>> Gather Landing Page: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-gather
>> New Art City Virtual Burkeian Parlor: https://bit.ly/virtual-kb-parlor
All times are Eastern
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Hosted by Eddie Lohmeyer, Clemson University
New Art City Info Hub (overview)
Jack Selzer, Penn State University,
“Andover: Kennth Burke's Place"
Gabrielle Wilkosz, Clemson University
“Rotten with Perfection”
David Blakesley, Clemson University
“The Making of The Wordman”
New Art City and Gather Spaces Open (8 am until Sunday at noon)
Gather Landing Page: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-gather
New Art City Virtual Burkeian Parlor: https://bit.ly/virtual-kb-parlor
All times are Eastern
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Jainab Tabassum Banu, North Dakota State University
“Whose Voice Is This? Agency, AI, and the Burkean Writer-Self”
Taylor J. Wyatt, Clemson University
“Burke, Aristotle, and Hexis in a World of Generative AI”
Anastasia Pestova, George Mason University
“Rhetorical Understanding in the Age of AI: A Burkean Framework”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-statement
Emily Crum, Clemson University
“The Man Behind the Curtain: A Humanistic Inquiry Into GenAI as Terministic Screen”
Melissa McCarter
“Toward an Electric Ethnography: ‘AI-to-Hum’ Ethics of Care Rooted in Burke’s Rhetorics and Ulmer’s Electracy”
Amy Lea Clemons, Ohio State University
“’Slow down, TRACI’: Rhetorics of Perfection in GenAI’s Own Pentad”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Chair: Andrew Okai, Clemson University
Galen R. Faison, Clemson University
“Taking on the Skin of the Other—Exploring Afrofuturism, Piety and Perspective through Second-Person Narrative”
Annie Laurie (Cobalt) Nichols, Georgia Southwestern State University
“Identifying with AI: Moving Beyond the Other”
Camille Lewis, Furman University
“In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad): Dolly Parton as Burkean Comedian”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-statement
Chair: Felix T. Nyikwagh, Clemson University
Drew Stowe, Anderson University
“From Kitchen to (Terministic) Screen: A Burkean Analysis of ‘Celebrity’ Chefs, Culinary Literacy, and Digital Age Implications”
Josh Herron, Clemson University
“Generative AI and Online Food Cultures”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Jarron Slater, Brigham Young University
“Kenneth Burke and ‘The Constants of Humanity’: Preparing for Counter-Statement’s Centennial in the Age of AI”
Discussion and development of an edited volume celebrating the 2031 centennial of Counter-Statement to be published by Parlor Press. The CFP will be released during this session. Attendees can prepare by reading Counter-Statement, or at minimum, especially “Preface to the First Edition,” “Preface to the Second Edition,” “Psychology and Form,” “The Poetic Process,” “The Status of Art,” “Program,” “Lexicon Rhetoricae,” “Applications of the Terminology,” “Curriculum Criticum,” and “Addendum.”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Lucy Manley, Clemson University
“Talking to Machines: Burke & Dewey in the Classroom”
Amanda Adam, University of Ghent
“Engaging Students beyond Prompts: An Analysis of Aesthetic Pieties in Student Creations”
Chase Redd, University of Maryland
“An Incongruous Perspective: Reading Burke as a Graduate Student in the Era of AI”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-statement
Chair: David Williams, Clemson University
Mary McDermott, Clemson University and DeSales University
“Eno(s), Burke’s Rhetorical Theory and What Generative Filmmaking Portends for the Future of Cinematic Storytelling”
Byron Hawk, University of South Carolina
“Letting Go of ‘Agentness’ through Indigenous Listening”
Film Festival, Music, Games
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Moderator: David Williams, Clemson University
Tyler Herrman, Clemson University
“Write Me” (Film)
Stephen Paur
“Definition of Machine” (Film)
Jana Liberato, James Madison University
“Reviving the Author: An Interdisciplinary Excavation of Rhetorical Ethics”) (Game; 3D XR experience)
Joel Overall, Belmont University
“’Sarrusophone Surrounded’: A Kenneth Burke Musical Premiere”
Gather Landing Page: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-gather
Gather Landing Page: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-gather
New Art City Virtual Burkeian Parlor: https://bit.ly/virtual-kb-parlor
All times are Eastern
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Chair: David Blakesley, Clemson University
Rochelle Gregory, University of North Texas, Ben Sword, Tarleton University, and Marc Azard, Collin College
“Revisiting Terri Schiavo’s Death Twenty Years Later: Kenneth Burke’s Psychology of Form and the Emerging Influence of AI”
Kris Rutten, University of Ghent
“Attitudes Toward Mental Health: Cultural Narratives as Equipment for Living”
Heather Hartness, Northwest Florida State College
“From Libbie to Alexa: The Gendered History of Care and Knowledge Work”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Chair: Felix T. Nyikwagh, Clemson University
David Cratis Williams, Florida State University
“Special Rhetorical Operation: Putin’s Deployment of Redefinitional Tropes in Ukraine”
S. Andrew Stowe, Anderson University
“From Hero to Anti-Hero: A Burkean Analysis of Lance Armstrong’s Identity Performance and Contemporary Strongman Rhetoric”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-statement
Chair: Christian Taylor, Clemson University
William Schraufnagel, University of Illinois Chicago
“Faith and Order in Walter Pater and Kenneth Burke”
Shiva Mainaly, University of Memphis
“The Rhetoric of Identification in the Age of AI: Affordances, Alpha Persuasion, and the Burkean Paradigm”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Chair: Victoria Banks, Clemson University
Houman Mehrabian, University Canada West, Vancouver
“Quantities of Hate: Kenneth Burke, Mechanisms of Amplification, and Digital Technology”
Frederick Fre-Ere Sunkpal, Clemson University
“Combat Robots as Symbolic Agents: A Burkean Analysis of Anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Interaction”
Lane Riggs, Clemson University
“Criminal Drones: Surveillance Technologies at the U.S.-Mexico Border”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-statement
Chair: Dave Rochlin, Clemson University and UC Berkeley
John Falter, Clemson University
“The Tower: Centrality, Persuasion, and AI”
Taylor Henry, Clemson University
“Critical AI: Generating Dreams as Liminal Spaces”
Christian Taylor, Clemson University
“Spinning a Yarn: Using Twine to Tie Burkean Theory Together for Students”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Chair: Victoria Banks, Clemson University
Joshua Smith, University of Nevada, Reno
“A Dramatistic Approach to Alabama Story”
Zach Kemp, University of Nevada, Reno
“Don’t Say CRT: Divisive Concept Laws as Enthymemes”
Jim Webber, University of Nevada, Reno
“Can Public Moral Argument be Comic?: Or, Walter Fisher’s Missed Encounter with Burke”
Cody Hunter, University of Nevada, Reno
“Acting out to Remake our Habits: Using Naked Lunch to Elaborate the Ambiguity of LLM Toxicity”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-statement
Steven B. Katz, Clemson University
“What If ‘Word Man’ Were Literal? Golems, AI, and Kenneth Burke in the Diaspora of Western Philosophy”
Jared Jameson, Clemson University
“Kenneth Burke’s Meta-Biological Artifice: How the Lives of the Non-Living Have Now Forever Changed Humanity”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Chair: Christian Taylor, Clemson University
David Blakesley, Clemson University
David Williams, Clemson University
Learn about this documentary film, assets and curation, and the film treatment. Share your ideas!
Hosted by Eddie Lohmeyer, Clemson University
Jack Selzer, Penn State University
“Andover”
Gabrielle Wilkosz, Clemson University
“Rotten with Perfection”
David Blakesley, Clemson University
“The Making of The Wordman”
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
Jack Selzer, Penn State University
“Andover: A Guided Tour”
Plus surprises!
Gather Landing Page: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-gather
New Art City and Gather Spaces are open from 10:00 am to noon
Gather Landing Page: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-gather
New Art City Virtual Burkeian Parlor: https://bit.ly/virtual-kb-parlor
All times are Eastern
Zoom: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-zoom-counter
All current members of the Kenneth Burke Society are encouraged to attend and be ready to nominate and approve officers.
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2:00 pm – until the hour grows late and we must depart.
In-person
For more details and to RSVP, see the Google form: https://bit.ly/kbs2025-festival
Directions to David and Julie Blakesley’s House/Parlor Press (20 minutes east of Clemson)
The address is:
3015 Brackenberry Drive
Anderson, SC 29621
765-409-2649 (c)
Google Maps: http://goo.gl/cM3Rn
Parking: along Brackenberry Drive, going up the hill. The driveway is large, so there are some spaces there, too.