[Linganth] CFP SLA conference panel

[Steven Patrick Black]


Dear all,
Netta Avineri and I are looking for a few others to join a panel we are proposing for the SLA meeting in Chicago tentatively titled, The Role of Storytelling in Ethical, Community-Engaged Research–Imagine That! (information about the conference can be found here [https://www.2025slaconference.org] information about submissions can be found here [https://www.2025slaconference.org/call-for-proposals]. If you are interested in joining us, please send Netta (navineri at gmail.com<mailto:navineri at gmail.com>) and I (sblack at gsu.edu<mailto:sblack at gsu.edu>) a paper proposal by Wednesday November 20 (a paper title and an abstract of up to 250 words). Please see below my signature for more details on our panel proposal!

Take care,
Steve
Steven P. Black
Department of Anthropology
Georgia State University


DRAFT TITLE: The Role of Storytelling in Ethical, Community-Engaged Research–Imagine That!

DRAFT PANEL ABSTRACT
This panel explores stories and storytelling as both an analytic object and methodological tool for ethical, community-engaged research. Anthropology has long examined myths, legends, and verbal art, as well as narrative in everyday life, theorizing how speakers (re)imagine social worlds through the linguistic and communicative practices of storytelling. Scholarship also analyzes storytelling and creative processes in the process of ethnographic representation (how ethnographers represent cultural and linguistic practices in texts, documentaries, et cetera). This panel contributes to and expands on these bodies of literature with a focus on ethics and community engagement. Panelists will explore questions such as: How might we reconceptualize anthropological approaches to stories and storytelling when researchers and research participants are viewed as differently-positioned actors working in dialogue with one another? How can methodological approaches incorporating storytelling help to create ethical, collaborative forms of community engagement? How might linguistic anthropologists rethink mentorship and the research process with these perspectives in mind? How does the process of shaping stories shift when a broader range of audiences and publics are the primary target, and when collaborative action is the primary focus? And what role does the imagination play in this array of approaches to stories and storytelling?
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