CALL FOR PAPERS
STORYTELLING IN THE AMERICAS
August 30 to September 1, 2001
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
We welcome the submission of abstracts for 20-minute talks. Papers accepted for presentation will be considered for an independent volume. Submissions must address the issue of storytelling in the Americas. Specific areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to the following:
- Aboriginal Studies
- Audience and Reader's Response
- Children's Narratives
- Cinema
- Ethnolinguistics
- Gender
- Literary Studies
- Myth
- Oral Traditions
- Power and Language
- Semiotics
- Testimonial Narratives
The deadline for receiving abstracts is December 15, 2000. Acceptance of your paper for presentation implies a commitment on your part to register and attend the conference. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on March 2, 2001. Only one individual and one joint abstract per author will be accepted. Send 3 copies of a 250 word abstract. Include the title of the paper on the abstract but not names. Please include a cover page with the following:
- author's name(s) and affiliation(s) * title of presentation * mailing address
- e-mail
- fax number
Submissions by e-mail are also encouraged. Abstracts should be sent to either contact below.
Storytelling in the Americas
c/o Dr. Mark Anderson
Dept of History
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
L2S 3A1 Canada
Storytelling in the Americas
c/o Dr. Irene Blayer
Dept of French, Italian and Spanish
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
L2S 3A1 Canada
OR ics@www.BrockU.CA
Note: The independent volume from the 1999 conference (Storytelling: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives published by Peter Lang) will be available.
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