2nd Global Conference
Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative
Wednesday 7th November – Friday 9th November 2012
Salzburg, Austria
Call For Papers:
Human life is conducted through story, which comes
naturally to us. Sharing stories is arguably the
most important way we have of communicating with
others about who we are and what we believe; about
what we are doing and have done; about our hopes
and fears; about what we value and what we don't.
We learn about and make sense of our lives by
telling the stories that we live; and we learn
about other lives by listening to the stories told
by others. Sometimes, under the influence of the
culture in which we are immersed, we live our
lives in ways that try to create the stories we
want to be able to tell about them.
Members of many professions, including medicine,
nursing, teaching, the law, psychotherapy and
counseling, spend a great deal of their time
listening to and communicating through stories.
Story is a powerful tool for teachers, because it
is a good way of enabling students and other
learners to integrate what they are learning with
what they already know, and of placing what is
learned in a context that makes it easy to recall.
Story plays an important role in academic
disciplines like philosophy, theology,
anthropology, archaeology, history as well as
literature Narrative methods for the collection of
data are increasingly used in research in the
social sciences and humanities, where the value of
getting to know people in a more intimate and less
distant way – almost as if we are getting to know
them from the inside, begins to be viewed as
having some value. Some academics have begun to
realise the value of storytelling as a model for
academic writing.
Most of us have lots of experience of relating to
other lives through narrative forms, including the
nursery stories we encounter as children; the
books we read and the movies we watch. When we are
moved by a play or a film or by a novel, we are
moved because we begin imaginatively to live the
lives of the characters that inhabit them. If we
are lucky we will encounter as we grow up,
fictional stories that stay with us like old
friends, throughout our lives that we will revisit
again and again as a way coming to terms with and
responding to experiences in our own lives.
Storytelling: global reflections on narrative,
will provide a space in which stories about story
can be told, and in which the use of stories in
the widest possible range of aspects of human
life, can be reported. Abstracts are invited for
individual contributions and for symposia of three
closely related papers. They may address any
aspect of story or narrative, including, for example:
* Story as a pedagogical tool in academic
disciplines such as history; anthropology,
psychology, theology, cultural theory, medicine,
law, philosophy, education, and archaeology.
* Narrative and the gathering of stories of
lived experience, as a research approach in any
area of academic, professional and public life.
* The place of story and storytelling in the
practice of journalism; PR advertising; conflict
resolution; architecture; religion; tourism,
politics and the law, and in clinical contexts
such as medicine, psychotherapy, nursing and
counseling.
* Finally abstracts may feature storytelling
in any aspect of culture, including music (from
opera to heavy metal, folk and sacred music); fine
art; theatre; literature; cinema and digital
storytelling.
Alongside traditional conference papers,
participants are invited to propose presentations
of other kinds including, for example, theatrical
performance or song, or workshops aimed at
engaging participants in active learning about
story and its possibilities.
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the
submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers
will also be considered on any related theme. 300
word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 4th
May 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be submitted
by Friday 3rd August 2012 Abstracts should be
submitted simultaneously to both Organising
Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or
RTF formats with the following information and in
this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to
10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: STORY2 Abstract
Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts
is planned for the end of the year. All accepted
abstracts will be included in this publication. We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did not
receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Gavin J Fairbairn
Professor of Ethics and Language
Leeds Metropolitan University
Leeds
United Kingdom
Email: gavin@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
Email: story2@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Persons series of
ongoing research and publications projects
conferences, run within the Probing the Boundaries
domain which aims to bring together people from
different areas and interests to share ideas and
explore innovative and challenging routes of
intellectual and academic exploration.
Multiple eBooks and volumes of themed papers have
been published or are in press from the previous
conference meetings of this project. All papers
accepted for and presented at the conference will
be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.
Selected papers may be developed for publication
in a themed hard copy volume
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/storytelling-
global-reflections-on-narrative/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/storytelling-
global-reflections-on-narrative/story-2-call-for-papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a
not-for-profit network and we are not in a
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