--- Forwarded Message from Irene Blayer <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 19:41:49 -0500
>From: Irene Blayer <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Storytelling in the Americas Conference
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>> Could you please circulate the following CFP.
>> Thanks.
>> ----------------------
>>
>>                Storytelling in the Americas Conference
>>
>> DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONOF ABSTRACTS EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 20, 2001
>>
>>                          August 30 to September 1, 2001
>>                                 Brock University
>>                          St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
>>
>>                  (keynote speaker: Prof. Mario Valdes, University of
>> Toronto)
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>>
>>  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
>> Literary Studies
>>          Audience and Reader's Response                  Myth
>>          Children's Narratives                           Oral
>> Traditions
>>          Cinema                                          Power and
>> Language
>>          Ethnolinguistics
>> Semiotics
>>          Gender                                          Testimonial
>> Narratives
>>
>>
>> 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. (Submissions
>> by
>> e-mail are also encouraged. Abstracts sent via e-mail should be in
>> Microsoft
>> Word or RTF file format.) Include the title of the paper on the
>> abstract, but
>> not the names. Papers may be given in English, French, Portuguese or
>>
>> Spanish. Please include a cover page with the following:
>>
>>                      author's name(s) and affiliation(s)
>>                      title of presentation
>>                      mailing address
>>                      e-mail address
>>                     fax number
>>
>>  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
>>                          Canada L2S 3A1
>>                          e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>                          Storytelling in the Americas
>>                          c/o Dr. Irene Blayer
>>                          Dept. of French, Italian and Spanish
>>                          Brock University
>>                          St. Catharines, Ontario
>>                          Canada L2S 3A1
>>                          e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>                                  OR
>>
>>                          [log in to unmask]
>>
>>                                  OR
>>
>>  Fax: 905-688-2789, attention: Irene Blayer, Department of French,
>> Italian
>> and Spanish
>>
>>
>>  Note: The independent volume from the 1999 conference Storytelling:
>>
>>  Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives published by Peter
>>
>>  Lang) will be available.
>>
>> URL of this document:
>>  http://www.brocku.ca/storytelling/callforpapers.htm
>>                 Conference questions: [log in to unmask]
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