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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">One year ago, the Kenneth Burke Society postponed the Triennial Conference due to COVID-19. The conference has now been rescheduled for June 24-25, 2021, as a remote
event. Although 2020 is (thankfully) in the past, the conference theme of “Kenneth Burke in 20/20: Seeing the Past, Envisioning the Future” will still guide our gathering. We envision a lively mix of synchronous and asynchronous presentations anchored by two
keynote addresses from Dr. Theon Hill of Wheaton College and Dr. Kyle Jensen of Arizona State University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Attending KBS 2020(1) will be free for all participants who are members of the KBS. Not yet a member? Student memberships are only $10 for a year, and regular memberships
are only $25!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">In order to check virtual conference fatigue, we plan on having a slightly truncated schedule over two days, with no concurrent sessions. Six live sessions will
be complemented by asynchronous presentations that will be made accessible for all those registered for the conference.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Schedule (all times EST)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Day 1, Thursday June 24, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">10 am—Keynote, Dr. Theon Hill
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">11-12:15—Session 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">12:15-1:00—Lunch break<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">1-2:15—Session 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">2:15-3:30—Session 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">3:30-4:30—Social Hour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Day 2, Friday, June 25, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">10 am—Keynote, Dr. Kyle Jensen
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">11-12:15—Session 4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">12:15-1:00—Lunch break<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">1-2:15—Session 5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">2:15-3:30—Session 6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">3:30-4:30—Social Hour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Submissions may be 350-word paper or panel proposals. They can be directly submitted via the following link:</span>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNXmsDZbM-S9URRvx7jUQy3jRF_t6EwJVxic3sLi5d8nKCag/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNXmsDZbM-S9URRvx7jUQy3jRF_t6EwJVxic3sLi5d8nKCag/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">
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<span style="background:white">Proposals should be submitted by April 30, with acceptances notified by May 15.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">For more information, and to join the KBS, please visit: For more information, and to join the KBS, please visit:
<a href="https://www.kbjournal.org/join_kbs">https://www.kbjournal.org/join_kbs</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Conference Organizer: Damien Pfister, University of Maryland, </span></span><a href="mailto:dsp@umd.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white">dsp@umd.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">;
KBS President, Bryan Crable, Villanova University, </span><a href="mailto:bryan.crable@villanova.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white">bryan.crable@villanova.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
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<span style="background:white">About the Conference Theme</span><br>
<br>
<span style="background:white">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.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">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.”</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">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.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">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 speakers, synchronous
sessions, and asynchronous presentations will engage in a collective effort to find the hopeful and just Maybes in our History of Acceptances and Rejections. </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><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">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, Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society<br>
Author, <i>Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide</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>Transcendence by Perspective: Meditations on and with Kenneth Burke</i> (Parlor Press, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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>
bryan.crable@villanova.edu<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">My pronouns: he/him/his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Bryan Crable <bryan.crable@villanova.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 4:36 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>kb@kbjournal.org <kb@kbjournal.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Announcing the KBS Triennial postponement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear fellow Burkeans,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I hope that this message finds you and yours well, safe, and calm (or as calm as possible, under the circumstances).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On behalf of the Kenneth Burke Society Executive Board, and the 2020 KBS Triennial conference planners, I wanted to let you know that we have just made the difficult decision to postpone the Triennial until
Summer 2021.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We remain optimistic that the pandemic’s spread will have ended (or dramatically slowed) by this July. However, travel and visa challenges will likely remain, especially affecting our international participants.
Our decision to postpone also preserves our contractual arrangements, allowing us to be good stewards of the Society's finances and a valued partner for the University of Maryland at College Park. Most important, the postponement allows us and the KB community
at large to prioritize the well-being of our families, our students, and ourselves. We will regroup for Summer 2021, to present the robust program and scholarly retreat that you deserve.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For those who submitted their proposals for this year, eagerly looking forward to our time together, we will retain your proposal in our files and return to it at the new proposal deadline of January 2021.
There is no need to resubmit, though of course you may edit your proposal between now and then.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are currently working on plans for some small—virtual!—Burkean conversations for this summer, and we will be back in touch once those are finalized.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We also want to thank Damien Pfister at the University of Maryland for his tireless work on the 2020, his willingness to lead the planning for the Triennial in the first place—and for his willingness to host
a year later than expected.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In the meantime, take care of yourselves and others, and we will look forward to seeing you all in Summer 2021, if not before!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bryan Crable, KBS President</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Bryan Crable, Ph.D.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Professor of Communication/Rhetorical Studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Affiliated faculty, Africana Studies</span><o:p></o:p></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"><span style="color:#0563C1">Waterhouse
Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society</span></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"><span style="color:#0563C1">Ralph
Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide</span></a></i> (University of Virginia Press, 2012)</span><o:p></o:p></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."><span style="color:#0563C1">Transcendence
by Perspective: Meditations on and with Kenneth Burke</span></a></i> (Parlor Press, 2014)</span><o:p></o:p></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"><span style="color:#0563C1">bryan.crable@villanova.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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