We welcome the submission of abstracts for 20-minute talks. Papers accepted for presentation will be considered for an independent volume. Submissions must address the issue of storytelling in the Americas. Specific areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to the following:

-Aboriginal Studies
-Audience and Reader's Response
-Children's Narratives
-Cinema
-Ethnolinguistics
-Gender
-Literary Studies
-Myth
-Oral Traditions
-Power and Language
-Semiotics
-Testimonial Narratives

The deadline for receiving abstracts is December 15, 2000. Acceptance of your paper for presentation implies a commitment on your part to register and attend the conference. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on March 2, 2001. Only one individual and one joint abstract per author will be accepted. Send 3 copies of a 250 word abstract. (Submissions by e-mail are also encouraged. Abstracts sent via e-mail should be in Microsoft Word or RTF file format.) Include the title of the paper on the abstract, but not the names. Papers may be given in English, French or Spanish. Please include a cover page with the following: -author's name(s) and affiliation(s)
-title of presentation
-mailing address
-e-mail address
-fax number

Note: The independent volume from the 1999 conference ("Storytelling: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives" published by Peter Lang) will be available.