CFP: Narrative Matters Conference, 15–17 June 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS
Narrative Matters Conference 2023
Instrumental Narratives: Narrative Studies and the Storytelling Boom
Tampere University, Finland, 15–17 June 2023
CFP open until October 31, 2022
https://events.tuni.fi/narrativematters2023/
Welcome to the 11th Narrative Matters conference at Tampere!
The conference positions narrative scholars in the midst of the storytelling boom. Everyone is urged to share their story today, from consumers to multinational corporations, from private citizens to nation states. Storytelling consultants are thriving in today’s storytelling economy, but where are narrative scholars? Do the professional analyzers and theorizers of narrative have a say in the current storytelling boom? How to engage in a societal dialogue and debate as a narrative scholar?
Featured topics:
* storytelling boom and its social relevance * novel ways of storytelling today * emergent methods, ideas, and issues in narrative studiesThe social events include a lake cruise to Viikinsaari island – dinner, sauna & swim!
Travel and accommodation:
– 2 hour train ride from the Helsinki airport– direct flights to Tampere via 11 hubs– strong hotel capacity in the campus area
Conference webpage / CFP and submission link:
https://events.tuni.fi/narrativematters2023/call-for-papers/
EXTENDED CFP OPEN UNTIL NOVEMBER 30, 2022!
Conference fee EUR 220 (faculty) / EUR 120 (student)
Pre-conference workshops:
Pre-conference workshops, hosted by Jens Brockmeier, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Stefan Iversen & Ann Phoenix, will take place on Wednesday, June 14th. More information on registration and participation will be available by the end of September 2022!
Main organizers:
Maria Mäkelä, Matti Hyvärinen & Mari Hatavara (Tampere University, Narrare)Hanna Meretoja (University of Turku, SELMA)Merja Polvinen (University of Helsinki)The Academy of Finland Consortium Project Instrumental Narratives https://instrumentalnarratives.wordpress.com/
Full CFP:
The eleventh Narrative Matters conference is hosted by Tampere University (Finland) and co-organized by the Instrumental Narratives consortium project, SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, and Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. The conference positions narrative scholars in the midst of the storytelling boom. Everyone is urged to share their story today, from consumers to multinational corporations, from private citizens to nation states. Storytelling consultants are thriving in today’s storytelling economy, but where are narrative scholars? Do the professional analyzers and theorizers of narrative have a say in the current storytelling boom? How to engage in a societal dialogue and debate as a narrative scholar?The conference will provide a platform for scholars to both seek new applications that might appeal to diverse audiences and to critically reflect on the instrumentalization of narrative studies. Most narrative scholars agree on the rich affordances of storytelling: narrative is a compact and intuitive form for sharing detailed, personal experiences as well as collective, community-forming ideas and outlooks. Thus narrative studies approaches lend generous support to the instrumentalization and commercialization of narrative form in business, politics, media, and personal development. Yet narrative may just as well be put to uses that are dubious if not dangerous. The widespread, uncritical use of narratives of personal experience in journalism and social media may have unintended and unanticipated consequences. Experientiality may come at the cost of informativeness. Furthermore, while narratives are ideally suited to conveying the complexity of human experience, the complexity of large social interactions or material processes, such as climate change, easily exceeds the capacity of storytelling. Now that the benefits of storytelling have caught the public imagination and are recognized in various professional practices, narrative scholarship is in a good position to disseminate critical practices for the analysis of the forms and contexts of storytelling as well.We should also look into future narrative possibilities. The 21st century will no doubt be the era of social media and shared personal narratives, and therefore we should look for productive ways of connecting the personal with the political. How, for example, to bridge the gap between individual particularity and supra-individual concerns at the limits of narrative, such as the climate crisis and global inequality? How to conceptualize and control the afterlife of narratives determined by digital forms of narrative agency? Will new forms of narrative speculation direct our actions as citizens, consumers, and collectives? Which roles will be allotted to specific artistic, digital, and quotidian genres of storytelling? Are these new narrative genres and practices changing the ways people share their experience and use stories in the everyday? Are new affordances for narrative meaning making evolving?We invite narrative scholars across disciplines to address the following (and related) issues: * storytelling boom and its social relevance * novel ways of storytelling today * emergent methods, ideas, and issues in narrative studies * sociological analysis of curated storytelling * the study of storytelling rights and privileges; re-thinking of empathy * narrative and post-truth * narrative consultancy business; storytelling self-help and manuals * story-critical reading in narrative studies; story-critical tools for audiences * popularizing narrative theory and practices * social life of narratives vs. analysis of individual texts * narrative and action: political narratives, positioning and counter-narratives * professional narratives and narratives of professions refigured * the limits and affordances of narrative in making sense of illness and health * the limits and affordances of narrative in addressing the environmental crisis * uses and risks of viral storytelling and social media sharing * discourse on well-being and cognitive benefits of literature * the potential of fiction in analysing and resisting the narrative boomPlease send your paper and panel proposals by October 31, 2022! Here is the link to the submission form<https://www.lyyti.in/narrativematters2023cfp>
14.12. Guest lecture: Marco Caracciolo “Metaphorical Figures for Moral Complexity”
Marco Caracciolo
(Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory, Ghent University)
Wednesday December 14th at 10-12
Pinni B1096
If literary narrative as a practice is well suited to capture morally complex situations, that is in large part due to the work of literary (that is, narrative and stylistic) form. This paper examines the specific contribution that metaphorical language makes to the literary negotiation of moral complexity. The discussion is positioned vis-à-vis debates on the specific forms of moral knowledge that literature can provide, which I distinguish from both propositional meanings and the dilemmas entertained by analytic philosophers (for instance, the so-called trolley problem). Instead, I draw on metaphor studies to suggest that metaphorical language can enrich the moral resonance of literature by deepening (and complicating) readers’ engagement with fictional characters and the situations in which they are embedded. These metaphorical figures probe the experience captured by Cora Diamond under the rubric of the “difficulty of reality.” This idea is illustrated through a close reading of Lauren Groff’s short story “Flower Hunters,” which orchestrates a metaphorical “paranarrative” so as to encapsulate the protagonist’s existential and moral impasse in times of ecological crisis.
Discussant: University lecturer (Comparative literature) Maria Mäkelä
Join on site or remotely via Zoom Link (Meeting ID: 685 7642 8482 Passcode: 280502)
All interested most welcome!
13.12. Concept Workshop: Experience & Experientiality.
December 13th at 12-15, Room Pinni B4113,
Tampere University
Guest speaker: Marco Caracciolo, Ghent University
Notice: the room has changed to Pinni B4113
The interdisciplinary research centre Narrare has a tradition of arranging workshops on the central concepts of interdisciplinary narrative studies, such as tellability or narrative identity. The next workshop will investigate the concepts experience and experientiality. These concepts have dominated narrative debates since Monika Fludernik (1996, 329) proposed the “reconstitution of narrativity on the lines of experiential rather than actantial parameters”, and since David Herman (2009, 14) argued that “narrative is centrally concerned with qualia…the sense of ‘what it is like’ for someone or something to have a particular experience”. In sociolinguistics, William Labov and Joshua Waletzky (1997) already defined narrative as “one method of accounting experience”. But how do we understand the temporal scope of experience? Is it an immediate, flash-like phenomenon, resembling the German Erlebnis, or does it contain and require interpretation and temporal extent, like the Erfahrung? In other words, we are interested in what is the relationship between the emotional immediacy and cognitive processing of experiences. Fludernik also argues that historical narrative “lacks the feature of surprise… or experientiality… and therefore only qualifies as zero-degree narrativity (328). What does it mean from the perspective of historical study of experience? To add further complexity, we can ponder whether narrative experientiality refers to experiences in the storyworld, experientiality in the text, or experiencing in the reception of the narratives and how these levels interact?
Marco Caracciolo is the author of several books, including The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach (Narratologia, 43, De Gruyter, 2014).
Other speakers include:
Raisa Toivo: Experience in history
Mari Hatavara: Narrative Mediation of Experience
Jaakko Belt: Temporality of experience: A phenomenological account
Samuli Björninen: Whose experientiality? Narrative theory and the sites of experience.
Chair: Matti Hyvärinen
Workshop is open but pre-registration on or before December 1st is recommended. Register here. (https://forms.office.com/r/BqV3bwKB82)
Welcome!
Kertomuksentutkimuksen seminaari syksyllä 2022 / Narrative studies seminar, autumn 2022
Tutkimuskeskus Narraren kertomuksentutkimusta esittelevät ja pohtivat tapaamiset jatkuvat syksyllä 2022. Seminaarissa on tarkoituksena keskustella meneillään ja aluillaan olevista kertomukseen liittyvistä tutkimuksista. Seminaari on kaikille avoin, ja sen tavoitteena on herätellä moni- ja poikkitieteistä keskustelua aineistoista, menetelmistä, teorioista ja tutkimuksen tilasta.
Seminaarista:
Seminaari kokoontuu hybriditapahtumana tiistaisin klo 16.00–17.00 välillä Tampereen yliopiston keskustakampuksen seminaarihuoneessa Pinni B4115. Seminaariin on mahdollista osallistua myös etäyhteyden välityksellä. Lisäksi seminaaritapaamisia voi seurata myös livestriiminä Narraren Facebook-sivujen kautta. Alustaja esittelee aihettaan puolen tunnin ajan, ja jälkimmäinen puolisko varataan keskustelulle.
Tarkka ohjelma sekä kunkin seminaarikerran oma Zoom-linkki löytyy tämän tekstin lopusta. Jos Zoom-tapahtumaan liittyessä vaaditaan salasanaa, se on “Narrare”.
Mikäli sinulla on kysyttävää liittyen seminaarisarjan tekniseen puoleen tai ongelmia etätapahtumaan liittymisessä, voit olla yhteydessä Narraren koordinaattori Markus Laukkaseen (markus.laukkanen@tuni.fi).
Tervetuloa pohtimaan yhdessä, mitä kaikkea kertomukset ja niiden tutkimus voi olla!
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About the seminar:
From fall 2022, Research Centre Narrare continues presenting and discussing contemporary narrative studies to bring together those who study narratives in TAU. In our Narrative studies seminar, everyone with a research interest in narratives is warmly welcome to present their research and to discuss with others what narratives and their research is and could be. The presentations don’t need to provide answers – rather the aim is to create multi- and interdisciplinary discussion on data, methods, theories and the state of research on narratives.
The seminar will gather as a hybrid event on Tuesdays at 4.00–5.00 PM in Pinni B4115 seminar room, Tampere University City centre campus. It is possible to join the seminar on site, online via Zoom or follow the online streaming of seminar via Narrare’s Facebook page. The presenter is expected to give a half an hour introduction to their topic and the latter half of the seminar is reserved for general discussion.
The seminar program and link to the Zoom-event can be found below. If a password is required when joining the Zoom event, it is “Narrare”.
If you have any questions or problems regarding technical issues related to the seminar, you can be in contact with Narrare coordinator Markus Laukkanen (markus.laukkanen@tuni.fi).
You are warmly welcome to discuss with others what narratives and their research is and could be!
Linkki 22.11. seminaarin Zoom-tapahtumaan / Link to the Zoom event of the seminar gathering on November 22:
https://tuni.zoom.us/j/61168480156?pwd=aWp5K05PQkxYMlZOU3pnRFllVFRhdz09
Linkki Narraren Facebook-sivuille / Link to Narrare’s Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/narrarecentre
Ohjelma / Programme:
20.9. Laura Piippo, Postdoctoral Researcher, Literary studies: “The Book Object in Digital Environments”
11.10. Natalya Bekhta, Senior Research Fellow, Literary studies: “After Utopia”
25.10. Sanna Turoma, Professor, Russian language and culture & Mika Perkiömäki, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Russian culture and media (University of Helsinki): “Media Narratives of Chernobyl before and after Russia’s War on Ukraine”
22.11. Ville Hämäläinen, PhD Researcher, Literary studies: “’Tell it as if you yourself had composed the whole story’: Reading Kierkegaard’s Narrative Theory, Reading Kierkegaard with Narrative Theory”
Link to the Zoom event: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/61168480156?pwd=aWp5K05PQkxYMlZOU3pnRFllVFRhdz09
30.11. Workshop: World, War, Literature
30 November 2022 at 13:00–17:00
Tampere University, Room Pinni B3110
Kanslerinrinne 1, 33014 Tampere
World, War, Literature
—An international workshop on world literature in a warring Europe
Guest speakers:
- Jernej Habjan, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Hrvoje Tutek, University of Zagreb
- Sezgin Boynik, editor of Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art, Helsinki
Organised by Natalya Bekhta, Tampere Institute for Advanced Study & Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies
Debates about world literature, having re-emerged at the turn of this century (Fredric Jameson; Pascale Casanova; Franco Moretti; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; David Damrosch), have become a predominantly Anglo-American endeavour. World-literary peripheries are usually engaged in this enterprise in order to expand canons, de-centre ‘the West’ or re-centre ‘the margins’ in the already-familiar conceptual interventions. These interventions are also almost exclusively directed at the world-literary core, along the trajectory of the Global South / Global North. Attempts to suggest a radically new understanding of the international literary field and a new way of doing literary studies today are relatively rare (e.g., notably, the Warwick Research Collective). In this workshop we shall be interested in testing the viability of precisely such alternative suggestions and arguments (Tutek 2022).
Specifically, how well are these theories equipped to deal with the literary cultures of the European semi-periphery, including Central and Eastern Europe? This region, formerly part of the so-called Second World, has virtually disappeared from the post-1990s comparative structures and world-literary geographies. The recent Russian-Ukrainian war has brought Central and Eastern Europe into international attention while also exposing the inadequacy of frameworks for analysis of this region. Scholarly and public debates are ridden with tropes inherited from the Cold War and by a lack of variety or nuance in conceptions of European and geopolitical futures. How about the arts? How does the literature of the region attempt to think this time of ours and this new reality? What alternative discursive structures can be excavated from the existing body of works, following the Yugoslav wars and the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Boynik 2012; Bekhta 2020)?
The subject of world literature has been historically tied to globally relevant socio-cultural events (Habjan 2019). That the latest reactivation of the problem of world literature coincided with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union serves as a case in point. With a new Cold War and a renewed Russian imperialism becoming a reality for many in Europe, it is high time to incorporate the literary cultures of the former Second World into the world-literary geography.
Programme:
13:00-13:10 Introduction
13:15-14:00 Jernej Habjan “World Literature as War Literature: Debating Weltliteratur to End War, from the Age of Goethe On”
14:00-14:45 Hrvoje Tutek “Global Post-socialism: Narrative Form and Crisis of Historical Imagination after the Cold War”
⸺ 15 min break ⸺
15:00-15:45 Sezgin Boynik on the Rab-Rab Press and the OEI magazine (Special issue on “Concrete and Visual Poetry in Yugoslavia, 1968-1983”)
15:45-16:30 Natalya Bekhta “Let’s Be Realistic: The Novel, Utopia and Ukrainian Fiction after 2014”
16:30-17:00 Wrap-up discussion
18:00 Joint dinner
Join us on site or in Zoom! Link (Meeting ID: 675 0203 1362 , Passcode: 287772)
No registration required
Contact: Natalya.Bekhta@tuni.fi
References & further sources:
Bekhta, Natalya. 2020. “‘We’ and the Language of War: On the Poetry of Serhiy Zhadan.” Style 54 (1): 62-73.
Boynik, Sezgin. 2012. “New collectives: Art networks and cultural policies in post-Yugoslav spaces.” Retracing Images, eds. Daniel Šuber and Slobodan Karamanic. Brill, 2012. 81-105.
Habjan, Jernej. 2019. “The global process of thinking global literature: from Marx’s Weltliteratur to Sarkozy’s littérature-monde.” Journal of Global History 14.3: 395-412.
_____. 2013. “From Cultural Third-Worldism to the Literary World-System.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 15.5. Web.
Tutek, Hrvoje. 2015. “The Form of Resistance: Literary Narration and Contemporary Radical Political Experience.” Globalizing Literary Genres, eds. Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger. Routledge. 264-278.
_____. 2022. Social imaginary and narrative form under global post-socialism: Dubravka Ugrešić, Cormac McCarthy, Roberto Bolaño. PhD Thesis. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
11.11. Narrare Interdisciplinary Autumn Seminar for PhD Researchers
November 11, 2022
Tampere University & Zoom
Invited key speakers Professor Jarmila Mildorf and Professor Mikko Keskinen
About the seminar:
On Friday November 11, 2022, Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies hosts the sixth annual 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. Our confirmed visiting scholars commenting on the workshop papers this year are Professor Jarmila Mildorf and Professor Mikko Keskinen.
The seminar will be held as a hybrid event at Tampere University, Finland. The seminar day consists of seminar workshops and two keynote lectures by our invited visiting scholars. The two workshop panels are for the participating PhD researchers only. The keynote lectures are open for everyone. We encourage to consider taking part in the keynote lectures in person. The keynote lectures will be given on site in Tampere and they are streamed via Zoom. In addition, it is also possible to follow the online streaming of the keynote lectures on Narrare’s Facebook page. Please find the Zoom link for the keynote lectures at the end of the programme.
All welcome!
Programme:
Open keynote lectures (Pinni B4113, Tampere University City centre campus)
Chair: Mari Hatavara
Moderators: Anna Kuutsa & Alisa Manneri
10.00 Mikko Keskinen: “Frequently Asked Questions: Communication and Narrativity in Interrogative Fiction”
11.00 Jarmila Mildorf: “Telling Oneself through Others in Autobiography and Oral History”
12.00–13.15 Lunch
13.15–16.45 Closed panel sessions (Pinni B4116 & Pinni B4117)
Workshop I, Visiting teacher Jarmila Mildorf (Pinni B4116)
Chair: Mari Hatavara
Moderator: Alisa Manneri
13:15 – 13:45 Ada Schwanck, University of Helsinki: We can put ourselves together like a jigsaw’— literary interventions for queer migration studies. Commentator: Aura Lounasmaa (TAU)
13:45 – 14:15 Ville Hämäläinen, TAU: Visiting Voices: Pseudonym, Absent Character, and Kierkegaard Speaking. Commentator: Arto Laitinen (TAU)
14:15 – 14:45 Anna Kuutsa, TAU: Dialogue narration and the societal theme in the prose of Maria Jotuni. Commentator: Liisa Mustanoja (TAU)
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break
Chair: Matti Hyvärinen
15:15 – 15:45 Clare Matysova, University of Leeds: Shared Parental Leave – A catalyst for progressing gender equality or a reinforcement of the status quo? Using stories to explore parental leave decision-making dynamics in the UK. Commentator: Hanna Rautajoki (TAU)
15:45 – 16:15 Jacqueline Maria Cochrane, Open University (UK): Researching Post-Mastectomy Narratives. Commentator: Matti Hyvärinen (TAU)
16:15 – 16:45 Yasaman Ghafaryanshirazi, TAU: Relations between Emotional Intelligence and Narratives: Components in Interventions. Commentator: Laura Piippo (TAU)
17.00 – Reception (Olkkari, Pinni B1029-30)
Workshop II, Visiting teacher Mikko Keskinen (Pinni B4117)
Chair: Matti Hyvärinen
Moderator: Markus Laukkanen
13:15 – 13:45 Johannes Melander, University of Helsinki: Metaphysical Affects in Marko Hautala’s “Pale Toes”. Commentator: Jarkko Toikkanen (University of Oulu)
13:45 – 14:15 Inna Sukhenko, PhD, University of Helsinki: Profiling Energy Literacy within Narrating the Nuclear: Intermedial Ecocritical Frames. Commentator: Hanna-Riikka Roine (TAU)
14:15 – 14:45 Tuuli Hongisto, University of Turku: Implied Reader of Computer-Generated Texts: Examining Code as Part of the Reading Process. Commentator: Tuomas Harviainen (TAU)
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break
Chair: Mari Hatavara
15:15 – 15:45 Noora Vaakanainen, TAU: The Style of Automaticity in Sinikka Vuola’s Novel Replika. Commentator: Sanna Turoma (TAU)
15:45 – 16:15 Linda Nurmi, University of Helsinki: Free direct speech as a collective social discourse in Annie Ernaux’s Les Années. Commentator: Maria Mäkelä (TAU)
17.00 – Reception (Olkkari, Pinni B1029-30)
Zoom link for the keynote lectures:
https://tuni.zoom.us/j/68797660034?pwd=QjBPOFkrazNQdXFyMS9hbGF1NDNqUT09
Passcode, if needed, is “Narrare”
Keynote speakers & abstracts:
Mikko Keskinen, University of Jyväskylä
“Frequently Asked Questions: Communication and Narrativity in Interrogative Fiction”
Ron Silliman’s 34-page-long “new sentence” prose poem “Sunset Debris” (early 1980s/2002), several short stories by Donald Barthelme (in the 1970s), as well as the full-length novels Gold Fools (2001) by Gilbert Sorrentino and The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (2009) by Padgett Powell are all made up entirely of questions. The seemingly simple discursive decision to use the interrogative instead of the unmarked indicative causes dramatic effects when executed at such length. First, it foregrounds the asymmetry inherent in narrative communication (the narrator/narratee dynamic in classical narratology) by turning it upside down. Second, drawing attention to anomalous interrogative narration urges one to rethink the nature of ordinary narrative sequences (mainly consisting of statements) and narrativity. Indicative statements could be regarded as answers to the mute or invisible questions posed to the narrator. Hence, the anomalous might as well be thematized as generating the usual and, simultaneously, reversing the alleged order of communication. Third, the yes/no form of most of the questions in my corpus lays bare the optionality in story logic that is usually hidden by the alternative chosen. And finally, dare I propose that the inquisitive age, curiously, informs not only early-age language acquisition but also the very conception of narrative as an instrument to and repository of knowledge (as suggested by etymology: narrative > the Latin verb gnare, ‘to know’)?
Mikko Keskinen is Professor of Literature at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include experimental narrative (e.g. negation and interrogative in narration); intermediality; multimodality; sound, voice, and speech in prose fiction; and demediation and literature. Keskinen has authored Response, Resistance, Deconstruction (Jyväskylä UP, 1998) and Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction (Lexington, 2008). He has co-edited books and international journal issues. Keskinen has published on theory and contemporary narrative in renowned international journals, and on experimental writing in edited volumes with top publishers. His recent works on treated books include contributions in Partial Answers (2019) and Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives (Nebraska UP, forthcoming). He is currently co-editing a collection of scholarly essays on the experimental book object.
Jarmila Mildorf, University of Paderborn
“Telling Oneself through Others in Autobiography and Oral History”
Much has been written about how ‘self’ is created in life stories, a kind of narrative identity that emerges from storying (and thereby storing) one’s lived experience (Brockmeier and Carbaugh 2001; Busacchi 2019; De Fina, Schiffrin and Bamberg 2006; Holler and Klepper 2013; McAdams, Josselson and Lieblich 2006; Ricoeur 1992). The terms “autobiography”, literally “self-life-writing”, and “narratives of personal experience” – which has been used in sociolinguistic narrative research (Labov and Waletzky 1967) – also suggest that life storying is centred on oneself. However, as Harold Rosen (1998) already pointed out, self-narratives inevitably involve other ‘characters’ as well, people who also play a role in our lives: family, friends, lovers, spouses, colleagues, teachers and mentors, even fleeting acquaintances. They become part of the narratives we tell and furnish us with means of self-positioning: how do we relate to these other people inside and outside our stories as well as in the very act of storytelling?
I argue that, in order to arrive at a better understanding of “other-narration”, one first needs to distinguish more assiduously between stories that are essentially about oneself but also involve others, and other people’s stories that one incorporates in one’s storytelling repertoire, or what Neal Norrick (2013), following Monika Fludernik (1996), called “narratives of vicarious experience”. There is a qualitative difference because the two types raise different issues concerning storytelling rights or entitlement and the epistemics of certain story elements and background information. Ultimately, however, both kinds of other-narration eventually contribute towards the creation of the storyteller’s identity and serve the function of self-presentation as well as self-exploration in life storying. Authors and storytellers may not always be fully aware of what they give away of themselves when telling stories about or involving others, but they do so inevitably and irrevocably. This obviously raises questions about readers’/listeners’ interpretations and about the “resonance” effected in and through life narratives (Schmitt 2017). There is also an ethical dimension to these forms of storytelling that can become critical when the others involved feel misrepresented or even no longer have the possibility to refute such narratives (Couser 2004).
In my talk, I use a range of examples drawn from autobiography and oral history to illustrate these theoretical issues, including (auto)biographical writing by Jeannette Walls, Candia McWilliam and Alan Bennett.
Jarmila Mildorf teaches English language and literature at the University of Paderborn. Her research interests are in socionarratology, audionarratology (which she initiated with Till Kinzel), dialogue studies, radio drama and the medical humanities. She is the author of Storying Domestic Violence: Constructions and Stereotypes of Abuse in the Discourse of General Practitioners (Nebraska University Press 2007). Her hitherto unpublished ‘Habiliation’ is entitled Reading (Fictional) Dialogue: Text, Context, Cognition. She has also co-edited numerous collections of essays and special journal issues, among them: Dialogue across Media (with Bronwen Thomas, John Benjamins 2017); Narrating Selves and the Literary from the Bible to Social Media (with Matti Hyvärinen and Mari Hatavara, Partial Answers 2019); Radio Art and Music: Culture, Aesthetics, Politics (with Pim Verhulst, Lexington Books 2020); Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama (with Lars Bernaerts, Ohio State University Press 2021); Narratives in Mental Health Today: Bridging the Cultural and the Individual (with Elisabeth Punzi and Christoph Singer, Oxford University Press, forthcoming). She is co-editor-in-chief of the book series Narratives and Mental Health (Brill) and co-editor of the journal EON Revista (University of Sibiu). Mildorf is a co-founder and member of the steering committee of the German Network for Narrative Medicine, a member of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, the Zentrum für Erzählforschung in Wuppertal, and she serves on the advisory board of the research centre Narrare (Tampere University).
Questions & inquiries: Coordinator of Narrare Anna Kuutsa (anna.kuutsa@tuni.fi)
31.10.-1.11. Workshop: Analyzing narratives and experience in history
Tampere University, 31.10.-1.11.2022
Monday 31.10. Pinni B4113
Tuesday 1.11. Pinni B1029 (Olkkari)
The Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX) and Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at Tampere University will organize a joint workshop on narratives and experience in history this Autumn. The workshop is continuation for the interdisciplinary collaboration in the theme issue ‘Narrative and Experience’, published in the Scandinavian Journal of History in January 2022.
The workshop brings together scholars from different fields to an interdisciplinary exchange on the application of narrative approaches to historical texts and sources. What can narrative approaches offer methodologically to historical research, and vice versa, what can attention to historical constitution and contextualization of narrative models offer to the research fields? How can narrative text analysis be used to uncover historical experience or other historically changing phenomena?
The workshop programme includes four European keynote speakers and ten other invited talks. We welcome colleagues interested in these themes to participate in what will hopefully be two days of intensive discussion and methodological development. It is also possible to listen to the talks via an online link provided for those registered.
Programme
Monday, October 31st
10.00-10.15
Opening words
10.15-11.45
Chris Lorenz: Analyzing Narratives and Experience in History – some reflections on the relationship between history and narratology
Marina Grishakova: Asynchrony and delay: human time and narrative experience
Chair Mari Hatavara
11.45-13.00
Lunch
13.00-14.30
Dorothee Birke: Historicizing the present: The chrononarratological approach and a reading of Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This
Alison Rowlands: Narrative resolution? Making sense of narratives, experiences, and identities in witch-trial records from early modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Chair Raisa Toivo
14.30-15.00
Coffee
15.00-16.30
Sari Katajala-Peltomaa: Narrating the experience – experiencing the narrative: The miraculous in medieval canonization processes
Maria Mäkelä: Experientiality or exemplarity? Diachronic narratology and the case of free indirect discourse
Reetta Eiranen: Experiential narration of national landscape in nineteenth-century letters
Chair Sami Suodenjoki
klo 18.00 –
Dinner (for the speakers)
Tuesday, November 1st
10.15-11.45
Mari Hatavara: Vicarious historical minds: Analyzing mind representation in historical interviews
Ville Kivimäki: Trauma and the narratives of the nation: Collective scripts in overcoming experiences of violence in wartime Finland, 1939–45
Hanna Meretoja: Narratively mediated experience: Rethinking the actual and the possible
Chair Marja Jalava
11.45-13.00
Lunch
13.00-14.00
Ilona Pikkanen: Maxims and metaphors as a means of narrative persuasion in history writing
Iida Pöllänen: Race, narrative, and (literary) history
Chair Matti Hyvärinen
14.00-14.30
Coffee
14.30-15.30
Marja Jalava: Continuity as a temporal grand narrative in Finnish historiography
Matti Hyvärinen: Master and counter-narratives in parliamentarians’ oral history interviews
Chair Mari Hatavara
15.30-16.00
Concluding discussion and future plans
More about the event
In historical research, the concept ’narrative’ can be understood in different ways. Historiography in itself can be analyzed as narrative but also texts produced in the past, the sources, can be interpreted as narratives. Equally, the understanding of what narrative is or what are the features to study when studying narrativity, varies remarkably. While recent narratology emphasizes experientiality as the core of any narrative, the narrativist readings of historiography have typically drawn on a plot centered understanding of narratives.
In studying historiographical texts as narratives, the assumption is that the presentation – and perhaps even the creation – of historical knowledge entails narrative sense making operations. When studying source texts as including narrativity, the narrative features of the text as historically situated in the past become highlighted. In relation to experience, historiography contributes to societal and cultural frames of interpretation for people’s experiences. Then again, the narrative analysis of sources can, for instance, be a way of studying what kind of narrative means and scripts were utilized and produced in past societies in the construction of individual as well as collective experiences.
For these reasons, it is important both to recognize the many meanings of narrative and narrativity in history and historical writing, as well as to study how narrative studies and historical research may best support each other and advance theory and methodology in both fields.
CFP: NARRARE INTERDISCIPLINARY AUTUMN SEMINAR FOR PhD RESEARCHERS November 11, 2022
Extended deadline for proposals October 9,
Deadline for final seminar papers October 28.
If your PhD project involves studying narrative or if you make use of narrative methods, this announcement is for you. On Friday November 11, 2022, Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies hosts the sixth annual 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. Our confirmed visiting scholars commenting on the workshop papers this year are Professor Jarmila Mildorf and Professor Mikko Keskinen. Jarmila Mildorf is Associate Professor for English Language and Literature at the University of Paderborn. Her research interests are in socionarratology, dialogue studies, audionarratology, radio drama, narratives and mental health and the medical humanities. She is co-editor-in-chief of the book series “Narratives and Mental Health” (Brill). Mikko Keskinen is Professor of Literature at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include experimental narrative (e.g. negation and interrogative in narration); intermediality; multimodality; sound, voice, and speech in prose fiction; and demediation and literature.
The seminar will be held as a hybrid event at Tampere University. It is possible to participate the seminar via Zoom, even though we hope many participants to come to Tampere. The keynote lectures will be given on site in Tampere and they are streamed. Moreover, it is possible to join the panel sessions via Zoom. However, depending on the Covid-19 situation in Finland in November, we encourage the participants to consider visiting Tampere and taking part in the seminar in person.
Proposals: We ask prospective participants to submit a proposal for a paper to be presented at the seminar. The one-page proposal should include: title, research question, target material, method and theoretical framework plus a short description of the issues the author would like the seminar to address when discussing their paper. The language of the proposals and the seminar is English.
Seminar papers & presentations: Those selected to present at the seminar are expected to send in written papers to be discussed. Those papers should include an extended version (2 to 3 pages) of the proposal and a representative excerpt (2 to 3 pages) of their target material. In case the original target material is in any other language than English, we ask for you to provide a short sample (at least half-a-page) of the material translated to English.
On the day of the seminar, participants are expected to present their papers very briefly (max. 5 minutes) before comments and discussion.
Please apply by sending your proposal to Anna Kuutsa (anna.kuutsa@tuni.fi) by September 18. The deadline for the final seminar papers is October 28, and they are to be sent to the same address. Any possible questions can be directed to Anna Kuutsa as well.
Please feel free to circulate this message.
Publication event: The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory & The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies
Welcome to celebrate the publication of two Routledge Companions by TAU literary researchers!
Paul Dawson & Maria Mäkelä (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. July 2022.
The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top 44 scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The 40 chapters of the volume explore new theories of causality, experientiality, and fictionality, challenge normative modes of storytelling, and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction, nonfiction, and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory, the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative theory and a point of departure for new scholarship.
Lieven Ameel (ed.): The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies. August 2022.
The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban studies consists of 33 newly commissioned chapters that provide an outline of contemporary literary urban studies. The Companion covers all of the main theoretical approaches as well as key literary genres, with case studies covering a range of different geographical, cultural, and historical settings. The final chapters provide a window into new debates in the field. The three focal issues are key concepts and genres of literary urban studies; a reassessment and critique of classical urban studies theories and the canon of literary capitals; and methods for the analysis of cities in literature. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to the city in literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on city literature.
Publication event
Time: Friday, September 30 at 14:00–16:30
Place: Café Aula & Toivo, Main Building 2nd floor, City Centre Campus
Sparkling wine, coffee/tea and snack served. The program will consist of short introductory talks, online video greetings from our international collaborators and contributors, and a guest commentary by visiting Erasmus professor Cecile Sandt.
The book launch is also the first event of the science event series of the Faculty of Social Science, Tampere University.
For catering, please sign in with this form by September 25.
You can also participate online: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/68533702981?pwd=N2d5Z01ycWR6SUM5bUdMMjBpelNiUT09
Narraren käsitetyöpaja: Ääni ja kertomus
Aika: Tiistai 27.9.22 klo 13.15-15.30
Paikka: Pinni A3112, Keskustakampus, Tampereen yliopisto & Zoom
Narraren järjestämät käsitepajat pureutuvat kertomuksen tutkimuksen keskeisiin käsitteisiin ja pyrkivät määrittelemään niitä tutkijoiden avuksi.
Syksyn työpajassa keskustelemme äänestä ja sen merkityksestä tutkimuksessa, yhteiskunnallisessa vaikuttamisessa ja kulttuurillisessa ilmaisussa. Kerronnassa ääni on aina läsnä, mutta yhteiskunnallisessa vaikuttamisessa ääni pitää antaa tai ottaa, sitä tulee käyttää ja monet äänet jäävät usein kuulematta. Ääntä ei voida ymmärtää myöskään erillään sen kehollisesta ja affektiivisesta muodosta. Syksyn työpajassa Marko Stenroos ja Viliina Silvonen alustavat keskustelua.
Tapahtumaan ovat tervetulleita sekä tutkijat että opiskelijat, ja siihen voi osallistua niin paikan päällä kuin etäyhteyden välityksellä. Pyydämme kaikkia osallistujia ilmoittautumaan tämän lomakkeen kautta 20.9. mennessä. Tutkimuskeskus Narrare tarjoaa paikan päällä osallistuville kahvit. Etäyhteyslinkki jaetaan ennakkoon ilmoittautuneille.
Ohjelma:
13.15 Keskustelun avaus
13.20 Viliina Silvonen: ääni, tunteet ja affektiivisuus karjalaisissa itkuvirsissä
13.55 Marko Stenroos: romaniväestön ääni yhteiskunnassa
14.40 Kahvi
15.00 Avoin keskustelu: mitä on ääni?
Puhujat
Viliina Silvonen on karjalaiseen itkuvirsiperinteeseen erikoistunut folkloristi. Väitöskirjassaan (2022, HY) hän tutki karjalaisia itkuvirsiä arkistoäänitteillä tekstin, musiikin ja tunteen näkökulmista. Häntä kiinnosti erityisesti itkujen affektiivinen teho, joka liikuttaa itkijän ja kuulijat, sekä se, miten tätä affektiivista tehoa voi tutkia ääniteaineistosta. Alustuksessaan Silvonen avaa itkuvirsien ääntä – kuultavaa, tunteita välittävää, ruumiillisesti koettavaa, kulttuurisia merkityksiä kantavaa ääntä. Tällä hetkellä Silvonen toimii tutkijatohtorina Itäsuomen yliopistossa Koneen Säätiön rahoittamassa itkuvirsiperinnettä nyky-Suomessa tutkivassa hankkeessa. Hankkeessa ääni näyttäytyy myös kulttuuristen ja kansallisten narratiivien kautta keskusteluissa suomalaisuuden ja karjalaisuuden suhteessa ja siitä, kenen ääni kuuluu.
Marko Stenroos väitteli Helsingin yliopistosta aiheenaan romanipoliittinen työ Suomessa ja työskentelee nyt yhdenvertaisuuden erityissuunnittelijana Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitoksella. Hänen alustuksensa käsittelee Suomen romaniväestön yhteiskunnallista osallisuutta ja sen kehittymistä viime vuosikymmenten aikana. Poliittiset toimenpiteet tukevat romanien osallisuutta ja äänen kuulumista yhteiskunnan eri tasoilla, mutta käytännöt eivät aina vastaa tahtotilaa. Alustuksessa kiinnitetään huomiota sosiaalisen ja yhteiskunnallisen tilan saamisen haasteisiin sekä äänen ja kielen merkitykseen vähemmistö- ja identiteettipolitiikassa. Alustus perustuu etnografiseen tutkimukseen Suomen romanipoliittisen ohjelman toteuttamisesta.
Tervetuloa!
Julkaisutilaisuus: Intermediaalinen kirjallisuus
Lämpimästi tervetuloa juhlistamaan Intermediaalinen kirjallisuus -kokoomateoksen julkaisua keskiviikkona 21.9. klo 16.15 Pinni B:n Olkkariin (Pinni B1029-30).
Tilaisuus alkaa teoksen toimittajien Laura Piipon ja Juha-Pekka Kilpiön avaussanoilla. Tämän jälkeen kirjan kirjoittajat tarjoavat johdatuksia kirjan artikkeleihin ja aihepiireihin, joita myös Narraren johtaja Mari Hatavara kommentoi. Tämän jälkeen vuorossa on vapaata keskustelua sekä pienimuotoisia tarjoiluja.
Ennakkoilmoittautumista ei tarvita. Tilaisuuden puheenvuoroja voi seurata myös sekä livestriiminä Narraren Facebook-sivujen kautta että etäyhteydellä Zoomin välityksellä. Mikäli etätapahtumaan liityttäessä pyydetään salasanaa, se on “Narrare”.
Linkki Zoom-tapahtumaan: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/68655483269?pwd=cFJXVG9xamhuOU1Ra3pSK2xPK1BIUT09
Linkki Narraren Facebook-sivuille: https://www.facebook.com/narrarecentre
Ohjelma:
* Virpi Vairinen: Kehotaide ekfrasiksen teorioiden valossa Don DeLillon romaanissa Esittäjä
* Jarkko Toikkanen: Kirjallisuuden intermediaalinen kokemus. H. P. Lovecraftin ”Pickman’s Model”
* Juha-Pekka Kilpiö: Medioiden ja maailmojen välissä. Robert Cooverin kinekfrastiset novellit
* Hanna-Riikka Roine: Kohti vastavuoroisempaa. Transmediaalisuus narratologiassa digitaalisen murroksen jälkeen
Teos ilmestyy Nykykulttuurin tutkimuskeskuksen julkaisusarjassa (JYU) lähipäivinä.
New Perspectives on Narrative: Reading Group 2022
Welcome to the “New Perspectives on Narrative” reading group! The group is set to meet four times during the spring term 2022. The discussion is inspired by reading articles on contemporary narrative theory and pieces of short fiction side by side as well as introductions to the topics by expert speakers. Please see the program below.
The reading group encourages multidisciplinary discussion. Everyone interested in narrative theory, from all backgrounds and disciplines, is warmly welcomed to join! The reading group is in English as well as all the texts assigned for meetings. The group meets in Zoom (see the link below).
Please email Hanna-Riikka Roine (hanna.roine@tuni.fi), Anna Ovaska (anna.ovaska@tuni.fi), or Laura Piippo (laura.piippo@tuni.fi) to join the reading group and get the texts not available online.
PROGRAM: Spring 2022
CRITIQUE & POSTCRITIQUE
Tuesday, 8 February, 14:15 EET (Helsinki time)
Introduction by Clara Verri (Justus Liebig University & University of Helsinki)
Texts:
Rita Felski: The Limits of Critique (2015), “Introduction” & “In Short” (Conclusion)
&
Katherine Mansfield: “Miss Brill” (1922) Online: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/garden/brill.html
QUANTIFIED STORYTELLING & LITERARY PLATFORMS
Tuesday, March 1, 14:15 EET (Helsinki time)
Introduction by Laura Piippo (Tampere University)
Texts:
Alex Georgakopoulou, Stefan Iversen & Carsten Stage: Quantified Storytelling: A Narrative Analysis of Metrics on Social Media (2020), “Chapter 1: Analysing Quantified Stories on Social Media”
&
Elisabeth Tonnard: Song of Myself (2015), in part
&Cory Arcangel: Working On My Novel (2014), in part
WE-NARRATIVES
Tuesday, April 5, 14:15 EET (Helsinki time)
Introduction by Natalya Bekhta (University of Helsinki)
Texts:
Natalya Bekhta: “We-Narratives: The Distinctiveness of Collective Narration” (2017)
&
TBA
TRANSNARRATOLOGY
Wednesday, 4 May, 15:15 EET (Helsinki time) (Note the different day and time!)
Introduction by Cody Mejeur (University of Buffalo) and Chiara Pellegrini (Newcastle University)
Texts:
Chiara Pellegrini: An excerpt from Pellegrini’s forthcoming PhD thesis, “Trans Forms: Gender-variant Subjectivity and First-Person Narration”
&
Cody Mejeur: Trans Folks Walking (a game demo)
All welcome!
Narraren käsitetyöpaja: Asema/asemointi/asemoiminen (positioning)
Aika: keskiviikko 13.4.2022 klo 14.15-16.00
Paikka: Linna 5101, Keskustakampus, Tampereen yliopisto
Narraren järjestämät käsitepajat pureutuvat kertomuksen tutkimuksen keskeisiin käsitteisiin ja pyrkivät määrittelemään niitä tutkijoiden avuksi.
Aseman käsite on ollut Michel Foucaultin innoittamana keskusteluissa jo 50 vuoden ajan. Siirtyminen “asemista” “asemoimiseen” alkoi noin 30 vuotta sitten ja mahdollisti käsitteen matkaamisen myös kertomuksen tutkimukseen. Käsitteitä käytetään paljon, mutta mitä oikein ajattelemme “aseman” ja “asemoimisen” olevan? Käsitteen määritelmää pohditaan ennakkolukemiston, lyhyiden alustusten ja niiden pohjalta käydyn keskustelun avulla. Työpajan tavoitteena on muotoilla asemoinnin käsitteestä kattava, suomenkielinen määritelmä.
Ennakkolukemisto: Työpajan ennakkolukemistona on Michael Bambergin artikkeli ”Positioning With Davie Hogan: Stories, Tellings, and Identities” (teoksessa Narrative Analysis, 2011; DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412985246) sekä Matti Hyvärisen, Mari Hatavaran ja Hanna Rautajoen artikkeli ”Kerronta, asemointi ja haastattelun analyysi” (Sosiologia 1/2019). Molemmat julkaist ovat avoimesti saatavilla. Otathan yhteyttä Narraren koordinaattori Anna Kuutsaan (anna.kuutsa[@]tuni.fi) mikäli haluat artikkelit tiedostoina sähköpostitse.
Ennakkoilmoittautuminen: Pyydämme osallistujia ilmoittautumaan tapahtumaan ennakkoon tämän lomakkeen kautta 6.4. mennessä. Tilaisuudessa on kahvitarjoilu. Tapahtumaa on mahdollista seurata myös etäyhteyden välityksellä. Linkki jaetaan ennakkoon ilmoittautuneille.
Ohjelma:
14.15 Mari Hatavara, professori & Narraren johtaja (Suomen kirjallisuus): Tilaisuuden avaus
14.20 Matti Hyvärinen, tutkimusjohtaja & Narraren varajohtaja (sosiaalitieteet): Johdatus käsitteen historiaan
14.35 Hanna Rautajoki, yliopistonlehtori (sosiaalitieteet): Asemointi poliittisessa suostuttelussa
14.45 Anna Kuutsa, väitöskirjatutkija & Narraren koordinaattori (Suomen kirjallisuus): Asemointi ja dialogikerronta
14.55 Samuli Björninen, yliopistonlehtori (yleinen kirjallisuustiede): Asemointi ja narratologian käsitteet
15.05-15.30 Yhteinen keskustelu
15.30 Kahvi
15.30-16.00 Asemoinnin määritelmän viimeistely
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Keskustelun kautta editoidaan asemoinnin määritelmiä:
Asemointi
Vuorovaikutuksessa ja/tai kerronnassa tapahtuva itsen ja toisten sijoittaminen kulttuurisesti latautuneisiin kategorioihin ja ryhmiin; näihin kategorioihin tyypillisesti sisältyvien toimintojen ja ominaisuuksien liittäminen henkilöihin; henkilöiden kategorisointi kulttuurisesti merkittävien hyvä/paha -ominaisuuksien suhteen.
Kerronnallinen asemointi tarkoittaa asemointia kertomuksen keinoin. Siinä erotetaan kolme ajallista tasoa:
- Asemointi tarinan, eli kerrottujen tapahtumien tasolla;
- Asemointi vuorovaikutuksessa kerronnan tilanteessa;
- Asemointi suhteessa ajattomaan ”kuka minä olen” -kysymykseen ja yhteiskunnallisiin diskursseihin.
Fiktion yhteydessä asemointi voi viitata asemointiin niin kertojan kuin henkilöidenkin toimesta.
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Tervetuloa!
Julkaisutilaisuus: Kertomus postmodernismin jälkeen
Lämpimästi tervetuloa juhlistamaan Kertomus postmodernismin jälkeen -kokoomateoksen julkaisua perjantaina 8. huhtikuuta klo 17–19 Pinni B:n Olkkariin (Pinni B1029-30).
Tilaisuus alkaa teoksen toimittaja Samuli Björnisen sekä kirjoittajien tarjoamilla johdatuksilla kirjan aihepiireihin ja kysymyksenasetteluihin. Tämän jälkeen vuorossa on vapaata keskustelua sekä pienimuotoisia tarjoiluja.
Ennakkoilmoittautumista ei tarvita. Tilaisuuden puheenvuoroja voi seurata myös etäyhteydellä: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/63459571880?pwd=YXZmQXNlNnU0L1ZIb05CV09ScnJ5Zz09 Mikäli Zoom-tapahtumaan liityttäessä kysytään salasanaa, se on “Narrare”.
Julkaisutapahtuman puheenvuorot ja keskustelu striimataan myös livenä Narraren Facebook-sivuilla: https://www.facebook.com/narrarecentre
Kertomus postmodernismin jälkeen on ilmestynyt Open Access -julkaisuna Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran toimituksia -sarjassa ja on luettavissa sähköisenä täällä: https://doi.org/10.21435/skst.1476
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Kertomus postmodernismin jälkeen tarjoaa Suomen kirjallisuudentutkimuksessa uraauurtavan katsauksen teorioihin ja käsitteisiin, joilla on kuvattu kirjallisuuden ja kertomuskulttuurin muutosta uudella vuosituhannella. Kirjan artikkelit analysoivat kertomustutkimuksen työkaluin tapoja, joilla nykykertomukset haastavat postmodernin ajan poetiikan ja muuttavat muotoaan uusien teknologioiden vaikutuksesta ja uusissa mediaympäristöissä. Samalla sivutaan yhteiskunnallisen keskustelun ajankohtaisia teemoja sosiaalisen median kertomuskulttuurista “totuudenjälkeisyyteen”.
Kirjan artikkelien tutkimuskohteet ovat ajankohtaisia ja monipuolisia, eri medioita ja lajityyppejä edustavia nykytekstejä. Kokoelman artikkelit muodostavat yhdessä vivahteikkaan kuvan nykykulttuurin kertomuksista, jotka kurottavat postmodernismin tuolle puolen. Samalla artikkelit ovat kuitenkin kriittisiä akateemisia katsauksia teorioihin, joiden kykyä valaista nykykulttuurin tekstejä ei ole ehkä vielä riittävästi koeteltu.
Kertomuksentutkimuksen seminaari keväällä 2022 / Narrative studies seminar, spring 2022
Tutkimuskeskus Narraren kertomuksentutkimusta esittelevät ja pohtivat tapaamiset jatkuvat keväällä 2022. Seminaarissa keskustellaan meneillään ja aluillaan olevista kertomukseen liittyvistä tutkimuksista. Seminaari on kaikille avoin, ja sen tavoitteena on herätellä moni- ja poikkitieteistä keskustelua aineistoista, menetelmistä, teorioista ja tutkimuksen tilasta.
Seminaarista:
Seminaaritapaamiset ovat tiistaisin klo 16.00–17.00 välillä. Alustaja esittelee aihettaan puolen tunnin ajan, ja jälkimmäinen puolisko varataan keskustelulle. Kevätkauden viimeinen seminaarikerta 5.4. kokoontuu hybridimuotoisena Paavo Koli -salissa (Pinni A2100). Esitelmän jälkeen salin edustalla on viinitarjoilu – tervetuloa juhlistamaan kevään seminaarisarjan päätöstä! Seminaaria on mahdollista seurata etänä Zoom-tapahtuman lisäksi myös livestriiminä Narraren Facebook-sivuilla. Tarkka ohjelma sekä tapahtumalinkki löytyy tämän tekstin lopusta. Tapahtuma on toistuvaksi asetettu, joten samalla linkillä voi liittyä koko kevään seminaaritapaamisiin. Jos Zoom-tapahtumaan liittyessä vaaditaan salasanaa, se on “Narrare”.
Mikäli sinulla on kysyttävää liittyen luentosarjan tekniseen puoleen tai ongelmia luennoille liittymisessä, voit olla yhteydessä Narraren koordinaattori Anna Kuutsaan (anna.kuutsa@tuni.fi).
Tervetuloa pohtimaan yhdessä, mitä kaikkea kertomukset ja niiden tutkimus voi olla!
About the seminar:
The seminar will gather on Tuesdays at 4.00–5.00 pm. The presenter will give a half an hour introduction to their topic and the latter half of the seminar is reserved for general discussion. The last gathering on seminar’s Spring term will be organized as a hybrid event on site in Paavo Koli auditorium (Pinni A2100). After the presentation, there will be an informal get-together with wine. In addition, you can join the seminar via Zoom or follow the livestream version via Narrare’s Facebook page. The seminar program and link to the event can be found below. You can use the same link for attending every seminar gathering during the spring semester. If a password is required when joining the Zoom event, it is “Narrare”.
If you have any questions or problems regarding technical issues related to the seminar, you can be in contact with Narrare coordinator Anna Kuutsa (anna.kuutsa@tuni.fi).
You are warmly welcome to discuss with others what narratives and their research is and could be!
Linkki seminaarin Zoom-tapahtumaan / Link to the Zoom event:
https://tuni.zoom.us/j/63289533800?pwd=dy82QVVGYkpSdjdpSVBGV3ZvdHdrdz09
Linkki Narraren Facebook-sivuille / Link to Narrare’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/narrarecentre
Programme:
11.1.
16.00–17.00 Tuomas Harviainen, Associate Professor, Information studies: “Founding myths of the Finnish game development community”
25.1.
16.00–17.00 Samuli Björninen, University Lecturer, Literary studies: ”Narrative Strategies in Conspiracy Theories: Emplotment, Narrativization and Counter-Narratives”
8.2.
16.00–17.00 Mari Hatavara, Director of Narrare & Professor, Finnish literature: “Telling and Retelling a Historical Event. Narrativizing the Collapse of the Soviet Union in Finnish Parliamentary Talk”
22.2.
16.00–17.00 Matti Hyvärinen, Research Director, Social sciences & Ville Kivimäki, Senior Research Fellow, History: ”Forging a Master Narrative for a Nation: Finnish History as a Script during the Second World War”
8.3.
16.00–17.00 Anna Kuutsa, PhD Researcher, Finnish literature & Coordinator of Narrare: Puheen esitysten persoonamuodot ja yhteiskunnallinen tematiikka Maria Jotunin proosatuotannossa
22.3.
16.00–17.00 Paula Rossi, Assistant Professor, Public management, University of Vaasa: “Encounters between humans and technology: Exploring the stories about information system development in Finnish social and healthcare services”
5.4. Paavo Koli auditorium (Pinni A2100)
16.00–17.00 Jari Stenvall, Professor, Administrative science & Tony Kinder, Visiting Professor, Administrative science: “Narratives in public service research”
Link to the Zoom event: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/63289533800?pwd=dy82QVVGYkpSdjdpSVBGV3ZvdHdrdz09
Link to Narrare’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/narrarecentre
After the Spring term’s final seminar gathering, there will be an informal get-together in front of the auditorium. Welcome to join us for a glass of wine and celebrate the Narrative studies seminar!
Publication event: Scandinavian Journal of History special issue “Narrative and Experience: Interdisciplinary Methodologies between History and Narratology”
The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of History special issue “Narrative and Experience: Interdisciplinary Methodologies between History and Narratology” would like to invite you to our publication event in the Olkkari livingroom (Pinni B 1029-30) on Tuesday, March 29th at 4 pm.
Storytelling gives shape to our shared and collective experiences. Methodologically speaking, the study of cultural story formulae and narrative rhetoric are crucial for historians trying to grasp the conditions and manifestations of past experiences. The special issue celebrates the ambitious methodological collaboration between interdisciplinary narrative theory and research on the history of experience, conducted at the Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience (HEX) and Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at Tampere University, as well as in their international networks. The special issue features joint articles by narrative theorists and historians, topics ranging from the medieval exemplum and seventeenth-century witchcraft trials to the Second World War masterplots shaping the Finnish nation, the collapse of Soviet Union. and the modeling of experience in social media.
The entire special issue is Open Access: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/shis20/current
The event will begin by the editors’ Reetta Eiranen, Mari Hatavara, Ville Kivimäki, Maria Mäkelä and Raisa Toivo will short introduction to the theme issue. Comments and discussion to follow is facilitated by Professor Pirjo Markkola and docent Saija Isomaa.
A small reception with sparkling wine and snacks will be organized in the end. For that reason, we ask you to fill out this form by March 23.
The introduction and the followed discussion can be followed via Zoom and Narrare’s Facebook page. In case a passcode is required when joining the Zoom event, it is “Narrare”.
Link to the Zoom event: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/68008105254?pwd=NzhDbjZLQmZlNEkrZlZ2SElrc2RkZz09
Link to Narrare’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/narrarecentre
All welcome!
“Lukemisen suuntia”: digitaalisen kirjallisuuden lukukokeilu
Etsimme osallistujia digitaalisen kirjallisuuden lukukokeiluun “Lukemisen suuntia”. Kokeilu on osa Narrare-tutkimuskeskuksessa tehtäviä hankkeita, joissa tutkitaan inhimillisen ja digitaalisen yhteenliittymiä sekä painetun ja digitaalisen kirjallisuuden vuoropuhelua. Toivotamme tervetulleiksi niin opiskelijat, tutkijat kuin kaikki muutkin digitaalisesta kirjallisuudesta kiinnostuneet.
Tilaisuus järjestetään keskiviikkona 23.3.2022 klo 14.15–15.45 Tampereen yliopiston Pinni B -rakennuksessa huoneessa 1029–30 (Olkkari).
Tilaisuus koostuu puolen tunnin mittaisesta varsinaisesta lukukokeilusta ja noin 45 minuutin mittaisesta ryhmähaastattelusta. Kokeilussa osallistujat lukevat digitaalista proosateosta sekä tekevät lukemastaan tarpeen mukaan muistiinpanoja. Haastattelussa kokeilun järjestäjät ja osallistujat keskustelevat lukukokeilun ja luetun teoksen herättämistä ajatuksista ja kokemuksista.
Haastattelu tallennetaan ja sitä käytetään tutkimusaineistona kokeilun järjestäjien tutkimushankkeissa. Tutkimuksesta valmistuu tieteellisiä julkaisuja, joiden kautta jaetaan uutta tietoa. Haastattelua sellaisenaan ei esitetä missään eivätkä sen osallistujat ole yksilöitävissä tai tunnistettavissa tutkimusjulkaisujen pohjalta.
Osallistujilta ei vaadita minkäänlaista ennakkotietoa tai -kokemusta digitaalisen kirjallisuuden lukemisesta, mutta harrastuneisuudesta ei myöskään ole haittaa. Hyvä suomen kielen taito on kokeilussa välttämätön, sillä luettava kaunokirjallinen teos on suomenkielinen. Tilaisuuteen osallistujilla tulisi olla mukana oma lukulaite: mieluiten älypuhelin, mutta myös kannettava tietokone käy. Osallistujien on oltava täysi-ikäisiä.
Ennen kokeilua osallistujat täyttävät lyhyen esitietolomakkeen itsestään ja aiemmasta kokemuksestaan digitaalisen fiktion parissa. Esitietolomake lähetetään ennakkoon ilmoittautuneille sähköpostitse.
Voit ilmoittautua lähettämällä sähköpostia kokeilun järjestäjille Laura Piipolle (laura.piippo(at)tuni.fi) ja Hanna-Riikka Roineelle (hanna.roine(at)tuni.fi) viimeistään 16.3.2022.
Tilaisuudessa on vegaaninen kahvitarjoilu. Mainitse ilmoittautumisen yhteydessä mahdollisista muista erikoisruokavalioista. Osallistujat saavat palkkioksi vapaalipun elokuvateatteri Niagaraan (ks. https://www.arthousecinemaniagara.fi).
Jos sinulla mitä tahansa kysyttävää kokeilusta, ota yhteyttä järjestäjiin.
Tervetuloa mukaan!
Tilaisuuden järjestäjät
Laura Piippo (FT, Tampereen yliopisto), “The Places, Forms, and Value of a Book Object in Digital Environments” (Suomen Kulttuurirahasto)
Hanna-Riikka Roine (FT, Tampereen yliopisto), “CO-SPEC. Drawing the Possible into the Present: Entanglements of Human and Computer in Speculation” (Suomen Akatemia)