The primary focus of this conference is to explore the power of storytelling in the recuperation of memory, collective identity formation, and the presence of oral traditions in literature and the sister arts. All forms of storytelling narrative (oral and written), performative, cinematic, musical, and hybrid as well as methodologies (literary, linguistic, sociological, political, anthropological, etc.) will be considered as long as they relate to the themes explicit and implicit in the title of this conference. Papers may be presented in any of the following languages: Portuguese, Castilian, English, and French.

• Children’s Stories
• Narrative and Linguistics
• Narrative and Myth
• Narrative and Visual/Performing Arts and Music
• Oral Tradition and Contemporary Chronicle
• Postmodern and Postcolonial Narratives
• Relationships of Oral and Written Narratives
• Story, Dialogue and Discourse
• Storytelling in Vitorino Nemésio
• Testimonial Narrative (Autobiography/Biography)
• Text, Context and Intertext in Storytelling and Poetical Performance
• Theories and Strategies of Oral Narratives
• Other Suggestions