We Are the Stories We Tell:
Women's Contributions to Culture, Wisdom and Oral Traditions
May 18 - 21, 20000
Mississippi State University
Suggested Topics Include:
Women and the Oral Traditions
-Stories, myths and legends by and/or about women
-Autobiographies
-Oral histories
-Women's personal idenities and multiple identities in stories
Women's Wisdom and Storytelling
-Defining wisdom: Cross-cultural perspectives
-Wisdom and cognition
-Wisdom through arts and literature
-Wisdom of authority
-Wisdom of experience
Narratives Across the Lifespan
-Children, young adults, and older women's stories
-Generativity and the passing of stories of wisdom
Sub themes: The wise matriarch
The witch
The useless old lady
Cross-Cultural Perceptions and Representations of Wisdom
-What wisdom do women dispense?
-The elderly and wisdom in stories
Cultural Traditions Surrounding Female Authority
-Political figures
-Ritualist Leaders
-Women as Political Heirs
(Inheritance of Leadership from father's, husbands, etc.)
Deadline for proposals: February 15, 2000
Send three copies of your abstract and proposal to:
Dr. Carolyn Bryant, Conference Chair
The Ellen Bryant Center for Women's Studies/ Women's Resource Center
P.O. Box 5226
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Telephone: 662-325-1466
Fax: 662-325-1359
Email: womensstudies@org.msstate.edu
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