdue University
“The dual orientation of science’s enlightenment: A comparative analysis of John Dewey and Bruno Latour”
Alexander Morales, University of Georgia
11:50 – 1:15 | Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:30 | Session III: Rhetorics of Health
“Cut it out: C-Sections, epidemics, and a push for better evidence”
Christina Deka, Syracuse University
“Listening to our gut: Neurogastroenterology data as evidence of/in rhetoric”
Molly Kessler, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
“Osteopathic medicine and A. T. Still: Early legitimation rhetoric”
Melissa Parks, University of Utah
2:30 – 2:40 pm | Afternoon Break
Coffee and lesser refreshments
2:40 –3:40 pm | Session IV: Rhetoric of Technology (Panel)
“Disconnecting to connect: Defining post-connectivism as a methodology in the age of networks”
James Melton, Central Michigan University
Gustav Verhulsdonck, Central Michigan University
Vishal Shah, Central Michigan University
Marohang Limbu, Michigan State University
3:40 – 4:50 pm | Session V: Small Group Discussion
“What have we defined as evidence? What are the limitations of those constructions?”
Discussion leader: Kate Maddalena, Peace University
“What counts as evidence in rhetorical scholarship? What does this tell us about our epistemic commitments?”
Discussion leader: Carolyn R. Miller, Emeritus North Carolina State University
“In what ways and why does our evidence export to allied fields, students, and other communities we wish to engage?”
Discussion leader: Lauren E. Cagle, University of Kentucky
4:50 – 5:00 pm |Wrap Up
Response and closing discussions
Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, University of Waterloo
ARSTM-sponsored NCA Panels
Thursday, Nov. 8 – Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018
11:00 am-12:15 pm | The Visual Rhetorics of the Network
Grand Ballroom A (2nd Level), Hilton
Chair: Atilla Hallsby, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Respondent: Leslie Hahner, Baylor University
“Algorithmic outrage”
Jeff Rice, University of Kentucky
“Graphing their way into the conversation: Graphs as a site of agency in the Climategate controversy”
Dustin A. Greenwalt, Penn State University
Atilla Hallsby, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
“Strong, weak, absent, ever present”
Daniel Faltesek, Oregon State University
“The visual rhetorics of the Echo Look app: Networked logics of production and consumption”
Heather S. Woods, Kansas State University
2:00-3:15 pm | High Density Panel: Looking through Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine to the Future of Science Research and Policy
Grand Ballroom A (2nd Level), Hilton
Chair: Emily Winderman, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
“Caring for who? Identity, crisis, and the ‘worthy addict’ in the 21st Century Cures Act”
Erin Gangstad, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Digital anxieties and subversive identification in Ex Machina”
Carly Fabian, University of Georgia Athens
“Expecting the unexpected: Time, risk, and rhetoric in birth narratives”
Robin Kanak Zwier, University of Pittsburgh
“Playing the expert: Cambridge Analytica and algorithmic judgment”
Ron Von Burg, Wake Forest University
“Reimagining the technical sphere: The March for Science as a counterpublic”
Aaron Gabriel Zamora, Arizona State University
“Transactional analysis and Eric Berne, M.D.’s ‘Games People Play’ in American cultural rhetoric in the 1960s”
Ann von Mehren, Bowling Green State University
“In praise of analogy: Barad, quantum mysticism, and the (dis)entanglement of matter and meaning”
Lynda Walsh, University of Nevada, Reno
Friday, Nov. 9, 2018
8:00-9:15 am | Publics, Endangered and Dangerous
Alpine East (2nd Level), Hilton
Chair: Lauren E. Cagle, University of Kentucky
“Citizen science and rhetorics of risk in radiological emergency contexts”
William J. Kinsella, North Carolina State University
“Public discourse on climate change denial and its basis in scientific studies”
Rebecca Levitsky, Temple University
“The Food Babe fearmonger: The manufacturing of scientific controversies in online public spheres”
Abbie Shew, University of Northern Iowa
“The circulation of climate change denial online: Rhetorical and networking strategies on Facebook”
Emma Bloomfield, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Denise Tillery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
9:30-10:45 am | From ARSTM with Love: Gadgets, Technologies, and the Things They Create or Fail to Create
Alpine East (2nd Level), Hilton
Chair: Carolyn R. Miller, North Carolina State University
“Playing with (virtual) fire: Virtual reality and phenomenological rhetorics of new media”
Scott A. Mitchell, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
“Shadows and surfaces: Rhetorics of diffusion in lighting catalogs, 1913-1981”
DT Scott, Clemson University
“Touring the stem cell frontier: Rhetorical formations in stem cell clinic rhetoric”
John Lynch, University of Cincinnati
Co-author: Andrea June Schaaf, University of Cincinnati
Co-author: Hadassah Ward, University of Cincinnati
Co-author: Philippe Chauveau, University of Cincinnati
Co-author: Parameswari Mukherjee, University of Cincinnati
Co-author: Madeline N. Ndambakuwa, University of Cincinnati
Co-author: Jeffrey O’Rear, University of Cincinnati
“’Bioart’ – an (un)inspiring interdisciplinary text”
Carolina Nieto Ruiz, University of Washington
2:00-3:15 pm | Making People Healthy, Making Healthy People, for Better and for Worse
Alpine East (2nd Level), Hilton
Chair: Scott Graham, University of Texas at Austin
“Withheld medicalization: The FDA’s general considerations for the clinical evaluation of drugs and the construction of the female medical subject”
Hillary Ash, University of Pittsburgh
“(Trans)Gender at play: Enhancement as a rhetorical intervention into gender-affirming surgery”
Char Van Schenck, Wake Forest University
“’The body remembers’: Developing a public health concern with visual rhetoric in resilience”
Drew Holladay, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Habeas corpus callosum, The rhetorical production of the ‘feminized’ male brain and the gay AIDS victim in homosexuality research”
Rose Wilson, University of North Carolina
Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018
8:00-9:15 am | When Psychiatric Diagnosis Goes Rogue: What Happens When Lay Publics Use DSM Disorders to Diagnose Themselves and Others?
Alpine East (2nd Level), Hilton
Chair: Robin E. Jensen, University of Utah
Presenter: Jenell Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presenter: Andrea Alden, Grand Canyon University
Presenter: Michelle Gibbons, University of New Hampshire
Presenter: Davi Alynne Thornton, North Carolina A&T State University
11:00am-12:15 pm | ARSTM Business Meeting
Alpine East (2nd Level), Hilton
President: Zoltan Majdik, North Dakota State University
1st Vice-President: Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, University of Waterloo
2nd Vice-President: Emily Winderman, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Secretary: Nathan R. Johnson, University of South Florida
Treasurer: Adele Hite, North Carolina State University
Web Administrator: Lauren E. Cagle, University of Kentucky
Social Media Officer: Aimee Roundtree, Texas State University
12:30-1:45 pm | Top Papers Panel for ARSTM
Alpine East (2nd Level), Hilton
Chair: Zoltan Majdik, North Dakota State University
“Registered reports: An emerging scientific research article genre”
Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, University of Waterloo
“Whose sexual health: Female Viagra, the science of desire, and the FDA”
Amanda Friz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“From product to process: Mapping the use of scientific research in public controversies”
Melissa L. Carrion, Georgia Southern University
Joanna Schreiber, Georgia Southern University
“Scott Pruitt’s ‘Red Team/Blue Team’ and the cultural politics of scientific debate”
Jay A. Frank, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018
8:00-9:15 am | The Politics of Nature, the Policies of Technology
251A (Level 2), Salt Palace Convention Center
Chair: Lynda Walsh, University of Nevada, Reno
“Evolving rhetorical applications of ownership and fairplay in the digital copyright wars: A case study”
Rian Wanstreet, University of Washington
“Get your (legal) act together: Policy play and the construction of high-tech ‘new collar’ labor”
Christopher M. Cox, Christopher Newport University
“Preparing for non-place-ness as environmental refugees”
Alessandra Von Burg, Wake Forest University
“Rhetoric surrounding the shadow brokers, the NSA, and cyberweapons”
Christiana Louise Robbins, University of Southern California