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[ecrea] Rhetoric as Equipment for Living. Kenneth Burke, Culture and Education. (Extended deadline)
Wed Jan 16 22:22:34 GMT 2013
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Rhetoric as Equipment for Living. Kenneth Burke, Culture and Education.
Ghent University
22nd to 25th May 2013
Ghent, Belgium
Enquiries: (kbconference /at/ ugent.be)<mailto:(kbconference /at/ ugent.be)>
Web address: http://www.cultureeducation.ugent.be/kennethburke
Extended deadline (!) for proposal submissions: February 1st 2013
Confirmed keynote speakers
Barry Brummett (University of Texas at Austin - USA)
Steven Mailloux (Loyola Marymount University, Irvine - USA)
Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University - UK)
Theme
The second half of the twentieth century has witnessed a number of
different but related turns in the humanities and social sciences:
linguistic, cultural, anthropological/ ethnographic, interpretive,
semiotic, narrative... All these turns recognise the importance of signs
and symbols in our interpretations of reality and more specifically the
cultural construction of meaning through both language and narrative.
The aim of this conference is to introduce rhetoric as a major term for
synthesizing all the above-mentioned turns by exploring how rhetoric can
make us self-aware about language and culture. We will specifically
focus on ?new rhetoric?, a body of work that sets rhetoric free from its
confinement within the traditional fields of education, politics and
literature, not by abandoning these fields but by refiguring them.
Guiding source of inspiration in all this will be the international
legacy of Kenneth Burke, one of the founders of this new rhetoric
tradition together with scholars such as Wayne Booth, Richard McKeon,
Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. As a rhetorician and literary
critic interested in how we use symbols, Burke described the human being
as the symbol-making, symbol-using and symbol-misusing animal. He argued
that our interpretations, perceptions, judgements and attitudes are all
influenced and ?deflected? by the symbols that we make, use and misuse,
and that we are at the same time used by these symbols. This implies
that we can approach the world either symbol-wise or symbol-foolish.
This conference wants to explore how rhetorical concepts can be used as
tools - equipment - to make students, teachers, scholars and citizens
symbol-wise: to understand the way linguistic, cultural, narrative
symbols work, and to develop critical engagement with, as well as on
behalf of, those symbols. It furthermore wants to explore if and how
rhetoric can still be relevant in a world that is becoming ever more
complex and paradoxical by political, economic and cultural differences
on a global scale.
In what will be the first major conference devoted to Kenneth Burke
outside the United States, we aspire to introduce the ideas of this
seminal thinker to disciplines that might benefit from them. We
therefore welcome both paper abstracts as panel proposals that broadly
explore the topic of Rhetoric as Equipment for Living from the
perspective of education, citizenship, literature, literacy, technology,
games, (new) media and from the perspective of disciplines such as
pedagogy, social work, psychology, cultural studies, management and
communication. The committee especially welcomes contributions that
examine the possible use of rhetoric for education or educators, as well
as contributions that explore affinities between Burke and European
scholars or scholarship, or that apply new rhetoric to political,
economic or social issues.
Kenneth Burke Society
The conference is organized in close cooperation with the Kenneth Burke
Society who will delegate a number of prominent US Burke scholars and
rhetoricians: David Blakesley (Clemson University); Michael Feehan
(Arkansas Legislative Council); Ann George (Texas Christian University);
Mark Huglen (University of Minnesota); Clarke Rountree (University of
Alabama in Huntsville); Herbert W. Simons (Temple University); Richard
Thames (Duquesne University); Elizabeth Weiser (The Ohio State
University); Robert Wess (Oregon State University); David Cratis
Williams (Florida Atlantic University); James P. Zappen (Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute). From the International Rhetoric Culture Project
participation is confirmed by Ivo Strecker (Johannes
Gutenberg-University Mainz).
Details:
Conference dates: May 22-25th 2013
Deadline for submissions - February 1st 2013
Decision about submissions: by February 15th 2013
Registration starts: February 15th 2013
All the best,
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Geert Vandermeersche
PhD Researcher/Assistent, Department of Educational Studies
Faculty of Psychology en Educational Sciences
Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent (Belgium)
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 62 57
Website: http://www.cultureeducation.ugent.be/
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