March 15-17, Harrah’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino Las Vegas, Nevada
Plenary Speakers
Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University
Ramón Saldívar, Stanford University
Vanessa Schwartz, University of Southern California
Contemporary Narrative Theory Session Speakers
Heather Dubrow, Fordham University
Margaret Homans, Yale University
Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois Chicago
Mark McGurl, UCLA
Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky
Peggy Phelan, Stanford University
Conference Coordinators
Eddie Maloney, Alan Nadel, James Phelan, Robyn Warhol
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
Monday, October 17, 2011
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: narrative [at] georgetown [dot] edu
All participants must join the International Society for the Study of Narrative.
For more information on the ISSN, please visit: http://narrative.georgetown.edu
Call for Papers, Narrative Matters 2012: Life and Narrative
The American University of Paris
CONFERENCE DATES: May 29th to June 1st 2012
DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS: November 15, 2011
The American University of Paris, The University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7, and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative at St. Thomas University, invite scholars from all disciplines to reflect upon the productive interplay between life and narrative.
What is the relationship between life and narrative? As noted by Jerome Bruner in his article on “Life as Narrative” (1987), this is one of the central intellectual questions facing narrative inquiry and narrative practice across multiple disciplines – psychology, narratology and literary theory, digital media, sociology, history, sociolinguistics, philosophy, medicine, education, gerontology, communications, social work, ethics, religious studies, etc. Indeed, there is broad agreement that narrative representations (from novels to histories, biographies, websites, films, museums) and life are essential to each other. Narrative draws upon life for inspiration to create an imagined world that has substance, color, texture, and meaning. Meanwhile, life draws upon narrative for resources to imagine our identity and to interpret others, situations, and the “real” world. Both are involved in an intricate exchange, playing off one another, informing and creating one another. However, the relationship between life and narrative – between experience and story - is not merely theoretical in nature but practical as well. Narrative has a profound impact on our understanding of what it means to be human; of the choices we make as persons; of the nature of health and wellness, teaching and learning; of the meaning of history; of how social groups work through conflict; and of how the cultural and political world is ordered.
Panels and papers
Scholars are invited to organize panel sessions and present papers on various aspects of the broad theme of “Life and Narrative.” Possible questions include:
Conversations
Two plenary sessions will ask prominent scholars from different disciplines to present a short paper and discuss a central question related to life and narrative. Time will be given for debate and interaction between the presenters and the audience.
Confirmed Plenary speakers
Mark Freeman, College of The Holy Cross
Alexandra Georgakopoulou-Nunes, Kings College London
James Phelan, Ohio State University
Comparing interpretations
A final plenary will compare and contrast approaches to the study of narrative. Our plenary speakers will discuss approaches to the study of research interviews and literature. The audience will be provided with the texts in advance of the plenary and will be given ample opportunity to exchange ideas with the panelists.
Language
Although the language of the conference will be in English, papers delivered in French are welcome. Scholars presenting papers in French are requested to bring a translated copy of their paper to the conference for distribution to the audience.
Workshops
Preconference workshops will be organized, principally for graduate students and beginning scholars, along the following themes:
Guidelines for submissions
We welcome proposals for individual papers (20 minutes plus ten minutes for questions) and panels (90 minutes). Submissions should be in the language of presentation (English or French). Please submit your proposal, including an abstract of less than 250 words, on-line at: http://my.aup.edu/conference/narrative-matters-2012
Abstracts are due on November 15, 2011.
Publications
An edited book will be published including the best submissions from the conference. If you would like your paper to be considered, please submit a complete draft no later than May 30, 2012.
Conference website
Coming soon.
Contact information
If you have questions, please email us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Organizing committee
Brian Schiff. The American University of Paris.
Sylvie Patron.The University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7.
Claudia Roda. The American University of Paris.
William Randall. St. Thomas University.
Elizabeth McKim. St. Thomas University.
Andrea Olguin. The American University of Paris.
Contemporary Uses of Narrative
Internet based course at master level, 7,5 ECTS
Fall semester 2011: 1 September through 3 November
Course language: English
Course code HG-NE350
Course fee for students outside EU/ESS: 10 000 SEK
In our contemporary world, narrative seems to have become something of a key symbol for interpreting phenomena from various fields of society.
Producing companies no longer sell products; after having for some time merchandized brands, today they trade stories about their brands. Political parties nowadays feed their potential electors with narratives instead of with ideologies. Business leaders use various form of storytelling as techniques of leadership. Mass media have obviously left their traditional role of neutral reporting in favor of describing reality in terms of dramatic and emotionally engaging stories.
The process of meaning creation involves severe reductionist elements. Intricate social, political or cultural situations are reduced to simple dichotomies, complex personalities are rendered in the form of stereotyped role characters, and slow, composite, undramatic processes are simply disregarded.
To be able to understand the mechanisms of this development, one has to be familiar with the basic structural elements of narrative making it an efficient cultural form for creating meaning in individual and collective experiences.
Drawing its examples from the fields of politics, business management, marketing, and tourism, the course invites the student to reflect over the possible cultural, social and political consequences of the changing uses of narrative in contemporary society.
More information: Professor Ulf Palmenfelt .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Welcome to submit your application at http://www.hgo.se/utbud/hgo/HET802
Call for Papers (New Journal): Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: A Journal of Qualitative Research
A new journal published by JHU Press has put out its initial Call for Papers. The journal is entitled Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: A Journal of Qualitative Research. All three of these descriptors are central to the medical humanities, so this looks to be an exciting and promising journal. Here are some details on the approach and scope of the journal:
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) provides a forum for exploring current issues in bioethics through the publication and analysis of personal stories, qualitative and mixed-methods research articles, and case studies. Articles may address the experiences of patients and research participants, as well as health care workers and researchers. NIB is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of bioethical issues by engaging rich descriptions of complex human experiences. While NIB upholds appropriate standards for narrative inquiry and qualitative research, it seeks to publish articles that will appeal to a broad readership of health care providers and researchers, bioethicists, sociologists, policy makers, and others.
Thick content, indeed!
And here are the guidelines for submission. NIB has planned three symposia to kick things off for Volume 1:
Issue 1, July 2011: Living with Conflicts of Interest in Medicine (Symposium Editor, James DuBois)
Preference given to story proposals received by October 15.
Issue 2, September 2011: Nursing Aides in Long-Term Care Facilities (Symposium Editor, Amy Haddad)
Preference given to story proposals received by October 15.
Issue 3, December 2011: Experiences of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients (Symposium Editor, Charles Lidz)
Preference given to story proposals received by October 15.
Sounds terrific, so do consider submitting your work.
Workshop on Users and Evaluation of Interactive Storytelling
October 31st, 2010, Edinburgh UK
Half-day Workshop (9:30am - 12:30pm)
at ICIDS 2010
3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/icids2010/EvaluationWorkshop
Organizers: Nelson Zagalo, Sandy Louchart, Maria Soto
Call for Participation
For long, Interactive Storytelling (IS) has been a constant focus of interest of scholars from various areas. However, in spite of the attention that specific domains of IS have received (e.g. development of tools, applications and systems), there is little prior work on connecting those notions with users experiences. The main purpose of this workshop is to move forward on the study of users‚ experience of interactive stories by working on the identification of the variables, dynamics and methods that could contribute to explain it. It proposes participants to jointly navigate through different practices, theories, approaches, and concepts that need to be taken into account for properly shaping the complex experience of perceiving those artifacts and applications. The ultimate goal of the workshop is advancing in the definition of a model that allows measuring user engagement during consumption of interactive narratives.
The workshop will investigate a wide range of disciplines so as to identify specific and appropriate techniques, procedures and methods for properly measuring the experience and its effects on receivers. As workshop organizers, we conducted preliminary theoretical work and outlined three factors towards a model of users‚ narrative: narrative (a), formal (b), and decisions (c). These aspects will form the basis for discussions at the workshop.
The final goal is then to provide an opportunity for participants to exchange ideas and research results on the the evaluation of Games and Interactive Storytelling’s consumption.
Not being mandatory for your participation we solicit contributions that reflect the state-of-art work in the field.
Areas of interest include but not limited to:
1) Narrativity
2) Aesthetic
3) Problem solving
4) Methodology
5) Emotion studies
6) Reception
7) Persuasion
Please submit your interest of participation or one-page abstract of your work to Nelson Zagalo (nzagalo at ics.uminho.pt).
More information about the workshop can be found at
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/icids2010/EvaluationWorkshop
Submission Deadline of Participation Interest: 10/15/10
Submission Deadline of Abstract: 10/20/10
The workshop will be limited to twenty participants so as to preserve
active participation.
Organisers
Nelson Zagalo, University of Minho, Portugal
Sandy Louchart, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Maria Soto, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
Emails
nzagalo(at)icd(dot)uminho(dot)pt
s.louchart(at)hw(dot)ac(dot)uk
mariateresa(dot)soto(at)uab(dot)es
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