Key Note Addresses, Invited Talks and Lectures
(June 2013). Amour: Rethinking narrative identity.
Conference on A Narrative
Future for Health Care, King’s
College London, UK.
(June 2013). Witness seminar on The
Development of Narrative Practices in Medicine
1970-2000. Wellcome Trust,
London, UK.
(April 2013). Old ideas: Theory of mind and narrative
language games. CREATE Labs, New York University (NYU)
& The Graduate Center, City University of New York
(CUNY).
(December 2012). Narrative identity as a project of
emotion. Conference on Emotion and
Cognition in Narrative: Self-Description as a Means of
Shaping Identity. Marsilius
Kolleg, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
(October 2012). Decentering memory. Conference on
Life with
Dementia: Identity, Citizenship,
Personhood.
Norrköping,
Sweden.
(September-October 2012). Remembering and forgetting:
Exploring new scenarios. Lecture series, The Swedish Center
for Memory and Dementia Research / Department of Medical
and Health Sciences of the University of
Linköping
/
Stockholm, Sweden.
(September 2012). Nox: Anne Carson’s memory book.
Department of Culture and Communication, University
of Linköping /
Stockholm, Sweden.
(May 2012). Witnessing 9/11: Literary and everyday stories.
Conference Life and
Narrative. The American
University in Paris and the University of Paris
Paris-Diderot, France.
(April 2012). Theory of mind, narrative, and culture
[Teoria della mente, narrazione, e cultura] Department of
Human Sciences (Dipartimento di Scienze Umane), University
of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
(March
2012). Understanding Aboriginal narratives (with Maria I.
Medved). National Centre for Research Methods (Economic and
Social Science Research Council of Great Britain),
“Novella” Methodology Programme / Institute of Education,
University of London, UK.
(February 2012). The art of remembering and forgetting.
Graduate School of the University of the Arts London, UK.
(January 2012). Narrative and experience. Conference
on Narrative
Coping with Threat, Trauma, and Loss.
Freiburg
Institute of Advanced Studies / University of Freiburg,
Germany.
(November 2011). Forgetting remembering: Film and memory.
Closing Lecture of the Exhibition Phantasmagoria:
History and Memory through Film, Photography, and
Installation. Dalnavert
Museum, Winnipeg.
(August 2011). Writing and narrative. Conference on
Literacy
Today. Monte
Verita’, Ascona (Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology / ETH Zurich and Goethe
University Frankfurt), Switzerland.
(July 2011). The origins of the narrative mind.
Hans Kilian
Lecture,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
(July 2011). The cultural development of the narrative
mind. Lecture series Cultural
Psychology Today. Center of
Development, Culture, and Psychology, Department of Human
Sciences, University of Osnabrueck, Germany.
(June 2011). Narrative models. International conference
on Teaching
Narrative and Teaching through Narrative,
The
Narrative Studies Network of the Nordic Countries, The
University of Tampere, Finland.
(May 2011). Theory of mind, language, and culture [Teoria
della mente, linguaggio e cultura] Department of Human
Sciences (Dipartimento di Scienze Umane), University of
Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
(April 2011).
Illness, recovery, and meaning-making (with Maria Medved).
Conference of the Society for Humanist Psychology, Chicago,
IL.
(February 2011). Narrative psychology meets neuroscience:
Exploring the autobiographical process. Department of
Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK.
(January 2011). Narrative time revisited. University of
Tallinn, University of Tartu, The Estonian Academy of
Arts, the Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and
Arts, Estonia.
(November
2010). Fact and fiction: Exploring the narrative mind.
Conference on The
Travelling Metaphor of Narrative. The Finnish
Institute, London.
(November 2010). Unravelling narrative
meaning-making. 10th
Anniversary of the Centre for Narrative
Research, Karl Marx
Memorial Library, London.
(September 2010). The origins of the interpretive mind.
Department of Child and Youth Studies, University of
Stockholm.
(September 2010). Questions of meaning: Identity, time, and
memory.
Conference
on Dementia,
Identity, and Personhood.
Norrköping,
Sweden.
(June 2010).
The memory crisis and the digital
revolution.
Conference
on Digital
Memories. University of
Sheffield.
(April
2010). Discovering the
interpretive mind: Narrative, autobiographical memory, and
time. The Graduate Center, City University of New York
(CUNY).
(March 2010). Memory, narrative, and neurocognition:
Exploring common ground. Department of Psychology,
University of Calgary.
(December 2009). Commemoration and presence. Conference
on Music and
Religion. Ev. Akademie
des Rheinlands, Bonn.
(November 2009). Rethinking autobiographical memory.
Conference on Rethinking
Narrative Identity. Humboldt
University Berlin.
(July 2009). Culture and development: Narrative scenarios.
Lecture Series Development
and Culture. Institute of
Development, Culture, and Psychology, Department of Human
Sciences, University of Osnabruck, Germany.
(February 2009). Emotional memories. Conference on
Experience,
Emotion, and Narrative. Sponsored by
The Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Tampere.
(January 2009). La memoria autobiografica: tra processo
narrativo e sistema neurocognitivo. Department of Human
Sciences (Dipartimento di Scienze Umane), University of
Milan Bicocca.
(November 2008). Finding or losing one’s self? Research
School Humanities and Social Sciences, Ruhr University
Bochum, Germany.
(July 2008). Leben und Erzählen [Life and narrative].
Conference of Neue
Gesellschaft fur Psychologie, Berlin, Free
University Conference Center.
(July 2008). Narrative and experience: A case study.
Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of
Linkoping, Sweden.
(June 2008). The laboratories of the mind: Neuroscience and
narrative. Conference on Narrative
and the Human Condition [Den Berättande
Människan]. University of Linkoping, Sweden.
(June 2008). Teoria della mente, coscienza narrativa e
la community
of minds [Theory of
mind, narrative consciousness and the “community of
minds”]. Department of Human Sciences (Dipartimento di
Scienze Umane), University of Milan Bicocca.
(May 2008). Il processo autobiografico, la memoria
narrativa e il mondo culturale [Autobiographical process,
narrative memory, and the cultural world]. Conference
on Autobiografia
tra scienza e arte [Autobiography
between Science and Art], Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. The
Italian Society for the Study of Science and Literature
[Società Italiana per lo Studio dei Rapporti tra Scienza e
Letteratura], The Florence Center of Philosophy of Science
[Centro Fiorentino di Filosofia della Scienza], and the
Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G. P. Vieusseux, Florence.
(May 2008). Memoria, narrazione, e la memoria culturale.
Department of Social Sciences [Dipartimento di Scienze
Sociali], University of Turin.
(January 2008). Memory and writing. Colloque
Écritures:
sur les traces de Jack Goody. École Nationale
Supérieure des Sciences de l’Information et des
Bibliothèques, Lyon.
(November
2007). Autobiographical process and cultural world.
Conference The
Culturalization of the Self, Chemnitz
University of Technology and The Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanites, Essen.
(September 2007). Remembering Confucius: Autobiographical
remembering as cultural practice. Conference
Human
Identity and Cultural Difference in a Cross-cultural
Perspective. Institute for
Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, and The Program of
East Asian Classics and Cultures, National Taiwan
University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
(June 2007). Understanding narrative memory.
Third
Tampere Conference on Narrative, Tampere,
Finland.
(May 2007). Investigating the autobiographical process.
Lecture series Controversies
in Qualitative Research. National
Centre for Research Methods of the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC) of Great Britain, University of
Southampton.
(May 2007). Memory, narrative, and the self. School of
Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies, University of
East London.
(March 2007).
Analysing narrative time: A case study. Workshop on
Narrative
Analysis of the National
Centre for Research Methods of the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC) of GB, School of Social Science,
Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London.
(February - May 2007). In search of lost memory: Mind,
brain and culture. Lecture Course. Collaboratory of the
Social Sciences and Department of Information Studies,
University of Sheffield.
(January 2007). Erinnern und Erzaehlen [Remembering and
narrating]. Austrian Association for Psychoanalysis.
Innsbruck.
(October 2006). Lifetime and eternity. Centre for Theology
and the Study of Religions, University of Lund, Sweden.
(June 2006). Magia, memoria autobiografica e altre
construzioni del significato. [Magic, autobiographical
memory, and other meaning constructions]. Department of
Human Sciences (Dipartimento di Scienze Umane), University
of Milan Bicocca.
(May 2006). At
the limits of narrative: How to talk about 9/11. School of
Humanities, King's College London.
(April 2006). Narrative Psychology today. Center for
Research on Culture, Development, and Education. New York
University.
(November 2005). Language, experience, and the “traumatic
gap.” Department of Psychology, Philosophy and Science
Studies, Roskilde University/ Copenhagen.
(November
2005). Is there a time without present? Narrative, meaning,
and temporality. Department of Sociology and Social
Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland
(November 2005). Cognition, time, and narrative.
Interdisciplinary Colloquium Talk-in-Interaction,
University of Linkoping, Sweden.
(October 2005). Bad stories: Towards a post-Aristotelean
notion of narrative. Interdisciplinary
Lecture series on Narrative, Faculty of
Arts and Sciences, University of Linkoping.
(October 2005).
The double narrator: The perspective of the adult child in
autobiographical remembering. Department of Child Studies,
University of Linkoping.
(September
2005). W. G. Sebald and the timelessness of memory. Lecture
series Classic
Thinkers and Scholars. Department of
Communication Studies, University of Linkoping.
(September 2005). Tempo, spazio e narrazione: fra
psicologia culturale e antropologia culturale [Time, space,
and narrative: Between cultural psychology and cultural
anthropology]. International conference on
Il
soggetto, la mente e il mondo: Un confronto tra antropologi
e psicologi sugli usi dell’etnografia
[Subject,
Mind, and World: A Meeting of Anthropologists and
Psychologists]. Associazione
Internazionale Ernesto de Martino, Scuola Estiva di Bassano
Romano/University of Rome.
(June 2005). Zeit, Selbst und Jenseits. Überlegungen im
Anschluss an einen Kulturvergleich europäischer und
chinesischer Vorstellungen [Time, self, and transcendence:
European and Chinese perspectives]. The
Cultural Self II: Multicultural Perspectives.
Department of
Intercultural Communication, Chemnitz University of
Technology, Germany.
(May 2005). Il narratore raddoppiato: La prospettiva
dell'adulto e del bambino nella memoria autobiografica [The
double narrator: The perspective of the adult child in
autobiographical remembering]. Department of Epistemology
and Hermeneutics of Education, University of Milan Bicocca.
(April 2005). Narrative imagination. International
Conference Methods in
Dialogue, Hemingford,
Cambridge, UK, co-sponsered by the Centre for Narrative
Research and the London East Research Institute, School of
Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies, University of
East London.
(March 2005). The story of Aristotle’s journey to the Yukon
elders and his happy return to the land of
Euripides. New
Horizons of Knowledge Lecture.
Faculty of Arts/Department of Native Studies, University of
Manitoba, Winnipeg.
(February 2005). Between language and music.
RTÉ -
National Broadcasting Cooperation of Ireland: Living Music
Festival. Helix Arts
Centre, Dublin.
(January 2005) Worte und Gefühle [Words and emotions].
Austrian Society for Psychoanalysis, Innsbruck.
(July 2004). Narrative and the emergence of the cultural
self. International Conference on The
Cultural Self. University of
Chemnitz.
(May 2004). Autobiographical memory as a cultural form.
Columbia University Seminar Series Beyond
History and Memory. Co-sponsored
by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
Affairs, New York, and Columbia University.
(April 2004). Good stories and bad stories: The development
of children's narrative imagination. Graduate Center,
Department of Psychology, City University of New York.
(April 2004). Falling out of time: A case study in the
narrative construction of human temporality. Lectures
Series Narrative
Medicine. College of
Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York.
(March 2004). Culture in the mind: Development and the
toolkit of language. Department of Psychology, University
of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
(January 2004). Warum erzählen wir? [Why do we tell
stories?] Department of Psychology and Education, Freie
Universität Berlin.
(July 2003). Handeln, Denken und Erzählen. Die narrative
Wende in der Psychologie [Action, thought, and narrative:
The narrative turn in psychology]. Faculty of Science,
University of Innsbruck.
(May 2003). Life without time. Symposium
Broken Narratives. Vadstena,
University of Linkoping, Sweden.
(May 2003). Understanding narrative. Department of
Communication Studies. University of Linkoping.
(November 2002). First memories: Remembering the self in
China and America. Graduate Faculty, New School University,
New York.
(October 2002). Rewriting lives after the catastrophe:
Identity construction in Cold War Germany. Eugene Lang
College, New York.
(June 2002). Between brain and culture: New perspectives on
memory. University Children's Hospital, Innsbruck.
(May 2002). Pathways of meaning. Department of Child
Studies. University of Linkoping.
(February 2002). The narrative mode. Department of Applied
Psychology, New York University.
(October 2001). Early forms of narrative coherence.
Conference on Cognition
and Communication, New York
University.
(June 2001). Mythische Imagination in der Musik [Mythical
imagination in music]. Conference on Der
Komponist Hans Werner Henze [The Composer
Hans Werner Henze]. University of Hamburg.
(September 2000). The many voices of myself: Identity as
the center of narrative gravity. University of Campinas/São
Paolo.
(June 2000) Modes of cultural communication: Orality and
literacy. Conference on Literacy
and Cognition – Techniques of Remembering,
Joint Research
Center "Media and Cultural Communication" of the German
National Research Agency [DFG], Universities of Cologne,
Bonn, and Aachen (RWTH).
(May 2000). La costruzione narrativa dell'identita [The
narrative construction of identity]. Department of
Psychology, University of Rome "La Sapienza".
(May 2000). Gli inizi della memoria autobiografica del
bambino. Department of Psychology, Catholic University of
Milan.
(April 2000). What makes a story coherent? Department of
Psychology, Harvard University.
(December 1999). Refletindo sobre a vida [Thinking through
lives: Exploring autobiographical narrative]. Key Note
Address, Conference on A
Construção da Identidade, University of
Brasília.
(October 1999). The interface between life and narrative.
Key Note Address, XXIV
Reunião Annual da Sociedade Brasiliera de
Psicologia [XXIV
National conference of the Brasilian Society of
Psychology], University
of Campinas/São Paolo.
(July 1999). Zeitkonstruktionen [Constructions of time].
Colloquium Psychologie und Postmoderne, Department of
Psychology, Free University Berlin.
(April 1999). Un approccio culturale al discorso
metalinguistico [A cultural approach to metalinguistic
discourse] Conference Ricerca,
intervento e formazione in ambito
psicoeducativo, Catholic
University of Milan.
(April 1999) Deciphering the literacy episteme.
Conference Literacy
and Conceptions of Language. University
College, University of Toronto.
(March 1999). Psychological and literary models of
autobiographical remembering. Northrop
Frye Lecture. Northrop Frye
Centre, Victoria University Toronto.
(February 1999). Identity and time: Narrative models of
human development. Diefenbaker
Award Lecture. Department of
Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of
Toronto.
(October 1998). Il tempo della vita: Modelli del tempo
nella narrazione autobiografica [The time of a life: Models
of lifetime]. Bontadini
Lecture, Catholic
University of Milan.
(June 1998). Who writes the “texts” of national
identity? Fourth
Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research
and Activity Theory, University of
Aarhus.
(April 1998). The culture of literacy. Literacy
Matters Lecture 1998, University of
Toronto.
(April 1998). Structures of time in autobiographical
remembering. Department of Psychology, Queen’s University,
Kingston, Ontario.
(November 1997). (J. Brockmeier and David R. Olson) What is
a word? Faculty of Education, University of Calgary.
(October 1997). What is narrative psychology? Faculty of
Psychology, University of Calgary.
(September 1997). Lo sviluppo metalinguistico nel bambino
pre-scolare [Metalinguistic development in prescholers].
Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan.
(July 1997). Identität und autobiographisches Erzählen.
[Identity and autobiographical narrative]. Department of
Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg.
(April 1997). The autobiographical process and the Freudian
culture of life history. Department of Education and Social
Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, Miss.
(March 1997).
Dialogical models of development. International Seminar of
the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Dialogue
and Development, University of
Leipzig.
(January 1997). Personale Identität und autobiographischer
Prozess [Personal identity and autobiographical process].
Philosophische Gesellschaft Innsbruck [Philosophical
Society Innsbruck].
(January 1997). Raum und Zeit in der ästhetischen
Erfahrung: Eine kulturpsychologische Perspektive [Space and
time in aesthetic experience: A cultural-psychological
perspective]. International Research Center for Cultural
Studies, Vienna.
(October 1996). Wahrheit und Dichtung im autobiographischen
Erzählen [Truth and fiction in autobiographical narrative].
Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig [German Institute of
Literature], University of Leipzig.
(July 1996). The present of the past: Structures of time in
autobiographical remembering. Second
International Conference on Memory.
Abano
Terme/ University of Padova, Italy.
(April 1996). Children's arguments: An Italian case study.
Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology,
University of Toronto.
(March 1996). Conflict and communication. Conference
Discourses
of Time, Space, and Culture, Center for
the Study of Communication, Department of Communication
Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
(March 1996).The Freudian order of time. Department of
Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; and
Institute for the Advanced Study in the Humanities,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
(January 1996). Streitgeschichten – Diskursive Formen der
Konfliktbewältigung bei Kindern. Colloquium Developmental
Psychology, Free University Berlin, and Max-Planck
Institute of Human Development, Berlin.
(January 1996). Identität, Erinnerung, Kultur [Identity,
memory, culture]. Austrian Society for Psychoanalysis.
(November
1995). La teoria della mente: Fra psicologia cognitiva e
psicologia culturale [Understanding the theory of mind:
Between cognitive and cultural psychology]. Catholic
University Milan.
(October 1995) Krankheitserzählungen [Illness narratives].
Westfalian Clinic for Psychiatry, Neurology, and
Psychosomatic, Gütersloh.
(September 1995). Über Krankheit sprechen - Ein Randproblem
in Medizin und Psychotherapie? [Talking about illness: A
marginal problem in medicine and psychotherapy?] Department
of Children and Youth Psychiatry and Neurology, University
Children's Hospital, Innsbruck.
(May 1995).
Talking about your past: A developmental perspective.
Department of Psychology, The College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester, Mass.
(May 1995). Life is short: Critical remarks on the
categories of subjective and objective time.
Conference Autobiography
as a Psychological Method. Georgetown
University, Washington, DC.
(April 1995). Words, things, and people: Varieties of
realism in children's theory of language. Department of
Psychology and Department of Education, Clark University,
Worcester, Mass.
(April 1995). Spaces of meaning: Time and memory in
architecture. Center for Interdisciplinary and Special
Studies. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
(December 1994). Retrospective teleology in autobiography.
International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna.
(October 1994).
Learning to talk about time: Narrative ways to temporal
coherence. Department of Psychology, New York University.
(September
1994). Narrative psychology. International Research Center
for Cultural Studies, Vienna.
(April 1994).
Temporal communication and spatial interaction. Center for
the Study of Communication, and Department of Communication
Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mass.
(March 1994).
Architectural narratives. Conference The Science
of Rhetoric and the Art of
Persuasion. Department of
Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
(March 1994).
Philosophical and psychological models of time. Philosophy
Centre, University of Oxford.
Presentations at Conferences and Academic Meetings
since
1978
Over 120
refereed papers presented at national and international
conferences and academic meetings in North America, South
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