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ARSTM@RSA 2022 Preconference Schedule

Global Health: Rhetorical Transformations in a Time of Crisis

May 26, 2022
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront – Laurel A.
Baltimore, Maryland
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9:00-9:10 – Opening Remarks

9:15-10:30 – Panel 1

Making Up “Global Health,” Raquel Baldwinson, Harvard University

Is this “Global Health”?, Mono Brown, Lagara College (V)

A Transnational Invitational Maternal Advocacy (TIMA) Model: Every Mother Counts (EMC) Case Study, Priyanka Ganguly, Virginia Tech

Our Bodies, Ourselves as Embodied Tactical Technical Communication, Kevin Van Winkle, Colorado State University-Pueblo (V)

10:45-12:00 – Panel 2

My/Their/Our Shot: Pandemic Vaccine Rhetorics and Global Health Praxis, Kari Campeau, University of Colorado Denver; Julie Gerdes, Virginia Tech; Heidi Lawrence, George Mason University

Toward “Integrated, People-Centered Eyecare”: A Rhetorical New Material Model of Vision, Brian Le Lay, University of Minnesota (V)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:45 – Panel 3

Global Health, On the Ground: Using Everyday Talk to Identify the Rhetorical Antecedents of Global Heath Crisis, Zoltan Majdik, North Dakota State University

“Don’t Read the Comments: Vaccine Discourse on a State Department of Health Social Media Page,” Daniel Kenzie, Murphy Anderson, North Dakota State University (H)

Public Policy, CDC Mandates, and Genre: The Democratization of Expertise, Michael Gordon Byrd, East Carolina University (V)

Forgotten Hegemonies: Global Health’s Colonial Legacy Considered as a Problem of Rhetorical Articulation and Recursivity, Lisa M. DeTora, Hofstra University

3:00-4:15– Panel 4 

Tuberculosis as a “Social Problem”: The Impact of Urban Planning Rhetorics on Public Health, Joshua Rea, Louisiana State University

Community-Based Methodologies for Health Risk Assessment, Mckinley Green, George Mason University

Situating Sri Lanka’s Banning of Burials Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, Shalini Abayasekara, Ohio State University

A Critical Rhetorical Analysis of Media Representation of Psychedelics on Nine Perfect Strangers and the Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow, Allison N. Blumling, University of Utah

ARSTM@RSA Sponsored Panel

H-08 – RSTM in Community, Sponsored by the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology and Medicine

Organizer:  Kenneth Walker, University of Texas San Antonio

Panelists:  Rachel Bloom-Pojar, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Lauren Cagle, University of Kentucky, Lucia Dura, University of Texas, El Paso, Scott Graham, University of Texas at Austin, Aimee Roundtree, Texas State University and Kenneth Walker, University of Texas San Antonio