The Art of Narrative, Storytelling, and Storymaking.
Call for Papers: Teaching Narrative
TEACHING NARRATIVE AND TEACHING THROUGH NARRATIVE
International Conference organized by the Nordic Network of Narrative Studies, University of Tampere, May 26–28, 2011
Call for Papers
The conference is organized to explore the broad interface of narrative theory, literary pedagogy, and the uses of narrative as a tool for teaching and distributing knowledge in diverse disciplinary fields. A special feature of the conference will be a series of workshops devoted to close analysis of particular narrative texts – fictional as well as non-fictional – which are studied together by the participants from varying theoretical angles. We invite papers on all text types carrying narrative relevance and amenable to pedagogical uses: from opera to obituary; television to testimony; Bildungsroman alongside with biblical narrative to blog. Our plenary speakers will include specialists on literary pedagogy (Professor Leona Toker, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and on the pedagogical uses of narrative in the fields of social sciences, medicine, and humanities (Professor Rita Charon, Columbia University, Professor Jens Brockmeier, University of Manitoba and the Free University of Berlin).
Deadline for abstracts: December 31, 2010. 200–300-word abstracts should be sent to teaching.narrative[at]uta.fi. Please write “Teaching Narrative / Abstract [Your name]” in the subjectline. Participants will be contacted by January 31, 2011.
Call for Papers: Storytelling Without Limits and the Pleasures of Language Learning and Practice
Storytelling Without Limits and the Pleasures of Language Learning and Practice: Sharing News and Tales in the Story Bazaar
Date: 11th February, 2011 - 12th February, 2011
Type: Conference
Location: London School of Economics
Summary
A Multi-Lingual and Multi-Cultural Conference and Storytelling Event for Schools, Colleges and Universities, and for Storytellers of All Ages
Storytelling is a practice shared by all human cultures which has endured from ancient times to our contemporary societies. The sharing of tales, tall and short, humorous and didactic, for pleasure and for necessity was, and continues to be, essential for the survival and development of all our cultures.
The oral traditions of storytelling respect and value traditional cultures, encourage cross-generational and cross-cultural sharing, and foster the development of the precious, intangible heritage that is storytelling. It privileges speech and language, and the sharing, preserving and revitalisation of oral heritages.
Beyond the sharing of the oral storytelling and written folktale traditions across cultures, ‘storytelling’ in varying forms is also a newly emerging tool that has been affecting fields as varied as the study of management, strategy and organisation studies, military science, medicine, psychology and psychiatry. For many practitioners in these fields, storytelling is beginning to be a key competency and knowing how to deliver a story effectively combined with knowing the right story to tell is actively reshaping these, and other, disciplines.
Storytelling has also been used in education as an exercise to improve language skills as it offers students a chance to run a self-motivated project in which they have the opportunity to talk about themselves and put across a personal message.
Necessarily shape-shifting and constantly open to new influences, the story in all its forms is a place where languages and cultures meet. This event is both a celebration of that ‘place’ and an attempt to bring together multiple forms of storytelling that may not have yet met.
A Call for Papers follows on the next page, but please also note that two forms of Storytelling will be showcased at this event:
Showcase 1 The Story Bazaar: A Multi-Lingual Storytelling Performance Project
The Story Bazaar is an exciting creative event that conjures up the atmosphere of the bazaar – traditionally the place where traders and travellers met to exchange goods, news and tales. It was a melting-pot where different cultures and languages met, mixed and influenced each other. Stories and storytellers were, and still are, an important part of the bazaar. The oral tradition was nourished by the cross-fertilization of languages, creating new versions of stories, which were carried away by traders. As the African ending to a story goes: ‘Carry some away and bring some back’. Story Bazaar aims to inspire and encourage a creative approach to learning languages, and to re-create the dynamic atmosphere of cultures and languages to share tales.
Teachers and students in a selection of London schools are currently researching and collecting traditional folk stories in their key languages and exploring the rich cultural heritage behind those languages with a focus on engaging the students in speaking and communicating, and developing confidence in expressing themselves in those languages. The Story Bazaar is a cross-curricular activity, linking language learning with written and oral culture, history, social and cultural studies, religion, drama, and art and design. Teachers and students will gather together to perform, share their stories and celebrate the cultural heritage of their key languages.
Project led by Storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton
Showcase 2 Digital Storytelling: Why Digital Storytelling is Good for Your Students
Two emergent trends – storytelling in various fields and the use of social computing tools – can be combined to give renewed options to foreign language studies and help develop both students’ linguistic and cross-cultural skills. Students have the opportunity to develop their fluency by using their own voice while working on a personal story. DST gives them a creative space while focusing also on current issues. Key narrative skills are developed through storyboard writing and the analysis of visual material while also focusing on complex language issues. Throughout the conference, there will be presentations to outline the function of digital storytelling as a pedagogical tool through which students reflect on their experience, present it to others and improve their language skills. Examples of DST developed by students will be shown.
Project led by the LSE Language Centre team (Matteo Fumagalli; Helen Mayer; Hervé Didiot-Cook)
While the principal focus of the event is on links between storytelling, language learning and teaching, we welcome offers of papers focusing on the Practices of Storytelling in all their forms. These may include, but are not limited to:
• World oral traditions
• Performance storytelling
• Digital storytelling (storytelling and the use of social computing tools)
• Tech-life stories
• The Internet’s ‘new’ storytellers
• Interfaces between oral and written storytelling
• Storytelling and fiction
• Storytelling in contemporary societies
• Appropriations and transformations
• Sources and influences
• Geographical, political, historical and socio-cultural contexts
• Chronologies and methodologies
• Readers and Listeners
• Storytellers and Cultural Memory
• Using storytelling in the languages classroom
• Storytelling strategies in the judicial system, PR, marketing, management, politics, the military, the media…
Abstracts of between 250 to 400 words (max] should be sent to:
Helena Scott, Research Support, Department of Modern and Applied Languages, University of Westminster
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By: 30th November 2010
Conference Organised by:
Routes into Languages London (Capital L) with
• LSE Language Centre
• Department of Modern and Applied Languages, University of Westminster
• Storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton
Conference Organising Committee:
Renata Alburquerque, Nick Byrne, Sally Pomme Clayton, Hervé Didiot-Cook, Matteo Fumagalli, Debra Kelly, Helen Mayer.
For further information, please contact:
Helena Scott
Research Support
Department of Modern and Applied Languages
University of Westminster
e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Call for Papers: Symposium on Queer and Feminist Narrative Theories
Sponsored by Project Narrative, The Ohio State University
May 12-14, 2011
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Columbus, Ohio
Project Narrative at the Ohio State University invites submissions for the Symposium on Feminist and Queer Narrative Theories, to be held May 12-14 in Columbus, Ohio.
The symposium is motivated by the question, “What are the theoretical principles driving current work on gender and narrative or sexuality and narrative?” Twenty-five years after the first feminist narratologists brought cultural context to bear on the formal analysis of texts, theorists and critics continue coming to new insights about gender, sexuality, and sexual identity through the study of narrative. This symposium brings together scholars in literature, performance studies, and popular culture who are interested in the ways narrative represents, structures, and constitutes gender and sexuality, and vice versa.
This is to be an all-plenary symposium, featuring nine 30-minute speakers and three round tables on “burning questions” in the field. The Symposium will break for two hours on Saturday into seminar groups to discuss work in progress by senior scholars. We seek proposals for 30-minute talks to be followed by 30 minutes of plenary discussion.
The question to consider as you think about what you might contribute is simply, “What is queer and/or feminist about the work I am doing on narrative right now? Or, what is narrative-theoretical about the work I am doing on gender and/or sexuality?” Broadly theoretical papers and close analyses of texts would be equally welcome, as long as the close readings lead up to a generalizable point about queer and/or feminist narrative or narrative theories. Any topic in literary or cultural studies is appropriate.
The venue for the symposium is the Hyatt Regency in downtown Columbus, just a block away from the North Market (a smaller but equally charming version of the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia) and a 5-minute walk from the Short North district, where restaurants, boutiques, galleries, and coffee houses abound. May is a beautiful time in Columbus. Please consider joining us.
Send 500-word proposal and 2-page c.v. to Robyn Warhol at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Poetic Devices & Narrative Dynamics: Call For Panel Submissions
Name of Organization:
International Society for the Study of Narrative Conference 2011
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CFP Categories:
american
general_announcements
international_conferences
modernist studies
poetry
theory
twentieth_century_and_beyond
Below is a call for submissions to a proposed panel at the 2011 ISSN Conference.
Professor Brian McHale (Ohio State University) has generously agreed to moderate the panel if it is selected for inclusion in the conference. If you are interested, please send a 250-word abstract, paper title, and 100-word bio to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by October 1st.
Panel Title: Poetic Devices and Narrative Dynamics
The vast majority of recent narratological analyses of poetry focus on the ways in which the conventions of lyric, epic, and narrative intersect in individual poems. Although these studies are useful for explaining how these different forms of poetry work together or against one another, they do not help identify the particular ways in which narratives function differently when communicated through the medium of verse rather than prose. This panel will offer an alternative approach. Through close analysis of individual poems, the panel explores how traditional poetic devices—such as sound patterning, lineation, and semantic ambiguity—affect the construction of plots.
The 2011 Narrative Conference Call for Proposals
The 2011 Narrative Conference is sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis and the International Society for the Study of Narrative and will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, April 7-10, 2011. The Narrative Conference is an interdisciplinary forum addressing all dimensions of narrative theory and practice. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, discipline, language, and medium. Deadline for receipt of proposals: October 30, 2010.
Proposals for individual papers:
Please provide the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper you are proposing; your name, institutional affiliation, and email address; and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about your work and your publications.
Proposals for panels:
Please provide a 700-word (maximum) description of the topic of the panel and of each panelist’s contribution; the title of the panel and the titles of the
individual papers; and for each participant the name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about the person’s work and publications.
Please send proposals by email in PDF, Word, or WordPerfect to:
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For further information please contact Emma Kafalenos at:
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or visit http://narrative.wustl.edu
For a flyer of this Call for Papers, please go to:
http://narrative.wustl.edu/media/Flyer_final-6-25.pdf
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