Kertomuksentutkimuksen luentosarja / Interdisciplinary narrative studies lecture series
(In English below)
Tutkimuskeskus Narraren järjestämän, syyskuussa alkaneen kertomuksentutkimuksen luentosarjan etäluennot pidetään tiistaisin joka toinen viikko klo 16.15–17.00.
Kertomuksentutkimusta esittelevä ja pohtiva luentosarja on kaikille avoin ja tavoitteena on avoin, moni- ja poikkitieteinen keskustelu aineistoista, menetelmistä, teorioista ja tutkimuksen tilasta. Luennot koostuvat luennoitsijan alustuksesta ja yhteisestä keskustelusta. Osa luennoista on suomeksi ja osa englanniksi.
Linkki seuraavaan luentoon löytyy viestin alusta. Viestin lopussa on koko nähtävillä koko luentosarjan ohjelma ja osallistumislinkki jokaiseen luentoon. Linkit löytyvät myös Narraren sähköpostilistan ja Facebook-sivun kautta. Jos luennolle 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).
Lämpimästi tervetuloa pohtimaan yhdessä, mitä kaikkea kertomukset ja niiden tutkimus voi olla!
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Research Centre Narrare organizes a lecture series starting in September to present and discuss contemporary narrative studies as well as to bring together those who study narratives. Virtual lectures take place on Tuesday every second week at 4.15–5.00 pm.
The lecture series is open for everyone and the aim is an open, multi- and interdisciplinary discussion on data, methods, theories and the state of research on narratives. The lectures consist of the lecturer’s introduction to their topic and general discussion. Some of the lectures are in Finnish and some in English.
The link to the next lecture can be found in the beginning of this message. The whole program of the lecture series and links to all lectures can be found at the end of this message as well as on Narrare’s mailing list and Narrare’s Facebook page. If a password is requiered when joining, it is “Narrare”.
If you have any questions or problems regarding technical issues related to this lecture series, 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 can be!
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Program
22.9.20
16.15–17.00 Professori Mari Hatavara: What is Narrative? Cognitive, Rhetorical and Semiotic Approaches
Tutkimusjohtaja Matti Hyvärinen: Big and Small Stories
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/67894842790?pwd=eGJmVlMyLzFTV01jSks4V3c2WWh5dz09
6.10.20
16.15–17.00 Professori Pertti Haapala, Suomen historia: Kertomus historian selityksenä
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/67894842790?pwd=eGJmVlMyLzFTV01jSks4V3c2WWh5dz09
13.10.2020 – opetukseton viikko / no teaching
20.10.20
16.15–17.00 Professori Leena Aarikka-Stenroos, tuotantotalous: Narratives on the Circular Economy – examples from individuals and companies
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/67894842790?pwd=eGJmVlMyLzFTV01jSks4V3c2WWh5dz09
3.11.20
16.15–17.00 Väitöskirjatutkija Marjaana Jones, sosiaali- ja terveyspolitiikka: Ruoka ja riskitekijät – kertomuksia vastuullisuudesta ja vastuuttomuudesta
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/67894842790?pwd=eGJmVlMyLzFTV01jSks4V3c2WWh5dz09
17.11.20
16.15–17.00 Väitöskirjatutkija Noora Vaakanainen, kirjallisuustiede: Graafiset keinot ja poissaolon esittäminen kirjeromaanissa
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/67894842790?pwd=eGJmVlMyLzFTV01jSks4V3c2WWh5dz09
1.12.20
16.15–17.00 Tohtori Anne Kastarinen, yrityksen taloustiede, markkinointi: Tarinoita isovanhemmuudesta – narratiivit kuluttajan identiteettitutkimuksessa
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/67894842790?pwd=eGJmVlMyLzFTV01jSks4V3c2WWh5dz09
15.12.20
16.15–17.00 Tutkijatohtori Anna Ovaska, kirjallisuustiede: Narratives of pain: encounters of experiential and medical knowledge
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/67894842790?pwd=eGJmVlMyLzFTV01jSks4V3c2WWh5dz09
19.1.21
16.15–17.00 Yliopistonlehtori Aija Logren, sosiaalipsykologia: Kertomisen ja kertomukseen vastaamisen dynamiikka vuorovaikutuksessa
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/61574903588?pwd=NGREQk5uOTNmeFkydE82MWo0U0Jzdz09
2.2.21
16.15–17.00 Tutkijatohtori Hanna Roine, kirjallisuustiede: Narrative Theory in Digital Environments
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/61574903588?pwd=NGREQk5uOTNmeFkydE82MWo0U0Jzdz09
16.2.21
16.15–17.00 Tutkijatohtori Heini Saarimäki, hyvinvointitieteet: Advancing affective neuroscience with emotional narratives
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/61574903588?pwd=NGREQk5uOTNmeFkydE82MWo0U0Jzdz09
2.3.2021 – opetukseton viikko / no teaching
9.3.21
16.15–17.00 Tutkijatohtori Jenni Kuuliala, historia: Kärsimys, inspiraatioporno, vai sittenkin toimijuus? Vammaishistoria ja historian popularisointi
Linkki luentoon: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/68525499983?pwd=L3JubDJYOEp0bmZUSjNvTmppZFpuUT09
13.4.21
16.15–17.00 Professori Eero Ropo, kasvatustieteet: Narrativity and school curricula
Narrative and Science
26 March 2021
Online workshop, Tampere University
EET (Tampere): 12.00–15.00
GMT (London): 10.00–13.00
How are narratives used in science? What is their role for instance in scientific classification, or in the development of scientific ideas and practices, or in science communication? And how should narratives in science be studied? Is there a narrative-theoretical methodology for all disciplines working with narrative?
The online workshop Narrative and Science brings together scholars from the ERC Narrative Science project led by Mary Morgan (LSE), and from Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies, led by Mari Hatavara (Tampere University).
Please register to get the Zoom link for the event.
Programme:
12.00-12.15 Inkeri Koskinen: Opening words
12.15-13.00 Mary Morgan: Narrative Practices Within the Sciences: From Representation to Reasoning
13.00-13.30 Mari Hatavara: Narrative Concepts and Analysis
Break 10 min.
13.40-14.10 Kim Hajek: What is Narrative in Narrative Science? Narrative Theory and the NS Project
14.10-14.40 Samuli Björninen: The Rhetoric of Factuality in Narrative Future Scenarios of Popular Climate Science
14.40-15.00 Joint discussion
On practical matters, please contact Narrare coordinator Anna Kuutsa (anna.kuutsa(a)tuni.fi) or workshop organizer Inkeri Koskinen (inkeri.koskinen(a)tuni.fi).
Welcome!
Narrare-tutkimuskeskuksen työpaja Hyvinvointi ja kertomukset 2.11. klo 12-16
Ohjelma
12.15-12.20 Professori Mari Hatavara: Avaussanat
12.20-13.00 Tutkimusjohtaja Matti Hyvärinen: Kerronta, toiminta ja hyvinvointi
13.00-13.45 Professori Piia Jallinoja: Parantava ruoka – kertomuksia ruoasta ja ruokavaliosta
13.45-14.15 Tauko
14.15-15.00 Yliopistonlehtori Kirsi Lumme-Sandt: Tervaskannot 90+, haastattelu vai elämäntarina?
15.00-15.45 Yhteinen keskustelu
Miten hyvinvoinnista, terveydestä ja sairaudesta kerrotaan? Miten kertomukset vaarantavat tai turvaavat hyvinvointia koronan kaltaisten epidemioiden aikaan? Minkälaisia tarinoita hyvinvoinnista kulttuurissamme liikkuu, ja miten yksilöt kerronnallisesti jäsentävät omaa vointiaan? Voivatko kertomukset lisätä hyvinvointia tai olla sille haitallisia?
Monitieteinen kertomuksentutkimuksenkeskus Narrare järjestää työpajan, jossa keskitytään hyvinvoinnin ja kertomusten välisiin suhteisiin. Tarkoitus on eri tieteenalojen kesken kartoittaa ja lähteä ratkomaan hyvinvoinnin kertomiseen liittyviä monia kysymyksiä, pohtia tieteenalojen eri lähestymistapoja ja testata erilaisia tutkimusmenetelmiä aineistoihin. Selvitämme, mitä lähestymistapoja ja analysointimenetelmiä monitieteiden kertomuksentutkimus voi tarjota hyvinvoinnin kertomusten tutkimiseen. Perustava kysymys on, ovatko kertomukset vain kuvauksia hyvinvoinnista vai ovatko ne itsessään osa hyvinvointia.
Työpaja koostuu kolmesta asiantuntijaluennosta sekä ennakkoon osallistujille jaetun aineiston analysoimisesta työpajoissa. Luennoilla esitellään eri tieteenalojen ja tutkimussuuntausten lähtökohtia ja menetelmiä tutkia kertomuksia hyvinvoinnista. Luennoitsijoina toimivat ja työpajaan osallistuvat sosiologi ja kertomuksentutkija Matti Hyvärinen, terveyssosiologi Piia Jallinoja ja vanhuustutkija Kirsi Lumme-Sandt. Tapahtumaa ja työpajoja vetää Narraren johtaja Mari Hatavara. Aineistona on osia Tervaskannot 90+ -hankkeen haastatteluista sekä Parantava ruoka -kyselyn vastauksista.
Tapahtuma järjestetään kokonaan etänä Zoomin kautta. Osallistuminen on kaikille avoin ja ilmoittautuminen tapahtuu tämän lomakkeen kautta keskiviikkoon 28.10. mennessä.
Osallistumislinkki Zoomiin sekä pääsy ennakkomateriaaliin toimitetaan osallistujille sähköpostitse ilmoittautumisen päättymisen jälkeen.
Tilaisuus on keskusteleva, ja kaikkien osallistujien toivotaan tutustuvan etukäteismateriaaliin ja valmistautuvan keskustelemaan siitä pienissä ryhmissä ja yhteisesti.
Infostory – Tarinat ja tietojärjestelmien kehitys -etäseminaari maanantaina 21.9.2020
Tampereen yliopiston projekti “Tarinat tietotekniikan toteutuksessa” esittelee alustavia havaintojaan. Projektilaisten ohella puhumassa Jari Renko (CTO, Apotti Oy) ja Riitta Hekkala (assistant professor, Aalto yliopisto). Lue lisää kertomustutkimusta, tietojärjestelmätieteitä ja hallintotieteitä yhdistävästä projektistamme: https://projects.tuni.fi/infostory/
Huomioi ennen tapahtumaa! Tapahtumaan osallistuminen vaatii Zoom-sovelluksen lataamisen koneelle tai puhelimeen.
Ohjelma:
Infostory – Tarinat ja tietojärjestelmien kehitys -seminaari, sijaintina Zoom, 21.9.2020 klo 10.00-14.15
10.00-10.30 Maria Mäkelä, Samuli Pekkola ja Jari Stenvall (Tampereen yliopisto): Monitieteinen Infostory-projekti
10.30-11.15 Jari Renko (Apotti Oy): Apotista ja sen tarinallisuudesta
11.15-11.30 Kahvitauko
11.30-12.00 Matias Nurminen (Tampereen yliopisto): Jokainen näkökulma on kertomuksen arvoinen? Apotti mediassa
12.00-12.30 Pasi Raatikainen (Tampereen yliopisto): Julkisen sektorin iso tietojärjestelmähankinta – Monitulkintaista yhteistyötä
12.30-13.00 Lounas
13.00-13.45 Riitta Hekkala (Aalto yliopisto): Narratiivit tunteiden tutkimisessa – kontekstina tietojärjestelmäprojekti(t)
13.45-14.15 Loppukeskustelu
Lähetämme rekisteröityneille osallistujille henkilökohtaisen linkin Zoom-tapahtumaan. Rekisteröidy osoitteessa:
https://tuni.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MpdO-prjgsHNaAJFF6Qg1cNV30cDdMF7nl
Lisätietoja tarvittaessa: matias.nurminen@tuni.fi
Tervetuloa!
Kertomuksen tutkimuksen päivä 25.9. PERUTTU
Valitettavasti koronatilanteesta johtuen Kertomuksen tutkimuksen päivä, joka oli tarkoitus järjestää 25. syyskuuta 2020 Tampereen yliopistolla, siirtyy vuodella eteenpäin eli syksyyn 2021. Päädyimme tähän päätökseen, sillä nykyinen tilanne koronaviruksen suhteen ei mahdollista edes osittaista läsnäoloa tapahtumassa.
Kiitämme kiinnostuksesta tapahtumaa kohtaan ja pahoittelemme tästä muutoksesta mahdollisesti aiheutuvaa vaivaa. Iloksemme kutsutut puhujat Katri Komulainen, Markku Lehtimäki ja Kai Mikkonen ovat lupautuneet osallistumaan vuoden 2021 tapahtumaan. Tiedotamme tapahtuman uudesta päivämäärästä myöhemmin.
NARRARE INTERDISCIPLINARY AUTUMN SEMINAR FOR PhD RESEARCHERS CANCELLED
Unfortunately due to the coronavirus pandemic, Narrare interdisciplinary autumn seminar for PhD researchers, which was supposed to be held September 24, 2020 at Tampere University, will be postponed to autumn 2021. We have reached this decision as the current situation regarding the corona virus does not permit us to hold a seminar with even partial in-person attendance.
We thank you all for the interest you have shown for the seminar and we are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you. On a more positive note, however, we are very pleased to inform that our guest speakers, professors Lars-Christer Hydén and Hanna Meretoja, have agreed to participate in the 2021 seminar. We will inform you about the new date of the seminar later.
CFP: Kertomuksen tutkimuksen päivä: kertomusten yhteiskunnallisuus ja yhteiskunnan kerronnallisuus
Monitieteisen kertomuksentutkimuksen tutkimuskeskus Narrare järjestää 25.9.2020 kertomuksen tutkimuksen päivän. Tutkimuspäivän tarkoituksena on tavata muita kertomuksen tutkijoita ja vaihtaa kokemuksia ja ideoita kertomusten tutkimuksesta. Teemana tänä vuonna on kertomusten yhteiskunnallisuus ja yhteiskunnan kerronnallisuus. Teemasta oman tutkimuksensa kannalta puhuvat kolme pääpuhujaa:
Katri Komulainen on psykologian professori Itä-Suomen yliopistossa. Hän esittelee yhdessä Maija Korhosen kanssa tekemäänsä tutkimusta otsikolla ”Työuupumuksesta toipuminen merkityksenannon ja identiteetin pysyvyytenä ja muutoksena – performatiivinen ja biografinen tarkastelu”.
Markku Lehtimäki on yleisen kirjallisuustieteen professori Turun yliopistossa, ja hänen puheensa otsikko on ”Opettavaisia kertomuksia: Ympäristöretoriikka nykyromaanissa”.
Kai Mikkonen on yleisen kirjallisuustieteen professori Helsingin yliopistossa. Hän puhuu aiheesta ”Kirjallisuus ja terrorismi: empatian keinot, sympatian rajat”.
Kutsumme kaikkia kertomuksen tutkijoita esittelemään oman tutkimuksensa suhdetta kertomusten yhteiskunnallisuuteen tai yhteiskunnan kerronnallisuuteen. Tarkoituksena on lyhyiden (n. 15 min.) esitysten ja niiden pohjalta käydyn keskustelun avulla kartoittaa ja ideoida tutkimusta kertomusten ja yhteiskunnan välisistä kytköksistä. Pyydämme lähettämään noin 200 sanan mittaisen esitelmäehdotuksen 21.8.2020 mennessä Helena Mäntyniemelle (helena.mantyniemi@tuni.fi). Esitelmäehdotuksesta tulee käydä ilmi esittäjän oppiala, affiliaatio ja tehtävä. Ehdotuksen tulee sisältää otsikko ja kuvaus, miten esitelmässä pureudutaan tutkimuspäivän teemaan
CFP: NARRARE INTERDISCIPLINARY AUTUMN SEMINAR FOR PhD RESEARCHERS September 24, 2020, Tampere University
Symposium: Applied Narratology, April 2-3, 2020, Tampere University – CANCELLED
Due to corona virus, the Applied Narratology Symposium is unfortunately cancelled.
Welcome to the Applied Narratology Symposium!
Come listen to some of the most prominent narrative theorists at Tampere University on April 2nd–3rd. Jens Brockmeier, Marina Grishakova, Molly Andrews and others will talk about different ways in which narrative theory is applied in the social sciences and in fields as diverse as psychology, criminology and IT development.
Everybody welcome!
There is a welcoming coffee served for all participants on Thursday, April 2nd, at 11.15 am. Please fill out the e-form here (by March 19th), so we will know the number of people attending.
The Applied Narratology Symposium
Thursday, April 2nd
10.15-11.15 Introduction and welcome (Päätalo C6)
Laura Karttunen (Tampere University): Applied Narratology: Lessons from Dewey
Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar (University of Groningen): Narrative Learning Environments
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.45 Keynote I (Päätalo C6)
Marina Grishakova (University of Tartu): On the role of narrative imagination in real life: scenario thinking, modeling, and experimentation
14.00-15.00 Session I (Päätalo A3)
Molly Andrews (University of Helsinki & University of East London): Narrative Scholarship and the Entanglement of Human Lives
Mari Hatavara, [Matti Hyvärinen, Hanna Rautajoki] (Tampere University): Narrative Contestation and Positioning in a Life Interview of a Senior
15.15-16.45 Session II (Päätalo A3)
Anneke Sools (University of Twente): Back from the Future: A Narrative Approach to Study the Imagination of Personal Futures
Anna Ovaska (Tampere University): From Critical Medical Humanities to Critical Narrative Medicine
Eevastiina Kinnunen, Päivi Kosonen, [Hanna Meretoja] (University of Turku): Narrative Agency and Metanarrativity: The Potential of Metanarrative Creative Reading Groups
Friday, April 3rd
10.15-11.15 Keynote II (Päätalo C6)
Jens Brockmeier (The American University of Paris): Language, Narrative, and Simultaneity
11.30-12.45 Session III (Päätalo C6)
Ann Bager, Klarissa Lueg (University of Southern Denmark) (via Skype): Theorizing and Applying Narratological Concepts within Sociology – Experiences, Challenges and Outlooks
Lois Presser (Tampere University & University of Tennessee) Narrative and Narratology in an Applied Discipline: The Case of Criminology
13.45-14.45 Session IV (Päätalo A3)
Kirsi Sandberg [Mykola Andrushchenko, Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen, Jyrki Nummenmaa, Timo Nummenmaa, Jaakko Peltonen] (Tampere University): Computational Recognition of Narrative
Matias Nurminen & Pasi Raatikainen (Tampere University): Narrating the Sociotechnical Mess: Storytelling in Information Systems Development
15.00-16.00 Roundtable (Päätalo A3)
Maria Mäkelä (Tampere University): Too Much Compelling Storytelling? Scholarly Responses to the Storytelling Boom
Roundtable discussion in response to Mäkelä’s talk
Keynote speakers
Language, Narrative, and Simultaneity
Jens Brockmeier, The American University of Paris
How can we apply narrative theory to some classical problems of psychology and the study of mind? The problem I try to understand is the multi-layeredness of our life, specifically its experiential and mental dimension. I believe that language and, more specifically, narrative plays a central role in our most complex temporal scenarios, such as the scenarios of simultaneity, as we encounter them, for example, in the autobiographical process. My question is how does narrative evoke and create scenarios of multiple events and experiences that happen at the same time.
Jens Brockmeier is a Professor is Psychology in The American University of Paris. His research is concerned with the cultural fabric of mind and language. A number of his research projects have been concerned with how language, as a form of life and central dimension of human development, works in specific social and applied settings. In particular, he has been investigating narrative as psychological, linguistic, and cultural form and practice. His main interest here is in the function of narrative for autobiographical memory, personal identity, and the understanding of time, issues he has explored both empirically and philosophically. His recent books include Beyond the Archive: Memory, Narrative, and the Autobiographical Process (Oxford University Press, 2015); Cultura e narrazione, (Mimesis, 2014); Beyond Loss: Dementia, Memory, and Identity (ed. with L.-C. Hyden and H. Lindemann Nelson, Oxford University Press, 2014).
On the Role of Narrative Imagination in Real Life: Scenario Thinking, Modeling, and Experimentation
Marina Grishakova, University of Tartu
Various forms of counterfactual and imaginative thinking are often weighted against the “actual” or “real” states of affairs and considered as contrary to the referential “truth.” There are, however, modes of representation that are difficult or impossible to evaluate in terms of referential truth or falsity (see Grishakova, Gramigna, Sorokin, in Frontiers of Narrative Studies 2019). Nevertheless, they constitute significant parts of “reality”, for example, through the use of symbolic systems (language, arts, rituals etc.) taken for granted by users and creators of those systems. One of the modes of representations, whose reality status is suspended, is “mimetic modeling” (J.-M. Schaeffer), ranging from ludic feint and imaginative (re)instantiation to fiction. There has been recently an increase of interest in such imaginative constructions in various disciplines (sciences, historiography, anthropology, etc.), and their study has been cast in terminology borrowed from the study of fictional narratives. This lecture will discuss the uses of imagination, from ethical experiments, staged deception in science to scenario thinking, and their functions in “real life”.
Marina Grishakova is Professor in Comparative Literature, Institute of Cultural Research, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her scholarly interests include theories and philosophy of literature, cognitive aesthetics, interdisciplinary narratology, intermedial studies and film. Her current work focuses on complexity and theories of representation. Among her recent publications are Intermediality and Storytelling (with M.-L. Ryan; De Gruyter, 2010); Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities: Literary Theory, History, Philosophy (with S. Salupere; Routledge, 2015) Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution (with M. Poulaki; University of Nebraska Press, 2019). She has been and is chair or member of the steering and advisory boards of many international professional associations, research networks and committees, journals and book series, and has given a multitude of keynote and guest lectures in various universities across Europe.
The symposium is organized by:
Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at Tampere University
Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory (Project funded by the Academy of Finland)
Storytelling in Information Systems Development: A Critical Case Study of the Patient Information System Apotti
Organizers:
Laura Karttunen, PhD (Tampere University)
Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, PhD (University of Groningen)
Conference secretary:
Helena Mäntyniemi, MA
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In the last few years, a proliferation of applications of narrative theory in fields such as medicine, education, criminology, marketing, public policy, etc. has taken place. With that, ‘applied narratology’ has become a possibility: a field facilitating the transfer of narratological methods and findings to professional practices of narrative. This symposium is meant to explore the possibilities of this emerging field, but also to critically assess it.
During two days of keynotes and paper presentations, we wish to be among the first to define and characterise what ‘applied narratology’ could be, but also to ask the necessary critical questions. How well do narratological concepts survive outside their traditional habitat, the study of literary texts? How do they change when applied to practical tasks such as guidance councelling, medical training or immigrant integration? Can the growing popularity of practical applications be explained by institutional pressure and the worldwide decline in humanities, and is this a cause for concern?
One point of departure for this symposium is the acknowledgment of the fact that narratology, by definition, is inimical to questions of application. After all, it was originally conceived as a science of literature dedicated to building general models of narrative structure. For a long time, if the notion of “applied” was considered at all, it was taken to refer to the practice of narratological criticism – the analysis of individual literary texts. The purpose of generating narratological concepts was to enable the scientific exploration and elaboration of narratives on a theoretical level, divorced from practical endeavours. Can, could and should narratology be taken beyond its academic comfort zone? And if so, can we envision an ethical “applied narratology” where narratology’s insights into how stories function are not just commodified for professional storytellers such as marketers and spin doctors, but also made available to the public so as to increase ‘narrative savviness’ – the ability to see through the narrative tricks of those professional storytellers?
Publication event: Real Fictions: Fictionality, Factuality and Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Storytelling
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 29:2 (2019)
Editors Sam Browse (Sheffield Hallam University), Alison Gibbons (Sheffield Hallam University), Mari Hatavara (Tampere University)
November 19th, 2019, 4 pm. Tampere University Linna building, room 5026-27.
The special issue: In today’s so-called “post-truth” age, the boundary between reality and fiction seems increasingly hard to distinguish: politicians spin stories; everyday reality in (social) media is invested in live narratives; historical events are narrativized in literary texts; fantasy as a genre is more popular than ever. This affects the way people live their everyday lives together with and inspired by the stories that surround them. Stories are tools for making sense of human action in situated social realities: they organize what is happening while they exemplify, explain, and predict the intentions of others. Moreover, the spread of new media affects the affordances and constraints available in interaction and interpersonal sense making. Contemporary and new forms of storytelling thus entail formative force when stories serve as vehicles to comment on and challenge social expectations and the limits of the tellable. This special issue comprises nine articles discussing the theoretical and methodological ramifications of post-truth modes of storytelling across a range of cultural contexts and narrative forms. The first article is a comprehensive introduction to the theme and the latest developments in the fields involved, while the other articles each offer a theoretical reflection and methodological application on the subject through the analysis of varied materials. More information on the issue: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ni.29.2
The program includes an introduction from one of the editors, three talks by authors of the articles, and a commentary:
16.15 Mari Hatavara: introduction
16.25 Kim Schoofs: Adjusting to new “truths.” The relation between the spatio-temporal context and identity work in repeated WWII-testimonies
Matias Nurminen: Narrative warfare. The ‘careless’ reinterpretation of literary canon in online antifeminism
Samuli Björninen: The rhetoric of factuality in narrative. Appeals to authority in Claas Relotius’s feature journalism
17.00 Hanna Rautajoki: Comments on the issue, followed by general discussion
17.30 Drinks and small snacks
Welcome!
Free lecture: The dialectic relation between narrative and context from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective: The case of World War II-testimonies
PhD student Kim Schoofs (Department of Linguistics, KU Leuven) is visiting Narrare for the Autumn 2019. She is presenting her research on November 6 at 16.15 in PinniB 1096, Tampere University.
The event is open for all, welcome!
Abstract:
In this talk, I will scrutinize how narrators construct their stories and identities in relation to the dominant discourses circulating in the global context. Only recently have interactional sociolinguists increasingly examined this dialectic relation between the local interactional level of narrative and the surrounding socio-cultural context and its ‘big D’-discourses (Gee, 1999). This is, in part, thanks to Positioning Analysis (Bamberg, 1997b), which links ‘local’ levels 1 and 2 – the storyworld and storytelling world – to a more ‘globally’ oriented level 3 – the construction of the narrator’s’ identities in respect to ‘big D’-discourses.
The exploration of positioning level 3 will thus be the focus of this talk. To this end, I will make use of a dataset of Belgian WWII-testimonies, as the memory of WWII offers a myriad of dominant discourses, since the Belgian state failed to create one homogeneous patriotic narrative in the post-war period. Instead, fragmented master narratives emerged in the Flemish versus the Walloon language communities on the one hand and the group of Jewish survivors versus former political prisoner groups on the other hand. Furthermore, the corpus consists of pairs of testimonies. Each pair contains at least one spoken and one written testimony, by the same narrator. Since the narratives were repeated at different times, they are also situated in and related to different global contexts and allow us to tap into the way changing dominant discourses influence – and are influenced by – the local construction of stories and identities.
Methodologically, I will draw on Bamberg’s description of positioning level 3 as the construction of ‘a (local) answer to the question: ‘Who am I?’’ (Bamberg, 1997a, p. 337). Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) and the principle of indexicality will be used to carry out discursive analyses of the narrators’ identity work. Additionally, and in line with recent developments in positioning level 3 research (see Clifton & Van De Mieroop, 2016; De Fina, 2013; Georgakopoulou, 2013), I will aim to discern repeated patterns and diachronic changes in the narrators’ stories and the identities they construct. Overall, the talk will explore various ways in which to scrutinize the dialectic relation between the discursive construction of stories and of identities on the one hand, and ‘big D’-discourses on the other hand.
Bio
Kim Schoofs is a PhD student at KU Leuven within the Department of Linguistics. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and literature (KU Brussels, 2013), a master’s degree in linguistics and literature (KU Leuven, 2014) and a master’s degree in broadcast journalism (KU Leuven, 2015). In 2016, she started working on her PhD project, under the supervision of Dorien Van De Mieroop. Kim’s PhD project aims to gain insight into new ways of scrutinizing the dialectic relation between the discursive construction of local stories and of identities on the one hand, and dominant discourses circulating in the global context on the other hand. The theoretical elaboration of Positioning Analysis is at the core of her project. In general, Kim’s research interests cover Narrative, Life stories, Identity Construction, Discourse Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics.
All welcome!
NARRARE INTERDISCIPLINARY AUTUMN SEMINAR FOR PhD RESEARCHERS September 20, 2019
On Friday September 20, 2019, Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies hosts the fourth 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. Our visiting scholars this year are Professor Molly Andrews and Professor Lois Presser.
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 – all welcome!
10 Keynote (PinniB 1096 – FREE): Molly Andrews, University of East London
Using Personal Narratives to Study Social Change
11 Keynote (PinniB 1096 – FREE): Lois Presser, University of Tennessee
Dangerous Narratives: Narrative Criminology and ‘Why We Harm’
12–13 Lunch
13 – 15.15 Panel I (PinniB 3112 – closed session)
13.00 – 13.45 Anni Reuter, University of Helsinki
Deportations and Internal Exile in the 1930s Soviet Union in the Private Letters of Ingrian Finns: Counter Narratives of persecution, marginalization and diaspora
13.45 – 14.30 Rosalchen Whitecross, University of Sussex
Writing time in their own words – Encounters with the lived experiences of women in prison
14.30 – 15.15 Tanya Beetham, University of Stirling
Young women’s accounts of domestic abuse in childhood: a dialogical narrative analysis focusing on the ‘transitions’ narrative typology
Panel II (PinniB 3113 – closed session)
13.00 – 13.45 Panu Raatikainen, Tampere University
Significance of Narratives for Information Systems Developers
13.45 – 14.30 Richard Fejes, ELTE University
Transmedia Discourse
14.30 – 15.15 Sofia Wanström, Åbo Akademi
Positioning in personal narratives of sexual assault
15.15 – 15.30 Coffee
15.30 – 17.45 Panel I continues (PinniB 3112 – closed session)
15.30 – 16.15 Noora Vaakanainen, Tampere University
”Speaking art is design”. Materiality and Artificiality in Kaj Kalin’s Design.
16.15 – 17.00 Pernille Meyer Christensen, Aarhus University
The Development of Second Person Narratives in Danish Literary History
17.00 – 17.45 Diána Mosza, ELTE University
Narrative and corporeal aspects of two novels from the 1970s
Panel II continues (PinniB 3113 – closed session)
15.30 – 16.15 Hanna Fontana, University of Arts
“Vissi d’Arte, when work is passion and calling”
16.15 – 17.00 Sari Kuusela, independent scholar
Leadership stories
17.00 – 17.45 —
18 Reception (PinniB 1029-30)
KEYNOTE LECTURES (FREE)
10-12 AM (PINNIB 1096)
Molly Andrews, University of East London:
Using Personal Narratives to Study Social Change
Narratives are not only the means by which individuals breathe public life into personal experience, they are a primary tool by which individuals recognise and affirm themselves as members of a group, thereby often acting as a catalyst for the raising of political consciousness. Narratives can thus play a vital role in de-individualising that which is personal; rendering experience into a narrative form can help individuals to become more actively engaged in shaping the conditions of their lives. Using a range of different kinds of political talk, this session will explore the relationship between micro and macro narratives of political change.
Molly Andrews is Professor of Political Psychology, and Co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research (www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/index.htm) at the University of East London. Her research interests include political narratives, the psychological basis of political commitment, political identity, and patriotism and intergenerational dialogue. Her books include Lifetimes of Commitment: Aging, Politics, Psychology Shaping History: Narratives of Political Change (both Cambridge University Press), and Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life (Oxford University Press). She serves on the Editorial Board of five journals which are published in four countries, and her publications have appeared in Chinese, German, Swedish, Spanish, Czech, and German. For the academic year 2019-2020, she is the Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki.
Lois Presser, University of Tennessee
Dangerous Narratives: Narrative Criminology and ‘Why We Harm’
Later than most other academic disciplines, the field of criminology took an explicit ‘narrative turn’ in the space of the last decade. The central idea of a burgeoning narrative criminology is that experiences of and resistance to harm are conditioned by narrative discourse. Thus narrative criminologists have discerned narrative bases of terrorism and counterterrorism, genocide, social drinking, drug use, drug trafficking and drug “wars,” partner violence and other assault, meat-eating, and more. Narrative criminology avoids the individualism and especially the mentalism of other causal variables advanced within criminology (e.g., self-control, strain, rational choice). It sidesteps the question of whether narrators truly believe their stories or only present them to enable otherwise motivated harmful action. Both individuals and groups tell and live by stories, hence narrative criminology pertains to various levels of harm and participation therein. In this presentation I will discuss the theoretical and empirical development of narrative criminology, providing a diverse set of research examples from around the world, and describe my own contributions to the field in the form of a general theory of harm. I will lastly consider problems and opportunities facing narrative criminology.
As a Fulbright Professor, located within the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University and affiliated with Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary NarrativeStudies, I will conduct research and teach in the area of narrative criminology which I founded. I am a professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee in the USA, a faculty I joined in 2002 after earning my Ph.D. in Criminology/Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. I have published extensively in the areas of narrative, harm, identity, and restorative justice. My books include Been a Heavy Life, Why We Harm, Narrative Criminology (co-edited), Inside Story: How Narratives Drive Mass Harm and The Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology (co-edited). My Fulbright/Tampere project concerns the development of methods for pinpointing facts and understandings that have been rendered invisible in dominant cultural stories. My concern is with the logics taken for granted in, and the real constraints on people’s lives omitted from, hegemonic narratives.
Narrare on mukana Metodifestivaaleilla 27.-29.8.2019!
Metodifestivaali on vuodesta 2009 alkaen järjestetty tieteellinen tapahtuma, joka kokoaa yliopistojen ja tutkimuslaitosten eri alojen tutkijoita keskustelemaan ajankohtaisista menetelmäkysymyksistä ja tutkijan taitoihin liittyvistä teemoista.
Metodifestivaaleille osallistuvat saavat tietoa niin uusista kuin myös vakiintuneemmista tutkimusmenetelmistä, haasteista niiden käytössä, tutkijalta edellytettävästä osaamisesta tutkimusmenetelmien käytössä sekä muista menetelmiin liittyvistä ajankohtaisista teemoista. Festivaaleilla kuullaan asiantuntijoita ja keskustellaan erillisissä sessioissa myös siitä, mitä erityispiirteitä tutkimusmenetelmien opettaminen sisältää ja miten kehittää opetusta. Nyt jo kuudetta kertaa järjestettävä festivaali on suunnattu kaikille tutkijoille, metodeista kiinnostuneille ja niitä opettaville.
https://events.tuni.fi/metodifestivaali2019/
MINÄ, HENKILÖHAHMO -koulutuspäivä (pe 14.12. kello 10-16, Tampereen yliopisto, Pinni B1096)
Kertomuksen vaarat -projekti toivottaa kaikki lämpimästi tervetulleiksi keskustelevaan koulutuspäivään “Minä, henkilöhahmo” pe 14.12. Tampereen yliopistossa (Pinni B1096).
Näkökulmia itsen kertomiseen tuovat niin journalistit, tutkijat kuin esikoiskirjailijakin. Millaisia kertomuksia itsestä Kertomuksen vaarat on saanut ilmiantolaatikkoonsa? Mitä tehdä, jos huomaa muuttuneensa henkilöhahmoksi? Mikä on itsen ja julkisen minän suhde? Miksi journalismi kertoo yksilötarinoita?
AIKATAULU (puheenvuorot 20–30 min + keskustelua)
10.15 – 10.30 Maria Mäkelä: Minäkerronta ja vaarat Kertomuksen vaarojen aineistossa
10.30 – 11.15 Anu Ubaud: Miksi journalismi kertoo yksilötarinoita?
11.15 – 12.00 Ilkka Pernu: Minua ei ole – itsen kirjoittaminen featurejournalismissa
lounas 12.00 – 13.00
13.00 – 13.45 Sisko Savonlahti: Miksi aina minä?
13.45 – 14.15 Matias Nurminen: Topelius ja anti-Midas: Urheilupersoona Aleksi Valavuori ja tarinallistamisen houkutus
kahvi 14.15 – 14.45
14.45 – 15.30 Saara Särmä: Elämä valtakunnanfeministinä
15.30 – 16.00 Tytti Rantanen: Wille Hyvösen Tuntematon uusvilpittömänä performanssina
PUHUJAVIERAAT
Anu Ubaud on Helsingin Sanomien toimituspäällikkö. Hän on työskennellyt media-, viestintä- ja markkinointialalla 11 vuotta. Journalismin parista hänellä on kokemusta Hesarin lisäksi useasta aikakauslehdestä.
Ilkka Pernu on kokenut journalisti ja Long Playn perustajajäsen. Hän on kirjoittanut laajoja henkilökuvia, reportaaseja ja muita featuretekstejä Long Playn lisäksi useisiin aikakauslehtiin, muun muassa Suomen Kuvalehteen ja Imageen.
Sisko Savonlahti on 36-vuotias helsinkiläinen toimittaja, televarainhankkija ja esikoiskirjailija. Hänen kirjansa “Ehkä tänä kesänä kaikki muuttuu” ilmestyi viime syyskuussa.
Saara Särmä, YTT, feministi, johtaja, taiteileva tutkija, työskentelee tällä hetkellä projektitutkijana Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulussa.
Projektin tutkijat:
Maria Mäkelä on Kertomuksen vaarat -projektin (Koneen säätiö, 2017–2020) johtaja ja yliopistonlehtori Tampereen yliopistossa.
Matias Nurminen on väitöskirjatutkija Kertomuksen vaarat -hankkeessa. Hän kirjoittaa väitöskirjaa viettelykertomuksista 2000-luvun alussa ja tutkii antifeminististen miesasialiikkeiden, eli manosfäärin, kertomuskäsityksiä.
Tytti Rantanen viimeistelee väitöskirjaansa kerronnan sabotaasista ranskalaisessa 1960- ja 1970-luvun radikaalissa elokuvassa ja kirjallisuudessa. Kertomuksen vaaroissa Tytti tutkii pohjoismaista dokumenttielokuvaa ja dokumentaristien itsen kertomista.
NARRATIVE AND TRUTH (University of Tampere, Monday 3 December, lecture hall Paavo Koli)
The research consortium Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory (Academy of Finland 2018-2022) presents: Tampere Team’s kick-off seminar with Paul Dawson!
The role of the Tampere team in the iNARR consortium is to study (1) the story logic of social media, (2) the relationship between narrative and truth, facts or data, and the storytelling boom as a key element of the “post-truth” era, (3) personal experience as knowledge, (4) storytelling as a normative practice, (5) popular understanding of what counts as a narrative. We have invited our Australian colleague, internationally acclaimed narrative theorist Paul Dawson (University of New South Wales) to discuss these issues with us. The program consists of a plenary talk by Paul, shorter presentations by team members, and a closing panel featuring the PIs of the Turku and Helsinki teams.
When and Where: University of Tampere, Monday 3 December 2018
Building Pinni A, lecture hall Paavo Koli
ALL WELCOME, REGISTRATION BY NOVEMBER 27: https://elomake3.uta.fi/lomakkeet/22566/lomake.html
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PROGRAM
12.00 – 13.00 Paul Dawson:
“The Truth about Narrative: Emergent Storytelling and Affective Publics in the Digital Age”
13.00 – 13.20 Maria Mäkelä:
“The Experiential Narrative Truth in the Dangers of Narrative corpus”
COFFEE 13.20 – 13.40
13.40 – 14.00 Laura Karttunen (iNARR Tampere team):
“Fiction as Knowledge: Symbolic Resources, Dewey, the Bold and the Beautiful”
14.00 – 14.20 Samuli Björninen (iNARR Tampere team):
“The Rhetoric of Factuality in Narrative: Complementing and Challenging the Rhetorical Fictionality Theory”
14.20 – 15.00 Roundtable: Paul Dawson, Mari Hatavara (iNARR Tampere team), Hanna Meretoja (Turku team leader, iNARR consortium), Merja Polvinen (Helsinki team leader, iNARR consortium)
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Paul Dawson, University of New South Wales
The Truth about Narrative: Emergent Storytelling and Affective Publics in the Digital Age
This paper will connect some of the fundamental concerns of narrative theory with an account of the viral circulation of stories in today’s digital age, most specifically through the global micro-blogging site, Twitter. Its aim is to establish how narrative knowledge relates to the method of scientific explanation on the one hand and to the paradox of fictional truth on the other. This will proceeed by examining the interplay between causality (a feature of narrative logic) and affect (a function of narrative tellability).
A central premise of the paper is that Twitter can be characterized in scientific terms as a complex system producing emergent phenomena. Building upon current social media research into ‘ambient affiliation’ (Zappavigna), ‘affective publics’ (Papacharissi) and ‘shared stories’ (Page) to develop this proposition, the paper will investigate its significance for the question of what constitutes narrative truth in today’s media ecology. On the basis that the hashtag is the key property of emergent storytelling, this paper will discuss the competing concepts of narrative that inform the #MeToo movement in the context of Fourth Wave feminism.
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Visit iNARR webpage: https://instrumentalnarratives.wordpress.com/
Organisaatiotarinankerronta –seminaari (perjantaina 23.11. klo 9.30-13, Pinni B 1097)
Seminaarin aamupäivän aikana kuullaan johtamisen, organisaatiotutkimuksen ja kertomusten parissa työskenteleviltä asiantuntijoilta mitä kertomus organisaatioissa heidän työssään tarkoittaa.
Puheenvuoroissaan teemaa pohtivat muun muassa:
- ohjauksen lehtori Arto Koskinen (Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu, media-ala),
- tutkimusjohtaja Matti Hyvärinen (Tampereen yliopisto),
- väitöskirjatutkija Paula Rossi (Tampereen yliopisto) sekä
- informaatiotieteen ja interaktiivisen median professori J. Tuomas Harviainen (Tampereen yliopisto)
Kommenttipuheenvuoroissa ääneen pääsevät:
- yleisen kirjallisuustieteen dosentti, yliopistonlehtori Maria Mäkelä (Tampereen yliopisto) ja
- hallintotieteen professori Jari Stenvall (Tampereen yliopisto)
He pohtivat laajemmin organisaatiotarinankerronnan teemaa.
Seminaarin alustava ohjelma:
- klo 9.30 – 10.00 Aamukahvit
- klo 10.00 – 12.30 Puheenvuorot + kommentit
- klo 12.30 – 13.00 Organisaatiotarinankerronnan teema ja tutkimus – yhteinen keskustelu
Seminaarin toivotaan toimivan avauksena ja kehittäjänä monitieteelliselle organisaatiotarinankerronnan tutkimusalan ja yhteistyön organisoitumiselle.
Kutsumme mukaamme keskustelemaan kaikki teemasta kiinnostuneet: tilaisuus on avoin ja maksuton.
Ilmoittauduthan 19.11. mennessä tästä linkistä tarjoilujen varmistamiseksi.
Tapahtuman esite: OT_esite
Lisätietoja
väitöskirjatutkija Paula Rossi
paula.rossi@uta.fi
050 318 7456
Workshop: Intermediality and Narrative (September 26, 2018, University of Tampere)
Narrare, Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies, will arrange a workshop at the University of Tampere, Finland, September 26th (12–16, room Pinni B3107). The event will consist of a guest lecture and a number of idea papers submitted by researchers from all stages of their careers to be discussed together. The focus of the day will be on intermediality and narrative:
* How do the two concepts relate to, complement, and challenge one another?
* How does intermediality theory open up narrative theories for application beyond the verbal and the literary?
* What is the impact of intermediality theory on the understanding of genre – literary or otherwise?
* How are narratives affected by today’s changing media environments and/or different medial configurations?
* What constitutes an intermedial narrative in the first place?
To contribute, send in your idea paper (150–200 words) addressing one or more of the questions above by Fri 14 Sep. To participate as a member of the audience, confirm your attendance by Sun 23 Sep. Participating in the workshop will be your ideal chance to receive expert commentary on your research and meet with people in the field.
Contact: Jarkko Toikkanen, jarkko.toikkanen[at]uta.fi
To promote future cooperation, joining Narrare will be Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) at Växjö, Sweden. Our confirmed guest is Péter Makai, a postdoc at IMS working on evolutionary grand narratives across media borders. Péter’s paper (see below for abstract) will be commented on by Prof. J. Tuomas Harviainen (Information Studies and Interactive Media).
Vast narratives of evolution: Games of life and stories of speciation
Péter Makai
Biological evolution happens gradually, in most cases, imperceivably slowly. While a family or a tribe might have an oral history of a few generations, the history of life on Earth, etched into bones, rocks and DNA record a grand narrative of millions of years. How is evolution made intelligible and acceptable? By telling compelling stories using scientific evidence and reasonable speculation, by compressing time into well-wrought narrative patterns. Meanwhile, because of the algorithmic logic of evolution, digitised media, and computer games in particular, are in a privileged position to present evolution, since they can simulate the contingent, non-teleological nature of evolution. These fictional “experiments” occur within the confines of the game-worlds they simulate, but, in order to make the experience playable, players actually become intelligent designers: they meaningfully direct the flow of ludic evolution, thereby perverting the logic of natural selection. At the workshop, I want to tease out the implications of this tension between the possibilities of different media for authoring vast narratives and the actual constraints human interactions and cognitive capabilities impose on the meaning-making process in making evolution a lived experience.
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Please find also an idea paper by Péter Makai by clicking this link: PKM Leading Idea Paper – The Vast Narrative of Evolution Across Media
The Literary in Life (LILI18): The Social, Affective and Experimental in Narratives across Media
venue and date: University of Tampere, Finland, 13–15 June 2018
LILI18 targets the social, affective and experimental in literature, and explores literary forms of mediation in everyday life. How are literary conventions and devices, both narrative and poetic, employed in social and cultural meaning-making? We investigate the use of stories and metaphors, affective tone and emotion-expressions, as well as literary experimenting, in literature and social life. This approach will allow literary scholarship to regain its focus on literary works and literariness, and open up the boundaries that in many research traditions have isolated artworks from the world of everyday life and routine textual practices. These boundaries are medial in nature, which means that the traffic between art and the everyday is mediated in the form of social, affective and experimental uses of narrative and poetic modes. We are consistently exposed to media platforms, both old and new, that sustain and challenge our perceptions of the world, and employ similar narrative and poetic, as well as rhetorical and aesthetic, means across the board. In this way, we are presented with medial representations that engage us both affectively and in terms of cultural knowledge. In effect, private experiences are mediated as a public process we may have little control over.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
• Prof. Amy Shuman, Department of English (folklore, narrative, and critical theory), The Ohio State University, US
• Prof. Winfried Menninghaus, Director of Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Dr. Jan-Noël Thon, Department of Culture, Film and Media, University of Nottingham, UK
Pre-conference Ph.D. workshop: Analyzing Everyday Storytelling
Time: Tuesday June 12, 2018 (11:00–17:00)
Venue: University of Tampere
Workshop language: English
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: MAY 15, 2018.
The course theme: The focus of this course is on everyday stories and storytelling as they occur in and shape social reality. What are the stories that people encounter, use, negotiate and co-construct in everyday life? How, where and why are the stories told? How do these stories travel around? Who has the right to tell particular stories? How do the “narrative environments” (Gubrium and Holstein) give form and trigger particular kinds of social storytelling? What kinds of socially sanctioned storytelling practices exist? The course provides participants with a theoretical framework and methodological tools for analyzing stories and storytelling practices in varying everyday contexts.
Visiting teacher: Prof. Amy Shuman, Department of English, Ohio State University is a distinguished expert in folklore, narrative, and critical theory. She has published on conversational narrative, literacy, political, food customs, feminist theory and critical theory, and her books include Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents (1986); Other People’s Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy (2005); and (with Carol Bohmer) Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century (2008).
Course format: Before the course, participants submit a paper (5–6 pages in total) that consists of the research question, theoretical background and the intended way of reading the material (2 pages), and an excerpt of the research material (3–4 pages). The course starts with Prof. Shuman’s lecture on the core concepts and latest developments that interdisciplinary narrative studies have to offer to analyzing everyday storytelling. During the course, every participant has 5 min time to introduce his or her problem and materials followed by a discussion led by Prof. Shuman. The purpose of the course is to offer feedback and ideas for reading, not to give long explanations about one’s own paper.
Credits: Presenting a paper in the pre-conference workshop: 3 credit points; presenting a paper and participating in the conference The Literary in Life (LILI18): The Social, Affective and Experimental in Narratives across Media 5 credit points. See https://events.uta.fi/lili2018/.
Course organizers: Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies, Academy of Finland research project “Literary in Life” (LILI), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tampere.
Contact persons: Matti Hyvärinen (matti.k.hyvarinen@uta.fi), Matias Nurminen (matias.nurminen@uta.fi).
To apply: Send a one-page letter with information about your research question, theory, way of reading, material, and the stage of your research, containing your contact details and affiliation, to Coordinator Matias Nurminen matias.nurminen@uta.fi.
Deadline for applications and papers: Deadline for the one-page letter is May 15, 2018. The participants will be informed about acceptance promptly after applying. The papers (see Course format) must be sent no later than June 3, 2018.
Welcome to our pre-conference workshop in June, and please find all the information also from below (link to a pdf-file):
LILI18 PreSeminar_announcement
Tulevaisuuden kertominen, kuvitteleminen ja ennakointi tieteessä ja taiteessa
Symposium Tampereen yliopistossa 1.6.2018
Tulevaisuuden kuvittelua ja tulevaisuudesta kertomista tapahtuu kaikilla yhteiskunnallisen keskustelun alueilla: politiikassa, yhteiskuntasuunnittelussa, mediassa, tieteessä ja kirjallisuudessa sekä taiteessa. Tulevaisuuden kertomista ja kuvittelua on yhtä lailla dystopiaromaanin kuvaama kauhistuttava tulevaisuus, yhteiskuntafilosofin näkemys ihanteellisesta yhteiskuntamuodosta tai journalistin hahmotelma ihmisten selviytymisestä ilmastokatastrofin jälkeen.
Kertomus onkin tulevaisuutta hahmottava, jäsentävä ja ennakoiva muoto, jota hyödynnetään paitsi taiteessa myös erilaisissa arkisissa kommunikaatiotilanteissa. Kertomalla ja kuvittelemalla tulevaisuutta voidaan arvioida ymmärrettävällä tavalla nykyisten kehityskulkujen seurauksia tai tarjota vaihtoehtoja ja perusteluja toiminnan muuttamiseksi. Kertomukset ja fiktio ylipäätään myös mahdollistavat tulevaisuuden kokemuksellisen haltuunoton tavalla, johon tieteelliset faktat eivät välttämättä pysty. Fiktio ja kertomukset voivat osoittaa meille, miltä tulevaisuudessa eläminen tuntuu.
Symposiumissa pureudutaan monitieteisesti hahmottamaan tulevaisuuden kertomisen ja kuvittelun mahdollisuuksia. Tilaisuus on kaikille avoin. Lämpimästi tervetuloa kuuntelemaan!
Ohjelma
Pinni B4113, Kansleririnne 1
10.15-10.30 Aloitus
10.30-11.00 Juha Raipola: Sopivan kokoinen kertomus: Ilmastonmuutos ja mittakaavakritiikki
11.00-11.30 Olli-Pekka Moisio: Utooppinen pedagogiikka
11.30-12.15 Paavo Järvensivu, Tero Toivanen ja Ville Lähde: Tehtävänä tulevaisuus: Monitieteinen ympäristötutkimus, journalismi ja draama
12.15 – 13.00 LOUNAS
13.00-13.30 Teppo Eskelinen: Parempien tulevaisuuksien kuvittelu yksin ja yhdessä
13.30-14.00 Aleksi Lohtaja: Utopiat ja niukkuus: Miksi utopioista kerrotaan asketismin kautta?
14.00-14.30 Jarno Hietalahti: Naurettavat utopiat. Humoristinen suhtautuminen toisinolemisen mahdollisuuteen
14.30-15.00 KAHVI
15.00-15.30 Keijo Lakkala: Utopia ja nykyisyyden suhteellisuus
15.30-16.15 Maria Laakso, Hanna Samola ja Toni Lahtinen: Nuortenkirjallisuuden dystopiat 2010-luvulla
Järjestäjät:
Kirjallinen elämä. Kirjallisuuden ja arkipäivän rajankäyntiä. (SA), Synkistyvät tulevaisuudenkuvat. Dystooppinen fiktio Suomalaisessa nykykirjallisuudessa ja kulttuurissa. (Tampereen yliopisto, Koneen säätiö), Ympäristöriskit, dystopiat ja myytit nykykirjallisuudessa (Toni Lahtinen, SA)
Tiedustelut: maria.s.laakso@uta.fi
SOUND AND TOUCH IN EDGAR ALLAN POE
What: a double lecture
When: 10 am – 12 pm, May 30, 2018
Where: B4087, University of Tampere
Remedial Poe: The Sonic and the Vibratory
Prof. Jonathan Elmer, Indiana University, US
Why is Poe one of the most re-mediated authors of the 19the century? In this paper, I will argue that it is both Poe’s analytics of the senses and his dramatization of a passage beyond normal embodied sense experience (that is, what one hears with ears, or sees with eyes) that is attractive to those working in media other than Poe’s own. Poe’s tales were experiments in attention and the conflict of the senses. Perhaps the most consistent pattern of such conflict is the undoing of a regime of vision (and the fixations it promises) by fugitive sonic elements—a cat’s cry, a beating heart, a repeated phrase, the tinkle of a bell. I will explore this thesis by reference to the dimension of sound and the vibratory cosmos it indexed, using remediations by CS Peirce (“Art Chirography”), Jean Epstein (“La Chute de la Maison Usher”), and Lou Reed (his “Raven” album).
Jonathan Elmer is Professor of English at Indiana University, where he is also Director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute. He has published on a wide array of writers and thinkers, from Thomas Jefferson to Richard Wright, Edgar Allan Poe to Kurt Vonnegut, Jacques Lacan and Niklas Luhmann to Jeff “the Dude” Lebowski.
Touch Images in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”
Jarkko Toikkanen, University of Tampere
In A Philosophical Enquiry, Edmund Burke lists the causes that give rise to sublime astonishment in which the mind finds itself “suspended, with some degree of horror”. Two of these causes are obscurity and privation, or the partial or total sensory reduction that may be either real or imaginary – that is, something occurring in nature or an affect caused by experiencing art. Poe’s protagonist is undergoing his torture first-hand, whereas the reader experiences the horror and astonishment only in imagination. In doing so, they too are subjected to a sensory reduction in a Burkean manner that can be analyzed in terms of its rhetorical design. How exactly is the reader affected by the taking away of sight, and what kinds of sensory perceptions appear in its place? When there is nothing or very little to see, other senses come to the fore. Here it is the touch images – damp stone, fangs of rats, a blade to cut into flesh – the reader is made to imagine that define the intermedial experience.
Jarkko Toikkanen currently works as university researcher at the University of Tampere in the Academy of Finland consortium “The Literary in Life” (285144). His work on Edgar Allan Poe includes the articles “Auditory Images in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’” and “Failing Description in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’”.
All are welcome to this free double lecture! For more info, you may contact Toikkanen (jarkko.toikkanen@staff.uta.fi).
NARRAREN MONITIETEINEN KEVÄTSEMINAARI VÄITÖSKIRJATUTKIJOILLE 21.5.2018, Tampereen yliopisto
NARRARE INTERDISCIPLINARY SPRING SEMINAR FOR PhD RESEARCHERS May 21, 2018, University of Tampere
Tutkitko väitöskirjahankkeessasi kertomuksia tai käytätkö esimerkiksi kerronnallisia menetelmiä? Monitieteinen kertomuksen tutkimuksen keskus Narrare järjestää kolmatta kertaa kevätseminaarin väitöskirjatutkijoille Tampereella maanantaina 21.5.2018. Tarjoamme mahdollisuuden verkostoitua sekä kehittää kertomukseen ja kerronnallisuuteen liittyviä teorioita, metodeja ja erilaisten aineistojen analyysiä monitieteisessä toimintaympäristössä. Osallistujien töitä kommentoivat keskuksen eri tieteenaloja edustavat kokeneet tutkijat ja professorit. Tänä vuonna vierailevana kommentoijana toimii tällä hetkellä Helsingin tutkijakollegiumissa vieraileva professori Ann Phoenix (Professor of Psychosocial Studies, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, University of London).
Voit osallistua seminaariin max 8 liuskan mittaisella paperilla, joka sisältää (1) lyhyen metodin/teoriakehyksen esittelyn, josta käy ilmi tutkimuskysymys, aineisto, sekä tutkimuksesi suhde kertomuksen tutkimuksen kenttään (1–2 sivua); (2) analyysin, jossa tulkitset aineistoasi (max 4 sivua); (3) jos mahdollista, edustavan katkelman käyttämästäsi aineistosta (1–2 sivua). Teksti voi olla englanniksi tai suomeksi. Odotamme osallistujien esittelevän seminaaripäivänä lyhyesti (max 5 minuuttia) paperinsa ennen kommentteja ja keskustelua. Valitsemme osallistujat motivaatiokirjeiden perusteella. Pyydämme lähettämään 300–500 sanan motivaatiokirjeen 16.4. mennessä osoitteeseen matias.nurminen@uta.fi. Ilmoita selkeästi haluatko osallistua suomen vai englanninkieliseen sessioon. Lopulliset seminaaritekstit pyydämme toukokuun 4. mennessä samaan osoitteeseen.
Kutsua saa levittää.
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If your PhD project involves studying narrative or if you make use of narrative methods, this announcement is for you. On Monday May 21, 2018, Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies hosts the third 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. Our confirmed visiting scholar this year is Professor Ann Phoenix. Phoenix is Professor of Psychosocial Studies at Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education, University of London and currently Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
We ask participants to submit a max. 8-page seminar paper that consists of (1) a brief introduction to your research question, target material, method or theoretical framework and its contextualization within the field of narrative studies (1–2 pages); (2) an analysis where you interpret your material (4 pages); (3) if possible, a representative excerpt from your target material (1–2 pages). Submissions are to be written in either English or Finnish. On the day of the seminar, participants are expected to present their papers briefly (max. 5 minutes) before comments and discussion. Please apply by sending a motivational letter of 300–500 words to Matias Nurminen (matias.nurminen@uta.fi) by April 16. There will be sessions in Finnish and English – please inform us which session you wish to participate! The deadline for the seminar papers is May 4, and they are to be sent to the same address.
Please feel free to circulate this message.
Real Fictions: Resistance to and Reception of Contemporary Narratives
5-6 April 2018, University of Tampere, PinniB building (Kanslerinrinne 1, Tampere)
Keynote Speakers:
Sam Browse: ‘Political Fictions’
Alison Gibbons: ‘When Fiction imprisons Life: The trial of Ahmed Naji, or, morality and fictionality at the intersection of intention and reception’
In the so-called “post-truth” age, the boundary between reality and fiction seems increasingly hard to distinguish: politicians spin stories; novelists and actors appear as self-named characters in novels, sitcoms, and movies; and historical events are narrativised in literary texts. Moreover, the post-truth or refer-fictional phenomenon reaches beyond the intentions of creators and beyond the fabric of texts. For one thing, the growing popularity of life-writing genres such as memoir, autofiction, and historical fiction demonstrates a desire on the part of consumers for (at the very least, a fictionalised version of) reality. For another, the media “echo-chambers” of the internet demonstrate a desire on the part of citizens for news and opinion that reflects their own perceptions of social and political reality, rather than an established authority. Ultimately, in the twenty-first century – when life becomes fiction and fictions have lived consequences – the dominant sentiments are personal or emotional versions of the truth, and such sentiments can be evidenced in texts created by writers and speakers as well as in the actions and responses of readers, viewers, and the voting public.
Programme
Thursday April 5th
11.15−12.45 I session, PinniB4116, chair: Maria Laakso
Samuli Björninen, Aarhus University: “The Rhetoric of Factuality: Post-Truth and Alternative Facts in the Context of Cognitive Rhetoric”
Mari Hatavara, University of Tampere: “Fictionality Studies, Narrative Modes & Cross-Fictionality”
Teresa Pepe, University of Oslo: “Autofiction and Hoaxes in the Egyptian Blogosphere”
lunch, own expense
14.15—15.45 II session, PinniB4116, chair: Juha Raipola
Siim Sorokin, University of Tartu: “Digital Enclaves as Leakage Spaces for Societal Realities: Reciprocal Misogyny of Skyler White”
Joe Ondrak, Sheffield Hallam University: “They Came from the Web! How Creepypasta’s Post-postmodern Monsters Creep into Reality”
Markus Laukkanen, University of Tampere: “The Truth is Here”
coffee break: coffee, tea and some fruit available
16.15−17.45 Key note lecture, PinniB1096, chair: Mari Hatavara
Alison Gibbons: “When Fiction imprisons Life: The trial of Ahmed Naji, or, morality and fictionality at the intersection of intention and reception” PinniB1096
18.00−20 Welcoming party, PinniB4087: light refreshments & wine available
Friday April 6th
10.15−11.45 Key note lecture, PinniB1096, chair: Matti Hyvärinen
Sam Browse: ”Political Fictions”
lunch, own expense
13.15−14.15 III session, PinniB4116, chair: Samuli Björninen
Cinzia Orlando, Università di Pavia: “Walter Siti: autofiction and contemporary realism”
Elise Kraatila, University of Tampere: “Conspicuous Fabrications: Confrontations of the Post-Truth in Speculative Fiction”
coffee break: coffee, tea and some fruit available
14.45−15.45 IV session, PinniB4116, chair: Siim Sorokin
Juha Raipola, University of Tampere: “Narrating the Anthropocene: Anthropocene Fiction and Non-Fiction”
Maria Laakso, University of Tampere: “Fictionalizing science in Alan Weismans World Without Us and TV series Life after People”
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)
Lunch break
2.00-3.30 Parallel sessions II (Pinni B 3117 & 3118)
Coffee break (+walk to the Linna building)
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
Coffee break
11.30-1.00 Parallel sessions III (Pinni B 3117 & 3118)
Lunch break
2.00-3.30 Parallel sessions IV (Pinni B 3117 & 3118)
Program of the parallel sessions downloadable via this
link (pdf-file, last update 16.10.2017)
Format for presentations: 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
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?
*** LOUNASTAUKO 11.45 – 12.30 ***
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
*** KAHVITAUKO 13.30 – 13.45 ***
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/
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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
GUEST LECTURE, 18.10.2016 at 10.15-11.45, Main building A3
Professor Henrik Skov Nielsen: “FICTIONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICS”
Nielsen takes his point of departure in the recent paradigm shift in the wake of Walsh 2007 (cp. also Nielsen, Phelan and Walsh (2015), Zetterberg Gjerlevsen (2016), Walsh (2016), and Phelan (2011) where fictionality as communicational strategy is extricated from fiction as a genre denominator. This allows for an examination of fictionality outside fiction. He looks at contemporary politics in forms ranging from clearly ideological and political fake news to election videos by right wing parties and to media coverage of the current election campaign in America.
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Henrik Skov Nielsen is Professor at The Department of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. He heads “Narrative Research Lab”, http://www.nordisk.au.dk/forskningscentre/nrl and ”Centre for Fictionality Studies”, http://fictionality.au.dk/ He is currently visiting professor at Tampere University, Finland. Main areas of expertise include first person narratives, unnatural narratives and fictionality.
September 29th to 30th, 2016
Symposium “The Ideological Force of Narrative” with invited speakers Jan Alber and Dorothee Birke, including a worskhop for PhD and MA students.
Thursday lectures are open for all, welcome
GUEST LECTURE, 26.8. at 12-14, B 3107
Dr. Richard Walsh (University of York): Sense and Wonder: Complexity and the Limits of Narrative Understanding
My talk considers certain cognitive constraints upon the possibility of understanding complexity, as a preliminary attempt to negotiate with those constraints. I examine what it is to bring complex systemic processes into a meaningful relation with our cognitive capacities – which is to say, into relation with narrative; our narrative understanding of systemic behaviour latches onto the system’s emergent behaviour, at the cost of a disregard for how this emergent behaviour is actually being produced. This limit on understanding nonetheless implies the possibility of an inhabitable cognitive borderland, if we view our cognitive engagement with complexity as an “edge of sense” phenomenon. I pursue this idea by considering the (rather surprising) attempts to define emergence in terms of surprise, and put the notion of surprise in narrative context by invoking Alfred Hitchcock’s well-known distinction between surprise and suspense. Doing so provides a way to clarify the affective dimension of the observer’s experience of emergence, and locates it in a certain double relation to knowledge in narrative. This double perspective clarifies the respect in which things may appear to make sense even while we are unable to make sense of them; an affective experience I equate with wonder. Wonder is, among other things, a religious feeling conforming to the double perspective structure I have proposed; the order of things, whilst eluding us, submits to omniscient cognition. I situate omniscience in relation to its literary analogue, omniscient narration, and contrast it with the position of the character narrator, in the middest – drawing upon Don DeLillo’s White Noise as example. DeLillo’s novel provides a suggestive link to The Cloud of Unknowing and a mystical tradition of understanding as a feeling, and even a relinquishing of knowledge. I end by considering whether such mystical ideas can help clarify the wonder I have associated with emergence in complex systems.
12.11.2015
In Finnish only: Tutkimuskeskus Narraren keskustelutilaisuus, Pinni B4116 12-14
Kokemus, odotus ja kerronnallisuus
Elämän narratiivisuuden merkitystä analyyttisen nykyfilosofian valossa tarkastelee akatemiatutkija Antti Kauppinen. Keskustelijoina myös filosofian professori Arto Laitinen, sosiologian professori Matti Hyvärinen sekä englannin kielen ja kirjallisuuden yliopistonlehtori Jarkko Toikkanen.
11.11.2015
Open lecture by LTL Guest Professor Henrik Skov Nielsen
Paavo Koli auditorium 14-16
Edgar Allan Poe and René Descartes imagining madness
In the paper I read three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, two of which are canonical; “The Black Cat”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Oval Portrait”. I contextualize the narratives in relation to unnatural narratology, to fictionality and to the meditations of Descartes. More than anything the paper is concerned with close readings. If listeners have a chance to acquaint themselves with one or more of the stories that is great but anyone will be able to follow.
Oct 22, 2015
Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies presents
Kertomuksentutkimus 2015
Oct 22 2015
Seminar (in Finnish) on the state of the art in Narrative Studies.
The seminar day also sees the unveiling of two new publications:
Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media. Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds, eds. Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen, Maria Mäkelä & Frans Mäyrä, Routledge 2015. http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138854147/
Hajoava perhe, eds. Matti Hyvärinen, Eriikka Oinonen & Tiina Saari, Vastapaino 2015. http://vastapaino.fi/kirjat/hajoava-perhe/
June 4-6, 2015
International conference Ethics of Storytelling: Historical Imagination in Contemporary Literature, Media and Visual Arts
May 20, 2015
Terminology workshop on ”Narrative Identity”
May 19, 2015
Memory and metaphor: How do we make sense of the past?
Guest Professor Jens Brockmeier (The American University of Paris)
May 5, 2015
Fictionality as documentation strategy: The Act of Killing and The Ambassador
Henrik Skov Nielsen (Aarhus University; Guest Professor at the School of Language, Translation, and Literary Studies, UTA)