International symposium on narrative research

Contributions range from theoretical and methodological reflections on the current status and future challenges in narrative and storytelling research, to descriptions of (ongoing) literary and empirical work. There are four sessions in which speakers give voice to different perspectives in the field. Participants of the symposium are cordially invited to join discussions with the speakers about the following themes:

• narrative movements
• changing details and patterns
• storying health
• difference in narrative

Programme & presentations

9.00-9.30 Registration, coffee & tea

9.30-9.45 Welcome & introduction Gerty Lensvelt-Mulders

9.45-11.15 Narrative movements Chair: Anneke Sools 

The Travelling Concept of Narrative Matti Hyvärinen 

The function of narrative: Toward a narrative psychology of meaning, Brian Schiff

11.15-11.30 Break

11.30-13.00 Storying and visualising health & resilience
Chair: Annemiek Richters 

Resilience and Narrative: A Narrative Analysis of Natascha Kampusch’s Survival, Joachim Duyndam 

Life stories and mental health, Gerben Westerhof 

Landscapes of memories: Reading narrated and visualised representations of a Darfuri woman against the grain, Karin Willemse

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Changing details and patterns Chair: Carmen Schuhmann 

To see a world in a grain of sand: The significance of detail in narrative research Anneke Sools 

Living storying as instrument for change? Alexander Maas 

Going Narrative – but where will it take us? Floor Basten

15.30-16.00 Break

16.00-17.30 The differential work of narrative Chair: Gerty Lensvelt 

Studying selfhood as a rhizomatic story Gerrit Loots 

17.30-18.30 Drinks