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face="Times New Roman"><STRONG>Call for Proposals for “The Oral, The Written,
and Other Verbal Media: Interfaces and Audiences”: A Conference and
Festival<BR><BR><?/color><?/fontfamily><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman><?color><?param 0000,0000,0000></STRONG>University
of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 19-21, 2008<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Other issues and topics that might be addressed:<BR>• aesthetics,
ethics, & politics at the interface of the oral & the written<BR>• the
body &/or gender at the interface of the oral & the written<BR>•
contesting writing’s empire<BR>• memory and commemoration at the interface of
the oral and the written<BR>• oral occasions, contexts, circumstances &
modes of public address as represented in writing<BR>• oral and written poetics
& modes of meaning-making<BR>• orality, textuality, & authority;
orality, textuality, & modernity<BR>• orature, writing, and genre: sacred
narratives, proverbs, jokes, ballads, sagas, legends, folklore, sermons,
oratory, & disputations<BR>• recording oral narratives for community
histories or school curriculum<BR>• translation/transcreation of orature<BR>•
the oral and the written in visual arts<BR>• strategies for textualizing the
oral<BR>• what audiences are well or ill served by textualizing the
oral<BR><BR>Please forward inquiries and proposals (300-500 words) by 31
December 2006 to either of<BR><BR>Professor Susan Gingell<BR>Department of
English<BR>University of Saskatchewan<BR>Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N
5A5<BR>sag178@mail.usask.ca<BR><BR>or<BR><BR>Professor Neal Mcleod<BR>Department
of Indigenous Studies<BR>First People's House of Learning<BR>Peter Gzowski
College<BR>Enweying Building<BR>1600 West Bank Drive<BR>Peterborough, ON K9J
7B8<BR>nealmcleod@trentu.ca</FONT></FONT><BR><BR><?/color><?/fontfamily></FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>_________________________________________________________________<BR>"
. . . we have to accept that our tragedy lies always in our past, that we have
to live with our ancestors' folly and suffer for it, just as they, in their
turn, suffered, and as we, through our vanity and ignorance, ensure the pain and
suffering of our own children. How to correct history, that's the
thing."--Robert Fisk<BR>____________________________________<BR>"In 2005, the
world . . . pass[ed] the trillion-dollar mark in the expenditure, annually, on
arms. We're fighting for $50 billion annually for foreign aid for Africa: the
military total outstrips human need by 20 to 1. Can someone please explain to me
our contemporary balance of values?" --Stephen
Lewis.<BR>__________________________________________________<BR>Denis
Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill University<BR>853 Sherbrooke St.
West<BR>Montréal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR>Tel (514) 398 6592 <BR>Regular Fax (514) 398
8146<BR>Computer Fax (309) 294 0444<BR><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A><BR>__________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>