Popular Narratives - Locating the Private in the Public and the Public in the Private
Popular Narratives
Locating the Private in the Public and the Public in the Private
Copenhagen 31 October 2011
Venue: Njalsgade 136, room 24.2.01
The PhD Programme in Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen is organizing a one-day course for PhD students on the modes of contemporary Western popular story telling as expressed in mass media, novels, talk shows, (auto)biographies, self help groups and religious inspired groups and on the internet just to name a few. The seminar will also seek to identify the political (and public as well as private) in these narratives and the complex situation of production in many modern popular stories. Additionally, the seminar will address the social function of readers/audiences and the interaction between the two.
The speakers are: widely cited British sociology professor Kenneth Plummer who for the past forty years has been teaching, thinking and writing about the stories we as human beings tell of society and of ourselves, and the author of Intimate Citizenship. Private Decisions and Public Dialogues (2003) and Telling Sexual Stories. Power, Change and Social Worlds (1995); professor of education at University of Southern Denmark, Marianne Horsdal, has written extensively on cultural memories, narratives and life stories in everyday life. Marianne Horsdal is the author of Telling Lives. The Acquisition and Application of Narratives (2011).
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Morning session 9.30-12.00: Open for all registered participants
Professor Kenneth Plummer, University of Essex
On Narratives: Developing a Framework for Researching Stories in Social Life
Professor Marianne Horsdal, University of Southern Denmark
Narratives in Time and Space
Afternoon session 13.00-17.00: Open to all registered PhD students with papers
The second part of the seminar will take the form of a workshop and provide an opportunity to present on-going Ph.D. projects and receive comments from the lectures.
Deadline for registration: 17 October 2011 to Louise Liebmann (Liebmann@hum.ku.dk) – and for those of you who want to present a paper: please add an abstract of 200 words. Full participation incl. presentation: ECTS 3 or preparation and participation only: 1,5 ECTS. The programme for the seminar is now available on our website at https://phd.hum.ku.dk/regional/courses/popularnarratives/