The Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media (OWOVM)
Conference on Poetics and Discourse: 12-14 December, 2011
Hosted by Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia) at its City Campus
Second call for proposals: due 28 February 2011
OWOVM is a conference about language-based arts
and related media of expression. It focuses on
the relationship between medium, mode, and
meaning. From ethnic cosmologies and narratives
of survival to the lyricism of love and loss
cultures are built on verbal reproductions of
experience, on their dissemination through
arrays of oral, written, and other verbal media,
and on the complex relations between participants in these discourses.
Building on the previous OWOVM at the University
of Saskatchewan in 2008, this conference is for
both practitioners and researchers in discourse
and the language arts and in related fields. It
expressly provides a forum for explorations of
Indigeneity and autochthony, orality and
literacy, and ideologies around cultural
reproduction. It brings together composers and
performers across creative fields including
language, voice, and text, as well as scholars
from a range of fields in the creative arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Confirmed keynote presenters:
Gorkem Acaroglu (Melbourne Workers Theatre)
Molly Andrews (University of East London)
Larissa Behrendt (University of Technology, Sydney)
Alex Kelly (Ngapartji Ngapartji, Alice Springs)
Chris Meade (Institute for the Book, London/Brisbane)
John Milloy (Trent University, Ontario)
Conference website: www.owovm.com
Conference email: (owovm /at/ vu.edu.au)
The fields covered at OWOVM will include, but
not be limited to: Acoustics; Communications and
Media; Cultural Anthropology; Folklore; Gender
Studies; History; Indigenous Studies;
Linguistics; Literary Studies; Music; Narrative
approaches to social research; Oral-traditional
poetics and narrative; Performance Studies;
Philosophy; Qualitative approaches to law and
criminology; Rhetoric; Visual Arts.
Conference venue, accommodation
The 2011 OWOVM conference will take place at the
Flinders St Campus of Victoria University,
located in downtown Melbourne. Details about
the venue and accommodation options will be
posted shortly on the conference website: www.owovm.com.
Conference program
A first draft of the conference program will be
posted during April 2011, after the organising
committee has received and considered
proposals. The program will be posted and
periodically updated on the conference website: www.owovm.com.
Details for proposals
The Programming Committee welcomes your
proposals and any preliminary queries. Please
refer to the detailed Call for Proposals on the
Conference website: www.ovovm.com. The
Committee will begin reviewing second-round proposals on 1 March 2011.
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