Narrative Agency and the Sense of the Possible - Hanna Meretoja

Описание: Keynote presentation from the 2024 Possibility Studies Network Conference, Cambridge, UK.

Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory at the University of Turku (Finland). She runs the project “Counter-Narratives of Cancer: Shaping Narrative Agency” (Research Council of Finland, 2023-2027). In this talk she discusses her notions of narrative agency and the sense of the possible, their interconnections and their relevance for possibility studies. She will thereby seek to bring possibility studies in dialogue with interdisciplinary narrative studies. She suggest that our sense of the possible – our sense of how things could be otherwise – is culturally, socially, and historically mediated, and narratives play an important role in this mediation.