Human life is conducted through
story, which comes naturally to us. Sharing stories is arguably the most
important way we have of communicating with others about who we are and what we
believe; about what we are doing and have done; about our hopes and fears; about
what we value and what we don’t. We learn about and make sense of our lives by
telling the stories that we live; and we learn about other lives by listening
to the stories told by others. Sometimes, under the influence of the culture in
which we are immersed, we live our lives in ways that try to create the stories
we want to be able to tell about them.
Members of many professions,
including medicine, nursing, teaching, the law, psychotherapy and counseling,
spend a great deal of their time listening to and communicating through
stories. Story is a powerful tool for teachers, because it is a good way of
enabling students and other learners to integrate what they are learning with
what they already know, and of placing what is learned in a context that makes
it easy to recall. Story plays an important role in academic disciplines
like philosophy, theology, anthropology, archaeology, history as well as
literature Narrative methods for the collection of data are increasingly used
in research in the social sciences and humanities, where the value of getting
to know people in a more intimate and less distant way – almost as if we are
getting to know them from the inside, begins to be viewed as having some value.
Some academics have begun to realise the value of storytelling as a model for
academic writing.
Most of us have lots of
experience of relating to other lives through narrative forms, including the
nursery stories we encounter as children; the books we read and the movies we
watch. When we are moved by a play or a film or by a novel, we are moved
because we begin imaginatively to live the lives of the characters that inhabit
them. If we are lucky we will encounter as we grow up, fictional stories that
stay with us like old friends, throughout our lives that we will revisit again
and again as a way coming to terms with and responding to experiences in our
own lives.
Storytelling: global
reflections on narrative, will provide a space in which stories about
story can be told, and in which the use of stories in the widest possible range
of aspects of human life, can be reported. Abstracts are invited for individual
contributions and for symposia of three closely related papers. They may
address any aspect of story or narrative, including, for example:
· Story as a
pedagogical tool in academic disciplines such as history; anthropology,
psychology, theology, cultural theory, medicine, law, philosophy, education,
and archaeology.
· Narrative and
the gathering of stories of lived experience, as a research approach in any
area of academic, professional and public life.
· The place of
story and storytelling in the practice of journalism; PR advertising; conflict
resolution; architecture; religion; tourism, politics and the law, and in
clinical contexts such as medicine, psychotherapy, nursing and counseling.
· Finally
abstracts may feature storytelling in any aspect of culture, including music
(from opera to heavy metal, folk and sacred music); fine art; theatre;
literature; cinema and digital storytelling.
Alongside traditional conference
papers, participants are invited to propose presentations of other kinds
including, for example, theatrical performance or song, or workshops aimed at
engaging participants in active learning about story and its possibilities.
The Steering Group particularly
welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be
considered on any related theme.
What to Send:
300 word abstracts should be
submitted by Friday 30th November 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 15th February 2013
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs;
abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information
and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c)
email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: STORY4 Abstract Submission.
E-mails should be entitled: STORY4 Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times
Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge
receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a
reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it
might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative
electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs: Gavin
J Fairbairn: gavin@inter-disciplinary.net,
Rob Fisher: story4@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Persons
series of ongoing research and publications projects conferences, run within
the Probing the Boundaries domain which aims to bring
together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore
innovative and challenging routes of intellectual and academic exploration.
All papers accepted for and
presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook.
Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume.
All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from
interested delegates from the conference.
More details about conference here.
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