The Power of Story in a Postmodern World

Fredericton, NB, Canada.

May 20-23, 2004

Though the organizers of NM 2002 expected it to be a one-off occurrence, delegates were insistent at an open-ended session on the final day that a second one be held the following spring at the same hotel. Such was the hunger for a “narrative community” across disciplinary lines that the first event had helped to awaken.

Read more about the 2004 conference in the editorial introduction by Dolores Furlong and Bill Randall of the McGill Journal of Education special issue on Narrative Matters published in 2005. 

Outcomes

  • Revised versions of eleven papers presented at the conference were published in a special issue of McGill Journal of Education special issue on Narrative Matters (Vol 40 No. 1) co-edited by Bill Randall and Dolores Furlong. 

  • Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education published a two-part special issue in 2007 co-edited by Bill Randall and Furlong, that featured a number of papers presented at this conference, along with Mark Freeman’s keynote and Catherine Bateson’s keynote from 2002.  (Part 1 and Part 2.)

  • CBC Radio’s prestigious cross-country program entitled “Ideas” aired an episode on Narrative Matters in 2005, which included excerpts of Freeman, Butala, and Kvernbekk’s keynotes.

Keynote Speakers

  • Sharon Butala

  • Mark Freeman

  • Tone Kvernbekk

PRESENTATIONS