Conference:
Friday and Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2004
Kick-off
event for South Florida Storytelling Project: Thursday evening, March 4
The South Florida
Storytelling Project at Florida Atlantic University invites you to participate
in an interdisciplinary academic conference that will both present current
scholarship on storytelling and launch the discipline’s first peer-reviewed
academic journal, Storytelling, Self,
Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies. Like the
journal, the conference is presented in conjunction with the National
Storytelling Network and its affiliate special interest groups, including
Storytelling in Higher Education, the Healing Story Alliance, and Storytelling
in Organizations.
The conference will
feature papers, panels and workshops on themes related to storytelling as
private or public discourse. It will also showcase storytelling performances,
as well as provide a forum for the journal’s editorial and advisory boards to
meet and discuss editorial policy issues. The proceedings of the conference
will comprise the journal’s first issue, and the proceeds will help underwrite its first year (two issues). Presenters and
participants will represent disciplines including storytelling, communication,
English, education, library science, environmental science, nursing, medicine,
business, peace studies, psychology, theatre and performance studies.
The conference takes place at
Please e-mail or send
a 250-word abstract that will serve as a proposal both for the conference and
for your journal submission to:
John S. Gentile, Ph.D., Chair
Theatre and Performance Studies
jgentile@kennesaw.edu
Indicate audio-visual
or other special needs. Deadline for submissions:
Campus contact:
Caren S. Neile, Ph.
D., Director
561-297-0042
For
updates, check http://courses.unt.edu/efiga/SSS/SSS_Journal.htm.
About the journal:
STORYTELLING, SELF, SOCIETY:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies
EDITORIAL POLICY
STORYTELLING, SELF, SOCIETY is an interdisciplinary journal that
invites
scholarship addressing any topic
related to Storytelling--from its role
as performing art to
contemporary applications in a variety of
professional
fields. We welcome manuscripts from scholars in humanities
and social science disciplines, (including psychology, library
science, literary studies, folklore, anthropology, sociology, communication,
rhetoric, performance studies, theater, history, feminist and queer studies,
and ethnography) as well as from storytelling artists and practitioners,
including those applying storytelling in the fields of education, health care,
social
work,
business, law, peace-building and environmental education.
Storytelling is a hyperlink discipline, which stands at the
headwaters
of all disciplinarity in
education and cultural transmission. In the
course of telling a story
one is able to yoke together issues of
history, sociology,
anthropology, literature, music, theatre,
psychology, religion, law,
medicine, communication, and more, all
through the natural linkages
of the narrative mode. The contemporary
revival of storytelling has
grown through the fit between narrative
thinking and the contrapuntal
knowledge organization born of the
evolution from linear to
hyperlink technology, a correspondence which
has only minimally emerged
from the cultural unconscious, especially in
domains such as the academy
which are still beholden to the paradigm of
print.
STORYTELLING, SELF, SOCIETY intends to gather the building blocks
of new
disciplinary
roles, structures and methodologies for Storytelling in the
21st century. We seek articles that reflect the highest standards
of the
various disciplines on which
we draw, and to which we intend to
contribute. In addition to
standard monographs, STORYTELLING, SELF,
SOCIETY seeks to extend the critical vocabulary of contemporary
Storytelling, and so solicits reviews of Storytelling performances
and
individual texts, as well as
essays that review several performances and
texts. We also recognize
that Storytelling is a longstanding discipline
in itself--an integral mode
of understanding and illuminating the world.
Thus we welcome personal ethnography and reflection, as well as
stories
that have evolved from the oral
tradition and reflect upon the endurance
and evolution of oral
traditions in the present day. We recognize the
profound and often contested
influences of Storytelling and cultural
narratives on the health of the
individual, the community, and the
planet. We seek ways to
evaluate, measure, and focus those influences to
impact our scholarship, our
disciplines, our society, and ourselves.
In keeping with an interdisciplinary journal, monographs and
review
essays in STORYTELLING,
SELF, SOCIETY are written in prose that is
appropriate for a wide range of
scholars and educated readers rather
than the specialized jargon of
a specific discipline.