The ABCs of Narrative

Twente, The Netherlands

University of Twente

July 2-5, 2018

“The current booming interest for narrative or “story-telling” across academic disciplines and professional fields comes with a number of challenges. One of these challenges… is the need for a better understanding and an interdisciplinary dialogue between the arts and humanities, the natural and computer sciences, the behavioral, social, and health sciences…

A second challenge is that of learning about exciting new developments in technological expression and computational analysis of narrative that might be productive both for researchers and professionals.

A third challenge the “ABCs of narrative” aims to address is the need to stimulate “critical narrative savviness” among citizens, in particular in the many professional practices in which narrative or story-telling play a central role.” - University of Twente Narrative Matters 2018 website

Featured topics

  • Narrative coping with complexity and uncertainty;

  • Narrative and the shaping of identities;

  • Narratives and innovative technological modes of expressing and computational modes of analyzing;

  • Narrative, affect, and the fabrication of truth;

  • Narrative and power in societies, organizations, and practices.

Organizers

  • Anneke Sools, University of Twent

  • Gerben Westerhof, University of Twente

PRESENTATIONS

Marcy Antonio, Laurene Sheilds, Anne Bruce and Lacie White
Liminal spaces: easing into stories of living and dying through métissage

Anne Bruce, Lacie White, Laurene Sheilds and Marcy Antonio
Understanding emotion in storying (dis)ease