NILAS Call for Papers: Animals in Folklore and Literature
Nature in Legend and Story (NILAS)
announces its first national meeting
jointly held with the
International Society of Anthrozoology
and the
International Society of Applied Ethology
at the
University of California, Davis
August 1-2, 2001
What are animals to us, or we to them? How do we humans make
sense of them
in our legends, bestiaries, natural histories, fables, proverbs, books
(for children and adults), games, tales, poems, art ? What do we
have to
learn about ourselves from such lore and literature? And what do
the
animals have to teach us?
NILAS is a society, an organization of scholars, storytellers, and
interested
amateurs united by a shared fascination with such questions. And
just as
we take animals seriously as the subjects of stories, we also take
them
seriously as live subjects facing us across a categorical but
permeable
boundary.
Animals in Folklore and Literature
For our first national meeting next summer in Davis, California, our
subject will be Animals in Folklore and Literature, as we meet
jointly
with the International Society of Anthrozoology and the International
Society for Applied Ethology. We invite paper proposals for
individual
presentations, for a session of storytelling, and proposals for
readings
by poets or nature writers. We especially invite abstracts for work in
progress (essays, dissertations, performances) for a colloquium at
which
those attending can comment upon the work of others and hear
suggestions
about their own. We cast our net widely, hoping to gather a mix of
storytellers, poets, writers, academics, and other teachers as well
as
interpretive naturalists and guides.
December 1, 2000. We solicit your immediate interest. If this will
be part
of your plans, please notify David Wilson at the address below, or
at:
[log in to unmask] Your immediate response will govern our
program.
Thank you!
January 31, 2001, abstract deadline: The deadline for submission of
abstracts
and proposals will be January 31, 2001. A five hundred word
abstract or
proposal, including title and need(s) for AV support should be sent
to
David S. Wilson, American Studies, retired, University of California,
Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, California 95616, Attention: NILAS
Conference; or emailed to him at: [log in to unmask]
See Homepages: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~nilas/ and
animalwelfare.ucdavis.edu
Umberto Albarella
Department of Ancient History and Archaeology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
U.K.
tel. +44/121/4147386
fax. +44/121/4145516
email [log in to unmask]
http://www.bham.ac.uk/BZL
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