Teaching Narrative and Teaching through Narrative

The conference is organized to explore the broad interface of narrative theory, literary pedagogy, and the uses of narrative as a tool for teaching and distributing knowledge in diverse disciplinary fields. A special feature of the conference will be a series of workshops devoted to close analysis of particular narrative texts – fictional as well as non-fictional – which are studied together by the participants from varying theoretical angles.

We invite papers on all text types carrying narrative relevance and amenable to pedagogical uses: from opera to obituary; television to testimony; Bildungsroman alongside with biblical narrative to blog. Our plenary speakers will include specialists on literary pedagogy (Professor Leona Toker, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and on the pedagogical uses of narrative in the fields of social sciences, medicine, and humanities (Professor Rita Charon, Columbia University, Professor Jens Brockmeier, University of Manitoba and the Free University of Berlin). 

For further information about the schedule, travel options, and lodging, please go to our website.

Deadline for abstracts: December 31, 2010. 200 - 300-word abstracts should be sent to teaching.narrative@uta.fi. Please write "Teaching Narrative / Abstract / your name" on the subject line. Participants will be contacted by January 31, 2011.

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Sanna Bruun
Conference Secretary
sanna.bruun@uta.fi