Humanities Thematic Series, 2003-04
Call for Presentations

Telling Tales: The Stories We Tell, the Ways We Tell Them

Story-telling and narrative seem fundamental to the human experience. Stories are
shaped by the needs of both their tellers and their hearers, and have much to teach
us about our history, our present and our common humanity. The Appalachian Humanities
Program invites proposals for speakers (individual or team), panel discussions, performances
and artistic showings on any aspect of narrative theory and practice, from any genre, period,
nationality, discipline, or medium for the 2003-04 Thematic Series. Topics may address
anything related to narrative: its social, cultural and political circulation, its different
forms, theoretical and methodological strategies, for instance. Please submit a
brief (around 250 words) proposal to Susan Staub, Department of English or electronically
to staubsc@appstate.edu by April 30.

         "Stories are really all we have to reconstruct the inner lives of people in the past;