Rhetoric, Science, and the In/humanities
Wednesday November 17th, 9am-5pm (CST). Virtual.
9:00 – 9:15 | An Opening & ARSTM Book Highlights I: Climate Politics on the Border (University of Alabama Press, 2021)
Kenny Walker, University of Texas, San Antonio
9:15 – 10:30 | Environmental Justice & De/Coloniality (ARSTM Sponsored Panel, Titles TBA)
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