Montreal International Game Summit ‘09

November 16-17. 2009

MIGS serves members of the video and electronic gaming industries. Geared to industry needs, the MIGS aims to be the annual event for game development specialists from all over the world. More than 1500 members of the game industry are expected for this Sixth Edition.

Leading-edge presentations MIGS presents specialized conferences hosted by world-renowned experts in programming, visual arts, game design, audio design, production and business, and Serious Games.

The summit is a specialized event offering an environment conducive to learning, networking and discussion.

Program:
- Some 80 courses, seminars, conferences and workshops over a two-day period Big names from the local and international scenes
- Numerous additional activities including a VIP gala, cocktail parties, specialized meetings and more
- Some 30 firms presenting their wares
- A separate Business Lounge

For more information: http://sijm.ca/2009/?language=en

ISFNR Belief Narrative Network Conference 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear colleagues,

According to the Minutes of the Belief Narratives Network (BNN) meeting during the 15th ISFNR Congress in Athens, June 25, 2009, the next conference of the BNN is to be organized in St. Petersburg (Russia) on May, 17th-19th, 2010. The conference will be hosted by the Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences. The working languages of the conference will be English and Russian.

The potential subject areas of the conference could be as follows:

* Classifying Beliefs:  ordering and indexing of beliefs and narratives in various cultural contexts;
* Concepts of Belief : in which the boundaries of the categories “belief” and “narratives” would be discussed;
* Systems of Belief : internal coherence, or lack of it;
* Figures of Belief : from angels to zombies;
* Histories of Belief: do narratives change over time?
* Mediating Beliefs: how belief narratives depend on media and communication?
* Practice and Representation of Belief: how belief narratives are related to politics, ideology and society?
* Conflicts of Belief : about disagreements and competing narratives;
* Belief and Disbelief: “disbelief narratives” and their relation to beliefs in various social and cultural contexts.

Presentations of ongoing or planned projects, other research networks, new literature on belief narrative research would be also welcome.

We cordially invite both members of the BNN and all other scholars interested in belief narrative research to take part in the conference.

The deadline for submitting proposals and abstracts is November 1, 2009.
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words.

Please send your abstracts and proposals to the following e-mail address: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Hope to see you in St. Petersburg!

Alexander Panchenko
Institute of Russian Literature,
Russian Academy of Sciences
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Ohio State U Project Narrative Summer Institute 2010

The Project Narrative Summer Institute (PNSI) is a two-week workshop on the Ohio State University campus that offers scholars who have earned a Ph.D. (or other terminal degree) in any discipline the opportunity for an intensive study of core concepts and issues in narrative theory. Jim Phelan and Robyn Warhol-Down will direct the 2010 institute, which will accept twenty participants and will run from Monday, June 28th to Friday, July 9th.  The deadline for applications is Monday, March 1, 2010.  For more information, including application instructions and a syllabus, go to http://projectnarrative.osu.edu/aboutUs/summerinstitute.cfm.

Call For Papers: 25th International Conference on Narrative

25th International Conference on Narrative
8-11 April 2010
Cleveland, Ohio
Website: http://www.case.edu/narrative

Special Session: “Ecological Narratives of Our Future”

This session will focus on contemporary environmental texts (prose, poetry, drama, or film) that use narrative in such a way as to envision, depict, warn against, or redirect the future. I’m thinking of the role that narrative plays not only in such texts as Thomas Berry, /The Great Work/; Albert Gore, /An Inconvenient Truth/; James Gustave Speth, /A Bridge at the End of the World/; and David W. Orr, /Down to the Wire/; but also in more literary works like Margaret Atwood, /Oryx and Crake/; Terry Tempest Williams, /Mosaic/; or even /Urinetown: The Musical/. A variety of theoretical approaches is eagerly anticipated.

Deadline: Please send a 500-word abstract and brief (2- to 3-pg) vita due by October 25, 2009 to Mark Bassett (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). Panel proposals are due by October 30th.

The International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) is a nonprofit association of scholars dedicated to the investigation of narrative, its elements, techniques, and forms; its relations to other modes of discourse; its power and influence in cultures past and
present. “Narrative” for us is a category that may include the novel, epic poetry, history, biography, autobiography, film, the graphic arts, music, performance, legal writing, medical case histories, and more.

Presenters must join the ISSN. (You can learn more about their publications, conferences, etc., at this website: http://narrative.georgetown.edu.)

Power of Words Conference 2009

Liberation, Transformation & Celebration
Through the Spoken, Written & Sung Word

Explore how we can use our words — written,  spoken or sung — to make community, deepen healing, witness one another, wake ourselv es up, and foster empowerment and transformation. Organized by the Transformative Language Network, and founded by Goddard College, this conference features experiential workshops on a wide range of the expressive language arts and right livelihood, performances, open readings, and celebrations. Make community with others who share your passion. Keynote presenters for the 2009 conference include:

• Kayhan Irani, performer of the Theatre of the Oppressed and creator of Artivista, an organization that combines art and activism as a form of political expression and engagement
• John Fox, poet, author, poetry therapist, and founder of Poetic Medicine, and author of Poetic Medicine and Finding What You Didn’t Lose.
• Lewis Mehl Medrona, author of Coyote Medicine, Native American physician and psychiatrist and professor of family psychiatry who calls himself a post-modern, semi-urban neo-shaman.
• Dovie Thomason, award-winning Native American storyteller, recording artist and author
• Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, founder of Transformative Languages Arts, and award-winning author of several books including Write Where You Are and Lot’s Wife, who will be debuting her memoir, The Sky Begins at Your Feet.
• Sherry Reiter, poetry therapy pioneer and author of Writing Away the Demons: Stories of Creative Coping Through Transformative Writing will present a workshop with her co-authors.
• Callid Keefe & Kristina Perry, facilitators-in-residence and writers on Theopoetics and the Quaker meeting tradition.
• Terry Hauptman, artist-in-residence, painter and poet, and author of On Hearing Thunder, Rattle, and Masquerading in Clover.

Visit the website for more information: http://www.tlanetwork.org/conference/

 

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