Sponsorship

Since the 1980s, the International Conference on Narrative has featured presentations on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, discipline, language, and medium.

Now for the first time, in light of the climate situation and its particular impact on the residents of host city Miami, the conference has a theme: Stories of Climate Transformation.

In this distinctly interdisciplinary iteration of its annual meeting, the Narrative Conference will explore the polyphonic ways in which storytelling can both communicate the urgency of sustainability and celebrate resilience--amidst rising sea levels, weather intensification, and
water insecurity.  

This April we’ll welcome 340 presenters, including scholars, faculty, and students from FIU and around the world, renowned authors of fiction and non-fiction, among them keynote speaker Amitav Ghosh, and a panel of international dignitaries organized by the UNESCO Chair of Water Security at FIU's Institute of Environment.  

Standard Sponsor Benefits

Sponsors at all tiers receive:

  • Admission to all conference sessions for ten (10) representatives

  • Verbal recognition at conference main events: Welcome Reception; Speculative Fiction Authors’ Roundtable; Awards Luncheon; Keynote Address

  • Exhibit/vendor table in central promenade

  • Opportunity to include branded items in meeting totes (sponsor-provided)

Sequoia Sponsor $20,000

All standard benefits PLUS:

  • Written recognition as Sequoia Sponsor on conference homepage, registration page, and program, and all attendee communications

  • Prominent signage at all coffee and tea breaks and opportunity to provide giveaways or literature

  • Opportunity to make remarks at Welcome Reception and Awards Luncheon

  • Tickets and reserved seating for five (5) directly in front of the Awards Luncheon presentation stage with signage

  • Reserved seating for five (5) directly in front of the Keynote Address stage

  • Prominent signage at the Dance, the conference’s marquee social event

Cypress Sponsor $10,000

All standard benefits PLUS:

  • Written recognition as Cypress Sponsor on conference homepage, registration page, and program

  • Prominent signage at all coffee and tea breaks and opportunity to provide giveaways or literature

  • Opportunity to make remarks at Welcome Reception

  • Tickets and reserved seating for three (3) directly in front of the Awards Luncheon presentation stage with signage

  • Reserved seating for three (3) directly in front of the Keynote Address stage

Baobab Sponsor $5,000

All standard benefits PLUS:

  • Written recognition as Baobab Sponsor on conference homepage and program

  • Prominent signage at all coffee and tea breaks and opportunity to provide giveaways or literature

  • Reserved seating for two (2) directly in front of the Keynote Address stage

Banyan Sponsor $1,500

All standard benefits PLUS:

  • Recognition as Banyan Sponsor on conference homepage and program

  • Prominent signage at all coffee and tea breaks

Palm Supporters

Thank you to our sponsors and supporters:

Sequoia Sponsors

FIU Office of the Provost

Southern Methodist University Department of English and its Narrative Now Initiative

Cypress Sponsors

FIU Department of English

FIU Institute of Environment

FIU Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Baobab Sponsors

FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education

FIU Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs

FIU Communication, Architecture + The Arts

FIU Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work

FIU Office of Research and Economic Development

Banyan Sponsors

FIU School of Environment, Arts and Society

FIU Honors College

FIU The Humanities Edge

Marco Caracciolo, University of Gent, Belgium

Jill Rettberg, Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, Norway

Jim Phelan, The Ohio State University

InnerCat Music Group

Palm Supporters

Individuals

Sylvie Patron, Paris Centre for Narrative Matters, Université Paris Cité

Kent Puckett, University of California Berkeley

Laura Piippo, Narrare: Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Tampere University, Finland

Sue Kim, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Rita Charon, Columbia University

Jeppe Barnwell, University of Copenhagen

Katherine Weese, Hampden-Sydney College

Dan Punday, Mississippi State University

Kelly Marsh, Mississippi State University

@ Florida International University

FIU Department of Earth and Environment

FIU University Graduate School

FIU School of Education and Human Development

FIU Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab

FIU Commons for Justice

FIU MARC U*STAR Program

FIU Department of Biological Sciences

FIU Extreme Events Institute

Programs and Organizations

Project Narrative, The Ohio State University

University of Nebraska Press

PEN / America

Contacts:

Organizing committee: sciandfi@fiu.edu
Conference coordinator: Rhona Trauvitch rhona.trauvitch@fiu.edu

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