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CLIC nodigt jullie graag uit voor de eerstvolgende WOLEC-sessie die plaatsvindt op dinsdag 24 februari van 12:00 tot ten laatste 13:30 in C2.07a. Spreker Dr. Carolin Gebauer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) zal een lezing geven met als titel: "Towards a 'Mobility Turn' in Narrative Studies?".
Carolin Gebauer is docent Britse literatuur en cultuur en postdoctoraal onderzoeker aan het Center for Narrative Research. Haar onderzoeksinteresses omvatten hedendaagse Britse en Aglofone fictie, historische en hedendaagse representaties van mobiliteit in verschillende media, storytelling als culturele praktijk, transdisciplinaire narratieve onderzoeksmethoden en studies over migratie en mobiliteit. Dr. Gebauer maakt deel uit van het door de EU gefinancierde Horizon 2020-project “Crises as OPPORTUNITIES: Towards a Level Telling Field on Migration and a New Narrative of Successful Integration,” dat de representaties van migratie in het Europese publieke discours onderzoekt. Ze is de auteur van de bekroonde monografie Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel (De Gruyter, 2021) en lid van het uitvoerend team van DIEGESIS, een tweetalig interdisciplinair e-journal gewijd aan narratief onderzoek. In oktober 2021 werd Dr. Gebauer onderzoeksfellow bij het Center for Interdisciplinary Research aan de Universiteit van Bielefeld. Sinds januari 2024 is zij tevens postdoctoraal fellow bij de Noordrijn-Westfaalse Academie van Wetenschappen, Geesteswetenschappen en Kunsten.
De voertaal is het Engels. Een broodjeslunch wordt voorzien. We vragen u om uw aanwezigheid ten laatste tegen 18 februari via deze link te bevestigen. Voor meer informatie over WOLEC, klik hier.
Hopelijk tot dan!
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CLIC is excited to invite you to the next WOLEC session, taking place on Tuesday 24 February from 12:00 till 13:30 in room C2.07a. Dr. Carolin Gebauer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) will give a lecture titled: "Towards a 'Mobility Turn' in Narrative Studies?"
Carolin Gebauer is Lecturer in British Literature and Culture and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Narrative Research. Her research interests include contemporary British and Anglophone fiction, historical and contemporary representations of mobility across media, storytelling as cultural practice, and transdisciplinary narrative research as well as migration and mobility studies. Dr. Gebauer is part of the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project “Crises as OPPORTUNITIES: Towards a Level Telling Field on Migration and a New Narrative of Successful Integration,” which explores representations of migration in European public discourse. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel (De Gruyter, 2021) and a member of the executive team of DIEGESIS, a bilingual interdisciplinary e-journal dedicated to narrative research. In October 2021, Dr. Gebauer became a research fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld. Since January 2024, she has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
The lecture will be held in English. A sandwich lunch will be provided. We ask you to confirm your presence via this link by 18 February. For more information about WOLEC, click here.
We hope to see you there!
Abstract
When John Urry first argued, in Sociology beyond Societies (2000), that the social sciences should focus more on the various causes, effects, and practices of mobility that define today’s globalized world, he initiated a paradigm shift in the social sciences that has since promoted mobility as “a different way of thinking through the character of economic, social and political relationships” (Urry 2007, 6). More recently, the field of literary studies has also started to contribute to the so-called mobility turn, introducing mobility as a productive lens through which to approach literary texts (e.g., Aguiar et al. 2019; Murray and Upstone 2014). Yet, despite the fact that narratives play a crucial role in developing and negotiating concepts of mobility, narrative theory has thus far failed to engage with the new mobilities paradigm. This talk will discuss how narrative research and (literary) mobility studies can enrich each other, as it sets out to propose elements of a narratology of mobility that integrates analytical concepts from both disciplines.
