Storytelling Revisited 2022: Narrating Spaces. Literature, Education, Gender, Geography, and Tourism

Abstract

The art of narrating stories, id est storytelling, has been the central theme of the International Conference Storytelling Revisited held in Vic since 2018. The concept of storytelling covers a wide range of fields but is primarily focused on how it impacts on individuals and influences our way of life within society. This ongoing discussion has been the primary goal of the research presented at these meetings thus far. This book is the result of the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) organising the Fifth International Conference entitled: “Storytelling Revisited: Narrating Spaces. Literature, Education, Gender, Geography, and Tourism”, held in Vic (Barcelona) on 22nd and 23rd November 2022. This Conference provided a forum for teachers, students, researchers and professionals to deepen into the analysis of storytelling in relation to narrating spaces and all the surrounding topics: literature, education, geography, and tourism. It was an interdisciplinary conference organised by several research groups across UVic-UCC: GLOSSA (Formed by former research groups TEXLICO, GRELL and GRAC), GETLIHC and TRACTE, from the Faculty of Education, Translation, Sports and Psychology (FETEP), EMPREN, from the Faculty of Business and Communication Studies (FEC), and ISaMBeS, from the Faculty of Healthcare Sciences and Wellbeing. As it has already been pointed out, this academic meeting revolved around the study of narrative structures and storytelling applied to narrating spaces, destination marketing, literature, geography, and their didactic implications.