The ISSN will have one special session at the 2011 MLA Convention, January 6-9 in Los Angeles. All topics and approaches are encouraged. Any current member of the Society wishing to propose a topic and organize the panel should send a brief proposal (100-150 words) to Brian Richardson at richb@umd.edu by November 15.
Sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Narrative and hosted by Case Western Reserve University, the International Conference on Narrative is an interdisciplinary forum addressing all dimensions of narrative theory and practice. This year’s Conference will take place on April 8-11 at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, at Case Western Reserve University, and at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Plenary speakers include Susan Stanford Friedman (University of Wisconsin Madison), author of Mappings, Penelope’s Web, and Psyche Reborn; Rita Charon (Columbia University), founder and director of the Program in Narrative Medicine, author of Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness, and co-editor of Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics; and Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, The Dustbin of History, and The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy in the American Voice.
We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, nationality, discipline, and medium.
Proposals
For individual paper proposals, please include an abstract (500 words max.) and a brief vita (no more than 2 pages). All paper proposals must include the title of the paper; presenter’s name and institutional affiliation; mailing address, phone and fax number, and email address.
For panel proposals, please include an abstract (700 words max.) summarizing the panel’s rationale and describing each paper. All panel proposals must include a title for the panel and a title for each paper. In addition, please include each panel member’s institutional affiliation; mailing address, phone and fax number, and email address, as well as a brief vita (no more than 2-3 pages) for each of the panel members.
This year, the Society will hold a poster session on the teaching of narrative. This session will enable poster presenters to share their approaches to teaching narrative. Posters may have multiple authors. To submit a proposal for a poster, please include an abstract (500 words max.) and brief vitas on all presenters.
Deadline for receipt of proposals: October 30th, 2009.
Please send all proposals by email in Word, WordPerfect, or PDF format to: narrative@case.edu
If you are unable to send your proposal by email, send two copies of all materials to:
Kurt Koenigsberger
Narrative Conference Coordinator
Department of English, Case Western Reserve University
11112 Bellflower Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44106-7117 USA
Please address all questions to Kurt Koenigsberger (narrative@case.edu).
All participants must join the International Society for the Study of Narrative . For more information on the ISSN, please visit: http://narrative.georgetown.edu/
2009 BEST GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER
All graduate students who presented papers at the ISSN conference in Birmingham are invited to submit your work in competition for the graduate student prize. The winner will receive a copy of a Perkins Prize-winning book of his or her choice, will be invited to expand the winning paper for consideration by Narrative, and will receive $500 toward expenses for the 2010 ISSN conference in Cleveland.
Please submit your papers electronically as Word attachment to both of the judges, Susan Lanser lanser@brandeis.edu and Sheila Teahan teahan@msu.edu by July 15, 2009. The submitted papers should be ones actually presented at the conference, not expanded or edited versions of them. For the ease of the judges, kindly double-space your manuscripts and number the pages.
Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award
The Society will present the 2009 Booth Award to Gérard Genette at the annual conference, held in Birmingham this June. The festivities will include a panel devoted to Genette’s work featuring papers by Seymour Chatman (UC Berkeley), John Pier (Université de Tours), and Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania) as well as the official presentation of the Award at the business lunch on June 6th. (For more information on the Birmingham Conference, see below).
Perkins Prize:
The winner of the 2009 Perkins Prize for best book on narrative studies published in 2007 is Sharon Marcus for Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton University Press). The Society thanks the selection committee, Gerald Prince, chair, Eileen Gillooly (Columbia) and Dorothy Hale (UC Berkeley).
New Officers
The membership elected the following new officers this fall.
Second Vice-President: Brian Richardson, University of Maryland
Council members:
The Society expresses its warm gratitude to those members of the Executive Council whose terms ended on December 31st:
Past President: Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
Council members:
Nominations Committee
Suzanne Keen of Washington and Lee University and first Vice-President of ISSN will chair this year’s nominations committee. The other committee members are H. Porter Abbot (UC Santa Barbara) and Clkaudia Breger (Indiana University). If you would like to nominate someone to serve on the Executive Council, please get in touch with Suzanne at skeen@wlu.edu
Panels for the 2009 MLA in Philadelphia
The Society will sponsor two panels, and organizers of each are currently accepting paper proposals.
"Narrative and Evolution," organized by Tony Jackson of UNC-Charlotte tejackso@uncc.edu and Nancy Easterlin, University of New Orleans <neasterl@uno.edu>
"Postmodern and Unnatural Narratives," Jan Alber, University of Freiburg <jan.alber@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de>
Future Conferences
We are set for Birmingham, England, June 4-6 this year. The conference coordinators are Dick Ellis and Deborah Parsons, and they are being assisted by Anna Hartnell and Anna Burrels, all of the University of Birmingham. Plenary speakers will be Frank Ankersmit, David Lodge, and Frances Smith Foster. For more information about the conference go to http://narrativesociety.bham.ac.uk/
The 2010 conference will be in Cleveland from April 8-11. Kurt Koenigsberger and Gary Stonum of Case Western University are the conference coordinators.
The 2011 conference will be in St. Louis from April 7-10. Emma Kafalenos and Erin McGlothlin of Washington University are the conference coordinators.
If any member is interested in bringing the conference to his or her institution, please get in touch with Alan Nadel amnade2@email.uky.edu or Jim Phelan <phelan.1@osu.edu>
Narrative
Autumn 2009 will be a special issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Stern of the University of South Carolina, on Temporality.
The journal and the Ohio State University Press have reached an agreement with a Press in China to publish selected essays in translation as an annual. The first volume is scheduled to appear within a few months.
The Perkins Prize for books published in 2008 will be judged by: Professor Margaret Homans / Yale University WGSS / Box 208319 Yale Station / New Haven CT 06520-8319; Professor Jesse Matz / Department of English / Kenyon College / Gambier, OH 43022; and Professor Gerald Prince / 521 Williams Hall / University of Pennsylvania / Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305. Please send inquiries or informal, brief written nominations to the Chair of the judging committee, Professor Margaret Homans, margaret.homans@yale.edu. Please send a copy of the nominated book to each of the Committee members at the above addresses.
Publisher, third party, and self-nominations are appropriate. Nominations should be submitted as soon as possible. The committee begins its deliberations in the spring; nominations received after June 1 will be at a disadvantage.
The winner will announced at the MLA Convention in December 2009, and the prize presented at the annual Narrative Conference the following spring. The prize, awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year, consists of $1,000 plus a contribution of $500 toward expenses for the winning author to attend the Narrative Conference where the award will be presented.
The 2011 International Conference on Narrative will be hosted by Washington University in St. Louis. The conference will be held on April 7-10. Additional information will be posted to the Society’s web site as it becomes available.
Please forward proposals for panel ideas for the Philadelphia MLA in December 2009. The Society has two time-slots for panels in 2009. Deadline: Nov. 15, 2008. The committee will consider all ideas for panels, including those already submitted, after Nov. 15, 2008. We will notify applicants before the new year so that the process of paper solicitation can begin.
Send brief descriptions of panel concepts to Suzanne Keen @ keens@wlu.edu
Thursday 4th June 2009-Saturday 6th June 2009
http://narrativesociety.bham.ac.uk
Hosted by the University of Birmingham, UK, and sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Narrative, the 2009 Narrative Conference offers a multi- and interdisciplinary forum for addressing all dimensions of narrative and representation.
We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, medium and nationality. We are particularly keen to encourage participation from scholars in a range of disciplines, including, but not limited to: history, art history, literary studies, linguistics, philosophy, classical studies, modern languages, women’s studies, film studies and sociology.
Plenary speakers will include:
Paper proposals:
Please send a maximum 300 word abstract and brief curriculum vitae (250-300 words) for 20 minute papers. Proposals must include the title of the paper, presenter’s name and institutional affiliation; email address, mailing address and telephone number.
Panel proposals:
Please send a maximum 700 word abstract-summarizing the panel’s rationale and describing each paper-and a brief curriculum vitae for each speaker (50-300 words). Proposals must include titles of papers and panel; presenters’ and panel organizer’s names and institutional affiliations; email addresses, mailing addresses and telephone numbers.
As we get closer to the deadline further detailed information on proposals will be available on the conference website.
Please send proposals to Anna Burrells - burrealz@adf.bham.ac.uk - including ‘Narrative Conference Proposal’ in the subject line of your email by no later than 0.00 GMT on 31st October 2008.
All submissions will be peer reviewed.
Registration:
All speakers and delegates must register for the conference. Registration fees will be £140 for delegates and those giving papers, and £115 for students. Student places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
Please visit the website at http://narrativesociety.bham.ac.uk for registration and all of the most up to date information about the conference.
If you have any further queries please contact the conference team at:
You need to join the International Society for the Study of Narrative in order to attend the conference: http://narrative.georgetown.edu/
Full terms and conditions for late registration, cancellation, data protection and student registration will be available on the website shortly.
THE BARBARA PERKINS & GEORGE PERKINS AWARD
This year the Perkins Prize will be judged by Professor Eileen Gillooly (Associate Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities / H2 – 1 Heyman Center / Columbia University / New York, NY 10027); Professor Dorothy Hale (Department of English / 322 Wheeler Hall / University of California at Berkeley / Berkeley, CA 94720-1030); and Gerald Prince (521 Williams Hall / University of Pennsylvania / Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305). For books published in 2007, please send inquiries or informal, brief written nominations to the Chair of the judging committee, Professor Gerald Prince, gprince@babel.ling.upenn.edu. Please send a copy of the nominated book to each of the Committee members at the above addresses.
Publisher, third party, and self-nominations are appropriate. Nominations should be submitted
as soon as possible. The committee begins its deliberations in the spring; nominations received
after June 1 will be at a disadvantage.
The winner will announced at the MLA Convention in December, and the prize presented at the annual Narrative Conference the following spring. The prize, awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year, consists of $1,000 plus a contribution of $400 toward expenses for the winning author to attend the Narrative Conference where the award will be presented.
BEST GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER
All graduate students who present papers at the ISSN Annual Conference are invited to compete for the prize for the best graduate-student paper of the 2008 conference. The winner will receive a copy of a Perkins Prize-winning book of his or her choice and will be invited to expand the winning paper and submit it for consideration by Narrative. Submit your papers electronically as attachments (Word PC-compatible files, please) to both of the judges, David Richter, drichter@nyc.rr.com and Lisa Zunshine, lisa.zunshine@yale.edu, no later than May 18, 2008. Be sure to submit the paper you actually presented at the conference, not some expanded or edited version of it.
