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Thursday, May 23

Friday, May 24

Saturday, May 25

Sunday, May 26

Contact Info

Thursday, May 23, 2002 (no meetings at Tulane on this day)

3:00-7:00 Registration and Conference Information (O’Flaherty’s)
Book Display Tables
Artifact Exhibition
Student Raffle Registration

3:00-4:45 Archival Projects (O’Flaherty’s)
5:00-6:15 Early Evening Snack Buffet (O’Flaherty’s)

6:30-7:15 Seminars I (O’Flaherty’s)

7:30-8:45 Plenary Session (O’Flaherty’s)

Welcome: David Blakesley, Chief Conference Planner, Purdue University
Jim Mackin, Local Planner, Tulane University   

Introduction of the Speaker
Keynote Address: Bernard Brock, Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University
 “Paradox in the Work and Life of Kenneth Burke: His Advice to Scholars”

8:45-9:30 Reception (O’Flaherty’s)

Friday, May 24, 2002

7:30-8:30 Coffee and pastries (Tulane, common area)

8:00-5:00 Registration/Conference Information/Book Exhibits (Publication and Exhibit Room, Tulane,)

8:30-10:00 Panel Sessions (Tulane)

A.1 From the Archives

Jack Selzer, Penn State University
“Burke's Review of Barbusse's Stalin:  A Mystery Cleared Up”

Elizabeth Weiser, Texas Christian University
“A Literary Critique of Life:  Kenneth Burke's Dramatism as an Alternative to the New Criticism in America at War”

James East
“The Burke-Williams Correspondence”

A.2 Burke and Technology

Cynthia Jenéy, Missouri Western State College
“Lay Off My Stepsister's Blue Suede Glass Slipper: Why ‘Virtuality’ is not Scene"

David Tietge, Long Island University
“Polls, Surveys, Opinions, and Bureaucratized Imagination”

Jessica Sheffield, University of Alabama, Huntsville
“Identity and Identification in a Group Weblog”

A.3. Political Ideology in a Changing World:  The Pentad as the Rosetta Stone of Political Ideology      

James Klumpp, University of Maryland
“Traditional Political Ideology in a State of Chaos”

Bernard Brock, Wayne State University
“Pentadic Language Choices Characteristic of Political Positions”

Mark Huglen, University of Minnesota-Crookston
“Description of the Rhetorical Strategies Employed by Spokespersons for the Political Positions Regarding the Events Surrounding September 11^th”

Sharon Howell, Oakland University
“Political Ideology for the 21st Century”

A.4 Tropes and Transformations

Amy Sileven, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
“The Ironic Prophet:  Revelation/Revolution”

Greig Henderson, University of Toronto
“Smiling Hypochondriasis: The Narrative Trajectory of A Grammar of Motives”

Richard Coe, Simon Fraser University
“Comedy=>Irony=>Double Vision=>Negation=>Dialectic: Kenneth Burke's Dialectical Spins in Action”

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break  (Common Area; Tulane)
Publication and Artifact Room Open During This Time

10:30-12:00 Seminar Sessions II (Tulane).

12:00-1:30 Lunch (on your own)

1:30-3:15 Plenary Session (Tulane)

Moderator: David Blakesley. Purdue
Introduction of Speaker: Ellen Quandahl, San Diego State
Keynote Address: James Kastely, University of Houston

"The Earned Increment: Reading an Inefficient Writer"

3:15-4:00 Coffee Break (Tulane, common area)

4:00-5:30 Panel Sessions (B) (Tulane)

B.1 Beyond Formulations and Categories

Miram Marty Clark, Auburn University
“Burke as Reader of Lyric after the Demise of Lyric Consciousness”

Thomas Carmichael, University of Western Ontario
“Towards a Better Life:  The Utopian Logic of Epistolarity”

Gabriel Alkon, Yale University
"'Feeling for the Negative': Symbolic Action and the Ethics of American Modernism"

B.2 Burke Talks Back

Jennifer Adams, Purdue University
“'Using All That Is There to Use’:  The Prose, Poetry, and Private Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and the Red Scare”

Ann George, Texas Christian University
"Attitudes about Attitudes about Attitudes: Burke and his Reviewers"

David Cratis Williams, University of Missouri-Rolla
"Counter-Statement and 'Counter-Blasts'"

B.3 Graduate Student Forum: Burke and the Culture Wars

Christi Moss, Louisiana State University,
"From the Civil War to Culture War: A Burkeian Analysis of the New  Leagues of the South's Sub-National Rhetoric" 

Jing Liu, Louisiana State University
"Kenneth Burke and Negativity: Negating Burke? How Dare you?" 

Joan Rhys Powell, St. David's University, Wales, UK
"Kenneth Burke and  the Literary Canon"

Jon Croghan, Louisiana State University
"Kenneth Burke and the Dao"

Wesley Buerkle, Louisiana State University
"Burke is such a Man! Kenneth Burke's Definition of  Masculinity,"

Respondent: Jim Mackin, Tulane University

B.4 Kenneth Burke and the Analysis Of Politics

Edward Appel, Independent Scholar
“Rush to Judgment: Burlesque, Tragedy, and Hierarchal Alchemy in the Rhetoric of America's Foremost Political Talkshow Host”

Neil Mansharamani, University of Maryland
“Al Gore's Struggle to Reinvent Himself: A Burkean Analysis”

Erik Garret, Purdue University
“Burkeian Form as Ethic”

5:30-8:00 Dinner (on your own)

8:00--10:00 Plenary Event (Musical Performance or other)

Friday, May 24

Highlights today . . .

Panel Sessions A & B

Keynote Address: James Kastely (1:30-3:15)

Saturday, May 25

Highlights today . . .

Panel Session C

Post-Prandial Parlors

Keynote: Tilly Warnock (2:30-3:45)

Dinner and Awards Banquet (6-9 p.m.)

Saturday, May 25, 2001

7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast/coffee (Tulane, common area)

8:00-5:30 Registration and Conference Information (Tulane, common area)

8:30-10:00 Seminars III (Tulane).

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break (Tulane, common area)

10:30-12:00 Panel Sessions (C) (Tulane)

C.1 After 9/11

Moderator: Wendy Dasler Johnson, WSU, Vancouver

Elvera Berry, Roberts Wesleyan College,
“Kenneth Burke's City Under Seige”

Shirley Simpson, Purdue University
“September 11:  Reassurance Rhetoric and Burke's Cluster Analysis”

Stan Lindsay, Florida State University
“Burke and Bin Laden: Psychotic Entelechy and the Comic Frame”

Respondent: Wendy Dasler Johnson, WSU, Vancouver

C.2 Poetry And Lyric

Michael Magee
"Burke, Williams, Ellison: Pragmatism on the Racial Divide"

Sara Pace, Texas Woman’s University
"A Fumble of Humanity":  Comic Intersections Between Burke and Gregory Corso

C.3 Ethics/Justice

Ellen Quandahl, San Diego State University
“Ethics and Ethos in Aristotle and Kenneth Burke”

Christa J. Downer, Texas Woman's University
"Kenneth Burke's Logology: A Critical Tool to Understand Gender Politics"

Moira Phillips
“Courtly Psychosis: Law and Rhetoric”

C.4  In Terms of Theory

Michael Feehan
“Kenneth Burke's Late Rhetorical Theory of History”

Jonathan Butler, Ryerson Polytechnic Univ.
“Pure Persuasion: Metarhetorical Motives in Towards a Better Life”

Wade Kenny, University of Dayton
“Consubstantiality”

12:00-2:00 Lunch/Post-Prandial Parlor Conversations (Tulane)

Post-Prandial Parlor 1. Teaching Dramatism

David Blakesley, Purdue University

Post-Prandial Parlor 2. Burke and Music

Marilyn Engle, “I'll Have What She's Playing: Identification and Musical Performance"

Post-Prandial Parlor 3. After 9/11

Introductions: Elvera Berry, Roberts Wesleyan College
Jonathon Birdnow, Louisiana State U
Charles Urban  Larson, Northern Illinois University
Andrew King, Louisiana State University
Respondent: C. Allen Carter          

Post-Prandial Parlor 4. TBA

Post-Prandial Parlor 5. TBA

2:30-3:45 Plenary Session (Tulane)

Introduction of the Speaker: David Blakesley
Keynote Address: Tilly Warnock, University of Arizona

 "Ad Bellum Purificandum: Now, Where Are We, and Who Are We?"

3:45-4:00 Coffee Break (Tulane, common area)

4:00-5:30 Seminars IV (Tulane).

6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Dinner and Awards Banquet (at location TBA, off-campus)

President of the Kenneth Burke Society, Greig Henderson

President-Elect of the Kenneth Burke Society, Miram Marty Clark

Program Planners: "Awards for Papers,” Ellen Quandahl and Ann George

Chair of the Awards Committee, Andrew King

Sunday, May 26

Highlights today . . .

Panel Sessions D

Roundtable Discussion w/ Keynote Speakers on "Perspective by Incongruity"

Awards

Andrew King, Chair, Department of Speech Communication, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803; phone: 225.578.6681; fax: 225.578.4828; e-Mail: andyk@lsu.edu

Local Arrangements

James Mackin, Department of Communication, 219 Newcomb Hall, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118; phone: 504.865.5730; fax: 504.865.3040; e-mail: mackin@tulane.edu

Program Planning

Ellen Quandahl, Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr., San Diego, CA 92182-4452; phone: 619.594.6515; fax: 619.594.6530; e-mail: equandah@mail.sdsu.edu.

Ann George, Department of English, TCU Box 297270, TCU, Fort Worth, TX 76129; phone: 817.257.62470; fax: 817.257.6247; e-mail: A.George@tcu.edu

Chief Conference Planner

David Blakesley, Burke Conference Planner, Department of English, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, 47909; phone: 765.494.3772; fax: 765.494.3780; e-mail: blakesle@purdue.edu.

Last Updated: --David Blakesley
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