Workshops
in
Narrative
Analysis
NEW: August 13-Aug 20, 2006, International Discourse Studies Summer School, Aalborg, Denmark Workshop Information (updated July 14th, 2006)
RECENT: Narrative & Biography workshop at Clark University (March 18-20, 2005) - Instructors: Wolfram Fischer + Martina Goblirsch (Universität Kassel)
Xi'An workshop (IACCP. July 30-August 1, 2004)
With Fall 2002 I have started to offer workshops in ‘Narrative Analysis’.
The aim of these workshops is to learn how to work with narrative data.
My
focus will be on narratives in interaction, and their use in ‘Identity
Work’.
This
workshop targets students in the social sciences
o
who are
interested in the analysis of particular social (and personal) phenomena
o
who are using
stories and story-telling as tools to analyze these social phenomena
o
who approach
social phenomena as experiential and cultural phenomena through
the lens of personal experience and identity-formation (development)
The
workshop’s focus is on the analysis of narratives as ‘ordering devices’
for
o
the world that
is depicted within the story (characters in the ‘there + then’)
o
the world of the
interaction (characters in the ‘here + now’)
o
the formation of
a sense of self (and identity)
Each workshop will start with an analysis of a brief film-clip from my all-time favorite movie Stand by Me -- material on that clip and my thoughts can be found at http://www.clarku.edu/~mbamberg/Stand_by_Me.htm
The
workshop is offered in three different formats:
o
a four-hour
workshop gives a brief theoretical introduction and analyses two
narrative settings – using video material on the topics of ‘adolescence’
o
a one-day
workshop gives a broader theoretical introduction, with three examples
on issues of ‘adolescence’ and ‘gender’ and a second unit
in which the projects of the participants will be discussed
o
a two-days
workshop in addition will allow more detailed work with data from
participants’ own research projects (these data need to be distributed
beforehand among the participants)
In
terms of the overall approach, it should be noted that narratives will be
analyzed as ‘interactively achieved’, i.e., the analysis will
not only focus on how the content and structure of the narratives point to what
is of interest to us as researchers, but also how the telling of the narratives
is embedded in the communicative situation, and how what the interactants are
accomplishing in that situation points to how they want to be understood. For
instance, if the narratives are part of a group discussion or a one-on-one
interview, the interactional and institutional aspects of this setting are
relevant parts of the analysis. Thus, potential participants should keep in mind
that this workshop focuses on the narrative process - the
narrative telling - and not only on 'story analysis'. --- It should also be
mentioned, as another caveat, that this is not meant to be a workshop or
training session in biographical (interpretive) methodology: Within the
theoretical framework of this workshop, as an attempt to link socio-linguistic
and ethnomethodological methods, ‘life’ is treated in the same way as any
other experiential and culturally relevant phenomenon, i.e., it is not in any
way treated as privileged over other narrativized phenomena.
Introductory
readings to prepare for the workshop:
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Eliciting narrative data:
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Different approaches to Narrative Analysis:
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Doing Narrative Analysis:
Dates
of past workshop presentations:
Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan - coordinated by Professors Scott Saft <saft@sukura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp> and Aug Nishizaka <augnish@soc.meijigakuin.ac.jp>
Friday, October 18, 2002 - Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan - coordinated by Professor Sachiko Ide <side@lares.dti.ne.jp> and Chikako Sakurai <chikakos@syd.odn.ne.jp>
Monday, March 3, 2003 - Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland - coordinated by Dr. Jean Quigley <quigleyj@tcd.ie>
Saturday, December 13, 2003 - Swarthmore College, PA - coordinated by Professors Jeanne Marecek <jmarece1@swarthmore.edu> and Ageliki Nicolopoulou <agn3@lehigh.edu> webcourse
Friday, January 30, 2004 - U Texas @ Austin - coordinated by Professor Jürgen Streeck <jstreeck@mail.utexas.edu>
PLANNED WORKSHOPS:
One-Day workshop: Thursday, May 20, 2004 - Pre-Conference Workshop (Narrative Matters 2004), Fredericton, NB, Canada - conference coordinator: Professor William L. Randall <randall@ssthomasu.ca> More information about the Fredericton workshop
1.5-Day workshop: July 31-Aug 1, 2004 - IACCP Pre-Conference Workshop, Xi'an, P. R. of China, conference coordinator: Professor Zheng Gang <zhengg@psych.ac.cn> <LINK TO Xian COURSE MATERIAL>