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Download 2020 CFP<\/a><\/p>\n

With the uncertainty around COVID19, we have made the decision to move the 2020 RHM Symposium to a virtual format. With flexibility from the online space, we are extending the call for proposals until May 15, 2020.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) Symposium is a mix of highly competitive, open-call papers and invited participants, which results in a diverse gathering of scholars (from graduate students to full professors) from a variety of disciplines and fields. The RHM symposium seeks to bring together humanities and social scientific research traditions in a rhetorically focused way to allow scholars to build new interdisciplinary theories, methodologies, and insights that can impact our understanding of health, illness, healing, and wellness.<\/span><\/p>\n

We like to propose a theme to give us a unifying concept to work with during our time together. This year\u2019s theme, \u201cidentities\u201d is meant to offer potential participants a generative organizing principle to guide the symposium\u2019s conversations, as well as potentially help you to articulate your work in progress. <\/span>T<\/span>he […] in the title signals a space for each of us to engage with the many configurations of identities through the power of the preposition — identities <\/span>at, through, with, between, about, in,<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>of.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

This theme is meant to signal that we\u2019d like the symposium to be space where RHM scholars\u2014both established and emerging\u2014are invited to continue vital conversations on the \u201cidentity\u201d of RHM as an interdisciplinary field of study that sits between the humanistic and social sciences, as well as to consider its relations and relationships to related fields of study such as, for example, medical humanities; medical anthropology; and rhetoric of science, technology and medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That said, we\u2019re also interested in advancing conversations during the symposium and with your works-in-progress that consider the context of identities conceived broadly (i.e. patient identities, care provider identities, scholarly identities, institutional identities, personal identities, community identities, etc.) Rather than essentializing issues of identity, we want to think through and to engage with how RHM work might challenge notions of stable identities and how it might work to especially highlight shifting and intersectional identities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Potential categories<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
materiality<\/span><\/td>\nembodiment<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
methodologies methods, practices<\/span><\/td>\nintercultural\/global\/translingual<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
health citizenship\/publics<\/span><\/td>\ntechnologies<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
critical race theory<\/span><\/td>\nhistoriography\/rhetorical history<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
social justice and advocacy<\/span><\/td>\nethics<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
critical theory<\/span><\/td>\ngenre<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Submission Criteria<\/b><\/p>\n

Unlike other conferences, the RHM Symposium is all about conversations. Therefore, what you are proposing is your <\/span>work-in-progress that will be work-shopped in small groups<\/b>. Past attendees have found this feature to be not only helpful to their own work but also, invigorating to intellectual inquiry.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the time together will have us engaging in conversations around different questions, topics, and concerns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Your full proposal should include:<\/span><\/p>\n