[Commlist] 10th International Digital Storytelling Conference / CfP

The abstract submission deadline for the 10th International Digital 
Storytelling Conference “*Rise Up! Reconnect. Rebuild. Recreate*” 
(Loughborough University, UK, 20-23 June 2022) has been extended. Please 
consider submitting an abstract by the 27^th of February 2022.

More details on the CfP are posted below.

*Rise Up! Reconnect. Rebuild. Recreate*

10th International Digital Storytelling Conference

*Monday the 20th of June – Wednesday the 22nd of June 2022*
Loughborough University, UK

*Call For Papers and Presentation Proposals*

We invite you to join us at Loughborough University, UK, in the coming 
Summer for an amazing gathering of digital storytelling professionals, 
academics, museum educators, students, community partners, and activists.

Our conference is part of a multi-institutional, 
multinational, three-year process and programme, started last year with 
our successful 24hour online marathon 
<https://learninglab.si.edu/q/ll-c/tLGZOyx3b4vsUP9i#r/53605> – organised 
by Loughborough University 
<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/?external>(UK), StoryCenter 
<https://www.storycenter.org/> (US) UMBC – University of Maryland 
Baltimore County <https://www.umbc.edu/> (US), Smithsonian Office of 
Educational Technology <https://learninglab.si.edu/> (US), Montgomery 
College <https://www.montgomerycollege.edu/> (US), Patient Voices 
<https://www.patientvoices.org.uk/> (UK) – that includes a face-to-face 
event in Loughborough in June 2022 and a series of follow-on activities 
in the Washington, D.C. area and in Maryland, USA, in 2023.

Our conference will host various events (both in person and online) 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.).

Within the umbrella theme of */Story Work for a Just Future/* ,explored 
across our three-year programme of events, and in response to the 
current pandemic, for *DST 2022* *Rise Up*! we are particularly 
interested in proposals with a focus on how our Story Work could help us 
and our communities *Reconnect, Rebuild, Recreate*.

To frame your ideas you could also consider (but not limited to) the 
following Re-words and use them as lenses through which look at context, 
content or practice:

  * Revive
  * Restore
  * Recover
  * Rewrite

*All interested conference contributors are invited to share their work 
through six types of contributions, but we also welcome other formats*.

*Conference Formats: *

  * Academic paper (15 minutes)
  * Workshop (45 minutes)
  * Roundtable discussion (45 minutes)
  * Short performance (to be defined on a one-to-one basis)
  * Artwork (to be defined on a one-to-one basis)
  * Video/Audio submission
  * Other: If you think you don’t  fit into one of these formats, please
    email us with your idea!
*Submission guidelines & key dates*:

  * 250-word abstract to describe your proposal (please, specify which
    format)
  * Include a title, your name, email address, and affiliation if 
applicable
  * Submit your proposal via email to (Saedstorytelling /at/ lboro.ac.uk)
    <mailto:(Saedstorytelling /at/ lboro.ac.uk)>
  * Deadline for *abstract submission: 27th February 2022*
  * Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2022
  * Early bird registration opens: 15th March 2022
  * General Registration opens: 15th April 2022
  * Registration closes: 30th May 2022
  * Conference presentations, videos, materials to be sent in advance by
    5th June 2022. Special arrangements will be made on a one-to-one
    basis for other formats.
  * Early bird: £180 (£80 student and practitioner rate)
  * Regular registration: £220 (£100 student and practitioner rate; £60
    day rate)
  * Digital participation: It is our intention to make digital
    participation possible. Please write to Sally Bellman

<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/design-creative-arts/people/sally-bellman/> for
    more information.
Included in the Registration fee are coffee and tea breaks, lunch, 
access to all conference sessions, social activity (true-life 
storytelling club) during the opening evening, publication of the 
abstract in online conference proceedings.
Additional and optional social activity will be booked separately by 
each participant.

For further submission requirements and information on accommodation, 
please write to the Storytelling Research Team at Loughborough 
University: (Saedstorytelling /at/ lboro.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Saedstorytelling /at/ lboro.ac.uk)>

*Conference Chairs*: Antonia Liguori and Michael Wilson (Loughborough 
University, UK)

*Conference Committee Members*: Lyndsey Bakewell (DeMontfort University, 
UK), Jessica Berman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County UMBC, US), 
Bev Bickel (UMBC, US), Matthew Decker (Montgomery College, US), Patrick 
Desloge (Hong Kong University), Lindsay DiCuirci (UMBC, US), Sara 
Bachman Ducey (Montgomery College, US), Mark Dunford (University of 
Westminster/DigiTales, UK), Daniela Gachago (Cape Peninsula University 
of Technology, South Africa), Jamie Gillan (Montgomery College, US), Pip 
Hardy (Patient Voices, UK), Grete Jamissen (OsloMet, Norway), Tricia 
Jenkins (DigiTales, UK), Charlotte Keniston (UMBC, US), Joe Lambert 
(StoryCenter, US), Michalis Meimaris (University of Athens, Greece), 
Daniel Onyango (HopeRaisers, Kenya), Ngozi Oparah (Loughborough 
University, UK / StoryCenter, US), Philippa Rappoport (Smithsonian 
Office of Educational Technology, US), Bill Shewbridge (UMBC, US), Burcu 
Simsek (Hacettepe University, Turkey), Tony Sumner (Patient Voices, UK), 
Pam Sykes (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Chris Thomson 
(Jisc, UK).


***

*/Story Work for a Just Future/*
*/Exploring Diverse Experiences and Methods within an International 
Community of Practice /*

Storytelling has been defined as ‘the artform of social interaction’ 
(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.

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). ‘This 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’ (Liguori, 2020).

Yet we acknowledge the existence of multiple truths when we recognise, 
as the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie observes, ‘the danger 
of a single story’ (2009). As she describes, ‘because 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’. In a time of worrying ‘critical 
misunderstandings’ worldwide, we want to explore with you the value of 
Applied Storytelling as a tool to co/re-develop ‘A Just Future’.

***

*Conference website*: dst2022.org

The main contact for the DST Conference 2022 in Loughborough is Antonia 
Liguori 
<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/aed/staff/academic/antonia-liguori/>.


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