Kertomuksen Vaarat: Koulutuspäivä / Dangers of Narrative: Training Day (15.12.2017, klo 10:15–16:00, Tampereen yliopisto Pinni B 1097)
Miksi kaikkien pitää olla nykyään tarinankertojia? Mitä tarinallisuus tarkoittaa? Onko liikuttavin kertomus aina paras? Milloin ja miten kertomuksiin kannattaa suhtautua kriittisesti?Koneen Säätiön rahoittama tutkimushanke Kertomuksen vaarat: kokemuspuhe, eksemplumin paluu ja aikalaiskriittinen narratologia kutsuu kaikki kiinnostuneet ilmaiseen koulutuspäivään kuuntelemaan ja keskustelemaan näistä aiheista. Haluamme kehittää analyyttistä ja kriittistä kertomusajattelua esimerkiksi journalistien, opettajien, kouluttajien, poliitikkojen, taiteentekijöiden ja terveysalan ammattilaisten kanssa.Ilmoittautuminen ei ole välttämätöntä, mutta Facebook-ilmoittautumiset auttavat meitä arvioimaan väkimäärää!
OHJELMA
10.15 – 10.30 Laura Karttunen: Kokemuksellinen kertomuskäsitys
10.30 – 10.45 Maria Mäkelä: Viraali eksemplum: manipuloinnista hyviin aikomuksiin ja takaisin
10.45 – 11.00 Matias Nurminen: Kertomukset radikaalin miesasialiikkeen aseena: esimerkkianalyysi
11.00 – 11.30 Keskustelua & kysymyksiä
12.30 – 12.45 Samuli Björninen: Tehottomat mallitarinat: kapean kertomuskäsityksen vaaroja
12.45 – 13.00 Juha Raipola: Tarinanjälkeinen tulevaisuus
13.00 – 13.15 Keskustelua & kysymyksiä
13.15 – 13.45 Jan Forsström: Guilty pleasures – asia vs. tarina elokuvadramaturgiassa
14.00 – 14.30 Voiko faktapohjaista journalismia rapauttavasta kokemuksellisuudesta saada vihapuheen vastaisen aseen?
Laura Karttusen haastateltavana Ylen yleisövuorovaikutuksen päällikkö, “Yle-tyyppi” Sami Koivisto14.30 –
15.00 Veikka Lahtinen: Kritiikin umpikuja ja kertomusten pelko
15.00 – 16.00 Paneeli (moderaattorina Tytti Rantanen)
KUTSUTUT PUHUJAT
Jan Forsström on kokkolalaislähtöinen, sittemmin helsinkiläistynyt elokuvakäsikirjoittaja, -ohjaaja, dramaturgi ja kirjailija. Forsströmin töitä ovat mm. elokuvat Skavabölen pojat, Silmäterä ja Miami, sekä novellikokoelma Eurooppalaisia rakastajia.Sami Koivisto on Ylen vuorovaikutuspäällikkö, tuttavallisemmin Yle-tyyppi. Hän auttaa Yleä kuulemaan kansalaisia paremmin ja tekee journalismia läpinäkyvämmäksi. Koivisto haluaa kertoa ihmisille aidon journalismin tekemisestä, sparrata yleläisiä toimivaan yleisödialogiin ja oppia Ylen saamasta palautteesta kaiken.Veikka Lahtinen (VTM) on järjestötyöntekijä ja vapaa toimittaja, joka osallistuu yhteiskunnalliseen keskusteluun bloginsa kautta ja toimii eri poliittisissa liikkeissä.
LISÄÄ PROJEKTISTA JA PROJEKTILAISISTA
https://www.facebook.com/KertomuksenVaarat/
Confronting the Narratives of the Anthropocene (Nov 23-24, 2017; Tampere, Finland)
Program
10.00-10.50 Narrare welcomes you to the conference (Pinni B4087)
Maria Mäkelä: Opening words
Juha Raipola: Confronting the Narratives of the Anthropocene: An Introduction
Hanna Nikkanen & Alma Onali: Journalism in the Anthropocene. Giving shape to climate non-fiction in the Book Hyvän sään aikana / Calm before the storm
11.00-13.00 Parallel sessions (Pinni B 4087 and Pinni B 4075)
14.00-15.30 Parallel sessions (Pinni B 4087 and Pinni B 4075)
16.00-17.00 Plenary talk: Axel Goodbody (Pinni B 4113)
17.00-18.00 Book release event (in association with research centre Plural): Lintukodon rannoilta. Saarikertomukset suomalaisessa kirjallisuudessa / Idyllic Shores: Island Narratives on Finnish Literature (Pinni B 4113)
20:00 Conference dinner (Restaurant Sasor, Yliopistonkatu 50)
Friday 24.11.
9.30-11.30 Parallel sessions (Pinni B 4087 and Pinni B 4075)
12.00-13.00 Plenary talk: Brian McAllister (Pinni B3107)
14.00 – 15.30 Parallel sessions (Pinni B 4087 and Pinni B 4075)
Program of the parallel sessions downloadable via this link (PDF-file, last updated 8.11.2017)
Axel Goodbody’s Powerpoint slides and list of novels:Tampere, Econarratology paper slides part 1 / Tampere, Econarratology paper slides part 2/ Climate Change novels (chronological order) and studies of literature in the Anthropocene
Invited speakers:
Axel Goodbody (University of Bath)
Econarratology and the Challenge of the Anthropocene
Erin James introduced the concept of ‘econarratology’ in 2015 as a mode of textual analysis that combines ecocriticism’s interest in cultural representations of the environment and the human/ nature relationship with narratology’s focus on the literary structures and devices by which narratives are composed. For James, it is above all a study of the storyworlds which readers immerse themselves in when they read narratives, and of the relationship between these and the real world. She argues that ‘storyworld accords’, i.e. agreements about the future informed by the environmental insights and sensitivities to difference that narrative storyworlds offer readers, could help the public appreciate the differences in the perception of environmental problems which are encountered in international meetings, and ultimately facilitate North/ South negotiations on climate change, environmental migration, and the loss of habitats and species. However, the potential gain from focusing analysis of environmental texts on narrative structure goes beyond this particular practical application. The textual cues which James discusses as building blocks of storyworlds (the organisation of space and time, the depiction of characters, the representation of consciousness, and the relationship between narrator and narratee) are all relevant to a broader consideration of the ability of literary writing to foster environmental awareness in the Anthropocene. In this paper I will outline the implications of the Anthropocene for the humanities, literary criticism, and environmental writers. I will sketch the emergence of climate change fiction as a key genre of Anthropocenic literature, discuss key narrative types and genres and their respective strengths and weaknesses, and look at examples of realist and non-realist narrative. I will conclude by reflecting on similarities and differences between fiction and non-fictional climate change scenarios, and the potential of climate change narratives to contribute to facing the multiple challenges posed by the Anthropocene.
Brian McAllister (Ohio University)
Lithic Time in Lyric Space: Transmedial Anthropocenes
This talk explores transmedial relationships between aesthetics and geology in the Anthropocene. Understanding the Anthropocene and our situation in it transforms relationships between subject and object, human and nonhuman, figure and ground. In part, this transformation collides two incongruent timescales: a human scale of days, months, years, or centuries and a lithic scale of thousands, millions, or tens of millions of years. At the planetary level, the lithic is the most alien temporality possible. This spatiotemporal incongruity is a narrative problem, in that it ejects us from a position that sees geology as stable ground for dynamic, human temporality. Rather than understanding geology through human lens, we must understand humans on a geological scale.
I see lyric as a rhetorical mode that offers tools for articulating and confronting narratives of the Anthropocene. Central to a rhetorical distinction of narrative and lyric is the premise that both are modes that appear in various forms and media: just as we have narrative prose, narrative poetry, narrative dance, etc., we also have lyric prose, lyric poetry, lyric dance, etc. With that transmediality in mind, lyric works I discuss offer a hermeneutic for establishing perspectives in which ecological transformation becomes more seeable and sayable, building on Jesse Matz’s sense of “time-work” that sees narratives as phenomenological sites for temporal transformation. In the Anthropocene, time-work reconstitutes spatiotemporal scales in the face of a changing planet. Each lyric instance—and I’ll look at sound recordings, poetry, and land art—re-orients through interactions between lithic time, human time, and lyric space: artwork as site for articulating and negotiating disparate and disorienting scales. In other words, this talk explores the way that these lyric instances illuminate narrative’s capacities and incapacities in this new geological epoch.
Welcome to a guest lecture Wed 29 Nov 11.00-12 (Pinni B3111)
Dr Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar (Avans University of Applied Sciences)
Exercises in Applied Narratology: Designing Narrative Learning
Environments and the Structured Narrative Interview
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Abstract
In this presentation, I will introduce some of the work I have done in ‘applied narratology’: the transfer of narratological methods and findings to professional practices of narrative. After introducing the field of applied narratology as I see it, I will discuss the structured narrative interview that I developed together with Floor Basten and the work I have done on designing narrative learning environments together with Floor van Renssen.
The structured narrative interview came about as an attempt to integrate some of the extensive research on narrative in the humanities and to use possibly relevant findings of narratology in sociological research, not merely as a tool for analysis, but also as an instrument to gather data. We designed an interview method based on Greimas’ tools for analysis: actants and components of the narrative program are explicitly used to instruct interviewees. The resulting structured narrative interview can be used in varied ways.
Together with a teacher training institute in the Netherlands, I have been involved in attempts to construct narrative learning environments based on the idea that ideally, education is, like narrative fiction, a ‘giant laboratory’ (Ricoeur 1990) where experiments with estimations and evaluations, with judgments of approval and condemnation can take place. Both are served by a certain degree of autonomy that allows for such experimentation. And both are, in the best cases, strongly polyphonic, rather than dominated by one single story. Thus, insights gained from the study of narrative fiction in literature and other forms of high and low culture may inform our programme for narrative learning environments.
Narrative and Wellbeing 19.-20. Oct 2017
Program
Thursday 19 Oct
9.45-10.00 Registration (Pinni B 3107)
10.00-10.45 Narrare welcomes you to the conference (Pinni B 3107)
Maria Mäkelä (Director of Narrare): Opening words
Matti Hyvärinen (Vice-director of Narrare): A doctor’s story: Counter-narrative and tellability
10.45-11.00 Registration (Pinni B 3107)
11.00-1.00 Parallel sessions I (Pinni B 3117 & 3118)
2.00-3.30 Parallel sessions II (Pinni B 3117 & 3118)
4.00-5.00 Plenary talk (chair: Mari Hatavara, Linna K103) Cindie Aaen Maagaard (University of Southern Denmark): Second-person narration in post-intensive recovery: Nurses as narrators of patients’ diaries
6.30 Conference dinner at Ravintola Tampella (Kelloportinkatu 1)
Friday 20 Oct
10.00-11.00 Plenary talk (chair: Laura Karttunen, Pinni B 1096) Maura Spiegel (Columbia University): “I have story about myself…” Thickening a thin story with film in the narrative medicine classroom
11.30-1.00 Parallel sessions III (Pinni B 3117 & 3118)
2.00-3.30 Parallel sessions IV (Pinni B 3117 & 3118)
Invited speakers
Our wonderful invited speakers are Cindie Aaen Maagaard (University of Southern Denmark) and Maura Spiegel (Columbia University).
Cindie Aaen Maagaard (Thursday 4-5 pm. Linna K103)
Second-person narration in post-intensive recovery: Nurses as narrators of patients’ diaries
My talk explores the role of narrative in well-being through a practice designed to help patients recover from the often traumatic experience of intensive care: nurses’ writing of daily diary entries on behalf of patients who are heavily sedated or in a coma. The diaries are intended to fill in the gaps in patients’ memories and thus help alleviate psychic distress on leaving the intensive care unit. Despite their brevity, the first-hand, second-person diary entries demonstrate great complexity with respect to narration, as texts addressed to a “you,” in order to communicate with a “you,” but which are also about that “you” and on “behalf” of “you.” My talk will address issues of narration raised by the diaries, and what we may learn from them, not only about patients, but also about how nurses navigate among professional and personal constraints as they make narrative choices that both interpret patients’ experiences and shape patients’ understanding of them during recovery.
BIO
Cindie Aaen Maagaard is Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. Her teaching and research areas are communication, multimodality and the uses of narrative and counter-narrative in organizational and institutional contexts, including clinical settings. She is currently implementing a recent collaboration on patient diaries with Odense University Hospital and is part of a team developing a teaching program in narrative medicine for students in health care professions at the University of Southern Denmark. Selected recent work includes “Narratives in medicine” together with Anders Juhl Rasmussen, forthcoming, for the Danish publication Syg Litteratur [Sick Literature], “Counter-narratives” with Marianne Lundholt and Anke Piekut, for the International Encyclopedia for Strategic Communication, and “’Speaking through the other’: Countering counter-narratives through stakeholders’ stories” (Routledge, 2016).
Maura Spiegel (Friday 9-10 am. Pinni B 1096)
“I have story about myself…”: Thickening a thin story with film in the narrative medicine classroom
The hospital and the clinic have a way of thinning out lived experience for caregivers and patients alike. Discussions of films and short writing exercises can offer a technique for re-awakening attention to the complexity, ambiguity, curiousness and richness of lived experience in the clinic. It can thicken the story to positive effects. I will draw on my experience of teaching film to and facilitating writing prompts with medical students and senior caregivers over the past 15 years.
BIO
Maura Spiegel teaches literature and film at Columbia University and Barnard College. She is the associate director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she also teaches a film course to first-year medical students. With Rita Charon, MD, PhD, she edited the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press) for seven years. She co-authored The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford University Press), The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying and Living On (Anchor/Doubleday), and has published articles on many subjects including the history of the emotions, Charles Dickens, Victorian fashion, and diamonds in the movies. She is currently finishing a book on the life and films of Sidney Lumet (St. Martin’s Press).
Registration
The conference is free of charge. Participants must cover all their
expenses, including the conference dinner on Thursday. It’s also
possible to participate in the conference without giving a paper.
Conference venue
The conference will take place in the Pinni B building on the main
campus of the University of Tampere.
Map of the campus area
https://www.uta.fi/kuvat/maincampus.pdf
https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Tampereen+yliopisto/
Contact information
Conference organizer: Laura Karttunen laura.s.karttunen[at]uta.fi
Conference secretary: Matias Nurminen matias.nurminen[at]uta.fi
POLITIIKAN KERTOMUKSET JA METAFORAT Tampereen yliopiston Paavo Koli –salissa (Pinni A) perjantaina 13.10. klo 10.15 – 15.15
10.15 – 11.45 PÄÄESITELMÄ Timo Pankakoski:
Poliittiset metaforat: mitä ne ovat, miten niitä käytetään ja miten niitä tulisi tutkia?
12.30 – 13.00 Maria Mäkelä:
Poliitikot somessa: kertomusvaarallisia näkökulmia joukkoistamalla kerättyyn aineistoon
13.00 – 13.30 Matti Hyvärinen:
Metaforat, kertomus ja Big Data: Demokratian äänet-projekti
13.45 – 14.15 Mikko Poutanen:
Alkoholin kehykset suomalaisessa julkisessa keskustelussa
14.15 – 14.45 Matias Nurminen:
Punainen pilleri, eli kuinka maailma selitettiin: intertekstuaalinen metafora manosfäärin ideologisena oikeutuksena
14.45 – 15.15 LOPPUKESKUSTELU
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VTT Timo Pankakoski, Helsingin yliopisto
Poliittiset metaforat: mitä ne ovat, miten niitä käytetään ja miten niitä tulisi tutkia?
Tarkastelen poliittisten metaforien luonnetta ja niiden hedelmällisen tutkimisen tapoja niin ”varsinaisessa” politiikassa kuin poliittisessa ajattelussakin sekä analysoin esimerkkitapauksia molemmilta aloilta. Poliittisten metaforien erityisyys kytkeytyy nähdäkseni niiden käyttöihin ja funktioihin, ei asiasisältöihin tai institutionaalisiin kriteereihin. Politiikassa metaforilla esimerkiksi nostetaan asiakysymyksiä agendalle tai neutralisoidaan niitä, säädellään poliittiseen yhteisöön kuulumista sekä ohjataan tulevaisuuden kehitystä tai menneisyyden tulkintaa luomalla ajallisia rakenteita ja kiteytyneitä kertomuksia. Poliittisia metaforia käytetään myös metapoliittisemmin määrittämään politiikan luonnetta ja häivyttämään näkyvistä valintojen poliittisuutta. Toistaiseksi metaforatutkimus ei ole riittävästi huomioinut poliittisten metaforien erityisyyttä eikä poliittisen ajattelun historian eksegeettisiä erityistarpeita. Hahmottelen syitä tähän ja esitän alustavia kriteerejä nämä seikat paremmin huomioivalle lähestymistavalle.
VTT Timo Pankakoski toimii Suomen Akatemian tutkijatohtorina Eurooppa-tutkimuksen verkostossa Helsingin yliopistossa. Hänen tämänhetkinen projektinsa käsittelee poliittisen konfliktin käsitettä ja sen metaforisia ulottuvuuksia modernissa saksalaisessa politiikan teoriassa. Aiemmin Pankakoski on työskennellyt mm. tutkijatohtorina Turku Institute for Advanced Studiesissa, Eurooppa-tutkimuksen vt. yliopistonlehtorina Helsingin yliopistossa, tutkijatohtorina Jyväskylän yliopistossa sekä vierailevana tutkijana Queen Mary -yliopistossa Lontoossa. Hänen tutkimuksensa kohdistuu pääasiassa politiikan teoriaan, (etenkin saksalaisen) poliittisen ajattelun historiaan, radikaaliin konservatiiviseen ajatteluun, intellektuaalihistorian ja käsitehistorian metodologiaan, politiikan ja kaunokirjallisuuden yhtymäkohtiin sekä metaforateoriaan ja poliittisiin metaforiin.
Narrative and Experience – concept workshop, University of Tampere, Mon 18 Sep 2017
Narrare, Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies, and the national network for the study of experience will arrange a joint concept workshop at the University of Tampere on Monday, 18th September, 2017. The event is a continuation of the workshop held in April at Tampere, and this time we are going international with two guest speakers from Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden. The day will consist of their talks followed by the concept workshop in which we will discuss, once more, how narrative relates to experience and experientiality. The objective, as set out in the spring, is to keep working on the definitions for Narrare’s e-directory of concepts.
Anne Holm and Niklas Salmose, both senior lecturers based in English literature at the Department of Languages, will present on blends of narrative and experience. Holm is a cognitive stylistician specializing in metaphor as a means of conveying embodied experience. She is particularly interested in narrative representations of nomadity and dislocation in contemporary literature. Salmose will investigate nostalgic fictive experiences in film and literature from a stylistic perspective rather than through representation. First he will talk about what constitutes a nostalgic experience and then he will analyze how that experience can be simulated through narrative fiction.
Join the workshop to come together with other experts working on narrative and experience. Similar to April, if you would like comments on your own research, you may send in your idea paper (1–2 pages) in advance and receive helpful tips from your colleagues on the day. Then again, if you only wish to attend as a member of the audience, that is an option too. The event will also be streamed online. Details on all practical matters will be resolved closer to the date of the workshop.
The day will be hosted by Jarkko Toikkanen and Maria Mäkelä. Email jarkko.toikkanen[at]uta.fi on your chosen method of attendance – idea paper or audience member, in class or online – by 1 Sep.
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UPDATE 11.9.2017:
Open lectures (Main Building, A1):
Opening words, 10:15-10:30
Anne Holm: “Nomadity as embodied absence: narrating the experience of dislocation”, 10:30-11:30
Niklas Salmose: “A Method of Analyzing Emotional Experiences in Fiction” 11:30-12:30
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Narrare: https://research.uta.fi/narrare/
National network for the study of experience (in Finnish): https://kokemus.wordpress.com/
NARRARE INTERDISCIPLINARY SPRING SEMINAR FOR PhD RESEARCHERS May 8, 2017, University of Tampere
Deadline for proposals April 13!
If your PhD project involves studying narrative or if you make use of narrative methods, this announcement is for you. On Monday May 8,
Narrare: the Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies hosts the second annual spring seminar for PhD students. The seminar provides a chance to meet PhD researchers from diverse backgrounds who work on or with narrative, but also to participate in Narrare’s ongoing endeavor of developing theories, methods and analytical tools for the interdisciplinary field of Narrative Studies. The seminar papers will be commented on by the senior researchers and professors of the Centre.
The participants are asked to submit a 5-page seminar paper that can be your PhD research plan or a sample analysis of the materials you are studying. Submissions are to be written in either English or Finnish. Please apply by sending an abstract of 200–300 words to Maria Mäkelä (maria.e.makela[at]uta.fi) by April 13. The deadline for the 5-page seminar papers is April 26, and they are to be sent to the same address.
We-Narratives: An Interdisciplinary Seminar on Plural and Collective Storytelling
Friday, April 7th, 2017
University of Tampere, lecture hall Pinni B 3109
Organizer: Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies / Maria Mäkelä maria.e.makela@uta.fi
MASTER NARRATIVE – COUNTER NARRATIVE?
Workshop with Ann Phoenix
University of Tampere, February 3, 2017
Organizer: Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies
Fri 3 Feb 10.10 am – 14.15 pm / lecture room Pinni B 4075
GUEST LECTURE
Thu 2 Feb 4.15 – 5.45 pm / lecture hall Pinni B 4113
Ann Phoenix, Professor of Psychosocial Studies, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, University of London
“Another Long and Involved Story”
Organizer: Doctoral Programme in Literary Studies, University of Tampere