Event: ARSTM RSA Pre-conference Time and Location

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To clarify the previous conference schedule email, the ARSTM pre-conference will take place on the first day of RSA, Thursday, May 23^rd from 7:45am-5:15pm in Directors I at the Sheraton Denver Downtown. See you there!

 

ARSTM Preconference 2024 Schedule
Fail/Safe–An Inquiry into Failure and Safety in the Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine

7:45-8:00: Introduction, Remarks, and Thanks

8-9:15: Panel 1 Exploring Failure and Safety in Familial Contexts

• Failing to Keep Safe: Errors and Opportunities for Improvement in Social Work and Child Protective Services (Susan L. Popham)
• Checking Boxes: Investigating Adoption Preference Forms (APFs) as Technical Rhetorics at the Confluence of the Medical, Social, and Bureaucratic (Hannah Locher)
• Failure, Risk and Pro-Natural Birth Discourse (Julie Homchick Crowe and Colleen Derkatch)

 

9:15-10:30: Panel 2 Publics and Documents

• Failing to Obtain Trust in Public Trust Lands: Analyzing Stakeholder Perceptions of the Bear Lake Comprehensive Management Plan and its Kairoi (Wesley Mathis)
• Safety Amidst Whorephobia: Queer Use of Online Terms of Service (Avery Edenfield and Rachel Jordan)
• Unsafe Territories: Choices, Access and Rhetoric of Safety for Immigrant Healthcare (Munira Mutmainna)

 

MORNING BREAK: 10:30-10:45

10:45-12: Panel 3 Defining Care in Health Communication Pedagogy and Educational Materials 

• Clear Expectations and Intentional Conversations: The Importance of Pedagogical Rhetorics of Care in Medical & Public Health Graduate Programs (Katherine (Kat) Mavridou-Hernandez, Ariana Johnson, and Isabella Correia)
• Extra-Institutional Rhetorics in Evidence Based Medicine (EBM): A case study of communicating the results of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) (Marissa Buccilli)
• Redefining the Rhetorical Landscape of HPV Vaccination: Inclusivity, Gender, and the Unsafe Online Gardasil Discourse (Steven Amador)

 

LUNCH BREAK: 12-1:15

1:15-2:30 Panel 4 Science, Technology, and Representations

• What is Microbiomish? A Rhetorical Approach to Preserving the Privilege of Being Allowed to Fail in Microbiome Research (Erika Szymanski)
• Safety in the Plantationocene: Representations of Human-Elephant Conflict from a Community Perspective (Jason Ludden)
• Exploring a Very Strange Place: Rhetorical Ethos in the Context of TikTok Conspiracy Theories (Amy Koerber and Tameem Al-Shawaf)

 

2:30-3:45 Panel 5: Citizen Science, Rhetoric, and Cybernetics: Theorizing Failure and Safety

• Science Literacy as Reciprocity? A Critical Rhetorical Examination of Citizen Science Reports (Carlee A. Baker)
• What is Rhetorical Privacy?: The Uncertainty of Binaries Operating in Communication and Across Culture (Charles Woods)
• Cybernetics as Rhetorical Fail/Safe (Kimberlyn Harrison)
• Medicalization as Destigmatization: The Brain Disease Model of Addiction as Fail/Safe from Moral Blame (Gabriel Lake Carter)

 

AFTERNOON BREAK: 3:45-4

4-5:15 Panel 6: Navigating Risk, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change                                            

• Identifying Risk Thresholds to Promote Increased Safety in Extreme Weather Communication (Kat Lambrecht, Lynda Olman, and Meghan Collins)
• Where Is the Safest Place from Climate Change? (Lauren Cagle)

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