*CFP* "NARRATING COLD WARS", A MULTIDISCIPLINARY HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE

 Narrating "Cold Wars" - A Multidisciplinary Conference

Hong Kong Baptist University 

11 & 12 November 2021

 

Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images invites you to submit a proposal for "Narrating Cold Wars" A Multidisciplinary Conference to be held in Hong Kong Baptist University on 11-12 November 2021. The Conference invites proposals for a multidisciplinary conference critically examining “Cold War” thinking, both historically and as a construct for understanding contemporary global rivalries. 

 

In particular, we are keen to include papers that critically examine and problematize Cold War narratives; their production and circulation among foreign policy professionals as well as in academia, media, and culture; their broader influence on contemporary ways of thinking; and their continued use in the 21st century. 

*CFP* "DIGITAL STORYTELLING FOR HEALTH", SYMPOSIUM AT THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM, GALES

Digital Storytelling for Health

June 17th – 19th 2021

The Waterfront Museum, Swansea

 

We are looking for up to 30 people – practitioners and thinkers to join us for two days of conversation in Swansea in June 2021 – everyone who comes to the gathering will be a presenter and the sessions will be filmed to create an online event for a wider community in the Autumn.

To further improve the UK health service through the development of digital storytelling

 

 

Objectives

• Bring key practitioners together
• Present sessions which stimulate new insights and thinking

*CFP* "LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD", SPECIAL ISSUE, LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES

Journalism’s ‘information paradigm’ has been under scrutiny not just since the digital transformations of our mediascape in the last decades. For almost half a century, Gaye Tuchman’s diagnosis of a ‘strategic ritual of objectivity’ has served as a foil against which many critiques of conventional news journalism can be projected, e. g. its lack of transparency and bias towards institutional sources and ideologies as well as the impersonal stance news journalism often assumes to report and comment on events and ideas in the here and now. The recent crisis of media trust and accountability may arise in parts from these deficits. At any rate, it is largely undisputed that journalism needs to reflect (and possibly: adapt) its professional identity and its modes of presentation if it wants to continue to fulfil its social function in the long run.

In this context, it is worthwhile to turn attention to alternative forms of journalism that rely much more on personal experience, in-depth research, the presentation of different perspectives, and an authentic journalistic voice to make news, but also overcome social boundaries and engage readers emotionally. One of these approaches can be found in the concept of Literary Journalism.

*CFP* “THE CHALLENGES OF NARRATIVE JOURNALISM”, DISERTACIONES, ANUARIO ELECTRÓNICO DE ESTUDIOS EN COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL

"Long breath" journalism is as old as journalism itself. In Latin America it has its roots in brochures full of social and political criticism such as Periquillo Sarniento by Lizardi or Facundo by Faustino Sarmiento. In North America, literary and investigative journalism go hand in hand, with the muckrakers anticipating the New Journalism coined by Wolfe in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century. In Europe, interestingly, the development of narrative journalism is linked to colonialism, with figures such as Albert Londres, George Orwell and Ryszard Kapuścińsk acting as uncomfortable correspondents of their respective metropolises.

Although narrative journalism has been considered the epitome of good journalism, revealing hidden realities through expressive precision and the aesthetic joy of good writing, its closeness to literature has led some authors to engage in pure invention, breaking the pact of truthfulness with the reader through credible fiction. The cases abound, from the recent Claas Relotius scandal in Der Spiegel, to the falsehoods and plagiarism of Jason Blair for the New York Times at the beginning of this century, by way of the historical farces of Janet Cooke (who had to return a Pulitzer Prize because of a story invented for the Washington Post in 1980), the fictitious interviews of Nahuel Maciel for El Cronista in the early 90s, or the fakes of Stephen Glass for The New Republic in the late 1990s, which were turned into a Hollywood film in 2003.