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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

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, as we take what we learn into our research, teaching, community, and workspaces. Our three… 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 collegial officer group. Service loads are reasonable with most positions normally requiring under 40 hours… 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 participation for everyone is long. We can do better. By “we,” I mean in academia… 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 on the theme of social justice. This year’s ARSTM@NCA preconference is, by necessity, not the… 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 prior to the National Communication Association conference. We will meet online via a video conferencing… 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 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