On 23rd-24th May 2008, a workshop on 'Orality, Technology and the "Narratisation" of Everyday
Life' will be held at the University of Manchester. This workshop is the second in a CEELBAS-
funded series 'Doing Culture' (Sheffield-Manchester-Warwick, January-October 2008).
This workshop focuses on the 'narratisation' of everyday life, understood as the transformation of
everyday life into aesthetic-creative experience and multifaced communication. Issues to be
considered include: the significance of a broad range of oral, visual and technological constructs
in the narrative transformation of everyday life; the functions of everyday narrative practices; ways
in which non-traditional media (e.g. tattooing and graffiti), new media and new genres (blogs,
flash animation, talk shows, reality TV) have influenced and been influenced by everyday narrative
practices; and the extent to which narratisation practices are specific to a particular situation, time
and place--or, conversely, shared across cultural, political, social and temporal boundaries.
Speakers include: Lynne Attwood (Manchester), Jane Caplan (Oxford), Seth Graham (SSEES),
Stephen Hutchings (Manchester), Adi Kuntsman (LJMU), Klaus Roth (Munich), Yngvar Steinholt (IKL,
Tromso University), Vlad Strukov (Leeds). Further information about the workshop, including a full
list of speakers and a provisional programme, is available from our website:
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/russian/narratisation-workshop/
Broad participation is encouraged. Pre-registration (free of charge) is essential, however, as places
are limited. If you would like to attend, please contact Rachel Platonov:
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