Dear Colleagues,
This conference will interest those who work at the
borders of design, representation, and narrative.
Ken Friedman
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CFP: The Oral, The Written, and Other Verbal
Media: Interfaces and Audiences, University of
Saskatchewan, June 19-21, 2008
Call for Proposals for "The Oral, The Written,
and Other Verbal Media: Interfaces and
Audiences": A Conference and Festival University
of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada,
June 19-21, 2008
The organizers of the first international,
interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and
trans-historical conference and festival focusing
on the interface of the oral and the written
invite proposals for participation. In keeping
with the plenitude of modes and forms of oral and
textual discourse, the organizers will welcome
diverse modes of presentation, including, but not
limited to, oral performances, academic talks and
panels, readers' theatre (dramatized readings of
scholarly dialogues), workshops, and
projects-in-progress sessions. Our goal is to
generate conversations among performers,
audiences, and scholars, including graduate
students, from a wide range of academic
disciplines, cultures, and historical periods,
and to foster opportunities for collaboration
among those interested in speech and other
voicings on the page.
Because Saskatoon is located in a territory
highly populated with Indigenous peoples whose
oral traditions are still vital and developing,
the festival will highlight Aboriginal performers
in a Crow Hop Café featuring storytelling,
Indigenous Hip Hop, music, and other oral
performances. Are you studying legal contracts in
medieval Europe as they move from the oral to the
written, or Indigenous treaty narratives from
decolonizing parts of the world? Are you asking
what happens to oral stories when they are
transmuted into fiction, drama, printed poetry,
or visual media? Are you trying to reconstruct
the oral delivery of sermons or epics on the
basis of their printed forms? Are you working
with Elders on the transcription of oral
narratives, and would you like to discuss
successes and obstacles in a workshop with others
engaged or interested in this sort of work? Are
you an oral storyteller/keeper or dub or spoken
word poet interested in talking about your
practice with scholars? Do you have other ideas
for workshops related to the conference and
festival theme? If you see your work reflected in
these or related questions, please contact us.
Other issues and topics that might be addressed:
* aesthetics, ethics, & politics at the interface of the oral & the written
* the body &/or gender at the interface of the oral & the written
* contesting writing's empire
* memory and commemoration at the interface of the oral and the written
* oral occasions, contexts, circumstances & modes
of public address as represented in writing
* oral and written poetics & modes of meaning-making
* orality, textuality, & authority; orality, textuality, & modernity
* orature, writing, and genre: sacred narratives,
proverbs, jokes, ballads, sagas, legends,
folklore, sermons, oratory, & disputations
* recording oral narratives for community histories or school curriculum
* translation/transcreation of orature
* the oral and the written in visual arts
* strategies for textualizing the oral
* what audiences are well or ill served by textualizing the oral
Please forward inquiries and proposals (300-500
words) by 31 December 2006 to either of Professor
Susan Gingell Professor Neal Mcleod Department of
English Department of Indigenous Studies
University of Saskatchewan First People's House
of Learning Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 5A5 Peter
Gzowski College [log in to unmask] Enweying
Building 1600 West Bank Drive Peterborough, ON
K9J 7B8 [log in to unmask]
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