Call for Papers: Narratives and Innovation

Karlshochschule International University is organizing an international conference on “Narratives and Innovation” with the aim to bring together scholars and practitioners from different contexts to discuss about the topic. The conference forms part of an interpretive approach towards business administration, strategic management, and entrepreneurship, by introducing instruments of semiotics, linguistics, narratology, and others. The topic of the conference therefore is open to a bundle of scientific and industrial perspectives.

Particularly desired are papers about the topics of the conference which cover any subject in the broader field of narrative and innovation.

Three types of contributions are welcome
1. Presentation
2. Poster
3. Panel

1. Presentation
Presentations should not extend duration of 20 minutes. Please send in an abstract (one page, word-document).

2. Poster
If you do not want to present a communication but to discuss your project, please send in a proposal for a poster. During the conference there will be a time slot for poster presentations.

3. Panel suggestions
We provide an opportunity to hand in suggestions for panels. A panel is meant to be an open space discussion or a debate about specific topics related to the conference’s subject. Your abstract (one page, word-document) should include the topic of the panel, a short description of its objectives, the name of the panel chair and potential participants (at least three persons). Panels should not extend duration of 120 minutes.

The publishing of papers is planned short time after the conference. Therefore, the contributors are kindly asked to submit the final versions of the papers until the start of the conference, 15th of September 2010. Panel chairs are encouraged to send in conversational genres, e.g. interviews or discussions.

Important information for the authors:
Deadline for the delivery of suggestions is the 31st of May 2010.
Notification of the acceptance will be submitted the latest until the 30th of June 2010.
Papers must be written and presented in English. Submission as Word-Document (via submission form) or E-Mail.

For more information: http://narrative-and-innovation.com/call-for-papers/

Reframing Interactive Storytelling for Kids on the iPhone

The thing I find most fascinating about this video is the reframing of the iPhone’s use. Picture the father sitting with his child and playing with the iPhone but remove the paper book. There’s no romance without the book. Reading to our kids is a valued activity. Playing with an electronic device is, well, not as valued. How does the manufacturer of this product overcome that paradigm? They wrap the phone in a book and make them interdependent.

Perhaps newspapers could be delivered this way. Same with magazines. But why? Why waste the paper? Just use the device.

PS - Did you notice the father pushing his kid’s finger out of the way so that he can draw a smile face?

Call for Papers and Posters: Metanexus Conference

Metanexus Conference - Call for Papers and Posters
The Whole Story: Philosophy, Theology, Science, and Other Stories of Everything

Come on integral folk, represent the cause at this very cool conference.

The Whole Story: Philosophy, Theology, Science, and Other Stories of Everything
Deadline for Abstracts: January 30, 2010

Conference Thematic
We say at Metanexus that we are after something like “the whole story of the whole cosmos for the whole person.” We are “after” it, because we do not have it. What we do have are the stories told to us and by us in our various academic fields and intellectual areas of expertise. We have the stories told to us and by us in our diverse faith traditions and our various cultural contexts. We have the stories told to us and by us in the very formation and structure of our institutions–educational and commercial, religious and political.

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Call for Papers American Comparative Literature Association Conference

Call for Papers
American Comparative Literature Association Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana
April 1-4

Panel: Retelling: Narrative in Translation

Seminar Organizers:
Brian O'Keeffe, Barnard College, Columbia University
Leah Leone, University of Iowa

Literary studies has not had great difficulty in agreeing that literary translations can be counted as independent texts, newly original creations of an original text, however ostensibly “derivative” a translation may be. Yet translated fiction continues to be read, analyzed and taught as if its narratives were identical to those of their sources. Translations are said to re-interpreted, retold by a new narrator, yet there has been relatively little study of the ways in which narratives shift in translation.

This seminar accordingly seeks to provide a forum for discussing the possible intersections of narrative studies and translation. For narrative studies, therefore, we envisage opening up a new avenue in comparative studies — the comparison of the narrative as it is transformed across multiple translations. For translation studies, we hope to go beyond the study of grammatical and prescriptive issues and invite considerations of narrative form — what happens to emplotment, characterization, teleology.

In the spirit of a conference devoted to the practice of comparative literature, we welcome “comparison” in all of its forms, for this includes questions of how different cultural attitudes to narrative itself affect translations of fiction. It is moreover a matter of how the multiple inheritances of North-American narratology might address the question differently, in comparison, say, to German response-theory, or French structuralism. We invite papers that deal with any aspect of narrative in translation, and hope to promote dialogue that furthers theoretical and methodological approaches to its study. Papers should be 15 to 20 minutes in length to allow for discussion.

Please submit an abstract of 250 words to http://www.acla.org/submit/index.php

Official Deadline is November 13, 2009

Call for Papers: Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS - LOUISVILLE CONFERENCE ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Call for Papers - Narrative Medicine

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900

February 18-20, 2010

The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 has again extended an invitation to Narrative Medicine to organize a panel. Focusing on Narrative Medicine, this panel will share the same broad scope as the conference itself. All proposals for papers addressing narratives of illness and health since 1900 are welcome.

At this time the best way to indicate your interest is to contact David Eberly, the panel’s convener, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) by *October 12, 2009.

*Please include your name, affiliation, and contact information together with a description of your suggested topic.
* *Please attach a brief proposal, if available.

The conference will be held at the University of Louisville on February 18-20, 2010. Generally, the conference “welcomes critical papers on any topic that addresses literary works published since 1900 and/or their relationships with other arts and disciplines (film, journalism, opera, music, pop culture, painting, architecture, law, etc.)”

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