{"id":5,"date":"2015-07-12T00:36:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T00:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2017-09-18T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T23:01:31","slug":"message-from-the-chair","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Looking Forward&#8230;.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>29 August 2015<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the phrase I landed on when enough people convinced me that they would come again if I would host the symposium again. So we created a <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/about\/symposium-committee\/\">program committee<\/a>, wrote and distributed\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/about\/call-for-papers\/\">call for papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward is hopeful phrase, and it also indicates that we are a group of scholars who share a commitment to doing just that together. Even though we may identify as Communication, Technical and Professional Communication, Linguistics, Composition, or what have you, the key&#8211;and the excitement&#8211;is that we can and do come together around our interest in health and medical discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Gathering at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriott.com\/hotels\/travel\/cvgkg-kingsgate-marriott-conference-center-at-the-university-of-cincinnati\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingsgate Marriott<\/a> on <strong>September 3 and 4, 2015<\/strong>, this two-day trans-disciplinary symposium gives us the space to think through<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what our emerging field should be<\/li>\n<li>what are the pressing questions that need to be addressed<\/li>\n<li>how to build better research collaborations (with one another and with others from different fields) and<\/li>\n<li>where we go from here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_678\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-678\" class=\"wp-image-678 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/files\/2015\/08\/2015-wordle-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/files\/2015\/08\/2015-wordle-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/files\/2015\/08\/2015-wordle-768x504.png 768w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/files\/2015\/08\/2015-wordle.png 839w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wordle from participant keywords, 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We will again be focusing on conversations and thinking through concepts and questions important to our emerging field\u00a0 and be doing lots of talking to one another, and a big part of Friday will be devoted to discussing your in progress work.<\/p>\n<p>Another key feature is an emphasis on research method\/ologies.\u00a0 Doing cross-disciplinary research is always difficult, so we&#8217;ll have a chance to discuss how to cross disciplinary boundaries to do collaborative research projects.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to welcoming y&#8217;all to Cincinnati!<br \/>\nLisa<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Meloncon, PhD<br \/>\nSymposium Chair<br \/>\nAssociate Professor, Technical Communication, Department of English<br \/>\nDirector, McMicken Health Research Center, College of Arts and Sciences<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Thank you to our Sponsors:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-623\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1288081098274.gif\" alt=\"1288081098274\" width=\"151\" height=\"66\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Faculty Development Council<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Office of Research, Third Century Grants<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>McMicken Health Research Center, College of Arts and Sciences<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Taft Research Center Medical Humanities Group <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 543px; left: 360px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 543px; left: 360px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking Forward&#8230;. 29 August 2015 That&#8217;s the phrase I landed on when enough people convinced me that they would come again if I would host the symposium again. 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