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Minutes of the SSCA Kenneth Burke Society

April 8, 2006, Dallas Marriott Quorum

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, Davis Cratis Williams,

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

Louisville convention. Next year Kim moves up to chair, and Christi Moss moves up to

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

year—a 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, Cleanth Brooks,

and Alan Tate, who were all born in Kentucky. Warren’s archives are in KY.)

• Email messages: ambiguity and symbolic users

• Globalism and localism

• Burke and the sense of place

• What is Burkean criticism?

 

Meeting adjourned at 6:15 p.m.