[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Testimonial Texts, Stories, Lives and Memories

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Second Call for Papers:

Testimonial Texts, Stories, Lives and Memories
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN)
Mexico City
1 – 5 June 2006


Deadline: 25th of February 2006

The primary focus of this inclusive and interdisciplinary conference 
organized
by Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City in cooperation with Mexico's National
University of Pedagogy (UPN) is to explore the power of storytelling in the
construction of memories, collective identity formations, and oral 
traditions.

The conference will interrogate storytelling, memories and identity
constructions from a wide range of perspectives, definitions and in their
manifold cultural and social manifestations.

Papers will be considered on related themes and topics from a wide range of
perspectives. 500-word abstracts should be submitted to the organising 
comitee
in English, Castillian, German or French by 25th of February 2006. The
conference languages will be English and Castillian.

Interpretations of the conference theme ranging from the predictable to the
surprising are encouraged.

Among the themes of interest are the following:

- Narrative and Linguistics
- Narrative and Myth
- Storytelling in rituals, customs, and fetishism.
- Storytelling and Visual/Performing Arts and Music
- Oral Tradition and Contemporary Chronicle
- Postmodernity and its narratives
- Voice and reflexivity in oral and written texts
- Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
- Story, Dialogue and Discourse
- Testimonial Narratives
- Memory and Written Record
- Text, Context and Intertext in Storytelling and Performance
- Children’s Stories
- Language, Authority and Silence

Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome since all these 
topics in
themselves stretch across several disciplines: history, literary studies,
linguistics, psychology, political sciences, pedagogy, ethnology, 
anthropology,
sociology...

Subconferences in "Testimonial Texts":

» Subconference:
We are here! Disabilities and Visibilities through the ages
CFP: http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/texts/ahspc_04.htm

» Subconference:
Textos Testimoniales sobre Discriminación, Uso & Abuso de Poder en el Ambito
Laboral
CFP (Spanish): http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/texts/ahspc_06.htm

» Subconference:
Pachecas a Belen: Una Tradición Mexicana
CFP (Spanish): http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/texts/ahspc_03.htm

» Subconference:
The Past and Future of Totonac Studies
CFP: http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/texts/ahspc_01.htm

Special thematic sessions:

» Special session:
The Urban Space as Text

» Special session (3. June):
Aids and Oral History

» Subconference:
(Trans)-gendered realities

» Special session (3. June):
New Directions in Microhistory

» Special session (4. June):
Dear Diary: Memories and words never spoken

» Special session (4. June):
Passionate Research: Voice, Subjectivity and Reflexivity

Papers should be of approximately 30 minutes duration (circa 8 - 10 pages).
Other forms of presentation, for instance workshops, panel debates and 
poster
sessions will be considered on request.

Graduate and postgraduate students are encouraged to attend and present 
papers.
Selected papers from the conference will be published in book form.

- Proposals for Panel Sessions:

Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3 (maximum 4) 
speakers and
1 moderator. Each session will last for 2 hours allowing for 30 minutes 
for each
speaker and a further 30 minutes for questions and discussion.

Proposers should submit:

(1) session title and a session intro (ca 100 words),
(2) paper titles,
(3) abstracts for each paper (500 words),
(4) short biography for each participant and the panel chair (ca 100-150 
words),
(5) institutional affiliation and address for each participant,
(6) audio-visual and other technical requirements.

If you would like to propose a panel session, and need assistance in finding
speakers and/or a session chair, we can publish a call for papers for 
your panel
session on the conference web site and distribute it in our newsletter. 
If you
have an idea for panel session and would like us to publish a call for 
papers on
the conference website, please send us a proposal by e-mail to
info@enkidumagazine.com

- Proposals for individual papers

Abstracts are to be submitted by 25 February 2006, along with the
presenter’s name, address, telephone, email, and institutional
affiliation. All correspondence for this conference will be conducted 
via email.
You will be notified by the 25th of April 2006 whether your proposal has 
been
accepted or rejected. Full conference papers should be submitted by the 
1st of
May 2006.

Abstracts and summaries of the conference papers will be made available 
on the
conference web site from the 1st of May 2006

For further information, please contact the organising comitee at:
info@enkidumagazine.com

The conference web page:
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/texts/intro_en.htm


Centro Cultural Enkidu
Campesinos # 252 col. Progreso del sur ,
c.p. 09810 Iztapalapa México .d.f.

Email: info@enkidumagazine.com

Visit the website at 
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/texts/intro_en.htm