--- 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 >References: <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]> > > >> 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) > >> >> 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] >