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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Friends of Burke,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am writing to remind everyone of the upcoming deadline for the next KBS Triennial, which is January 31. In case you missed the call, here it is!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you have other questions, please feel free to contact either Damien Pfister or me, and we’ll be happy to answer any other questions not addressed on the KBJournal page or in the call!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best wishes for 2020!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
Bryan Crable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Eleventh Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society welcomes proposals for papers and panels on any Burkean subject. However, we do especially encourage proposals that address the conference theme:
“Kenneth Burke in 20/20: Seeing the Past, Envisioning the Future.” The conference will take place from July 16-July 19, 2020, at the University of Maryland, and we look forward to welcoming scholars from many disciplines, nations, perspectives, and interests
to join us for this enervating few days. Mark your calendars! The deadline for submission is January 31, 2020!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Conference Dates: July 16-19, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Submission Deadline for Papers/Proposals: January 31, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Conference Location: Tawes Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20740<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Conference Organizer: Damien Pfister, University of Maryland, <a href="mailto:dsp@umd.edu"><span style="text-decoration:none">dsp@umd.edu</span></a>; KBS President, Bryan Crable, Villanova University,
<a href="mailto:bryan.crable@villanova.edu">bryan.crable@villanova.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Submissions may be completed papers, 350-word paper proposals, or panel proposals. They can be directly submitted at:
<a href="https://wfi.submittable.com/submit/149063/submit-to-the-11th-kenneth-burke-society-triennial-kenneth-burke-in-20-20">
https://wfi.submittable.com/submit/149063/submit-to-the-11th-kenneth-burke-society-triennial-kenneth-burke-in-20-20</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For more information, including information on submission and housing, please visit:
<a href="https://www.kbjournal.org/kbs2020">https://www.kbjournal.org/kbs2020</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Keynote Speaker: Barbara Biesecker, University of Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Plenary Speakers: Theon Hill, Wheaton College; Kyle Jensen, Arizona State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[Information on the return of the KBS seminars to follow!]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About the Conference Theme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In our current moment, appeals to history are commonplace—whether in slogans seeking to recapture an idyllic “America,” in news stories seeking to link current white supremacist violence to that of past decades,
or in academics’ reflection upon the past practices and attitudes that continue to do consequential work in the present. As Burke would remind us, of course, these appeals are quite complex; our narratives of the past are dialectically equivalent to our assumptions
about the nature of the present. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yet, there is another complication at work here. It is the contention of this conference, and of its organizers, that Burke’s writings and thought remain vitally relevant to the analysis and navigating of
the conditions of contemporary social life—here in the US and across the globe. Yet, calling us to embrace Burke for the future does require that we take stock of our past. The Kenneth Burke Society, and Burke Studies itself, are, of course, deeply implicated
in the conversations started in many disciplines regarding the kinds of scholarship, and scholars, who have been traditionally valued and elevated, and the kinds of systemic inequalities that this has fostered. The Society, and the field of Burke Studies in
general, has—without, to draw on a quote from Burke, deliberate intent upon the part of anyone—for too long functioned as an exclusionary space, reproducing an equation of Burke with “white” and “male.” This has worked to denigrate and marginalize work by
the many women (starting with Marie Hochmuch Nichols) who have been excellent readers and scholars of Burke. This has also worked to discourage students and faculty of color from finding a home in the Society—and has rendered illegible those scholars of color
who do, and have done, excellent work with Burke’s texts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Although the KBS is not alone in this regard, this is our past. The task, then, is to make something different for the future, to find possibilities in the past that were not seized (by Burke, or those who
followed in his footsteps), possibilities that can aid in that effort. The conference theme thus calls for papers and proposals that explore the relevance of Burkean thought for collectively envisioning—and speaking into existence—a new and different kind
of future. As Burke says in his afterword to Attitudes Toward History, “throughout the History (the Changing Story) of Acceptances and Rejections there broods the fantastic Maybe of the transformations.” Over the course of the convention, a combination of
keynote and plenary speakers, attendees, and seminar leaders will engage in a collective effort to find the hopeful and just Maybes in our History of Acceptances and Rejections.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Bryan Crable, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Professor of Communication/Rhetorical Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Affiliated faculty, Africana Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Director, <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwfi.villanova.edu&data=02%7C01%7Cbryan.crable%40villanova.edu%7C5ae6325d44fd41a2339108d70568c8d9%7C765a8de5cf9444f09cafae5bf8cfa366%7C0%7C0%7C636983819924216690&sdata=sV24XtZhWlirdA5w1KF5Vqlr4KoODstO9Bueb0u7HPQ%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Waterhouse
Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society</a><br>
Author, <i><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.upress.virginia.edu%2Ftitle%2F4179&data=02%7C01%7Cbryan.crable%40villanova.edu%7C5ae6325d44fd41a2339108d70568c8d9%7C765a8de5cf9444f09cafae5bf8cfa366%7C0%7C0%7C636983819924226683&sdata=2aY1eKuI1%2FOv0NlOLHhQ2blbskfBuXv6h5e97iloMtE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">Ralph
Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide</a></i> (University of Virginia Press, 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Editor, <i><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parlorpress.com%2Ftranscendence&data=02%7C01%7Cbryan.crable%40villanova.edu%7C5ae6325d44fd41a2339108d70568c8d9%7C765a8de5cf9444f09cafae5bf8cfa366%7C0%7C0%7C636983819924226683&sdata=2ZxRF9cTx3SdLTTPNuoPOFYwkIHRJhlFFqwu3CryPRk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL:
http://www.parlorpress.com/transcendence
Click to follow link.">Transcendence
by Perspective: Meditations on and with Kenneth Burke</a></i> (Parlor Press, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">President, Kenneth Burke Society (2017-2020)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Department of Communication<br>
Villanova University<br>
800 Lancaster Ave.<br>
Villanova, PA 19085-1699 USA<br>
+1 610-519-4751 (tel)<br>
<a href="mailto:bryan.crable@villanova.edu" target="_blank" title="mailto:bryan.crable@villanova.edu">bryan.crable@villanova.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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