Please click on the title to access each individual abstract from the 2025 Annual Symposium: The Stories We Tell.
“Beyond Words: How Opera Connects Us Through Musical Storytelling” by Shea Owens
“Through the Sinews and Shadows” by Keely Glen
“Words from the Bone Box” by Fidalis Buehler
“Finding Natural Form in Narrative” by Jane Alison, University of Virginia
“Somewhere a Dog is Always Barking: the Value of Cliché in Storytelling” by Steve Tuttle
“Adventure Architectonics: Distant Reading Choose Your Own Adventure” by Brian Croxall
“Fairy-Tale Retellings and New Technologies: Feeding Communicative Omnivores” by Jill Rudy
“The Stories We Tell When We Confess Our Faith: The Christianization of Early Medieval England” by Miranda Wilcox
“Red Rock Runs Through My Veins: Emergences from the Canyonlands of Southeastern Utah” by Steve Peck
“Trees and the Stories They Tell: Botanical Animacy in Literature” by George Handley
“Mind-Reading and Visions: Why Victorian Spiritualists Told the Best Children’s Ghost Stories” by Leslee Thorne-Murphy
“Romance Minds: Storytelling, Cognition, and the Pre-Realist Imagination” by Laura Hatch
“Story as Exploration: Experience and Innovation in Entrepreneurial Theory and Practice” by Nile Hatch
“Story and the Brain” by David Eagleman (Stanford University)
“The Joy of Reading Fiction” by Rex Nielson, Dan Dewey, and Stephanie Rivera
“Our Need for Stories: The Neuroscience of Storytelling & Belonging” by Jamin Rowan
“Every Body Tells a Story” by Kristen Erekson
“The Voices We Hear and the Ones We Don’t: Narratives as Sources for Multi-Perspectival Truths” by Janis Nuckolls
“The Pasts We Carry with Us and the Stories We Tell: Merleau-Ponty on Human Temporality” by Justin White
“Crafting Stories: Artistic Practice as Pedagogical Tool in the Latin American Studies Classroom” by Faith Blackhurst
“Bringing Storytelling to Physics 416” by Chanel Earl and Richard Sandberg