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.)

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