This is the third, annual, Public Lecture co-organised by our Centre for Narrative Research and King's College's Centre for Language, Discourse, and Communication.
Narrative research has produced an array of richly-detailed expositions of life as lived, well-interpreted studies full of nuance and insight that befit the complexity of human lives. Narrative researchers, situated differently, study different people, make highly contextualized interpretations and theorize their understandings differently. We are then met with the problem of building a knowledge base that can amalgamate the insight and understandings across researchers. This is a problem that has yet to be taken up directly within narrative research.
This talk inquires into the necessity and possibilities of amalgamation of knowledge obtained through narrative research. As narrative studies, with their accompanying interpretations, accumulate, how do we “add them up?” What would a meta-analysis of narrative studies look like? The challenge that confronts us is how to assimilate narrative understanding at a conceptual level in a way that does not return to a modernist frame, treating the various research reports as “facts” – but rather to treat them as situated interpretations. Insights from anthropology suggest some approaches to dealing with these dilemmas. Conversation is offered as a metaphor and context within which knowledge is to be understood.
Our Centre for Narrative Research, also, has an exciting programme of forthcoming research seminars. For more details visit: http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/events/graduate.htm
For more information and for details of the Prof Ruthellen Josselson public lecture, please contact Dr Molly Andrews on Email: m.andrews@uel.ac.uk
All Welcome, admission FREE.
For details and registration, contact Franc gooding 020 8223 2884 or email: f.gooding@uel.ac.uk
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