Narrative Studies Group Book Club Meetings

The NUIG Narrative Studies Group hold a monthly reading and discussion group and welcomes scholars interested in understanding narrative theory, practice and potential in and across education, humanities, social sciences, health and therapeutic sciences. A diversity of creative and methodological approaches combined with an interest in recent and not so recent scholarship guides our selection of texts. Each month a book, article, study is selected by a member to guide our discussions and musings. This year we are working with 'classical' accounts of the theory and practice of narrative. If you wish to join our mailing list and wish to receive a copy of the readings (when possible) please do contact us. You can participate in the reading group by sending your comments by e-mail before the meetings.

Time and Place

Time and place for each meeting:  2.30-4.30 pm, Room 303, Floor 2, Aras Moyola, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUIG

All are welcome.

Reading and Discussion to date

December 2, 2009
BRUNER, Jerome, 2002, Making Stories, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.

February 3, 2010
SOMERS, M. & GIBSON, G. (1994) 'Reclaiming the Epistemological "Other": Narrative and the Social Constitution of Identity' in Craig Calhoun. (ed) Social Theory and the Politics of Identity. Oxford & Cambridge, Blackwell Publishers.

March 10, 2010
Patricia Ewick and Susan S. Silbey ’Subversive Stories and Hegemonic Tales: Toward a Sociology of Narrative’, Law & Society Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1995), pp. 197-226

April 21, 2010
RICOEUR, Paul “Narrative Time” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 7, No. 1, On Narrative (Autumn, 1980), pp. 169-190

Supplementary Reading:
JOSSELSON, Ruthellen “ The hermeneutics of faith and the hermeneutics of suspicion” Narrative Inquiry,  14 (1), 1–28

May 19/26, 2010 (date to be confirmed)
CONNELLY, Michael, F and CLANDININ, D. Jean “Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry” Educational Researcher, Vol. 19, No. 5 (Jun. - Jul., 1990), pp. 2-14

Supplementary Reading:
CLANDININ, D. Jean and HUBER, Jean  “Narrative Inquiry: Toward Understanding Life's Artistry” in Curriculum Inquiry, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Summer, 2002), pp. 161-169

Contact

If you are interested in joining the Narrative Studies Book Club, please contact:

Anne.Byrnenuigalway.ie
Ciara.Bradleynuigalway.ie
Aine.MackenWalshTeagasc.ie

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