'Troubling Narratives: Identity Matters' conference great success
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:18:00 BST
The ‘Troubling Narratives: Identity Matters’ conference was held on 19 and 20 June, 2014 at the University of Huddersfield, in which it had two keynote speakers including Professor Ann Phoenix and Professor Ken Plummer, and 70 panel papers and 120 delegates.
The conference built on the University’s long held tradition of hosting a bi-annual conference on narrative research. It sought to provide a fresh context for the development and dissemination of new research, ideas, perspectives and methodologies in the field of narrative research and enquiry, and aimed to bring together scholars working in a range of disciplinary fields.
‘Narrative’ is well known for its looseness of definition, its multiplicity of approaches and its interdisciplinarity, which over the years has led to a richness and diversity of narrative work.
Identities, both private and public, and individual and collective, have long been a focus for narrative researchers, where the content, form and effects of identity story telling have been explored in a range of areas and contexts. The focus of ‘Troubling Narratives: Identity Matters’ was to address the ‘troubles’ that now surround contemporary narratives of identity, and the ways in which previous work may simultaneously inform, but also trouble and be ‘troubled’, by new narrative work in the broad area of ‘identities’.
The conference was organised by Dr Tracey Yeadon-Lee, Dr Gráinne McMahon, Dr Abigail Locke, Dr Jo Woodiwiss and Dr Sharon Wray from the Institute for Research in Citizenship and Applied Human Sciences (IRCAHS) and Dr Yvonne Downs from the Financial Ethics and Governance Research Group.
The ‘Troubling Narratives’conference will continue to be held bi-annually at the University of Huddersfield.
