CONFESSIONS
Draft Program
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Confessions: Confounding Narrative and Ethics
A Symposium

20 - 21 February 2007

Draft Program
(as at 7 January 2007)

Tuesday, 20 Feb
Narrative Method

8.30 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 10.30 Prelude Welcome, introductory comments, setting the scene Interlude Naomi Sunderland – music (TBC)

10.30 – 11.00 Morning tea

11.00 – 12.30 Narrative Method – Session 1 Opening Address Professor Catherine Kohler Riessman Interlude Naomi Sunderland – music (TBC)

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 Narrative Method – Session 2 Monika Wilson – Poetics and Pragmatics* Jennifer Jones – Configuring the Researcher’s Identity Through Narrative Research*

3.00 – 3.30 Afternoon tea

3.30 – 5.00 Narrative method - Session 3 Emma Woodley – Confluence: Landscapes, Orchestras and The Listening Guide* Interlude Film - 18q Veronica Wain and Tfer Newsome

5.00 – 7.30 Break and Early dinner

7.30 – 8.30 Interlude Playback theatre (TBC)

Wednesday, 21 Feb
Narrative Vulnerability and Ethics

9.00 – 10.30 Narrative Vulnerability and Ethics –
Session 1 Dr Richard Matthews – Torture and Narrative: An absolute Violation of the Self* Interlude Exhibition: Resonance Jane and Paul Hurley

10.30 – 11.00 Morning tea

11.00 – 12.30 Narrative Vulnerability and Ethics –
Session 2 Dr Libby Woodhams – Art/Narrative/Vulnerability* Scott Fitzpatrick – Suicide and Narrative*

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 Narrative Vulnerability and Ethics –
Session 3 Eleanor Milligan, Dr Peter Isaacs and Emma Woodley – Confronting (Mis)Conceptions: Paramedics and Poetry David Massey – Narrative Vulnerability*

3.00 – 3.30 Afternoon tea

3.30 – 5.00 Confessions: Confounding Narrative and Ethics Postlude Symposium send off: Reflections on narrative and ethics A facilitated discussion Facilitator: Dr Peter Isaacs