Call for papers: Storytelling in the Americas -- DEADLINE FOR ABS TRACTS EXTENDED TO 20 FEBRUARY 2001

[Scott McGinnis]

                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: manderso at spartan.ac.brocku.ca

                          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: blayer at spartan.ac.brocku.ca

                                  OR

                          ics at www.BrockU.CA

                                  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: ics at www.BrockU.CA