Preliminary Program

9.00-10.15

Registration and coffee
0-floor beside the entrance of Hall B

10.15

Opening the Conference Hall B
Professor Matti Hyvärinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

10.30-12.00

Plenary: "Myths of Life Story and the Researcher's Narrative" Hall B
Professor Liz Stanley, University of Manchester, UK

12.00-13.00

Lunch break

13.00-15.00

Panel Session I

Section 1. Self and indentity in (late) modernity
Chair: Vanessa May (University of Leeds, UK) Hall A2

• Chaim Noy (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel): Performing identity and the touristic discourse of authenticity: Self-transformation in tourists' travel and adventure narratives
• Anne-Maree Sawyer (Australia): An overview to women's "self-development" narratives
• Jens Zinn (Munich, Germany): Biographical certainty in modern society

Section 2. Myth and method: social, political, and artistic narratives
Chair: Tuija Parvikko (University of Tampere, Finland) Hall A1

• Xavier Guillaume (University of Geneva, Switzerland): The mythopoetic approach of the Italian fascist regime: The case of the March on Rome
• Mary Murray (Massay University, New Zealand): Myth, mortality and modernity
• Vlado Kotnik (Ljublijana Graduate School of the Humanities, Slovenia): Opera as a prominent mythical body of contemporary societies

Section 3. Teacher's professional identity
Chair: Hannu L. T. Heikkinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) Room 200

• Eila Estola, Freema Elbaz-Luwisch & Leena Syrjälä (University of Oulu, Finland): Facing ethical problems in studying teacher's stories
• Minna Uitto & Leena Syrjälä (University of Oulu, Finland): "I will never forget my teacher…" Students telling about their former teachers

Section 4. Illness narratives and the institutions of care
Chair: Kris ClarkeVip Room

• Tudor Balinisteanu (University of Suceava, Romania): Woman - The Neurotic Feary - A transpersonal psychology on writing gender
• Ilana Mizrahi (Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel): Coping with additional stress: Coping with ovarian cancer among new immigrant
• Christopher Ndekwu (Nigeria, Africa): Narrative Studies and the Practice of Clinical Psychologist in Africa

15.00-15.30

Coffee break Beside the Halls A1 & A2

15.30-18.00

Panel Session II

Section 2. Myth, memory, and method
Chair: Margaret Heller (University of King's College, Halifax, Canada) Hall A1

• Ferenc Erõs (University of Pècs, Hungary): Identity discourses and narrative reconstructions after the holocaust
• Tuija Parvikko (University of Tampere, Finland): Holocaust and politics of memory
• Elena Trubina (Ekaterinaburg, Russia): The Cold War ethics in European and Russian acts of remembering

Section 3. Struggles in narratives
Chair: Rauno Huttunen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) Room 200

• Leena Kakkori (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): Struggle stories and Nietzshean concept of history
• Olli-Pekka Moisio (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): Collective identity in the denied other
• Hannu L.T. Heikkinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): Teachers education as a struggle for recognition
• Freema Elbaz-Luwisch (University of Haifa, Israel): A struggle story without the struggle

Section 4. Struggling with illness narratives
Chair: Jaana Loipponen (University of Joensuu, Finland) VIP Room

• Clive Baldwin (Ethox, Institute of Health Sciences, UK): Persuasive narratives and the absence of fact: The construction of guilt in case of alleged Munchausen syndrome by proxy
• Laura Camfield (University of Bath, UK): Accounting for dystonia: Derek's case
• Brett Smith & A. Sparks (University of Exeter, UK): Men, sport, and spinal cord injury: An analysis of embodied metaphors

Special session: Narrating subjectivity and security in de-terrolized world. Narrative theorizing in peace research/IR today.
Chair: Tarja Väyrynen (University of Tampere, Finland) Hall A2

• Alina Hosu (University of Tampere, Finland): Identity politics and narrativity
• Samu Pehkonen (University of Tampere, Finland): Mining the community: a narrative approach to social change
• Elina Penttinen (University of Tampere, Finland): Whose voices matter? Feminist stretch the boundaries of international relations discipline
• Raija Warkentin (Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada): Four war narratives from Soviet Karelia

20.00-

Conference Dinner in Vapriikki Museum Center

9.00-11.10

Panel session III

Section 1. Traces of the past: the Israeli identity
Chair: Chaim Noy (The Hebrew University, Israel) Room 200

• Tamar Katriel (University of Haifa, Israel): Museum narratives and the politics of culture in contemporary Israel
• Orit Manor (University of Haifa, Israel): Jubilee publications in Hebrew Galilee Colonies: A reflection of collective identity and memory
• Yair Seltenreich (Tel Hai Academic College, Israel): Reflections of narratives in the diaries of a Hebrew schoolmaster in Palestine

Section 2. Political theory and narrative I.
Chair: Maureen Whitebrook (University of Sheffield, UK) Hall A1

• Margaret Heller (University of King's College, Halifax, Canada): The Thefts of the West: two American narratives of dispossession
• Matti Hyvärinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): Action, change and narrative: Paul Auster as a narrative theorist
• Erkki Vainikkala (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): Ideology, myth and event in autobiographical narrative: the example of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Section 3. Narrative and implementation of new practices
Chair: Open Hall A2

• Gillian Crofts (University of Salford, UK): Narrative analysis of learning; A novel epistemological approach in medical education
• Victoriya Fedorova (Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia): Narrative as a clue to a given cultural reality
• Bettina Törpel (The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Narrative transformation and the challenges of supporting fragmented work with suitable computer applications

Section 4. Violence in family context
Chair: Marja Kaskisaari & Marita Husso Hall B

• Louise Livesey (University of Surrey Roehampton, London): The cultural myths of childhood sexual violences
• Minna Nikunen (University of Tampere, Finland): Medeia myth and women killing their children
• Atte Oksanen (University of Tampere, Finland): Chaos and harmony: embodied violence in children's narration

11.10-11.30

Coffee break in Entrance Hall

11.30-13.00

Plenary: "Prophetic Narratives and Political Theory" Hall B
Professor David Gutterman, Willamette University, US

13.00-14.00

Lunch break

14.00-16.30

Panel session IV

Section 1. Narrative formation of identity
Chair: Open Room 200

• Pauline Evans (University of Gloucestershire, UK): On the journey of 'becoming': older women's narratives in describing their uptake of doctoral study
• Cassandra Phoenix & A. Sparks (University of Exeter, UK): Athletic bodies and narrative maps of ageing
• Peter Redman (Open University, London, UK): Romance as a narrative practice: Discourse, dialogics and the unconscious

Section 2. Political theory and narrative II
Chair: Matti Hyvärinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) Hall A1

• Olivia Guaraldo (University of Verona, Italy): Narrativizing the Leviathan: new perspectives of narrative and political theory
• Annabel Herzog (University of Haifa, Israel): Freedom and utopia in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda
• John S. Nelson (University of Iowa, USA): Stories for the electronic republic: Myths of political time, action, and justice in popular movies for American audiences

Section 3. Teacher in personal narratives
Chair. Leena Syrjälä (University of Oulu, Finland) Hall B

• Marjut Haussila (Helsinki, Finland): Between Truth and Myth: Finding degrees of freedom in upper secondary music education
• Kaija Huhtanen (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland): "One still hopes that one day it's gonna turn out to something that I am a pianist, I v´can play"
• Tanja Lamminmäki-Kärkkäinen (University of Oulu, Finland): Narrating oneself as an other through mother myth

Section 4. Resisting the grand narratives of family
Chair: Maarit Alasuutari Hall A2

• Vanessa May (University of Leeds, UK): Lone motherhood and identity construction: An interplay between dominant and counter narratives
• Jill Reynolds (Open University, London, UK): Single women's narratives
• Eero Suoninen (University of Tampere, Finland): How to shake off the great narrative of motherhood

16.30-17.00

Coffee break in the Entrance Hall

17.00-19.00

Panel session V

Section 2. Politics and the Arts Group business meeting Room 200

Section 3. Demonstration of a web based multi media narrative 'archive' NUNA by John Given (University of Northumbria, UK) Hall A1

Northumbria University Narrative Archive (NUNA).
The Northumbria University Narrative Archive is being developed as a prototype interactive multi media site to explore the application of narrative theory and method to a range of cultural issues and social practices. Nuna will explore a wide range of community based, educational, and research applications. Multi media 'archives' of this sort present a wide range of opportunities for developing and exploring locality or issue based questions relating to themes of culture, community or identity. Working from a common base layer of biographical narrative data a wide range of digital arts, community arts, educational or therapeutic applications could be developed as further 'data layers' appropriate to any particular project. This approach offers the possibility of developing a flexible and adaptable model which could be used to bring the narrative perspective to bear on a wide range of community based issues and problems.

20.00-

City of Tampere Reception at the Old City Hall

9.15-12.00

Panel session VI

Section 1. Reflective, personal narratives
Chair: Open Hall A2

• Raymond Hickman (Open University, London, UK): This strange peculiarity: A tale about listening with mother
• John Jackson (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland): Moving toward the narrative turn - reflections on a research career
• Dan Mahoney (Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada): Experimenting with reflexive storytelling about everyday gay life
• Joseph Harrington (University of Kansas, US): Things come on: Writing a multigenre biography

Section 2. Myth, narrative, and literary fiction
Chair. Erkki Vainikkala (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) Will be asked. Hall A1

• Anne Heith (University of Umeå, Sweden): Fiction, narrative, and (post)modernity
• Joel Kuortti (University of Tampere, Finland): Narrative versions
• Luis Serrano (University of Guadalajara, Mexico): Myths and symbols of the Novel Gringo Viejo as a new way to revalue reality
• Heidi Strengell (University of Helsinki, Finland): Victims and survivours: The godess Kore / Persiphone in Vonnegut, Irving, and King novels

Section 3. Narrative, profession and power
Chair: Marja Saarenheimo (University of Tampere, Finland) Hall B

• Ulpukka Isopahkala (University of Helsinki, Finland): Narrative approach to expertise
• Ólof Ásta Ólafsdóttir (University of Island): Storytelling and narratives about childbirth: Knowledge developments in midwifery
• Tanya E. Andersson (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark): The narrative production of meetings

12.00-13.00

Lunch break

13.00-15.00

Panel session VII

Section 2. Narrating nation and class
Chair: Margaret Heller (University of King's College, Halifax, Canada) Hall A1

• Mehmet Arisan (University of Essex, UK): The role of the 'lacking myth' in the literary representation of Turkish representation of Turkish republican revolution and its reflections on modern Turkish political practice
• Mahmoud Eid (Carleton University, Canada): Representations of the Egypt air flight 990 crash in American and Egyptian newspapers: A discourse analysis of narratives and myths
• Stephen Ingle (Sterling, Scotland, UK): Narrative and myth: Orwell's working class socialist
• Werner Suppanz (University of Graz, Austria): Narrating Austria. The significance of narrative for Austrian nation-building

Section 3. Professional narratives
Chair: Marja Saarenheimo (University of Tampere, Finland) Hall A2

• Moira Kelly (St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK), I. Berney, I. R Jones, & S. Hillier: How GPs make resource allocation decisions? Narrative analysis of qualitative interview
• Raili Törmäkangas (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): Local signification of the concept of profitable
• Emma Vironmäki (University of Tampere, Finland): In pursue of the marketing myth
• Leena Eräsaari (University of Tampere, Finland): The Black Engel - women from the ruins of the National Board of Building

Section 4. Cultural versions of family narrative
Chair: Kris Clarke Hall B

• Kathryn Ray (University College London, UK): Gendered narratives of work and care in Inner London
• Huang Xin (University of British Columbia / Netherlands): China's one-child population policy and the construction of identities
• Anne Green (University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand): Oral narratives and emotion

15.00

Coffee in Hall B

15.15-16.45

Plenary: "Myth, Memory, and the Moral Space of Autobiographical Narrative" Hall B
Professor Mark Freeman, College of the Holy Cross, US

16.45

Closing the Conference Hall B
Professor Matti Hyvärinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland