Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at Tampere University, Finland

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)

This talk is part of the narrative studies seminar.

Symposium & Concept workshop. More details will be added later.

Keynote speakers:

Elise Kraatila

Jan Alber

Jarmila Mildorf

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

This event is organized in collaboration with Elise Kraatila (IAS).