Event: Program for ARSTM @ RSA 2026

Dear All:

Please find below the schedule for ARSTM’s preconference at the Rhetoric Society of America conference this May. The theme is "Impact." There will be more information about the location forthcoming.

Best,

Dustin

Time
Session Information
8:30 – 9 am
Coffee and Welcome
9 – 10:15 am
Rethinking Audience: Research Impact Beyond RSTM
Panelist 1: Jordynn Jack, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill “Invisible Impact: Teaching Data Literacy through Civic Partnerships”
Panelist 2: Veronica Joyner, University of Central Florida
“Slow Research: Measuring Impact and Time Mismatch in Community-Engaged Research”
Panelist 3: Carly Schnitzler, Johns Hopkins University
“Contextualizing Black Feminist Methodology for the Emerging Scholar”
Panelist 4: Sarah Singer, University of Central Florida
“Perceptive Publics: Scaling RSTM Impact Across Audiences”
10:30 – 11:45 am
Environmental and Science Communication
Panelist 1: Emily Slonim, Texas Tech University
“Whose Impact Counts? Rhetorical and Technical Constructions of Post-Wildfire Recovery in the Lahaina and Black Saturday Reports”
Panelist 2: Lauren Cagle, University of Kentucky
“Using Dialogic Methods to Shape Organizational Science Communication at the Kentucky Geological Survey”
Panelist 3: Sara Rabon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“‘It’s Our Water and Our Energy!’: Negotiating Opposing Discursive Realities within AI DataCenter Debates in Rural Wisconsin”
Panelist 4: Dan Kenzie, North Dakota State University
“Impacts of Science and Health Literacy as Framing Concepts in Public Health and Rhetorical Studies”
11:45 am – 1 pm
Lunch break (on your own)
1 – 2 pm
Technologies of Science Communication
Panelist 1: Lisa Phillips, Texas Tech University
“Rooting Impact: Myccorhizal Models for Scholarly Knowledge Networks”
Panelist 2: Matthew Bryan, University of Central Florida
“Impactful Programs: Developing a Rhetorical-Topological Approach to Code Discourse through an Examination of Historical Word Processing Software Source Code”
Panelist 3: Stephanie Wheeler, University of Central Florida
“High-Impact, High-Harm: Citation Networks and the Rhetorical Construction of Eugenic Authority in Weimar Germany”

2:15 – 3:15 pm
Medical Rhetoric
Panelist 1: Reliance Enwerem, University of Central Florida
“Reframing Impact: Ubuntu Rhetoric and the Ethics of Interface Design in Nigerian Telemedicine”
Panelist 2: Maggie Hart, University of Oklahoma
“Enduring Impacts: Gendered Authority and the Rhetoric of Care in a Nineteenth-Century Gynecological Text”
Panelist 3: Ezekiel Acheampong, George Mason University
“Broken Handoff: Rehabilitation Documentation and Post-Treatment Patient Abandonment”
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis
Panelist 1: Timothy R. Amidon, University of Rhode Island
Panelist 2: Ehren H. Pflugfelder, Oregon State University
Panelist 3: Donnie Johnson Sackey, University of Texas-Austin
6 pm
ARSTM dinner (location TBD)

DUSTIN A. GREENWALT
Assistant Professor
HE/HIM/HIS

SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES
MAIL CODE 6605
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
2002A COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING 1100 LINCOLN DRIVE
CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS 62901

Dustin.Greenwalt

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