THE NINTH ANNUAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF CAPE BRETON STORYTELLING SYMPOSIUM
June 10-11, 2005
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
Deadline, January 31, 2005
Scheduled for the second weekend in June (June 10 and 11, 2005) in the city of Sydney on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, this symposium combines an evening of storytelling with a day of papers about storytelling. We welcome offers to tell, and proposals for papers (or completed papers) on storytelling as an art, or as used in a variety of disciplines and texts. Papers dealing with the theory and criticism of the genre are also welcome. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2005.
This year's focus is on stories and storytelling as bridges to OTHER worlds. We are looking for stories and papers that explore how storytelling has acted, and continues to act, as a conduit to imagined, magical, and/ or supernatural worlds, beings or states of being. Also of interest are stories and papers that examine the kinds of passageways constructed and their significance.
Send a 250- word or one- page proposal (or a completed paper) for a 20-minute presentation (to a mixed audience of academics, tellers and the general public) either electronically or by mail to:
Professor Afra Kavanagh,
Symposium coordinator
University College of Cape Breton,
P. O. Box 5300
Sydney, Nova Scotia
B1P 6L2
Email: afra_kavanagh@uccb.ca
Phone: 902-563 1431
