{"id":372,"date":"2019-08-01T14:03:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T14:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shewbrid.umbc.edu\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2019-08-01T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T14:12:23","slug":"9th-international-digital-storytelling-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.umbc.edu\/index.php\/2019\/08\/01\/9th-international-digital-storytelling-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: 9th International Digital Storytelling Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Story Work for a Just Future<\/em><\/strong>
\nExploring Diverse Experiences and Methods within an International Community of Practice\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

9th International Digital Storytelling Conference<\/p>\n

Monday the 30th of March \u2013 Wednesday the 1st of April 2020<\/strong>
\nLoughborough University, UK<\/p>\n

dst2020.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Call For Papers and Presentation Proposals<\/strong><\/p>\n

We invite you to join us at Loughborough University, UK, this Spring for an amazing gathering of digital storytelling professionals, academics, students, community partners, and activists.<\/p>\n

The conference is part of a multi-institutional, multinational,\u00a0two-year process and programme \u2013 organised in collaboration with\u00a0StoryCenter<\/a>\u00a0(US),\u00a0UMBC \u2013 University of Maryland Baltimore County<\/a>\u00a0(US),\u00a0SCLDA \u2013 Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access<\/a>\u00a0(US),\u00a0Montgomery College<\/a>\u00a0(US),\u00a0Patient Voices<\/a>\u00a0(UK) \u2013 that includes a series of follow-on activities in the Washington, D.C. area and in Maryland, USA, in 2021.<\/p>\n

The conference will host various events in its structure for inclusion of diverse perspectives and voices. In addition to academic papers, workshops, and roundtable discussions, we encourage practitioners from community settings, artists and students to contribute and express their creativity through various formats (short performances, artworks, video\/audio submissions, etc.).<\/p>\n

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Storytelling has been defined as \u2018the artform of social interaction\u2019 (Wilson, 1998), not only for its inner dynamics, but also for its power to unlock grass-roots knowledge, explore dilemmas, develop community resilience, engender change.<\/p>\n

Stories can generate empathy and trust in the audience and at the same time demonstrate their usefulness because they have the power to give meaning to human behaviors and to trigger emotions (Bourbonnais and Michaud, 2018). \u2018This happens because stories are perceived as vectors of truth. They also challenge the meaning of truth itself and suggest a deeper reflection on how various perspectives embedded in personal narratives about contested themes and events can generate multiple truths\u2019 (Liguori, 2020).
\nYet we acknowledge the existence of multiple truths when we recognise, as the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie observed, \u2018the danger of a single story\u2019 (2009). As she described, \u2018because our lives and our cultures are composed of a series of overlapping stories, if we hear only a single story about another person, culture, or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding\u2019.
\nIn a time of worrying \u2018critical misunderstandings\u2019 worldwide, we want to explore with you the value of Applied Storytelling as a tool to co-develop \u2018A Just Future\u2019.<\/p>\n

We are interested in proposals that will explore issues related to (but not limited to) the following sub-themes:<\/p>\n