Mo(ve)ments in Identity: Narrative practice and theory
Rhodes University
Grahamstown
29 July 2011
Conference Programme (Draft)
8.00-8.30 Registration
8.30-8.45 Welcome
8.45-9.20 Elmarie Kotze – “Positioning theory and witnessing practices in research, teaching, and
therapy”
9.20-9.55 Kim Barker – “Spiritual mo(ve)ments and identity: Narrative conversations in the
context of faith”
9.55-10.30 Therese Hegarty: “The social construction of identity in the primary school”
10.30-10.50 TEA
10.50-11.15 Poster discussions
11.15-11.50 Michael Guilfoyle: “Narrative therapy and the ethical subject”
11.50-12.25 Stephen Gaddis – “Agency as a discursively produced story: Co-searching therapy and
everyday relationships”
12.25-13.00 Judy Rankin – “Creating dialogue, new narratives, possibilities and shifts, through
working with metaphor and creative activities”
13.00-14.15 LUNCH
14.15-14.50 Trudy Meehan: “Narrative Community Projects in Clinical and Counselling training”
14.50-15.25 Yvonne Sliep: “Narrative theatre: Collective healing strategies in traumatised
communities”
15.25-15.50 TEA
15.50-16.45 Reflections: Where to from here in the South African context?
