Presented at the 11th Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, 2021

Rebekah Bennetch, University of Saskatchewan
“That’s Not Funny! Applying Burke’s Comic Corrective to Teaching in a Pandemic”

Maximilian Pietroforte Brichta, University of Southern California
"Rituals of Reconciliantion: On the Formal Linkage of Pop Culture and Piety in Hillsong Church Services"

Yohei Chiba, Chukyo University (Japan)
“Purifying the Aesthetic: I. A. Richards and Kenneth Burke on Interpretation of Errors in Teaching”

Allison Diaz, Texas Christian University
“One Man’s Dream: A Pentadic Study of The Walt Disney Company”

Michael Feehan, Independent Scholar
“Kenneth Burke’s Late Theory of History: The Personalistic and Instrumentalist Principles”

Joshua Hill, Pennsylvania College of Technology
“Re-introducing Augustinian Hope to the Humility of Burke’s Logology: A Probe into Substantial Participation”

Michael David Measel, Clemson University
“The Rhetoric of Kenneth Burke’s ‘One Light in a Dark Valley’”

Rebecca Oliver, University of Alabama
“Redemption and Metaphor: Historical and Present Constructions of Democracy in Joe Biden's Inaugural Address”

Jarron Slater, Brigham Young University
“Suffering as a Catalyst for Creative Acts”

Zari Taylor, University of North Carolina
“‘Crude Magic, But Effective’: A Burkean Analysis of Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign”