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

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call for Papers:

Testimonial Texts, Stories, Lives and Memories

Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN)
Mexico City
1 – 5 June 2006

Deadline: Wednesday, 1. March 2006
(Note: The submission deadline for abstracts has been extended)

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. The program is organised in 
a large
number of special thematic sessions and subconferences covering a large and
diverse series of topics extending from indigenous oral traditions in 
Mexico,
the “Urban Space as Text” to “Disabilities and 
Visibilities
through the ages”. The conference promises to be an unprecedented 
event in
Mexico bringing together participants from all over the world to share and
exchange their research, experiences and ideas in a truly multicultural and
interdisciplinary academic environment. We welcome submissions from all 
branches
of the social sciences, humanities, as well as the arts. Graduate 
students are
encouraged to participate.

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

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, Stories, Lives and Memories":

Subconference:
We are here! Disabilities and Visibilities through the ages

Subconference:
Textos Testimoniales sobre Discriminación, Uso & Abuso de Poder en el Ambito
Laboral

Subconference:
Pachecas a Belen: Una Tradición Mexicana

Subconference:
The Past and Future of Totonac Studies

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


Conference Coordinator:
Dr. Lars Ivar Owesen-Lein Borge
Email: liowlb@enkidumagazine.com
Enkidu Magazine, Mexico City

Keynote Speaker Coordinator:
Prof. Fransisco Villalpando
Email: fcovilla68@hotmail.com
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (UPN), Mexico City

Logistics:
Lic. Ángel Pineda Blancarte
info@enkidumagazine.com
Enkidu Magazine, Mexico City
Archivo Historico de Santamaria Papantla

Centro Cultural Enkidu
Postal Address:
Campesinos # 252 col. Progreso del Sur ,
C.P. 09810 Iztapalapa México .d.f.
correo: info@enkidumagazine.com

Email: info@enkidumagazine.com

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