Call for
Papers:
The Enkidu Summer Conference 2010:
Storytelling,
Memories and Identity Constructions
México City,
28 July - 2, August 2010
Conference Languages: English, Castilian, German,
French and Nahuatl
Languages for presentation: English, Castilian
Conference Homepage:
http://enkidumagazine.com/chics/esc.htm
The primary focus for the 6th edition of this inclusive and interdisciplinary
annual conference organized by Enkidu Magazine and the International Society
for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS) in Mexico City with the
support of the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico, is to interrogate
storytelling, memories and identity constructions from a wide range of
perspectives, and in their manifold cultural and social manifestations.
Among the themes of interest are the following:
- Narrative and Linguistics
- Linguistic borders and translation
- 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
- Globalization and indigenous cultures
- Story, Dialogue and Discourse
- Memory and truth-telling
- 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, educational sciences, ethnology,
queer studies, anthropology, sociology...
We welcome submissions from all branches of the social sciences, humanities, as
well as the arts.
Interpretations of the conference themes ranging from the predictable to the
surprising are encouraged.
Graduate students are encouraged to participate.
The conference has developed into a unique international academic forum for
interpretative approaches in the humanities and social sciences. The conference
has traditionally also been a forum for discussing creative historical and
political memory, remembering and forgetting of the past, as well as
translations between cultures and re-negotiations and re-constructions of
cultural identities in one one way or another.
The conference is organised into a large number of
thematic sessions and sub-conferences addressing several different issues. The
conference has an exceptional multilingual and multi-cultural approach,
typically bringing together participants from all over the world to share and
exchange their research, experiences and ideas in a truly multicultural,
multilingual and interdisciplinary academic environment.
The special sessions and subconferences will cover a
highly diverse series of themes extending from "Conquest and Political
Memory in late colonial Nahuatl texts from Central
Mexico", "Migrations and Diasporas: Displacement Heritage, Global
Spaces and Cultural Memories", "Imaginary Homelands",
"‘Memory’ and ‘Nostalgia’ in cultural texts" to
"Cyber-identities in movement" and "Slave Narratives from the
Archives of the Spanish Inquisition".
The conference sessions are conducted in Castillian
and English. Occasionally, the conference also has sessions conducted in German
and French. Some sessions will be bilingual and conducted in both languages
with interpreters. Other sessions will be conducted in one of the two
conference languages, and the session moderator will give summaries of the
paper in the other language. Many sessions are being conducted with
interpreters for sign language (on request).
Papers are welcomed on virtually all related topics and themes, independently
of time period and space. Also papers of comparative phenomena will be
considered. Interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged. The conference aims
at bringing together academics working in all relevant disciplines as well as
activists, artists and other professionals, and promoting innovative multidisciplinary
and multicultural exchange and dialogue.
CHICS' academic conferences are characterized by
traditional paper presentations in panel sessions with three speakers each,
followed by lively exchange, dialogue and interaction between speakers and
audience in many small groups, workshops and seminars rather than by formal
plenary sessions. Our conferences provide a forum for diverse voices from all
over the world, to come together and make connections across linguistic,
cultural and academic barriers.
* Paper and panel proposals
The conference languages for presentation will be
English and Castilian.
500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organizing committee in English,
Castilian, German or French.
Final papers should be of approximately 20 - 30 minutes duration (circa 8 - 10
pages). Other forms of presentation, for instance workshops, panel debates and
poster sessions will be considered on request.
* Proposals for panel sessions
Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3
(maximum 4) speakers and 1 moderator (session chair). 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 want 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 a thematic 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 identities@enkidumagazine.com
* Proposals for individual papers
Abstracts are to be submitted along with the presenter’s name, short bio,
address, telephone, email, and institutional affiliation.
It is recommended to use this form when submitting a paper proposal: http://www.enkidumagazine.com/chics/esc/esc_registration.htm
However, abstracts will also be accepted as e-mail
attachments to identities@enkidumagazine.com All correspondence for this conference
will be conducted via email. You will be notified within short whether your
proposal has been accepted or rejected.
We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted within few
days. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did
not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to
resend your abstract and resubmit your registration form, and if possible,
suggest an alternative e-mail address. In particular delegates using hotmail, yahoo
accounts or similar to receive conference related e-mails often experience
problems receiving conference information by e-mail.
E-mails from the conference organisers are often
delivered to your spam folder and not to your inbox, unless you remember to add
the following e-mail addresses: identities@enkidumagazine.com and liowlb@enkidumagazine.com to your safe-list. The first address is the general e-mail
address of the conference and will be used to send conference newsletters and
general information. The second, is the e-mail address
of the academic coordinator of the conference and will be used for individual
communication with delegates.
* EXHIBITORS, PUBLISHERS AND ARTISTS:
Artists are welcome to suggest exhibitions and
displays of art during the conference.
Organisations, universities and publishers are welcome to sign up for information
stands at the conference center. Commercial exhibitors pay a modest daily fee.
The following information is required by artists,
publishers and other exhibitors during the conference:
1) Technical Description of the information stand or
artwork with indications of technical requirements for their presentation, the
size and extension of the individual artworks to be presented.
2) Estimated Insurance value of the artworks
3) One image of a representative sample of artistic
work from the exhibitions can be sent by e-mail to the conference organizers in
the format tiff or jpg.
4) Curriculum Vitae of artist (or organisation).
5) Description of Exhibition (300 - 500 words).
6) Short bio of artist (or organisation).
* BOOK EXHIBITION:
We would like to organise an exhibition of books
written by conference delegates in the conference centre. If you are the author
of a book, you or your publisher are welcome to send a copy of your work to the
book exhibition. If you would like to be a part of the book exhibition and your
publisher has a Mexican or Latin American representative, we would appreciate
the contact information.
* PROPOSALS FOR BOOK PRESENTATIONS
Publishers and delegates with recent publications of relevance to the
conference themes, are welcome to propose book
presentations in the days during, before and after the conference. The book
presentations will be open to the general public and the press and will take
place in the evening as special sessions, after the regular conference
sessions.
Libreria Educal – Biblioteca Vasconcelos, which is
a bookstore founded by the Ministry of Culture, that serves the function of commercialising and distributing books published by the
cultural institutions of Mexico will host the book presentations.
These book presentations will usually have duration of 2 hours. In the podium
will be the author, 2 or 3 presenters and a moderator. The publisher or the author are free to suggest one or two presenters, while the
moderator and a further presenter will be appointed by the Academic Committee
of the conference.
Publishers and book authors who would like to be considered for book
presentations during the conference, should send a review copy to Agustin
Villalpando, news editor in Enkidu Magazine:
Agustin Villalpando
Centro Cultural Enkidu
Calle Ezequiel Montes #37,
int. 2
Colonia Tabacalera
06030 Mexico D.F.
Mexico
Together with the review copy, please send a synopsis of the book (max 500
words), a short bio of the author and if available, an image which we may use
for posters and promotional materials for the book presentation in electronic
form (on CD or by e-mail). If you have suggestions for a book presenter, please
include a short bio.
Publishers can also sign up for information and sales stands in the conference
for a modest daily fee. Please, contact the organisers
for more information.
* CULTURAL AND SOCIAL PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
The academic sessions with formal paper presentations will take place between
28. July and 2. August 2010. In the 2 weeks before the
conference, we will organize a number of cultural and social activities for
conference delegates and we hope that many international delegates will
consider arriving in Mexico City some days before the conference and
participate in these activities.
In addition conference delegates with name badges will be given discounts and
sometimes free access to various theatre plays, concerts, film screenings and
other events before and during the conference. The final program for the
cultural and social pre-conference activities will be published on the
conference web site and will be announced also in the conference newsletter,
which will be distributed by e-mail in the months before the conference.
* Disabled Participants
We are pleased to announce that printed conference
materials that will be distributed during the conference, also will be
available in large print or Braille on request. If you require sign language
interpretation during your session, or you would like to distribute handouts or
other materials in Braille during your presentation, please indicate this in
the registration form. Registration Form for Participants with disabilities
Participants with disabilities are recommended to fill in this form if they
require any special support or assistance during the event or during social and
cultural activities before or during the conference:
http://enkidumagazine.com/eventos/identities07/disca.htm
* REGISTRATION FEE for "Storytelling, Memories and Identity
Constructions":
- Waged delegates (speakers): 200 USD
- Students and unwaged delegates (speakers): 100 USD
Payment received via PayPal or bank transfer in
advance (Payments completed before 1. June. A suplement
of 50 USD applies after this day and for payments on location). We recommend everyone to arrange their payment of the
registration fee before the conference. On location, we have no possibility to
process credit cards, nor issue official receipts and
the registration desk will generally be staffed with volunteer students who are
not entitled to receive payments in cash. If you for any reason prefer to pay
on location in Mexico, please inform the organizers in advance, and we will
find a solution for you.
Enkidu and the participating organisations will not
be able to provide travel support for conference delegates. It is therefore
strongly recommended to apply for a scholarship or a grant from other sources. Delegates from non-OECD countries and students and unwaged
delegates from any country who do not receive financial support to attend the
conference, can apply for a reduced registration fee.
Centro Cultural Enkidu
http://www.enkidumagazine.com
Calle Ezequiel Montes #37,
int. 2
Colonia Tabacalera
06030 Mexico D.F.
Mexico
Email: identies@enkidumagazine.com
Visit the conference website at http://enkidumagazine.com/chics/esc.htm