About the seminar: In this seminar, Julie Hansen and Ingela Nilsson will share their experience of editing the peer-reviewed volume Critical Storytelling: Experiences of Power Abuse in Academia. The new field of critical storytelling uses personal narratives to critically examine norms and power relations. As editors of this volume, Hansen and Nilsson will give background on the project and reflect on what the contributions reveal about the academic workplace. This will be followed by an open group discussion focusing on one of the chapters, entitled A Decisive Meeting in Department X. This chapter is available open access together with the entire book at the following link: https://brill.com/view/title/63141
About the speakers: Julie Hansen is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages at the Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University. Ingela Nilsson is Professor of Greek and Byzantine Studies at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. Both are literary scholars interested in the potential of storytelling in various contexts.
Karin Schönning and Petra Jönsson, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy