Burke
Papers and Panels at the National Communication Association Meeting in November, 1998
ENGAGING
KENNETH BURKE: LITERARY AND CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS
When: Saturday, November 21, 8:00-9:10 a.m.
Where: Nassau Suite A, Second Floor, New York Hilton
Sponsor: Kenneth Burke Society, NCA Branch
Chair: David Blakesley, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
- "Burke The Poet."
Sarah T. Partlow, University of Kansas
"A Dramatistic Understanding of the Marginalized Voice: A Burkean Analysis of A Room
of One's Own." Marie Bernard, SUNY, Brockport
- "Three Mutually
Reinforcing Ideals in Trinity...Authority." Gin Kohl, University of
Southern Florida
- "The Agon(y) of
Burke." Edward C. Brewer, Northwestern Oklahoma State University
- Respondent: Ekaterina V.
Haskins, University of Iowa
TOP FOUR PAPERS OF THE
PEACE AND CONFLICT COMMUNICATION COMMISSION
- When: Saturday, November
21, 2:00-3:10 p.m.
- Where: Room 537, Fifth
Floor, New York Hilton
- Sponsor: Peace and Conflict
Communication Commission
- Chair: Anna L. Eblen,
Western Washington University
- "The Contribution of
Conflict Resolution Activities to the Peace Process in Divided Societies: The Case of
Cyprus." Benjamin J. Broome, George Mason University
- "Nonviolent Theory on
Communication: The Implications for Theorizing and Nonviolent Rhetoric." Ellen W.
Gorsevski, Penn State University
- "Kenneth Burke as
Conflict Practitioner: Applying Dramatism to the Theory and Practice of Mediation."
J. Christian Spielvogel, Penn State University
- "Interpersonal
Negotiation Strategies: A Cross-cultural Comparative Analysis." Tricia S. Jones,
Temple University, Andrea M. Bodtker, Temple University
KENNETH BURKE
SOCIETY BUSINESS MEETING
- When: Saturday, November
21, 3:30-4:40 p.m.
- Where: Room 513, Fifth
Floor, New York Hilton
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
Officers:
- Bernard L. Brock, Wayne
State University
- Susan E. Fillippeli, Auburn
University
Member:
Richard H. Thames, Duquesne University
BURKE ON
CLINTON: MODERN OR POSTMODERN?
- When: Sunday, November 22,
8:00-9:10 a.m.
- Where: Nassau Suite A,
Second Floor, New York Hilton
- Sponsor: Kenneth Burke
Society, NCA Branch
- Chair: Ray R. Benkendorf,
Southwestern College
- "What I Learned from
Zippergate: Or, How the Logical Became Sociological." Timothy A. Borchers, Moorhead
State University
- "Heads I Win, Tails
You Lose: A Burkean Perspective on Right Wing Conspiracy and Scandal in the White
House." Susan E. Fillippeli, Auburn University
- "Mass Media and the
Bureaucratization of the Imaginative, or How the Clintons Beat the Press." W. Lance
Haynes, University of Missouri, Rolla "Miss-Identification: Sexual Politics
and the Clinton Crisis." Tony J. Palmeri, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
- Respondents:
- Bernard L. Brock, Wayne
State University
- Andrew A. King, Louisiana
State University
TOP THREE
COMPETITIVE PAPERS ON KENNETH BURKE
When: Sunday,
November 22, 9:30-10:40 a.m.
Where: Nassau Suite A, Second Floor, New York Hilton
Sponsor: Kenneth Burke Society, NCA Branch
Chair: James F. Klumpp, University of Maryland
- "Cult of the Kill:
Kenneth Burke, Martin Heidegger, and the Spectre of Nazism at the Origin of Rhetoric and
Violence*." Gregory Desilet, Independent Rhetorician
- "Kierkegaard Contra
Burke**." Gina L. Ercolini, Penn State University
- "Kenneth Burke's
Metabiology and an Ethics of the Golden Rule." Brent A. Whitmore, University of
Minnesota
Respondent: Jeffrey W.
Murray, University of Iowa
*Top Competitive Paper **Top Student Competitive Paper
GOD AND THE
OTHER: FROM THEOLOGY TO RHETORIC THROUGH THE WORK OF EMMANUEL LEVINAS
When: Sunday,
November 22, 9:30-10:40 a.m.
Where: Murray Hill Suite A, Second Floor, New York Hilton
Sponsor: Religious Speech Communication Association
Chair: Bryan Crable, Purdue University
- "Reading Levinas
Through Otto: Some Possible Spiritual Dimensions of the Other in Levinas." Richard A.
Engnell, George Fox University
- "The Paradox of
Emmanuel Levinas: Knowledge of the Absolute Other." Jeffrey W. Murray, University of
Iowa
- "Accountability:
Levinas, Heiddegger, and Kenneth Burke on Co-being and Ethical Regard." Wade R.
Kenny, University of Dayton
EXISTENTIAL
READINGS OF KENNETH BURKE
When: Sunday,
November 22, 12:30-1:40 p.m.
Where: Room 534, Fifth Floor, New York Hilton
Sponsor: Kenneth Burke Society, NCA Branch
Chair: Craig R. Smith, California State University, Long Beach
- "Rereading Burke,
Rereading Phenomenology: Toward an Existential-Dramatistic Theory of Motives." Bryan
Crable, Purdue University
- "Kenneth Burke's
Dramatistic Existentialism: Symbolic Action or Symbolic Becoming." Jeffrey W. Murray,
University of Iowa
- "Situating Dramatism
Within a Theory of Existential Rhetoric." Wade R. Kenny, University of Dayton
- "Ruminations on the
Action/Motion Distinction: Burke, Stewart, and Phenomenology." Corey J. Anton, Purdue
University
Respondent:
Ramsey Eric Ramsey, Arizona State University
KENNETH BURKE
AND THE POETIC PROCESS
When: Sunday,
November 22, 2:00-3:10 p.m.
Where: Room 534, Fifth Floor, New York Hilton
Sponsor: Kenneth Burke Society, NCA Branch
- "A Rhetoric of
Catharsis: Burke and the Analysis of Poetics." David C. Williams, Unaffiliated
- "The Dissociative
Memory and `Purposive Forgetting' in the Poetic Process: Burke's Revision of Freudian
Theory." David Blakesley, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
- "Hierarchal Psychosis
in the Short Fiction of Flannery O'Connor." Greig E. Henderson, University of Toronto
THE 150TH
ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO: TEXT, MYTH, AND AFTERLIFE
When: Sunday,
November 22, 2:00-3:10 p.m.
Where: Room 543, Fifth Floor, New York Hilton
Sponsor: Critical and Cultural Studies Division
Chair: James A. Aune, Texas A&M University
- "Tropes, Spooks, and
the Silent Woman: The Rhetorical Logic of Burke, Derrida, and MacKinnon on The Communist
Manifesto." James A. Aune, Texas A&M University
- "Assessing the Myths
of Left and Right: The Communist Manifesto and Family Values, 150 Years Later'." Dana
L. Cloud, University of Texas, Austin
- "The Marxian
Afterlife: The Vanishing Category of Class in Cultural Politics." Mary M. Foertsch,
Bentley College
CHINESE
CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: TRADITION, TECHNOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY
When: Monday,
November 23, 2:00-3:10 p.m.
Where: Kern, Fourth Floor, Marriott Marquis
Sponsor: Association for Chinese Communication Studies
Chair: Yu Xuejian, Stonehill College
- "The Influence of
Confucianism on Chinese Conceptions of Power, Authority, and the Rule of Law." Rita
M. C. Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University
- "The Computer-Mediated
Communication Mode as Seen in Chinese Virtual Communities." Dejun Liu, University
College of Cape Breton, Canada
- "An Application of
Kenneth Burke's Dramatistic Order in Analyzing China's Cultural Revolution." Ge
Xinmei, University of Massachusetts, D. Ray Heisey, Kent State University
- "East Meets West in
News Reporting: A Comparison between China Daily and China News Digest in Reporting of the
1996 People's Liberation Army Exercises in the Taiwan Straits." James A. Schnell,
Ohio Dominican College
Respondent:
Minmin Wang, Rider University
THE ROLE OF
UNDERSTANDING IN RHETORICAL THEORY: INTERPRETATION BY PERSPECTIVE
When:
Tuesday, November 24, 9:30-10:40 a.m.
Where: Odets, Fourth Floor, Marriott Marquis
Sponsor: Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division
Chair: Henry P. Krips, University of Pittsburgh
- "Insight, Discourse,
and Understanding: The Rhetorical Theory of Bernard Lonergan." John A. Campbell,
University of Memphis
- "Understanding Without
Proof: Friedrich Schlegel's Declarative, Combinational Hermeneutics." William
Fusfield, University of Pittsburgh
- "Insistence and
Terministic Screens: Kenneth Burke and Martin Heidegger on Rhetoric, Action,
Adequacy." Wade R. Kenny, University of Dayton
Respondent:
Bryan Crable, Purdue University
CRITICAL
APPLICATIONS OF BURKEAN METHODS
When:
Tuesday, November 24, 11:00-12:10 p.m.
Where: Murray Hill Suite B, Second Floor, New York Hilton
Sponsor: Kenneth Burke Society, NCA Branch
Chair: Richard H. Thames, Duquesne University
- "Rearranging Furniture
on the Titanic: The Reframing of AIDS Discourse." David A. Grindstaff, Penn State
University
- "Transformations and
Gargoyles: A Burkean Analysis of Land Rights Down Under." Joan A.George, University
of South Florida
- "Restoration by
Villainization: An Analysis of `A Prince as a Parent'--Charles is Building a New
Life." Barbara S. Moyer, Bowling Green State University
- "Crackers the Chicken
Critiques Capitalism: Michael Moore and the Comic Frame." Naomi R. Rockler,
University of Minnesota
Respondent:
Edward C. Appel, Independent Scholar