Storytelling Revisited 2021: Gender and Health

Abstract

Storytelling, the art of explaining stories, has been the mainstream in the International Conference held in Vic since 2018. Storytelling related to many fields but mainly related to people and how it affects the way of living in our societies. This has been the main objective of this continuous dialogue throughout the investigations in this meetings so far. And, as it was precisely appointed in the first edited volume of this collection, no matter how, storytelling finds its way to be expressed, so it remains alive. This book is the result of the University of Vic- Central University of Cata lonia ( UVic-UCC) organising th Fourth International Conference entitled: “Storytelling Revisited: Gender and Health”, held in Vic (Barcelona) on 24 November 2021. This Conference provided a forum for teachers, stu dents, researchers and professionals to go deeper into the relationship between gender and Health. It was an interdisciplinary conference organ ised by the seven research groups GETLIHC, GRELL, TEXLICO, GRAC, TRACTE, EMPREN and GSAMIS which belong to three different faculties at the university, which are he Faculty of Education, Translation, Sport and Psychology, the Faculty of Business and Communication and the Faculty of Medicine. This academic Meeting revolved around storytelling applied to gender and Health. Gender as a socially constructed characteristics of women and men and people’s susceptibility to different Health condi tions and diseases. Gender in relation to Health and Health in relation to gender. Stories that refer to gender and how has this affected Health. Stories that have determined gender issues in relation to Health, and how storytelling has driven these stories. Storytelling a powerful turning point in life. Also, storytelling in times of COVID-19: Virtual interaction, new formats and story experiences, as transmedia storytelling well addresses, telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and using current digital technologies, which characterizes how multimodal narrative constructs, create different consumers and establish a narrative in society.