Monday, 23rd January

8.30 – 9.00 Registration at the Lower Pavilion

9.00 – 9.15 Conference opening

9.15 – 10.15 Keynote speaker: Matías Martínez
Patient Stories as Narratives: Constructions or Fictions? 

10.15 – 10.30 Coffee break

Plenary Session 
Pathographies and Narratological Perspectives (Auditorium Lower Pavilion. Chair Wenche Torrissen)

10.30 – 11.00 Katarina Bernhardsson: Pathographies about Interruption.
The Idea of the Expected Life in Swedish Narratives about Cancer and Childlessness

11.00 – 11.30 Nora Simonhjell: Ageing and Dementia Narratives in Contemporary Norwegian Fictions

11.30 – 12.00  Jan-Are Kolset Johnsen: Myths, Patient Stories and Dental Anxiety 

12.00 – 13.45 Lunch at Árdna, including poster presentation by Bjørg Balteskard and Anne Clancy

14.00 – 15.00 Keynote speaker: Anne Kveim Lie (SV HUM B-1003)
Patient Stories and their Uses: From “Consultation by Letter” to “Patient centered Care”

15.00 – 15.15 Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions 1 (Auditorium Lower Pavilion. Chair Jan Are Kolset Johnsen) and 2 (RoomS08. Chair Dragana Lukíc)

Narrativity as an Epistemological Category?
15.15 – 15.45  Rolf Ahlzén: "Are we all narrative? Narrativity reconsidered"
Narrative enquiry
15.15 – 15.45 Wenche Torrissen: Teater Vildenvei has saved me and given me a new life”: Narratives about illness, theatre and recovery

15.45 – 16.15 Michael Schmidt: The Case in the Case in the Case. About Arguing in Cases and Construction of Theory: The Example of Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams 

15.45 – 16.15 Lise Mari Lauritzen: ”I never intended my life to be like this”. On Arnhild Lauveng's Tomorrow I was always a Lion (2006)


19.00 Conference dinner at Fiskekompaniet Restaurant, Killengrens gate.

Tuesday, 24th January 

9.00 – 10.00    Keynote speaker: Molly Andrews (Auditorium Lower Pavilion. )
Speaking another’s Pain: Narratives and Ventriloquism

10.00 – 10.15  Coffee break

Parallel Sessions 3 (Auditorium Lower Pavilion. Chair Michael Schmidt) and 4 (Room S. Chair Rolf Ahlzén)

Patient Stories in the Healthcare System

10.15 – 10.45      Anette Larsen: “There are more Things in Heaven and Earth!” How Knowledge about Traditional Healing affects Clinical Practice. Interviews with Conventional Health Personnel

Living with Illness – Hope, "livsmot", suicide
10.15-10.45    Magdalena Skowronski: The Cancer may come back – Experiencing and Managing Worries in a Rural North Norwegian village after Treatment 

10.45 – 11.15  Lill Tove Fredriksen: The trickster and his neighbor, the engineer

10.45 – 11.15  Gabriele Kitzmüller: The Importance of Hope in the Context of Healing. Narratives on Hope after serious Brain Damage

11.15 – 11.45  Gro K. Rosvold Berntsen: Developing Patient Stories to promote Quality Improvement across multiple Care Contexts.

11.15 – 11.45  Anne Clancy: Patient Stories and the Concept of livsmot

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch in Lysgården at the Faculty of Health Sciences

Continuing; Parallel Sessions 3 (Auditorium Lower Pavilion. Chair Lill Tove Fredriksen) and 4 (Room S08. Chair Lise Mari Lauritzen)

Patient Stories in the Healthcare System
 Living with Illness – Hope, "livsmot", suicide
13.15 – 13.45  Hege K. Andreassen: Living with Mental Illness: Production and Dissemination of Digital Health Narratives
13.15 – 13.45  Dragana Lukic: Suicide as an Option? What we can learn from Past and how we can think about Perspective Future with Dementia

13.45 – 14.15  Marie-Theres Federhofer: Letters from the Leprosy Archive

13.45 – 14.14 Linda H. Nesby: Pathographies  and Epiphanies

14.15 – 14.30 Coffee break

Plenary Session  
The User Perspective (Auditorium Lower Pavilion. Chair Hege Andreassen)

14.30 – 15.00 Silje V. Østbye, Maria F. Kvamme: : Case study: A Visual Narrative of Living with CFS/ME

15.00 – 15.30 Solveig Rostøl Bakken and Anita Salamonsen: The importance of patient stories and user involvement in research and evaluation of health care services. 

15.30 – 16.30  Andreas Bjørnstad, media advicer of the The Norwegian cancer Society

16.30 – 16.45  Closing remarks by Katarina Bernhardsson, Lund University