On Thursday, Penn State s Hintz Family Alumni Center hosted members of the local community for the Kenneth Burke Memorial Lecture by Ralph Cintrón, author of the book “Democracy as Fetish.”
Ralph Cintron of the University of Illinois at Chicago will address the question "Is democracy under attack?" when he presents the Center for Democratic Deliberation's 2022 Kenneth Burke Memorial Lecture. The lecture, which is open to the public, will be held at 4 p.m. April 14 at the Hintz Family Alumni Center on Penn State's University Park campus and online.
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This year’s Burke Prize winner is Kelly Williams Nagel, a doctoral candidate in communication arts and sciences for her essay, Unraveling Lost Cause Historiography: Places for Encounter at the Robert E. Lee Statue in Richmond, Virginia.”
“The reviewers praised this paper for its sophisticated application of contemporary rhetorical theory to a timely case study and its incisive engagement with both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on contested spaces of public memorialization,” said Brad Vivian, professor of communication arts and sciences and Burke Prize judging coordinator.
Additionally, the judging committee recognized two papers with honorable mention distinction: Assigning Guilt and Dispersing Blame: Conspiracy Discourse and the Limits of Law in the Nuremberg Trials, by Allison Neibauer and “(In)Visibility in the Daughters of Bilitis: From Tactical Activism to Radical Separatism,” by Jeff Nagel. Niebauer and Nagel are both doctor