... engineering, and medicine/health. If that sounds like a book you have in mind, please send it our way!
Last year’s Book Café was a great success. Let's celebrate even more of your awesome scholarship this year! 🎉
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… please email a link to the book’s publisher page before March 21 to lisa.keranen@ucdenver.edu and jmalkowski@csuchico.edu for consideration in the proposal for this year’s Café. 📨
The Café celebrates new, scholarly monographs related to science, tech, the environment...
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If:
1. You published a book related to ARSTM since last year’s NCA, OR
2. You wrote a book that will be published this year that should be included, OR
3. You didn’t even write a book yourself but know of one (or more!) that fits the bill…
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Attention, book authors and book lovers everywhere! 📚📖📔
Want your book, or a book you’re a fan of, to be a part of the fourth Annual Book Café at the upcoming NCA convention?
If so, now’s your chance! 😊
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They are seeking works examining rhetoric’s responsiveness to alterity, vulnerability, and difference, and hope you will submit your panels and/or papers for consideration.
Info about how, when, and where to submit can be found here: wpa-announcements.tracigardner.com/2026/02/26/c....
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Attention, all students (both undergraduate and graduate)! 📣👋⭐
In collaboration with ARSTM, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting an online symposium titled (Dis)Ruption: Rhetoric of Response and Ability - and we want YOU to submit your materials!
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Follow us across our socials, too!
Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/rhet...
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RhetSTM
Twitter/X: x.com/RhetSTM
#ARSTM #ARSTMNCA
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We look forward to seeing and connecting with new and returning ARSTM scholars at NCA as well as the preconference, and are excited to welcome new folks into our ARSTM community! 👋👍
For those who want to stay in the know, sign up for our listserv: artsservices.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/list....
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Have you heard??? 👂👂👂
ARSTM’s call for submissions to both the NCA conference AND preconference at NCA are now online! 🙌 🥳 🎉
Follow this link (www.arstmonline.org/meetings/nca/) for more information about both calls, including how, when, where, and what to submit.
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Want more details? Click here (www.arstmonline.org/meetings/nca/) and scroll down ⬇️ for more information.
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Please submit your proposals online by July 31.
And, if you have any questions, leave them below or email the preconference coordinator Dr. Gabriel Cutrufello at gcutrufe@ycp.edu.
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More exciting NCA updates, Everyone!
**drumroll please** 🥁 🥁🥁
The preconference call for ARSTM@NCA is now live!
This year’s theme is “Circulation and Trust,” and asks how rhetoricians of science, tech, and medicine address questions of trust within and beyond our discipline.
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Happy to finally see this special issue out in the world! @rhetstm.bsky.social members produce quality and innovative scholarship pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/issue/...
It’s been a delight & an education working with @randyallenharris.bsky.social on this paper in @rhetstm.bsky.social POROI on LLMs ability to synthesize rhetorical figures & linguistic constructions. Worth saying nothing I poast should be construed to reflect the views of my employer or supervisor!
We will post additional details soon, but if you have any questions, leave them for us to respond to below!
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We invite submissions that respond to the convention theme — Move/ments in Communication — as well as the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine more generally.
Please visit our website (www.arstmonline.org/meetings/nca/) for more detailed information.
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It’s that time of year again, everyone! ARSTM is now inviting submission of papers, paper sessions, and panel discussions for the upcoming 2026 NCA convention in New Orleans.
Laissez les bons temps rouler! 🎉 🎊 🥳
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Many thanks to all those who joined us for the third annual ARSTM Book Cafe! 📚 What a success! 🎉
Here are some of our photos from the event. Please feel free to tag yourselves, add your photos in the replies, and be sure to join us next year!
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There is a border of books featured at the 2025 ARSTM Book Cafe at NCA. The center contains words that say, "Third Annual Book Cafe. Saturday, November 22 from 4:00pm to 5:15pm in Willow Lake 0. Check out the wealth of recently published ARSTM-related books. Talk informally with authors, get books signed, win raffle prizes."
📣 Come one, come all, to ARSTM's Annual Book Cafe, to check out many recent (and wonderful!) ARSTM-related books.
Swing by Willow Lake 03 Saturday from 4 to 5:15. Chat with authors, get books signed, and win prizes!
Many thanks to Lisa Keränen & Jennifer Malkowski for organizing.
#ARSTM #NCA2025
Only THREE MORE DAYS, folks! Apply to join #ARSTM leadership...
... OR ELSE 🎃👻🐈⬛
#SpookySeason
And, as always, you can stay up to date on the latest and greatest from ARSTM by:
1. signing up for our listserv (artsservices.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/list...), and
2. becoming a member (www.arstmonline.org/membership/).
See you in May! 👋👍
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Still have questions about the pre-conference?
Send them our way! 📨 Email arstmrsa2026@gmail.com.
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While submissions may cover any ARSTM topic, priority is given to those related to the IMPACT theme.
To submit, email anonymized materials to arstmrsa2026@gmail.com by 11/15/25. Use “ARSTM Preconference Submission” as the subject & include your contact information in the body of the email.
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Following RSA’s conference theme of Rhetorical In/Dignities, we invite submissions exploring how scholars can expand understandings of impact to address in/dignities existing in the academy and in society.
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Want to know more about the theme? 🤔
Rhetoricians of science, technology, and medicine provide valuable insights that enrich our understandings of impact, including how impact intersects with concepts like kairos, megethos, telos, and more.
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⏰ It’s time to submit to the #ARSTM pre-conference at the next RSA (@rhetsoc.bsky.social) meeting! 😀
Theme: IMPACT
Abstracts Due: 11/15/25
Decisions: 1/3/26
Conference Date: 5/20/26
Please see our website for more detailed information on the conference: www.arstmonline.org/meetings/rsa/.
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To apply, please submit a brief statement (300 words or less) explaining:
1. your interest in any open position, and
2. any relevant experience
to Michelle Gibbons (Michelle.Gibbons@unh.edu) by October 20th, 2025.
We look forward to welcoming you to the team 😀
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3. 2nd Web Administrator:
This position helps maintain ARSTM’s website. This includes assisting with technical updates, collaborating, and sharing important information with members. This is a two-year commitment, eventually transitioning to the 1st Web Administrator role.
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2. 2nd Treasurer
This positions helps manage our finances, including managing accounts, maintaining our tax status, keeping records, and generating reports of financial activity. This is a two-year commitment, eventually transitioning to the 1st Treasurer role.
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What do these positions involve?
1. 2nd Vice-President:
This role is part of a succession structure, eventually moving into the VP and President roles. They assist with program planning, monitor our organization email, and help our VP and President more generally.
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