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Welcome to the Website of the Interest Group of The Southern States
Communication Association Minutes of the SSCA Kenneth
Burke Society April 8, 2006, Submitted by Andy King and
Kim Golombisky Officers Chair: Elena Strauman
(absent) Vice Chair/Planner: Kim
Golombisky 2nd Vice Chair/Secretary:
Christi Moss (absent) 2nd Vice Chair/Secretary
Elect: Wesley Buerkle (begins serving in 2007) Meeting Kim Golombisky called the
meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. and forwarded apologies from Elena and Christi. Members present: Kim
Golombisky, Jason Black, Andy King, Mary Evelyn Collins, Peggy Huey, Chris Oldenburg,
Robert Bob West, Brent Kice, Zac Gershberg, Elizabeth
Bell, John Patton, John Patterson, Karen Hartman, Jacqueline May, Sara Baroni 2005 Minutes: Approved Election Wesley Buerkle was elected to
2nd Vice Chair/Secretary. He begins his duties at the 2007 Vice Chair. Reports The 2007 convention will be
held in Louisville, KY. The 2006 KBS program was an
unqualified success with 3 panels of outstanding papers (many authored by graduate
students) and a teaching panel of noted Burke scholars. Awards: Jason Black won the
top faculty paper. Zac Gershberg won the top student paper as well as the Bostrom Award.
SSCA provided both top paper authors with plaques this yeara first. 2007 Convention Planning
Discussion King and Collins suggested
a tribute panel for the late Bernard Brock. (Postscript, 4/10/06: Black reports that
Jim Klumpp, Maryland, is interested in participating in the Brock tribute) Gershberg suggested a
teaching panel focusing on graduate student teaching Black suggested a panel on
Burke and cultural studies Burke as a public
intellectual Burke and the Southern
Agrarians (particularly Robert Penn Warren, and Alan
Tate, who were all born in Email messages: ambiguity
and symbolic users Globalism and localism Burke and the sense of
place What is Burkean criticism? Meeting adjourned at 6:15
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