Transferring narratological knowledge:

VISION

interdisciplinary, intermedial, international

International Research Knowledge Transfer Teaching Activities e-Science/e-Learning
Institutional Partnerships: Project Narrative, Ohio State University Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (CRAL-EHESS), Sorbonne, Paris Theory of Prose Institute, Prague University Narratology Workgroup, EtvsLornd-University, Budapest Zentrum fr Erzhlforschung, Bergische Universitt Wuppertal Narratology Group, University of Ghent Living Handbook of Narratology print version: Walter de Gruyter publishers (New York & Berlin) online version: Hamburg University Press Undergraduate Language and Literature curricula: narratological seminars and lectures Other disciplines: on demand lectures and modules Self-study options (e-Learning) e-Learning projects (ELCH funded): Grundkurs Narratologie Studies in Narrative Formations I . Online since 2004 with a nation wide user base NarrNetz Narratologie im Netz. Intermedial Blended Learning course. Online from December 2006

MISSION

PROJECTS

Series Narratologia, Walter de Gruyter publishers (New York & Berlin) published ten volumes since 2003

Research Projects: Story Generator Algorithms - ICN (DFG grant 2004 - 2008) Modeling Narrative Competence ICN & Project Narrative (A.v.Humboldt-TransCoop grant application 2007 - 2008) Storyology Project ICN (application phase) a further 5 project applications are under design and will be submitted in 2007

Text book Einfhrung in die Erzhltextanalyse commissioned by Metzler Verlag (Stuttgart); Fall 2007

Publications: approx. 20 journal articles and online publications p.a. approx. 3 monographs p.a.

Graduate and Postgraduate (from winter 2007/8) MA course in Narratology Export Module Narratology for aliated MA curricula Hamburg Summer School of Narratology MA candidate workshop on Narratology Advanced Studies in Narratology - narratological symposium for graduates and postgraduates Doctoral projects

e-Science projects: NarrPort Research Portal of the FGN public portal & multi-functional groupware system NarrBib:The online bibliography of narratology founder member of the initiative HDH Hamburg Digital Humanities

Interdisciplinary workshops & invited lectures by ICN members TextLab : Student and research laboratory for computational narratological text analysis

ICN Conferences: Modeling mediacy - University of Hamburg, October 13-15, 2006 Event, eventfulness and tellability University of Ghent (Belgium), February 17 - 18, 2007

Visiting Researchers: Federico Peinado Gil, Games, Narrative&Simulation Project, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Dr. Gunther Martens, Narratology Group, University of Ghent Dr. Galina Potapova, University of St.Petersburg Dr. Natalia Fateeva, Vinogradov Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Aliated projects: Amsterdam International Journal for Cultural Narratology www.narratology.net webportal for international narratology

ICN activities - overview

Research Projects The ICN initiates, conducts and coordinates externally funded research projects (Drittmittelprojekte), for example Story Generator Algorithms - ICN (DFG grant Me 1546/2, 2004 - 2008) Modeling Narrative Competence ICN & Project Narrative (A.v.Humboldt-TransCoop grant application 2007 - 2008) Storyology Project ICN (application phase) a further 5 project applications under design (to be submitted in 2007) Visiting Researchers The ICN will continue the FGN tradition of hosting international researchers for up to 6 months. Visiting narratologists, who have to be externally funded by exchange grants (e.g. Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung) and stipends, are provided with oce space in the ICN oces and are expected to present own research projects, to partake in regular plenary sessions as well as workshops. Past visitors included Federico Peinado Gil, Games, Narrative&Simulation Project, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2005) Dr. Gunther Martens, Narratology Group, University of Ghent (2005) Dr. Galina Potapova, University of St.Petersburg Dr. Natalia Fateeva, Vinogradov Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences Teaching In addition to integrating narratological topics into the traditional curricula of its member disciplines, the ICNs commitment to teaching is reected in the following projects: e-Learning courses: an elementary self-study-course Grundkurs Narratologie Studies in Narrative Formations I was already implemented in 2004. The Grundkurs has a broad user base that extends to other German universities, including LMU Munich. It is due to be complemented by a second Blended Learning course NarrNetz in early 2007. NarrNetz is an interdisciplinary BA-course and probably the rst at our university to utilise innovative game/adaptive learning-methodology. Both courses were funded by ELCH (E-Learning Consortium Hamburg). Design and coordination of the MA course Narratologie commencing in winter semester 2007/2008. The course design has been nalised and has passed internal evaluation at Hamburg University. On the basis of existing agreements it is planned to eventually expand it into an international Masters Course, in cooperation with the universities of St.Petersburg, Prague, Budapest, and Amsterdam. Advanced Studies in Narratology, a narratological symposium for MA and Doctoral candidates as well as Postdocs. This project is currently under design and will integrate face-to-face mentoring with e-Learning and cooperative research via e-Science technology in order to reach a local as well as an international public. Advanced Studies in Narratology will be complemented by a Hamburg Summer School of Narratology. International Network The ICN maintains and continuously expands its network of national and international partners. At current, this network includes the following institutes and initiatives: Project Narrative, Ohio State University Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (CRALEHESS), Sorbonne, Paris Theory of Prose Institute, Prague University Narratology Workgroup, Etvs-Lornd-University, Budapest Zentrum fr Erzhlforschung, Bergische Universitt Wuppertal Narratology Group, University of Ghent Knowledge Transfer A key initiative of the ICN is the edition of the Living Handbook of Narratology, edited by Peter Hhn, Wolf Schmid, Jrg Schnert (Hamburg) and John Pier (Paris). The print version will be published by Walter de Gruyter Publishers (New York & Berlin) in 2008 and will be accompanied by an online version that is updated at regular intervals and published by Hamburg University Press. A second ICN initiative is the text book Einfhrung in die Erzhltextanalyse, commissioned to ICN members Silke Lahn and Jan Christoph Meister by the Metzler Verlag (Stuttgart). The volume is due for publication in Fall 2007. Since 2003 a total of ten volumes (monographs and conference proceedings) have been published in the series Narratologia (De Gruyter, New York & Berlin), the ICNs internationally established series which publishes titles in German and English. e-Science The ICN maintains the public web-portal NarrPort which is seamlessly integrated with an e-Science collaboratory open to members and associates only. This internal section also provides access to NarrDiBi, a collection of some 500 original research articles in electronic format which is continuously expanded. In accordance with the Open Access philosophy NarrPort regularly publishes current research articles by ICN members in its public section and provides a crosslink to NarrBib, the largest continuously updated, fully searchable narratological online bibliography in the world. Document downloads from NarrPort and NarrDiBi as well as bibliographical searches in NarrBib result in a signicant number of page visits every month. Site visitors are predominantly from Europe and North America, but also from countries such as Japan, China, Russia or South Africa. The ICNs cluster of e-Science tools and systems thus provides a vital service to the narratological research community worldwide. www.icn.uni-hamburg.de ICN - Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology University of Hamburg Rothenbaumchaussee 34 D - 20148 Hamburg

Transferring narratological knowledge:

interdisciplinary, intermedial, international

Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology (ICN)
Narrative is a phenomenon occuring across all cultural domains. Narratives are central to literature, lm and the representational arts in general, and of course to historiography, psychology, law, journalism, ethnology and social anthropology. Natural and empirical sciences also make use of narratives, for example in the documentation of laboratory experiments, and so do computer games. Narratology is devoted to the theory and analysis of narrative representation. Like narrative itself, narratology is by nature interdisciplinary. As a methodology and heuristics it has a key position among the Humanities. This is acknowledged in the ICNs mission statement: Transferring narratological knowledge: interdisciplinary, intermedial, international The ICN was founded in 2004 and is the successor of the Forschergruppe Narratologie (FGN), a German Research Foundation (DFG) funded initiative (2001-2007). The ICN has close links with narratological research initiatives in Germany, France, Belgium, Czechia, Hungary, and the United States, and with individual researchers on all ve continents. With its unique expertise, knowledge ressources and e-science/e-learning infrastructure the ICN is the leading university funded narratological center of excellence world wide.

Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology

ICN mission
to initiate, lead and execute international research projects, and to coordinate these as joint ventures to structure and provide an institutional framework for the exchange of research output among participating disciplines, and to stimulate transdisciplinary research projects to create and oer teaching modules and curricula (undergraduate, postgraduate, postdoc and expert courses) utilizing e-Science and e-Learning methodologies where appropriate to engage in web-based teaching and research projects in a national and international context to support the transfer of narratological knowledge into a broad array of disciplines and professions with an interest in narratives, among other by publishing narratological hand- and textbooks to support the development of digital tools for communication in research and teaching as a founder member of the interdisciplinary initiative Hamburg Digital Humanities

ICN strategy
Interdisciplinarity, international orientation and a strong focus on knowledge transfer predestine the ICN for the role of a future oriented strategic project. Supported by strong interdisciplinary tendencies in its object domain the ICN contributes towards creating a distinctive, integrated prole for the Humanities at the University of Hamburg.

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