CFP: ARSTM Preconference at the Rhetoric Society of America 2024

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The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine welcomes proposals for the ARSTM@RSA 2024 Preconference. Abstracts are due Monday, November 27th, 2023. The preconference takes place Wednesday, May 22, 2024 in Denver, Colorado, one day before the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) conference. 

The ARSTM@RSA 2024 Preconference theme "Fail/Safe,” borrows from the scientific, technical, and medical perspectives and histories, which constitute a common ground or topos of concern illustrated by Rocky Flats contaminated nuclear weapons complex and invites inquiries into how rhetorics of science, technology, and medicine figure in both our sociotechnical failures (e.g., Covid, mis- and dis-information, the Anthropocene), our current programs and infrastructures for safety (e.g., access to and within technologies, information literacy, cultural safety), and how civic deliberation might act as a kind of fail/safe against technofuturist optimism, disinformation, and social violence. 

The theme has natural intersections with technical writing scholarship, research, and teaching. It spotlights important aspects of communicating technical subject matter, making ethical communication decisions, and expanding philosophy and theory of technical and scientific communication. For more information, visit https://www.arstmonline.org/2023/09/26/arstmrsa-2024-preconference-cfp/.

Any questions about the ARSTM preconference at RSA may be addressed to Nathan Johnson at nathan...@usf.edu.

Aimee Kendall Roundtree, Ph.D.

Professor, Technical Communication, College of Liberal Arts

Texas State University

601 University Drive

San Marcos, TX 78666

a...@txstate.edu

President, Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Editor, Research Management Review

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

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