Narrative Studies Seminar Programme (Spring 2024)

Time: selected Wednesdays at 2:15–3:00 pm EET/EEST.
Location: Pinni B (room number in brackets after each item) or Zoom (Link)

 

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.

 

Programme:

31.1. Aura Lounasmaa: “Can Stories Affect Social Change? Participatory and Collective Narratives of (Forced) Migration” (B3109)

13.3. Hanna-Riikka Roine: “Making Narratives Appear and Matter: Algorithms as Organizational Logic” (B4113)

20.3. Caesy Stuck: “A Narratological Perspective on Human-Nonhuman Hybridity in Literary Fiction” (B4113)

10.4. Jussi Backman: “After the End of History: Hermeneutic Philosophy of History, Micronarratives, and Their Role in Contemporary Political Theory” (B4115)

15.5. Reetta Eiranen: “Narrations of Collective Experience in the Nineteenth-Century” (B3109)

29.5. Markus Laukkanen: “Who Decides the Meaning of Game of Thrones? Discursive-Narratological Approach to Internet-Age Storytelling” (B3019)