Dear Colleagues

I have much pleasure in letting you know the excellent programme of papers we have lined up for the Narrative Studies seminar on 'Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons', to be held in the University of Edinburgh on Thursday 18 December.

        If you aren't interested, or even if you are, I'd be very grateful if you could
        please pass on this email and its attachments to other people who might
        be interested in participating. Many thanks.

        If you would like to come to the seminar but haven't yet registered, please
        do so!  Mince (vegetarian) pies will feature! The timetable and details are
        attached, but please register using the attached form, as the
        seminar room has a fixed number of places due to fire regulations. Thank
        you. The cost is a flat rate of £5 contribution to the cost of refreshment.

        To register - you will find the timetable and abstracts, and a registration form.
        Please return the registration form to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
        Thank you.

        The papers scheduled are, in running order on the day:

        *EMRE TARIM Performed Through Exchange and Stories: Financial Markets as
        Storytelling Organisations*

        *JOSPEH MASLEN **Big Punning, Large Troping, Huge Riddling: Radical
        Narrative Practice in Shakespeare's /Macbeth/*

        *DAVID CHALCRAFT W.E.B.Dubois' /The Souls of Black Folk and Biblical
        Narrative/: The Uses of Huge Narrative Comparisons to Unravel the Long
        History of Slavery and its Effects*

        *NICKY WATTS Quantitative vessels*

        *ANNA BORISENKOVA **Narrative foundations of knowing: towards a new
        perspective in the sociology of knowledge *

        *LYNN JAMESON Narratives of Intimacy and Social Change: The case of
        people living alone*

        *JANE SPEEDY The Gargoyle's tail: a magical realist account of the
        global suicide epidemic amongst young men and its impact on communities
        in advanced capitalist societies during the late 20^th and early 21^st
        centuries*

        *ANDREW DUGGAN Prisoner Rape: A Narrative Approach To Addressing Sexual
        Assault in Men's Prisons*

        *ALAN BENSON Constructing Professional Teaching Identities for Migrant
        Mathematicians*

        *CATE WATSON Futures narratives, possible worlds, big stories*


        Best wishes
        Liz Stanley

        --
        Liz Stanley, Prof of Sociology & Director of the Centre for Narrative &
        Auto/Biographical Studies, University of Edinburgh, Chrystal Macmillan
        Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9PL, UK
        http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/stanley_liz


        --
        Liz Stanley, Prof of Sociology & Director of the Centre for Narrative & Auto/Biographical Studies, University of Edinburgh, Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9PL, UK
        http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/stanley_liz




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Liz Stanley, Prof of Sociology & Director of the Centre for Narrative & Auto/Biographical Studies, University of Edinburgh, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Ediversity of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9PL, UK