Burke
Papers and Panels Presented at the National Communication Association Meeting in November,
1997
MARXIST READINGS IN
KENNETH BURKE
- When: Saturday, November
22, 8:30-9:45 a.m.
- Where: Gold Room,
Blackstone Hotel
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
- Chair: James F. Klumpp,
University of Maryland, College Park
- "Kenneth Burke and
Construction of Political Identities." Ekaterina Haskins, University of Iowa
- "Ideology after
Marxism in the Work of Kenneth Burke." Wade Kenny, University of Dayton
- "K.B., Put Down Your
Gun: A Marxist Truce between Logology and Existentialism." Bryan Crable, Purdue
University
- "The Rivals: Spinoza
vs Marx and Freud in the Thought of Kenneth Burke." Richard H. Thames, Duquesne
University
Respondent: Trevor Melia,
University of Pittsburgh
CELEBRATING THE CENTRALITY
OF BURKE IN OUR TEACHING AND ADVISING
- When: Thursday, November
20, 4:00-5:15 p.m.
- Where: Gold Room,
Blackstone Hotel
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
- Chair: Bernard L. Brock,
Wayne State University
Panelists:
- James F. Klumpp, University
of Maryland, College Park
- Bernard L. Brock, Wayne
State University
- Susanne L. Williams, North
Dakota State University
- Timothy A. Borchers,
Moorhead State University
- Anthony J. Palmeri,
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Audience members will be
encouraged to discuss with the panelists issues such as Burke in the communication
curriculum, Burke in extracurricular advising, secondary vs. primary Burkean sources, and
undergraduate and graduate teaching approaches.
BURKE AND CULTURE
- When: Saturday, November
22, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
- Where: Williford A, Third
Floor, Chicago Hilton
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
- Chair: James A. Mackin,
Tulane University
- "Cleansing the Social
Body: Witchcraft Accusation as an African Instance of Scapegoating." Robert
Westerfelhaus, Ohio University, Diane Ciekawy, Ohio University
- "Unconventional Form:
The Interactive Generation Responds to Kenneth Burke." David McMahan, Indiana State
University
- "In Search of
`Audience': Identification and Consubstantiality through Multivocality and Polysemy in the
Zapatista Declaration of War." Teresita Garza, University of Iowa
Respondent: AnneMarie A.
Daniel, University of Missouri, Rolla
TOP FOUR COMPETITIVE
PAPERS ON KENNETH BURKE
- When: Saturday, November
22, 10:00-11:15 a.m.
- Where: Gold Room,
Blackstone Hotel
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
- Chair: Bernard L. Brock,
Wayne State University
- "An Other Ethics for
Kenneth Burke*." Jeffrey W. Murray, University of Iowa "Nailed to the Pentad: A
Dramatistic Look at the Death of Kurt Cobain**." Seth Kahn-Egan, Florida State
University
- "A Burkean Approach to
the Rhetorical Study of Interpersonal Conflict." Irwin A. Mallin, Indiana University,
Bloomington
- "At the Bus Stop of
Life with Forrest Gump: Identification and the Rhetorical Construction of Character."
Patrick O. Cannon, University of South Florida
- Respondent: Wade Kenny,
University of Dayton
- *Top competitive paper
**Top student competitive paper
BURKE AND FOUCAULT: A
MINUET
- When: Saturday, November
22, 1:00-2:15 p.m.
- Where: Conf Room 5J, Fifth
Floor, Chicago Hilton
- Sponsor: Dimension Series
- Chair: John Lyne,
University of Pittsburgh
- "Acts and Words: Using
Burke and Foucault." Ralph J. Beliveau, University of Iowa
- "Logology, Genre,
Genealogy." Scott A. Benjamin, University of Iowa
- "Agency and
Subjectivity in Burke and Foucault." Matthew Kittredge, University of Pittsburgh
Respondent: Wade Kenny,
University of Dayton
KENNETH BURKE SOCIETY
BUSINESS MEETING
- When: Saturday, November
22, 4:00-5:15 p.m.
- Where: Conf Room 4F, Fourth
Floor, Chicago Hilton
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
-
- Officers: Andrew A. King,
Louisiana State University W. Lance Haynes, University of Missouri, Rolla
EXAMINING SOCIETY'S
CENTRAL PROBLEMS:EMPLOYING BURKE WITH MEDIA PHENOMENOLOGY
- When: Thursday, November
20, 10:00-11:15 a.m.
- Where: Gold Room,
Blackstone Hotel
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
- Chair: Ray R. Benkendorf,
Southwestern College
- "African Rhetoric and
Electronic Media." Erica F. Cooper, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- "Form and Fracture in
Televisual News Media." AnneMarie A. Daniel, University of Missouri, Rolla
- "Is Technological
`Convergence' Inevitable? The Technology Debate and the Rhetorical Uses of Agency as
Scene." Raymond Gozzi, Ithaca College
- "Ebonics and Politics:
A Burkeian Analysis." Anthony J. Palmeri, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Respondent: W. Lance
Haynes, University of Missouri, Rolla
KENNETH BURKE, RHETORIC,
AND POSTMODERN CULTURE
- When: Friday, November 21,
8:30-9:45 a.m.
- Where: Gold Room,
Blackstone Hotel
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
- Chair: Barbara A.
Biesecker, University of Iowa
- "Musings on the
Emptiness and Dreariness of Postmodern Critique." Bruce E. Gronbeck, University of
Iowa
- "The Other Side(s) of
the Identification Fantasy." James P. McDaniel, Drake University
- "A Burkoid Fragment on
Old and New Materialism." Michael C. McGee, University of Iowa
STUDENT PAPERS IN
RHETORICAL CRITICISM AND THEORY
- When: Saturday, November
22, 4:00-5:15 p.m.
- Where: English Room,
Blackstone Hotel
- Sponsor: Student Section
- "Vico and Kenneth
Burke: Making Sense of Identification*." Jennifer L. Young, Penn State University
- "Explorations in
Rhetorical Theory and the Problem of Agency: An Intertexualization of Kenneth Burke's
Grammar of Motives and Donna Haraway's Simians, Cyborgs, and Women." Kristina K.
Sheeler, Indiana University
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POSTER SESSION IN BURKEAN
STUDIES
- When: Friday, November 21,
10:00-11:15 a.m.
- Where: Continental Ballroom
B, Lobby Level, Chicago Hilton
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
- "Exploring the
Rhetoric of College Choice: College Recruitment Videos and the Stories They Tell*."
Jason B. Munsell, Louisiana State University
- "Why Audiences give a
Damn: Margaret Mitchell's Motivational Use of the Pseudo-statement in Gone with the
Wind*." Wesley Buerkle, Biola University "Celebrating the Rhetorical Centrality
of Ambiguity: Exploring the Term `Indigenous Art'*." Leanne S. Pupchek, University of
South Florida
- "Agency and Purpose in
the Bedroom: A Neo-Burkean Analysis of The New Joy of Sex*." Joshua Gunn, University
of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- "Straightforward
Ambiguity and Communication in Traditional Societies: Burke and Kierkegaard to the
Rescue." Solomon W. Obotetukudo, Clarion University
*Debut papers
BURKEAN ANALYSES OF
SIGNIFICANT WRITINGS
- When: Saturday, November
22, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
- Where: Gold Room,
Blackstone Hotel
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
- Chair: John H. Patton,
Tulane University
- "Publish or Perish: A
Cluster-Agon Analysis of the Unabomber's Manifesto." Julie D. Phillips, Purdue
University
- "Rhetoric and Art in
Times of Transition: A Dialogue between Kenneth Burke and Virginia Woolf." James L.
Hoban, Randolph-Macon Woman's College "Burkean/Lacanian Mediations on Rhetoric, the
Real, and Public Memory." James P. McDaniel, Drake University
- "Logology, Theology,
and Secular Governance: A Burkean Analysis of Augustine's Political Writings." Bryan
Crable, Purdue University
Respondent: Andrew A.
King, Louisiana State University
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING:
THE ROLE OF THE TEXT IN REVEALING THE WORLD
- When: Sunday, November 23,
8:30-9:45 a.m.
- Where: PDR 3, Third Floor,
Chicago Hilton
- Sponsor: Rhetorical and
Communication Theory Division
- Chair: John Poulakos,
University of Pittsburgh
- "The Negative in
Rhetoric According to Gorgias." John Poulakos, University of Pittsburgh
- "Fixing a Hole Where
Being Gets In: Negation, Nothingness, and the Alembic in Kenneth Burke." Wade Kenny,
University of Dayton
- "The Purely `Other'
than Everything That Is: Heidegger's Thinking on `Nothingness'." Michael J. Hyde,
Wake Forest University
- "Deleuze and the
Negative." Victor Vitanza, University of Texas, Arlington
ARGUMENTATION THEORY: NEW
LOOKS AT 'CENTRAL' THEORIES
- When: Friday, November 21,
1:00-2:15 p.m.
- Where: PDR 7, Third Floor,
Chicago Hilton
- Sponsor: Argumentation and
Forensics Division
- Chair: Chris M. Leland,
Huntington College
- "From Reported Speech
to Polyphony: From Bakhtin to Ducrot." Igor Zagar Znidarsic, University of Ljubljana
- "Natural Selection and
the Bias toward Truth: A Mixed Report from Evolutionary Epistemology." William D.
Harpine, University of Akron
- "Sociality in the
Rhetoric of Kenneth Burke and Chaim Perelman: Toward a Convergence of their
Theories." James B. Hanson, Whitman College
- "Force Fields:
Revitalizing Toulmin's Argumentation Fields in a Sociological Turn." Shelia A.
McBride, University of Pittsburgh
INTERROGATING AFROCENTRIC
BOUNDARIES: THE CHALLENGES OF MAINTAINING BLACK PRESENCE
- When: Friday, November 21,
1:00-2:15 p.m.
- Where: Conf Room 4C, Fourth
Floor, Chicago Hilton
- Sponsors: Black Caucus
African American Communication and Culture Division
- Chair: Karen E.
Strother-Jordan, Santa Clara University
- "Welcoming Women and
Minorities into Organizations: An Examination of the Intersection between Afrocentric
Theory and Organizational Communication Processes and Practices in Hiring." Doris Y.
Dartey, Ohio University
- "Afrocentricity
Dramatized through Burke's Pentad." Karen E. Strother-Jordan, Santa Clara University
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