Wednesday November 17th, 9am-5pm (CST). Virtual. (All times listed in Central Standard Time.)
9:00 – 9:15 | An Opening & ARSTM Book Highlights I: Climate Politics on the Border (University of Alabama Press, 2022) Kenny Walker, University of Texas, San Antonio |
9:15 – 10:30 | Environmental Justice & De/Coloniality (ARSTM Sponsored Panel) Panel Chair: Carolina Hinojosa, University of Texas, San Antonio Adventures in Praxis, Experiments in Deceleration: Toward an Environmental Justice Beyond Rhetorics of Crisis Dr. Marisol Cortez, Writer/Author, Community-Based Scholar, & Co-editor of Deceleration Undisciplining Toward Just Reciprocities Dr. Priscilla Solis Ybarra, University of North Texas Grounding Queer Ecovisual Rhetorics Dr. Anushka Peres, University of Nevada, Reno Conceptions of Citizenship and the Decolonial Cyborg in Sabrina Vourvoulias’s Ink. Jonathan Martinez, Texas A&M International University |
10:30 – 10:45 | Morning Break |
10:45 – 12:00 | Borderlands Rhetorics for Science, Technology, and Medicine Panel Chair: Kenny Walker, University of Texas, San Antonio World-Traveling as a Method of Redesigning a Map for Migrant Women: Humanitarian Technical Communication in Praxis Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar, Pennsylvania State University “Monstrous Mothers”, “Diseased Immigrants,” and the Maintenance of Ecologies of Whiteness in the Public Discourse of the Zika Virus Michael Gallaway, DePaul University Palante: The Rhetorical Praxis of the Young Lords for Health Autonomy Eric Rodriguez, Portland State University Community Science & Borderlands Rhetorical Praxis in the #UrbanBirdProject Kenny Walker, Paulina Hernandez-Trejo, Marisol Cortez, Amelia King-Kostelac, Jen Smith, Lauren Granger, & Annette Portillo, University of Texas, San Antonio |
12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch Break |
1:00 – 2:15 | In/humanities in Rhetorics of Health & Medicine Future Past: Temporality and Disavowal in Rhetoric, Science, and the In/humanities Colleen Derkatch, Ryerson University & Heather Latimer, UBC-Okanagan Human/Vegetable Michelle Gibbons, University of New Hampshire The Rhetorical Turns of the Polio Archive Jacqueline James, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Rhetorical Dispositions: Improving Relationships between Embryo Donation, Decision-Making, and Family Formation Maria Novotny, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
2:15 – 2:30 | ARSTM Book Highlights II: Zoetropes & the Politics of Humanhood (Ohio State University Press, 2020) Allison Rowland, St. Lawrence University |
2:30 – 2:45 | Early Afternoon Break |
2:45 – 3:30 | In/humanities of Extraction and Scale Undermining Technical Communication: Extraction, Risk, and Scale Ehren Pflugfelder, Oregon State University Daniel Richards, Old Dominion University Tim Amidon, Colorado State University Can Non-Humans Human Humanely? Toward a Rhetorical-Computational Analysis of Bias in Narrative Evaluations Dan Card, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
3:30 – 3:45 | ARSTM Book Highlights III: Architects of Memory (University of Alabama Press, 2021) Nathan Johnson, University of South Florida |
3:45 – 4:00 | Late Afternoon Break |
4:00 – 5:15 | Citation Politics: A Roundtable Crystal Lane Swift Ferguson, Mt. San Antonio College Lauren E. Cagle, University of Kentucky Nathan R. Johnson, University of South Florida Meredith A. Johnson, University of South Florida Natasha N. Jones, Michigan State University Kristen R. Moore, University at Buffalo Allison Lockwood Rowland, St. Lawrence University Fernando Sánchez, University of St. Thomas Meridith Styer, Georgia College and State University Yusaku Yajima, University of Louisiana, Monroe Michael Faris, Texas Tech University |
Beyond the precon: ARSTM-sponsored programming
For those of you attending NCA on site, be sure to check out the great slate of ARSTM@NCA sponsored sessions!