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I'm writing with a reminder about next week's Thursday, Sep. 4 deadline for ARSTM@NCA preconference proposals.
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preconference</span> with a mix of traditional and non-traditional elements. In addition to Q&A sessions about submitted papers that will be available to read in advance, we'll have a 90-minute keynote session with 3 extremely accomplished speakers:</div>
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<li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Dr. Iris Davis</b>, a practicing medical doctor in North Carolina, who has worked on community-based approaches to addressing racial health disparities.
</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Dr. Les Hutchinson</b>, whose work on technology, privacy, and Indigenous feminist research methods and community engagement is critically reimagining multiple fields, including rhetorics of technology
and technical communication, and challenging scholars in those fields to face and amend racist practices.<br>
</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Dr. Armond Towns</b>, whose media studies scholarship on technology, science, and the Black body open new theoretical spaces for rhetorics of science and technology by resisting a reductive Westernized
compartmentalization of any of those things.</span></li></ul>
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<div style="color:black; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please check out
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the CFP</a>, read my <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arstmonline.org%2F2020%2F08%2F07%2Fbackground-on-the-arstmnca-2020-virtual-preconference-what-how-and-why%2F&data=02%7C01%7Clauren.cagle%40uky.edu%7C03078a67d2864edda07c08d83b0b8ae4%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637324268057469420&sdata=PBrbD1WFgQMX3Ca2qMXA9IEruzAh8p4A%2BdyJGG%2BGGtg%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" originalsrc="http://www.arstmonline.org/2020/08/07/background-on-the-arstmnca-2020-virtual-preconference-what-how-and-why/" title="Original URL: http://www.arstmonline.org/2020/08/07/background-on-the-arstmnca-2020-virtual-preconference-what-how-and-why/. Click or tap if you trust this link.">
blog post</a> for some more context on the format of the preconference, and email me with any and all questions. (Full CFP below to save you the click-through!)</div>
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<div style="color:black; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I'll be sharing more details about the keynote speakers, their talks, and preconference accessibility in a series of upcoming blog posts on the ARSTM website. For early notifications when
those blogs go up, please <a href="http://www.arstmonline.org/listserv/" title="http://www.arstmonline.org/listserv/">
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<div style="color:black; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">If you are interested in serving as a reviewer for conference proposals (reviewers will each get 3-4 individual paper/presentation abstracts of no more than 300 words), please fill out
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">Assistant Professor | <a href="https://wrd.as.uky.edu/">
Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies, University of Kentucky</a></p>
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Environmental and Sustainability Studies, University of Kentucky</a></p>
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Association for Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine</a></p>
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Kentucky Climate Consortium</a><br>
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Preconference</span> on Social Justice</span></h3>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><i>Abstract submission deadline:</i> Thursday, September 4, 2020 at 11:59pm ET<b><br>
</b><i>Decision notification:</i> Wednesday, September 30, 2020<b><br>
</b><i>Papers/presentations due for upload:</i> Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 11:59 ET<b><br>
</b><i><span data-markjs="true" class="markc5zmfkl7f" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Preconference</span> date:</i> 12:00-6:30pm ET, Wednesday, November 18, 2020</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">The Association for Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (<span data-markjs="true" class="markxpm79bzyo" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">ARSTM</span>) will host its annual
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preconference</span> prior to the National Communication Association conference. We will meet online via a video conferencing platform on November 18, 2020, the day before the<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.natcom.org%2Fnca-106th-annual-convention-communication-crossroads&data=02%7C01%7Clauren.cagle%40uky.edu%7C03078a67d2864edda07c08d83b0b8ae4%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637324268057519397&sdata=Yv0vkyjQB7%2Ft2f0aC6YsqnIjjfH3jNrhk%2BAGH2qlnmA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" originalsrc="https://www.natcom.org/nca-106th-annual-convention-communication-crossroads" title="Original URL: https://www.natcom.org/nca-106th-annual-convention-communication-crossroads. Click or tap if you trust this link.">
106th Annual Convention of National Communication Association</a>.</p>
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preconference</span> will be a half-day virtual gathering of RSTM scholars presenting about, reflecting on, and planning actions related to the theme of social justice. All sessions will be live-captioned by professional CART captioners.</p>
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<h3><i>What is the virtual <span data-markjs="true" class="markxpm79bzyo" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">
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preconference</span> about?</i></h3>
<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">For this <span data-markjs="true" class="markxpm79bzyo" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">
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preconference</span>, we invite you to consider how the rhetorical and social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine (STM) intersect with (in)justices of all kinds. Rhetoricians are well positioned to consider how STM discourses might enable or preclude
just social processes and outcomes. The inextricable social and material threads of STM’s many onto-epistemological systems have real consequences for real people. And rhetoric offers multiple tools for making sense of these consequences and striving to bend
these systems towards justice.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Social justice, as concept, study, and practice, resists reduction. Natasha Jones, Kristen Moore, and Rebecca Walton describe social justice as “the bridge from diversity to inclusion” (2016, p. 219). It is the messy,
complex, and constant work of “redressing inequities and acknowledging harm” in service of dismantling systems of oppression (Jones et al., 2016, p. 219). The ongoing nature of social justice work is reflected in the fact that this is a repeat theme from
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the 2014 <span data-markjs="true" class="markxpm79bzyo" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">
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preconference</span></a>, which took up social justice as a key concern in and of science.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">As rhetoricians of STM, we can use our expertise to address the particular ways rhetoric, science, technology, and medicine are intertwined with (in)justice and people’s experiences of injustice. Rhetoricians have shown
injustice’s ubiquitous entanglement with RSTM topics, from disease (see, e.g., Raquel Robvais’s work on Sickle Cell Anemia) to metaphor (see, e.g., Leah Ceccarelli’s work on the frontier metaphor in science) to medical theories (see, e.g., John Lynch’s work
on genetics and race) to technological interpellations of minoritized people (see, e.g., Chris Gilliard’s work on surveillance and racial profiling). These examples illustrate how rhetoricians can theorize, circulate, and act on ideas about rhetoric and justice
in order to make sense of the scientific, technological, and medical strands undergirding historical and contemporary systems of oppression.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">And not only <i>can</i> we do this work. We
<i>should</i> do this work. As the <span data-markjs="true" class="markxpm79bzyo" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">
ARSTM</span> leadership wrote in our June 8, 2020, <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arstmonline.org%2F2020%2F06%2F08%2Farstm-statement-on-anti-black-racism-and-the-murders-of-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-ahmaud-arbery-tony-mcdade-and-david-mcatee-and-others%2F&data=02%7C01%7Clauren.cagle%40uky.edu%7C03078a67d2864edda07c08d83b0b8ae4%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637324268057529395&sdata=hYNgI3uiJ5ru7YzPdrIhr1zG6%2FnikFOscOw6Ltufe7E%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" originalsrc="http://www.arstmonline.org/2020/06/08/arstm-statement-on-anti-black-racism-and-the-murders-of-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-ahmaud-arbery-tony-mcdade-and-david-mcatee-and-others/" title="Original URL: http://www.arstmonline.org/2020/06/08/arstm-statement-on-anti-black-racism-and-the-murders-of-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-ahmaud-arbery-tony-mcdade-and-david-mcatee-and-others/. Click or tap if you trust this link.">
“Statement on Anti-Black Racism and the Murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee, and Others”</a>:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; padding-left:30px">As rhetoricians of science, technology, and medicine, it is our ethical responsibility to acknowledge and reckon with the injustices central to the topics we study. And it is our responsibility to
critique and resist the use of science, technology, and medicine as tools for the oppression of Black, Brown, and Indigenous People. We can and should use the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine to call out and address institutional racism and to
amplify and support those who are already doing that work, from #BlackInSTEM advocates to anti-surveillance community groups to reproductive justice activists and beyond.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">In service of this ethical responsibility, we envision the
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preconference</span> as a place to tease out, <span data-markjs="true" class="markszxlhaurp" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">
share</span>, and deliberate on the connections to social justice that unquestionably exist in all our work. We also envision the
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preconference</span> as an opportunity to reflect on how we can acknowledge harms and redress inequities in our professional communities.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">For the 2020 <span data-markjs="true" class="markxpm79bzyo" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">
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Preconference</span>, we invite individual papers that address or embody the following questions:</p>
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<li>What does “social justice” mean in the context of your research questions, research sites, methodologies, and teaching of RSTM? What frameworks for justice can and/or do you bring to your RSTM work?</li><li>How have science, technology, and medicine contributed to injustices, both historical and contemporary? How has science, technology, and medicine been used in the pursuit of justice, both historically and today?</li><li>How can engaged RSTM contribute to social justice efforts? How can RSTM amplify the work of practitioners and activists?</li><li>How do our professional RSTM spaces and practices contribute to (in)justice? What social justice actions should institutional leaders and privileged members of the field in particular take to acknowledge harms and redress inequities?</li></ul>
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preconference</span> work?</i></h3>
<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">The <span data-markjs="true" class="markc5zmfkl7f" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">
preconference</span> will have some traditional elements, such as keynote speakers, prepared papers and/or presentations, Q&A with paper and/or presentation authors, and networking opportunities. However, to make this work in a virtual format, we’ll be approaching
these traditional elements in a somewhat non-traditional fashion. Here’s the process:</p>
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<li><b>Applicants submit abstracts.</b><br>
Interested authors are invited to submit individual paper/presentation abstracts for anonymous peer review.<br>
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</li><li><b>Accepted authors upload a full paper and/or video recording of a presentation.
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</li><li><b>Attendees read/view papers/presentations in advance.</b><br>
Attendees will have 2 weeks to read and watch uploaded papers and presentations prior to the
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preconference</span> for a keynote panel followed by Q&A sessions with paper/presentation authors.</b><br>
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preconference</span>, we will begin with a traditional keynote panel with accomplished speakers and audience Q&A. Following that, we will have a series of paper discussion sessions in which a session chair briefly introduces 3-4 papers and then the remaining
synchronous meeting time is dedicated to Q&A with the audience. Attendees will be able to come and go as needed based on their schedules.</li></ol>
<h3><i>How do I submit a proposal to give a paper/presentation at the <span data-markjs="true" class="markxpm79bzyo" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">In an individual abstract of 300 words or fewer, detail how your paper and/or presentation will further our understanding of social justice in relation to rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine as a research site
and/or as a professional space. Individual abstracts may have multiple authors. Because of this year’s abbreviated virtual format, we are not inviting panel proposals.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Send your abstract as an attachment without any identifying information to lauren.cagle@uky.edu by September 4, 2020. Please use “<span data-markjs="true" class="markxpm79bzyo" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">ARSTM</span>
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<p><i>Abstract submission deadline:</i> Thursday, September 4, 2020 at 11:59pm ET<b><br>
</b><i>Decision notification:</i> Wednesday, September 30, 2020<b><br>
</b><i>Papers/presentations due for upload:</i> Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 11:59 ET<b><br>
</b><i>Preconference date:</i> 12:00-6:30pm ET, Wednesday, November 18, 2020</p>
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<p>The Association for Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) will host its annual preconference prior to the National Communication Association conference. We will meet online via a video conferencing platform on November 18, 2020, the day before
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<p>The preconference will be a half-day virtual gathering of RSTM scholars presenting about, reflecting on, and planning actions related to the theme of social justice. All sessions will be live-captioned by professional CART captioners.</p>
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<h3><i>What is the virtual ARSTM@NCA 2020 preconference about?</i></h3>
<p>For this ARSTM@NCA 2020 preconference, we invite you to consider how the rhetorical and social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine (STM) intersect with (in)justices of all kinds. Rhetoricians are well positioned to consider how STM discourses
might enable or preclude just social processes and outcomes. The inextricable social and material threads of STM’s many onto-epistemological systems have real consequences for real people. And rhetoric offers multiple tools for making sense of these consequences
and striving to bend these systems towards justice.</p>
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<p>Social justice, as concept, study, and practice, resists reduction. Natasha Jones, Kristen Moore, and Rebecca Walton describe social justice as “the bridge from diversity to inclusion” (2016, p. 219). It is the messy, complex, and constant work of “redressing
inequities and acknowledging harm” in service of dismantling systems of oppression (Jones et al., 2016, p. 219). The ongoing nature of social justice work is reflected in the fact that this is a repeat theme from
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the 2014 ARSTM@RSA preconference</a>, which took up social justice as a key concern in and of science.</p>
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<p>As rhetoricians of STM, we can use our expertise to address the particular ways rhetoric, science, technology, and medicine are intertwined with (in)justice and people’s experiences of injustice. Rhetoricians have shown injustice’s ubiquitous entanglement
with RSTM topics, from disease (see, e.g., Raquel Robvais’s work on Sickle Cell Anemia) to metaphor (see, e.g., Leah Ceccarelli’s work on the frontier metaphor in science) to medical theories (see, e.g., John Lynch’s work on genetics and race) to technological
interpellations of minoritized people (see, e.g., Chris Gilliard’s work on surveillance and racial profiling). These examples illustrate how rhetoricians can theorize, circulate, and act on ideas about rhetoric and justice in order to make sense of the scientific,
technological, and medical strands undergirding historical and contemporary systems of oppression.</p>
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<p>And not only <i>can</i> we do this work. We <i>should</i> do this work. As the ARSTM leadership wrote in our June 8, 2020,
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<p style="padding-left:30px">As rhetoricians of science, technology, and medicine, it is our ethical responsibility to acknowledge and reckon with the injustices central to the topics we study. And it is our responsibility to critique and resist the use of
science, technology, and medicine as tools for the oppression of Black, Brown, and Indigenous People. We can and should use the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine to call out and address institutional racism and to amplify and support those who
are already doing that work, from #BlackInSTEM advocates to anti-surveillance community groups to reproductive justice activists and beyond.</p>
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<p>In service of this ethical responsibility, we envision the ARSTM@NCA 2020 preconference as a place to tease out, share, and deliberate on the connections to social justice that unquestionably exist in all our work. We also envision the preconference as an
opportunity to reflect on how we can acknowledge harms and redress inequities in our professional communities.</p>
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<p>For the 2020 ARSTM@NCA Preconference, we invite individual papers that address or embody the following questions:</p>
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<li>What does “social justice” mean in the context of your research questions, research sites, methodologies, and teaching of RSTM? What frameworks for justice can and/or do you bring to your RSTM work?</li><li>How have science, technology, and medicine contributed to injustices, both historical and contemporary? How has science, technology, and medicine been used in the pursuit of justice, both historically and today?</li><li>How can engaged RSTM contribute to social justice efforts? How can RSTM amplify the work of practitioners and activists?</li><li>How do our professional RSTM spaces and practices contribute to (in)justice? What social justice actions should institutional leaders and privileged members of the field in particular take to acknowledge harms and redress inequities?</li></ul>
<h3><i>How will the virtual ARSTM@NCA 2020 preconference work?</i></h3>
<p>The preconference will have some traditional elements, such as keynote speakers, prepared papers and/or presentations, Q&A with paper and/or presentation authors, and networking opportunities. However, to make this work in a virtual format, we’ll be approaching
these traditional elements in a somewhat non-traditional fashion. Here’s the process:</p>
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<li><b>Applicants submit abstracts.</b><br>
Interested authors are invited to submit individual paper/presentation abstracts for anonymous peer review.<br>
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</li><li><b>Accepted authors upload a full paper and/or video recording of a presentation.
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</b>Authors with accepted abstracts will submit a 1000-1500 word paper and/or 5-10 minute video-recorded presentation to a secure cloud platform 2 weeks prior to the preconference.<br>
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</li><li><b>Attendees read/view papers/presentations in advance.</b><br>
Attendees will have 2 weeks to read and watch uploaded papers and presentations prior to the preconference.<br>
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</li><li><b>Attendees and authors join the live preconference for a keynote panel followed by Q&A sessions with paper/presentation authors.</b><br>
On the day of the preconference, we will begin with a traditional keynote panel with accomplished speakers and audience Q&A. Following that, we will have a series of paper discussion sessions in which a session chair briefly introduces 3-4 papers and then the
remaining synchronous meeting time is dedicated to Q&A with the audience. Attendees will be able to come and go as needed based on their schedules.</li></ol>
<h3><i>How do I submit a proposal to give a paper/presentation at the ARSTM@NCA 2020 preconference?</i></h3>
<p>In an individual abstract of 300 words or fewer, detail how your paper and/or presentation will further our understanding of social justice in relation to rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine as a research site and/or as a professional space. Individual
abstracts may have multiple authors. Because of this year’s abbreviated virtual format, we are not inviting panel proposals.</p>
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<p>Send your abstract as an attachment without any identifying information to lauren.cagle@uky.edu by September 4, 2020. Please use “ARSTM Preconference Submission” as your email subject, and provide your preferred contact information and the contact information
for any co-authors in the email body. Any questions about this CFP and the ARSTM@NCA 2020 preconference may be addressed to
<a href="mailto:lauren.cagle@uky.edu">lauren.cagle@uky.edu</a>.</p>
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<p>For more details about the preconference, please be sure to <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arstmonline.org%2Flistserv%2F&data=02%7C01%7Clauren.cagle%40uky.edu%7C93494da83c3247a23e8508d83b0bda31%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637324269373976377&sdata=PXf%2FjMpAb65C%2BIJWpTVTUvXN3l8kwes%2B5pUlYmKvTKQ%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://www.arstmonline.org/listserv/" shash="Cb4LEYNqdQ3O7P1HqPFAEA0Gh/H06f6jbu0rpj80Bi0Pnh8QMrPt7n1arnXzRpYaPKdtiwoqK2udzJZH7IcIhCVeJxJqnrY/KF6cSJ70IofdbpIVD4kI2zPp8L0QMfkvpkjk/CsVOcMgxDqvuTXaHokb1UqfBNElchWWMm57gO0=">
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