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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 skillfully enlists historiography and mobilizes analytic affordances of rhetorical theory to understand how some of… Read More »John Lynch Wins 2020 ARSTM Book Award

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 collegial officer group. Service loads are reasonable with most positions normally requiring under 40 hours… Read More »Call for Nominations: ARSTM Leadership Elections

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 through Education in Medicine, technolOgy, and Science Lab) and is the author 2 books and… Read More »Former ARSTM President Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher Wins 2020 RSA Fellows’ Early Career Award

The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine’s (ARSTM) seeks nominations for its Article of the Year Award, which recognizes the most outstanding rhetoric of science and technology-related article published the preceding calendar year. Recipients will be recognized at the ARSTM business meeting at the 2020 National Communication Association Convention in Indianapolis, IN, and will receive a one-year membership to ARSTM. Send nominations… Read More »Call for Nominations for 2020 ARSTM Article of the Year Award

The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine unequivocally condemns the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee, and the many more Black people killed by police, law enforcement, and vigilantes. Moreover, we condemn the racist state-sponsored violence against Black people in the United States and around the globe. We recognize that white supremacist violence, and more… Read More »ARSTM Statement on Anti-Black Racism and the Murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and David McAtee and Others

On Monday, June 8, 2020, the Association for Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine leadership released a statement on anti-black racism and the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and David McAtee, and others. In the statement, we wrote the following: As rhetoricians of science, technology, and medicine, it is our ethical responsibility to acknowledge and reckon with the injustices central… Read More »ARSTM Plan for Anti-Racist Action in and by the Organization

Dear ARSTM Members, We write to you today to share the news that the ARSTM pre-conference at the Rhetoric Society of America Biannual Meeting in Portland has been cancelled due to the continued spread of COVID-19. Please see the official cancellation message from RSA President, Dr. Kirt Wilson. There, he provides guidance about listing your anticipated presentation on your CV. If we can be of… Read More »ARSTM @ RSA Pre-conference Cancelled Due to COVID-19

We request willing reviewers for ARSTM@NCA and the NCA Pre-conference! We are recruiting reviewers with the following form: ARSTM@NCA2020 Review Form. The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine is inviting submissions for the 2020 NCA conference in Indianapolis. You can  find our CFP posted: here. We hope you are making plans for papers, panels, and discussion roundtables.  We very much look forward to your submission.… Read More »Call for Reviewers for ARSTM@NCA2020

The purpose of the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) is to promote research, teaching, and civic engagement that explores the communicative and persuasive dimensions of scientific, technical, and medical texts, genres, practices, materials, and settings. The Association is concerned with how scientific and technical discourses shape and are shaped by broader rhetorical, cultural, historical, and material forces. ARSTM invites submission… Read More »CFP for NCA 2020: Communication at the Crossroads

ARSTM Pre-conference on Translation (PDF version) 2019 National Communication Association Wednesday, November 13, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Baltimore Convention Center, Room 348 Baltimore, MD   Time Activity Participants 8:30 am Registration Coffee and Tea Service Provided All-Gender Restroom Located Near Room 341 9:00 am Welcome from Pre-Conference Planner Emily Winderman, University of Minnesota ARSTM 1st Vice President 9:05-10:20 am Panel #1: Theorizing Translation: What… Read More »ARSTM @ NCA Pre-conference on Translation Schedule