21.5. Book launch: Narrative Research: Research Methods (Bloomsbury)
Narrare Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies and Association for Narrative Research and Practice (ANRP) invite you to Book launch for Narrative Research: Research Methods (Bloomsbury 2025)
With co-athors Mark Davis, Lars-Christer Hydén, Corinne Squire, Aura Lounasmaa and Molly Andrews and commentator Matti Hyvärinen.
Time: Wednesday May 21, 2025 at 3.30pm Helsinki time (2.30pm CET, 1.30pm UK)
Venue: Tampere University main campus Pinni B4113 or zoom (https://tuni.zoom.us/j/61283549571?pwd=RyHWMPoxsyNjgbpPYbx0qWJOXyKqbU.1)
After the event we invite those present in Tampere to celebrate the publication with light refreshments in Pinni B3071
This is a book launch for Narrative Research. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/narrative-research-9781350319035/, which is the second edition of the book originally entitled What is Narrative Research.
Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems. This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on theory, it examines how narrative research is conducted and applied. It operates as a practical introductory guide, basic enough for first-time researchers, but also as a window onto the more complex questions and difficulties that all researchers in this area face. The authors guide readers through current debates about how to obtain and analyse narrative data, about the nature of narrative, the place of the researcher, the limits of researcher interpretations, and the significance of narrative work in applied and in broader political contexts.
Copies available for purchase at the venue for €15 (cash or mobilepay)
1.4. Noora Vaakanainen “Appropriating Voices: Narratorial Overtness in Laura Lindstedt’s Oneiron”
This talk is a part of the Narrative Studies Seminar
Time: Tuesday 1 April 3:15 pm (EET); Place: Pinni B4113 or Zoom (Link). (Meeting ID: 668 4700 7494 Passcode: 045076)
Appropriating Voices: Narratorial Overtness in Laura Lindstedt’s Oneiron
The Narrative Studies Seminar is open to all interested persons. The aim of the seminar is to allow for a multi- and interdisciplinary discussion on data, methods, theories, and the state of narrative research. Sessions consist of introductory presentations by researchers from different fields studying narratives at Tampere University (up to 20 min), and general discussion.
11.3. Jukka Jouhki “Länsimaat Ukrainan sodan uutisissa: oksidentalistisen kerronnan tarkastelua”
Tutkimuskeskus Narraren monitieteellinen kertomuksentutkimuksen seminaari jatkuu tiistaina 11.3. klo. 15:15.
Tila: Pinni B4113 tai Zoom (Link). (Meeting ID: 668 4700 7494 Passcode: 045076)
Länsimaat Ukrainan sodan uutisissa: oksidentalistisen kerronnan tarkastelua
Miten ja milloin lännestä tai länsimaista kirjoitetaan? Esitelmässäni käsittelen sitä, millainen kertomuksellinen ilmiö ”länsi” ja länsimaat ovat ja kuinka länsimaista kerrotaan suomalaisessa uutismediassa erityisesti Ukrainan sodan uutisoinnin yhteydessä. Esittelen myös ”oksidentalismia” (occident = länsi) tai länsi-puhetta ja sen kolmea kerronnallista funktiota, jotka olen nimennyt poissulkevaksi, yleistäväksi ja kuvailevaksi oksidentalismiksi. Kertomuksentutkijoiden kritiikki ja ehdotukset aiheeni ja havaintojeni suhteen ovat lämpimästi tervetulleita!
Kertomuksentutkimuksen seminaari on kaikille avoin, ja sen tavoitteena on herätellä moni- ja poikkitieteistä keskustelua aineistoista, menetelmistä, teorioista ja tutkimuksen tilasta. Seminaarissa keskustellaan meneillään ja aluillaan olevista kertomukseen liittyvistä tutkimuksista. Jokainen kerta sisältää alustuksen (noin 20 min) sekä keskusteluosuuden. Esitelmöijät ovat eri uravaiheissa olevia Tampereen yliopiston tutkijoita.
18.2. Nanny Jolma: “Muistelu, fiktionaalisuus ja kerronnallinen asemointi kansanedustajien muistitietohaastatteluissa”
Tutkimuskeskus Narraren monitieteellinen kertomuksentutkimuksen seminaari jatkuu tiistaina 18.2. klo. 15:15.
Tila: Pinni B4113 tai Zoom (Link). (Meeting ID: 668 4700 7494 Passcode: 045076)
Muistelu, fiktionaalisuus ja kerronnallinen asemointi kansanedustajien muistitietohaastatteluissa
Muistaa-verbi on muistitietohaastatteluissa toistuvasti esiintyvä kielen keino. Se toistuu haastattelijan ja haastateltavan vuorovaikutuksessa ja kytkeytyy niin menneen jäsentämiseen, reflektointiin, kuin uuden kertomuksen aloittamiseenkin. Tästä huolimatta muistaa-verbin merkitysten systemaattinen tarkastelu on jäänyt tutkimuksessa huomiotta.
Esitelmä tarkastelee muistaa-verbin käyttöä osana muistelukerronnan keinovarantoa entisten kansanedustajien muistitietohaastatteluissa. Keskiössä on erityisesti muistamisen tai muistamattomuuden sanallistaminen kerronnallisen asemoinnin keinona sekä fiktionaalisuutta hyödyntävissä kerronnallisissa jaksoissa. Analyysin lähtökohtana on kerronnan ja tarinan tasojen erottaminen vuorovaikutuksellisesti rakentuvissa haastattelukertomuksissa. Esitelmässä havainnollistetaan, että toistuvuudessaan arkiselta vaikuttavan muistaa-verbin funktiot eivät muistitietohaastattelussa rajoitu menneisyyden uudelleen tulkinnan ja osallisuuden ilmaisemiseen. Sen sijaan muistaa-verbin avulla kerronnalliseen vuorovaikutukseen tuotetaan runsaasti erilaisia, toistensa kanssa limittäisiä ja ristiriitaisiakin merkityksiä. Esitelmä pohjautuu hiljattain julkaistuun artikkeliin (Jolma & Teräs 12/2024).
Kertomuksentutkimuksen seminaari on kaikille avoin, ja sen tavoitteena on herätellä moni- ja poikkitieteistä keskustelua aineistoista, menetelmistä, teorioista ja tutkimuksen tilasta. Seminaarissa keskustellaan meneillään ja aluillaan olevista kertomukseen liittyvistä tutkimuksista. Jokainen kerta sisältää alustuksen (noin 20 min) sekä keskusteluosuuden. Esitelmöijät ovat eri uravaiheissa olevia Tampereen yliopiston tutkijoita.
1.2. Maria Mäkelä: “Authors of The Story Economy: Narrative and Digital Capital in the 21st-Century Literary Field”
This seminar session has been postponed due to sickness. The new date for Maria Mäkeläs presentation is Feb. 11 at 3:15 pm EET.
This talk is a part of the Narrative Studies Seminar
Time: Tuesday 28 January 11 February 3:15 pm (EET); Place: Pinni B4113 or Zoom (Link). (Meeting ID: 668 4700 7494 Passcode: 045076)
Authors of The Story Economy: Narrative and Digital Capital in the 21st-Century Literary Field
The 21st century story economy, prompting everyone to tell their story, puts a new strain on literary authors. They need to cope in the literary field transformed by digitalisation, in an environment where storytelling is considered a strategy and a business model. Personal stories of transformation and survival constitute narrative capital. Narrative capital is further entangled with digital capital, the ability to make use of, for example, the affordances of social media.
The talk outlines theoretical and methodological foundations for literary research that would combine the study of (1) the loss of autonomy of the 21st-century literary field (cf. Bourdieu 1992) and (2) the narrative ethos of contemporary authors as storytellers who need to naviagate rhetorically and ethically between different storytelling platforms, from social media and personal interviews to literary fiction. The suggested approach draws from both the sociology of literature and the rhetorical theory of narrative. The talk also serves as an introduction to the newly launched research project Authors of the Story Economy: Narrative and Digital Capital in the 21st-Century Literary Field (AUTOSTORY, Research Council of Finland 2024–2028, consortium PI Mäkelä).
The Narrative Studies Seminar is open to all interested persons. The aim of the seminar is to allow for a multi- and interdisciplinary discussion on data, methods, theories, and the state of narrative research. Sessions consist of introductory presentations by researchers from different fields studying narratives at Tampere University (up to 20 min), and general discussion.
3.2. Guest lecture: “Entering Through the Right Ear: Narrative and the Mind” by Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
Monday 3 February at 14-16
Tampere University, City centre campus, Linna -building, Room K103 and Zoom (Link)
Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, University of Groningen
Entering Through the Right Ear: Narrative and the Mind
What do we talk about when we talk about narrative? What do we talk about when we talk about (the) mind? In this lecture, I will propose working definitions of both terms, and attempt to open up the worlds of knowledge within which academic and folk debates around the nexus of narrative and the mind are embedded. My hypothesis will be that while our minds are predisposed to storify experience, the mind itself is also fundamentally storified. Therefore, we need, alongside our narrative competency – i.e. the ability to storify our life experiences – a narrative literacy: the capacity to critically reflect on how our mind creates stories, and stories create our mind. I will finish my lecture with discussing the relevance of my findings for applied narratology: how can they inform the bringing together of theories of narrative and storytelling practices?
Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar is co-founder and one of the academic directors of the Netherlands Winter School on Narrative. He has worked with narrative in a variety of capacities, both as an academic at universities in Tunisia and the Netherlands, and as a freelance organizational consultant. Currently he is a senior lecturer for the Arts, Cognition and Criticism programme at the University of Groningen. He is actively involved in and publishes about the establishment of applied narratology: a bridge between theory and practices of narrative. Recent work includes Narrative Values, the Value of Narratives (De Gruyter 2024, co-edited with Barend van Heusden), a special issue on applied narratology in the journal Narrative Inquiry (2024, co-edited with Laura Karttunen and Anna Ovaska), and an upcoming special issue on the same topic in Narrative (2026, co-edited with Genevieve Liveley and Andrea Macrae).
3.2. Applied Narratology and Political Counter-Narratives
Monday February 3, 12.15-13.45, Pinni B4113 and on Zoom (link).
Welcome to a seminar celebrating the recent publication of two special issues in the field of narrative studies!
Program
Chair: Anna Ovaska (Tampere University)
12.15 Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar (University of Groningen)
Applied Narratology: Feedback Loop Between Theory and Practice
12.30 Laura Karttunen (Tampere University)
What is Applied Narratology? Examples from the Field of Medical Humanities (Introducing the special issue “Applied Narratology”)
12.45 Discussion
12.55 Hanna Rautajoki (Tampere University)
Master/counter positioning as an argumentative resource in political persuasion
13.10 Samuli Björninen (University of Turku)
Considering Political Counter-Narratives: Introducing the Special Issue
13.25 Discussion
Special issue “Applied Narratology”. Ed. Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, Laura Karttunen & Anna Ovaska. Narrative Inquiry 24:2, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.34.2
Special Issue “Considering Political Counter-Narratives.” Ed. Matti Hyvärinen & Samuli Björninen. Narrative Works 13:1, 2024. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NW/issue/view/2362
The seminar is organized by Narrare and the research projects Words for Care: Literature, Healthcare and Democracy; Political Temporalities; Authors of the Story Economy: Narrative and Digital Capital in the 21st-Century Literary Field; Arts, Narrative and Cognition theme group (Groningen).
29.1. Cross-disciplinary approaches to restorative Narratives
Time: Wednesday 29 January 3.00-4.30pm EET (2.00-3.30pm CET)
Location: Tampere University, Pinni B4113 and Zoom https://tuni.zoom.us/j/65559957984?pwd=bdTGUeian7MEG8WzlhdpsGlstLbJv7.1
Do narratives have restorative power? If so, what kind of narratives have this power, and how do we identify them? In this seminar we discuss possible analytical approaches to identifying and understanding restorative narratives in different disciplinary and methodological traditions and discuss the possibilities and limits of interdisciplinary methodologies in understanding restorative narratives.
Programme
3.00-4.10 (EET) presentations:
- Silvia Pierosara, University of Macerata: Restorative Narratives, introduction
- Veronica Guardabassi: Collaborative Writing and Inclusion
- Mari Hatavara: The possibilities for distant reading of political narratives in big data
- Jari Stenvall and Sanni Pöntinen: Economic and Social Value, Learning and Narratives in Policy-making: the case of cultural policy in the Covid-19 period in Finland
- Saija Isomaa: Romance as a path to normalcy in young adult dystopias
- Aura Lounasmaa: collective story-telling with refugees as restorative practice
- Lieven Ameel: Redemptive Plots for Post-Industrial Cities
- Laura Piippo and Hanna-Riikka Roine: Antivirality and Digital Restorative Narratives
- Sanna Turoma: Restorative nostalgia in Russian exilic narratives
4.10-4.30 (EET) discussion