Past Narrative Inquiry Conferences

Past Narrative Inquiry conferences:

2008 Narrative Matters 2008

 http://www.narrativematters.com/
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Storying Our World
As humans we continually story our experiences. We construct our world through our personal, community, institutional and political narratives. The 2008 Narrative Matters conference theme aims to explore all of these narrative sites. Narrative continues to gain recognition as something people do, use and research. The Narrative Matters conference provides a meeting place for people interested in doing, using and researching narrative in diverse contexts and fields. The blurring and crossing of boundaries catalyzes discussion and inquiry at Narrative Matters conferences.

2008 Georgetown Round Table

http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2008/theme.html

Telling Stories: Building bridges among Language, Narrative, Identity, Interaction, Society and Culture

Narratives have been studied in many different disciplines: linguistics, literary theory, clinical psychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, folklore, anthropology, sociology and history.

The primary focus of GURT 2008 is the linguistic study of narrative, especially as it has developed within discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.

         As our theme suggests, however, studying the language of narrative can take us far afield to other concerns: the construction of self and identity; the differences among spoken, written and computer-mediated discourse; the role that small and big (e.g. life) stories play in everyday social interactions; the contribution of narrative to social status, roles and meanings within institutional settings as varied as therapeutic and medical encounters, education, politics, media, marketing and public relations.

         Thus, GURT 2008 will be a forum for building interconnections among language, narrative and social life.

Written by: Richard Fay on 24, October 2007.
Last revised by: Richard Fay on 16, December 2009.