ARSTM Preconference: “Rhetorics of Resilience”
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Rochester Room, Hilton Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN
ARSTM RSA 2018 Preconference Panel Schedule UPDATED 5.28.18
8:00 – 8:20 am | Registration
8:20 – 8:30 am | Opening Remarks and Panel Setup
Kenny Walker, University of Texas, San Antonio
Lauren E. Cagle, University of Kentucky
8:30 – 9:35 am | Panel 1 | Wild Encounters: Vulnerability, Oscillations, and Adaptations in Rhetoric’s Technoscientific Milieu
The Resilience of “Function” in Scientific Origin Problems
Diane Marie Keeling, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, Charisse M. Nartey, and Patricia G. Garza
Vulnerability in an Extra Moral Sense: On Resilience and Precarity
Nathan Stormer
Wild, Wily Oscillations and the Recovery of Techno-scientific Resilience
John Ackerman
“It’s Just a Cycle”: Rhythms, Turns, and Tracing Change
Bridie McGreavy
9:40 – 10:45 am | Panel 2 | Engaged Rhetorics, Resilient Communities
Resilient City Planning: Transportation, Social Justice, and Urban Development
Nate Johnson and Meredith Johnson
Resilience in Hazard Communication on Social Media: A Topological Approach
Lynda Walsh and Kat Lambrecht
Rewriting Resilience: Hybrid Forum Design as Engaged Rhetoric of Science
Daniel Card
Climbing the Ladder: Women Firefighters’ Resilient Rhetoric
Sarah Moseley
———Morning Break
10:55 – 12:00 | Panel 3 | Resilience in Rhetorics of Health and Medicine
Sickle Cell Warriors: Discourses of Resilience in “Moving From Silence to Speech”
Raquel Robvais
Rhetorics of Resilience and the Recuperation of Identity
Amy Reed
Rhetoric and Resilience in Clinical Trial Failure for Traumatic Brain Injury Treatments
Daniel Kenzie
“Researched to Death”: Honoring and Following Refusals, Relationships, and Trust in the Field
Kari Campeau
———Lunch On your own. Maps to nearby restaurants will be made available.
1:30 – 2:35 pm | Panel 4 | The Resilience of Tropes: Innovative Figures in Rhetorics of Science and Health
Icon and Metaphor
Bonnie Tucker
Incrementum and Gradatio
Sarah Singer
Ploche
Jordynn Jack
Metaphor and Metonymy
Oren Abeles
Respondent
Jeanne Fahnestock
2:40 – 3:45 pm | Panel 5 | Resilience & Material-Discursive Objects
Future Earth Resilience: Geoengineering Deliberations and the Role of CO2
Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder
Consilience, Resilience, and Hope: Transforming the Rhetoric of Climate Change
Teresa Pierce
Creationist Comparison and Material Metaphor: Reading Resilience through John Dewey’s Logic
Jeremy Smyczek
Resilience and Self-Reliance in Regional Food System Discourse
Philippa Spoel and Colleen Derkatch
———Afternoon Break Coffee and other, lesser refreshments
3:55 – 5 pm | Panel 6 | Thinking Methodologically: Engagement & Interdisciplinarity
Resiliency through Data?: Rhetoric and the Discourse of Population Health
Dawn Opel and Eric Rodriguez
“Because This Is the Only Hope There Is”: Community Engagement with Environmental Resilience in Rural Morocco
Beth Shirley
Small Scale Results, Large Scale Impact: Diffusing Outlier Innovations
Lucía Durá
Rhetoric, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Resilience
Randy Allen Harris
5:05-5:20 pm | Response and closing discussions
Lauren E. Cagle, University of Kentucky
Kenny Walker, University of Texas, San Antonio
ARSTM-sponsored RSA Panel
Friday, June 1, 2018
1:00 – 2:15 pm | Toward More Durable Rhetorics: Building Future Praxis through Reinventing Historic Epistemologies
Lauren E. Cagle, University of Kentucky
Kenneth Walker, University of Texas, San Antonio
Carl Herndl, University of South Florida
Scott Graham, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Kirk St.Amant, Louisiana Tech University and University of Limerick
Nathaniel Rivers, Saint Louis University
Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison