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Call for Papers: Narratology and the New Social Dimension of Narratives
Workshop “Narratology and the New Social Dimension of Narratives”: call for papers
Conference organised by the Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL)
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) - Paris – Tuesday 02 February 2010
Call for Papers
Aims of the conference
Created in 2003, the seminar “Narratologies contemporaines” at the EHESS was quick to stand out in France as one of the leading centres for transdisciplinary research in narrative theory. “Narratologies contemporaines” enjoys a dual status: it is a research centre attached directly to the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (EHESS/CNRS) and at the same time a course offering under the heading “Theories and practices of language and the arts” in the Masters program in social sciences at the EHESS. From its beginnings, the seminar has sought to be a forum of discussion for researchers and of presentation for students of new horizons in today’s international postclassical narrative theory. It thus regularly invites both French and foreign researchers to present and debate their work. In this context, a first conference is being organised for the purpose of creating new and closer links between European research centres active in the field of narratology and in particular of furthering exchanges between doctoral students and young researchers.
Themes of the conference
In connection with the theme of for the seminar “Narratologies contemporaines” for the academic year 2009/10, this conference will be devoted to the new social uses of narratives.
Although analysis of the specificity of narrative remains at the heart of our research program, we consider, unlike the positions held by classical narratology, that cognitive and social parameters form an integral part of narrative discourse, both fictional and factual. For this reason, the postulate will be re-examined according to which narrative is a form of socially shared cognition. Neglect of the social dimension filled by narratives, rarely acknowledged by earlier theories, played no negligible role in their decline and thus needs to be introduced once again into current methods of analysis.
Without renouncing use of the tried and proven analytical methods set up by earlier narratological theories, the development over time, circulation and changes due to recent technological developments require that the symbolic and social functions of narrative discourse understood as a form of semiosis be taken more carefully into account
Without seeking to establish an exhaustive list of the questions raised by this approach, the issues involved are as follows:
- Interfaces between narratology and the cognitive science
- Narrative as a form of socially shared cognition
- Narrative as a form of knowledge and semiosis
- The role of interpretative practices in the definition of narrative
- New media and new forms of narrative
- New social roles of narrative (narrative and politics, narrative and the business world, narrative and social control, etc.)
- Narrative, interactivity, and transmediality
- Recordings of the lectures given at the conference will be put on line on the website of the seminar (http://narratologie.ehess.fr). Publication of the proceedings in electronic form is also planned.
- Submission of proposals and important dates
Authors are asked to submit their proposed lecture in the form of a summary of around 500 words (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). The subject of the lecture and its theoretical framework as well as the implications at the theoretical and methodological level must be clearly defined.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 01 December 2009
Notification of authors: 08 December 2009
Receipt of the texts of the lectures: 21 January 2010
For more information: http://narratologie.ehess.fr/
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