ARSTM hosts a number of panels each National Communication Association convention featuring the latest research in the rhetoric of science, technology and medicine. NCA 2017 meets in Dallas, TX, November 16-18, 2017.
Download a PDF of the ARSTM@NCA 2017 Panel Slate.
Thursday, Nov. 16
9:30 – 10:45 am | Medicine, Technology, Ethics
Plaza Ballroom A – Third Floor
A Vaccination Exhibit is an Illocutionary Enthymeme
Genetic Testing and Discourse of Risk and Choice: Who Stands (Dis)empowered?
Psychosurveillance: The Foundation of an Application Industry
Three-Parent Babies, Nuclear (DNA) War and Multiple Personae: Identification as Argument in the Mitochondrial Donation Debate
12:30 – 1:45 pm | Science and its Publics
Plaza Ballroom A – Third Floor
Digital Parallax: Journalism on Digital Scientific Image Manipulation
Knowledge and Deliberation in the Political Life of the Climate Change Controversy
Privacy is…: A Metaphorical Analysis of 10 years of Tech-Policy Discussion
What do we Want? Evidence-Based Claims! When do we Want it? After Peer Review!
2:00 – 3:15 pm | Outer Space and Robots
Plaza Ballroom A – Third Floor
Pinpointing Rhetoric and Technology
Knowledge and Deliberation in the Political Life of the Climate Change Controversy
From the “Robotic Look” to “Near-Natural”: Marketing Medical-Grade Bionic Prosthetic Limbs
Sonified Outer Space: “Hearing” and Composing Interstellar Rhetoric
3:30 – 4:45 pm | The Ethics of Life Itself
Plaza Ballroom B – Third Floor
Human Maruta: Witnessing, Affect, and the Ethics of Life at the Unit 731 Museum
Two Folds, Three Spaces: Ethics and the Architecture of Life and Death
Water is Life: The Symbioethics of Standing Rock
“It Smelled of Death”: Remembering Willowbrook, Medical Experimentation, and the Constraints of Public Feeling
Friday, Nov. 17
8:00 – 9:15 am | Making Oddkin in the Entangled and Worldly Work of Environmental Rhetoric
Plaza Ballroom B – Third Floor
A Blue Pocket in a Red State: Unmaking Political Assumptions to Make Progress
Catastrophe, Conquest, and the Transcultural Climate Rhetorics of una Culebra de Agua
“Are Dams Set in Stone?”: How Things Come to Matter through Media
9:30 – 10:45 am | From (A)IDS to (Z)ika: The Legacy and Relevance of Disease Rhetorics
Plaza Ballroom B – Third Floor
AIDS, Ebola, and Public Health Indifference
Polio, Zika, and the Politics of Disability
Swine Flu, Public Memory, and Xenophobia
Typhus, Zika, and Rhetorics of Disgust
3:30 – 4:45 pm | ARSTM@NCA New Book Discussion Panel
Plaza Ballroom B – Third Floor
Jensen, Robin. Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term.
Jackson, John P. Jr. and David J. Depew. Darwinism, Democracy and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the
Twentieth Century.
Derkatch, Colleen. Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine.
Saturday, Nov. 18
12:30 – 1:45 pm | Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Business Meeting
Plaza Ballroom B – Third Floor
Awards
Announcements
Elections
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2:00 – 3:15 pm | Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) Top Papers Panel
Plaza Ballroom B – Third Floor
Oklahoma’s Manufactured Scientific Controversy: Fracking, Earthquakes, and a Website
“I don’t understand how these two things go together”: Toward a vaccine risk ecology
Overactive Bladder Disorder and the Rhetoric of Medicalization
Augmented Realities: Transgender Medicine as Change, not Treatment