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The 2020 ARSTM@NCA Virtual Preconference on Social Justice was a huge success, with over 70 registered attendees, 3 distinguished keynote speakers, and 17 papers by 25 authors. The asynchronous content provided by authors as well as recordings of their paper discussion sessions are available to registered ARSTM members through December… Read More »Social Justice Keynote Panel, Other Preconference Materials Now Available for Viewing

This past summer, the ARSTM leadership team committed to undertaking a series of actions in support of structurally integrating anti-racism into our organization. One of our early proposals was to rededicate funds from the 2020 ARSTM@RSA preconference, which was cancelled due to COVID, to providing micro-grants to members of the… Read More »Financial Changes to Increase Inclusivity of ARSTM’s Membership and Preconferences

The ARSTM Book Award Committee is pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 ARSTM Book Award: The Origins of Bioethics: Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong by John A. Lynch (Michigan State University Press, 2019) The Origins of Bioethics is a focused and nuanced engagement with the rhetoric of biomedicine.  It… Read More »John Lynch Wins 2020 ARSTM Book Award

As the chair of the 2020 ARSTM@NCA Virtual Preconference on Social Justice, I am thrilled to announce our distinguished keynote speakers: The keynote panel will open the synchronous preconference events, and will set the stage for our ongoing conversations about RSTM and social justice, both during the preconference and beyond,… Read More »Keynote Speakers Announced for the 2020 ARSTM@NCA Virtual Preconference on Social Justice

The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) members are invited to nominate candidates for the following offices: Second Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Social Media Officer, and Web Administrator. Self-nominations are encouraged, and incumbents are encouraged to run again, if interested. As a small organization, ARSTM relies on an active, enthusiastic, and… Read More »Call for Nominations: ARSTM Leadership Elections

Guest post by ARSTM@NCA 2020 preconference chair, Dr. Lauren Cagle Academic conferences are often notoriously inaccessible. Rooms without mics, long hikes between meeting rooms, echoing acoustics, hidden elevators, uncaptioned talks, visuals without audio descriptions, a dearth of childcare, lactation stations tucked away in distant bathrooms–the list of barriers to full… Read More »Putting Accessibility First at the ARSTM@NCA 2020 Virtual Preconference

Guest post by ARSTM@NCA 2020 preconference chair, Dr. Lauren Cagle As the 1st vice president of the Association for Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine, it is both my honor and my responsibility to organize the annual ARSTM@NCA preconference. I am sincerely excited to share the 2020 call for papers… Read More »Background on the ARSTM@NCA 2020 Virtual Preconference: What, How, and Why

Abstract submission deadline: Thursday, September 4, 2020 at 11:59pm ET Decision notification: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Papers/presentations due for upload: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 11:59 ET Preconference date: 12:00-6:30pm ET, Wednesday, November 18, 2020 The Association for Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) will host its annual preconference… Read More »CFP for ARSTM@NCA 2020 Virtual Preconference on Social Justice

ARSTM member and past president Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher has received the 2020 RSA Fellows’ Early Career Award. Dr. Mehlenbacher is an assistant professor specializing in rhetorical theory in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Demos Lab (Democratization… Read More »Former ARSTM President Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher Wins 2020 RSA Fellows’ Early Career Award