Theme: Intervention(s)<\/span><\/p>\n October 17 & 18, 2025<\/p>\n Minneapolis, MN<\/span><\/p>\n Proposal Deadline: April 15, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n See the CFP below or view a downloadable copy<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) Symposium is a diverse gathering of folks from graduate students to senior faculty 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, medicine, illness, healing, and wellness.<\/span><\/p>\n The driving purpose of much RHM scholarship is to effect change, to engage in what Blake Scott (2003) describes as \u201cethical intervention, however tentative and local\u201d (p. 229). Melon\u00e7on and Molloy (2022) further point out that scholarly interventions in RHM can \u201ccatalyze real and specific change and\u2026break down disciplinary silos in the process\u201d (p.3). These and other scholars ask us to envision and engage the principle of intervention in RHM responsibly and ethically, whether our own interventions are pedagogical, methodological, social, or institutional. At the same time, many RHM scholars study interventions within<\/i> health and medicine\u2014efforts to improve health and health equity at the level of individuals, populations, and systems. The notion of intervention itself is not uniformly positive, or even neutral, however: interventions in both rhetoric and medicine can cause harm and leave legacies of trauma. Our call for proposals embraces all of these senses of intervention <\/i>in RHM to underscore the value and opportunities of the field\u2019s inherently interdisciplinary nature, ultimately providing diverse spaces and approaches for scholarly engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n We invite proposals that consider and\/or critique the concept of <\/span>intervention<\/span><\/i>, widely construed, in rhetoric of health and medicine. Some key questions could include, but are not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n This symposium thus centers RHM\u2019s capacity to engage with and intervene in the entanglement of academic scholarship and our daily lives in ways that are both critical and just.<\/span><\/p>\n We understand access as an \u201congoing, iterative process\u201d (Melon\u00e7on, 2018) that involves careful planning and nimble adaptation to the unexpected (Haas & Eble, 2018). With your help, we are committed to making the symposium an inclusive and accessible space from proposal submission to day-of events. <\/span>See our initial accessibility plan<\/span><\/a>, which we will continue to develop. We invite feedback and recommendations at any time at <\/span>rhmsymposium@gmail.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n A hallmark of the RHM Symposium has been its orientation toward dialogue among attendees. We are excited to maintain this tradition through a mix of short presentations, workshops, and work-in-progress sessions. This year\u2019s workshops will be held virtually at a date prior to the in-person Symposium <\/b>in response to participant feedback for more virtual options and for the ability to attend multiple workshops.<\/span><\/p>\n To submit a proposal, please complete the<\/span> RHM Symposium 2025 Submission Form<\/span><\/a>. The form will ask for the following information:<\/span><\/p>\n As part of the proposal submission process, you will be invited to designate what kind of session you\u2019d like your project to be considered for, including:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n NOTE: <\/b>We invite you to submit one or multiple proposals for different session types. You will need to submit separate forms for each session type you’d like to be considered for. The same project can be submitted for multiple session types or you can submit multiple projects, but we ask that you only submit once for any given session type (i.e., please don\u2019t submit multiple work-in-progress proposals or multiple workshop proposals). Each submission will be reviewed independently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n NOTE: <\/b>Only work-in-progress submissions will be considered for our Top Paper award and the Barbara Heifferon Graduate Student Fellowship for top graduate student submissions. All work-in-progress submissions are automatically considered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Submit your proposal by completing the <\/span>2025 RHM Symposium Submission form<\/span><\/a>. You can complete the form multiple times if you are submitting to participate in multiple ways (e.g., for works-in-progress and lightning talk).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Please contact <\/span>rhmsymposium@gmail.com<\/span><\/a> if you have any questions or if you have feedback, accessibility requests, or recommendations. <\/span>More details about the 2025 RHM Symposium can be found online at <\/span>http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2025<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Haas, A. M., & Eble, M. F. (Eds.). (2018). <\/span>Key theoretical frameworks: Teaching technical communication in the twenty-first century<\/span><\/i>. University Press of Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n Melon\u00e7on, L. (2018). Orienting access in our business and professional communication classrooms. <\/span>Business and Professional Communication Quarterly<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>81<\/span><\/i>(1), 34-51.<\/span><\/p>\n Molloy, C., & Melon\u00e7on, L. (Eds.) (2022). <\/span>Strategic interventions in mental health rhetoric<\/span><\/i>. Routledge.<\/span><\/p>\n Scott, J. B. (2003). <\/span>Risky rhetoric: AIDS and the cultural practices of HIV testing<\/span><\/i>. Southern Illinois University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2025 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium Theme: Intervention(s) October 17 & 18, 2025 Minneapolis, MN Proposal Deadline: April 15, 2025 See the CFP below or view a downloadable copy. 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