麻豆AV

The International Conference on Narrative will be held at 麻豆AV in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from April 18 鈥� 22, 2018.

Professor Lindsay Holmgren invites the Desautels Community to attend the Panels and Talks hosted at the Desautels Faculty of Management.

Please note that the plenary engagements are closed to the public due to limited seating in Moyse Hall.

1. Reading Over Time

Location: 422
Moderator: Edward Maloney, Georgetown University

Presentations:

• Beyond Contempt: Ways to Read Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin
  Faye Halpern, University of Calgary
• Rereading the Future
  Cynthia Port, Coastal Carolina University
• Sedimental Education, or The Ethics of Aging
  Peter Rabinowitz, Hamilton College

2. Strange, Unusual, and Unnatural

Location: 423

Presentations:

• They-Narratives
  Jan Alber, RWTH Aachen University
• Out of One, Many: Multi-Perspectival First-Person Narration in Earl Lovelace鈥檚 Salt
  Steve Beaulieu, University of Maryland
• Modeling Unnatural Plots: The Unusual Progression of Atkinson鈥檚 Life After Life
  Brian Richardson, University of Maryland

3. Im-Personalities

Location: 179
Moderator: Michael Benveniste, University of Puget Sound

Presentations:

• First-Person, Plural: Subjection and Character-Function in Ethnic Narrative
  Michael Benveniste, University of Puget Sound
• Killing Like a State: The Character of Zero Dark Thirty
  Joel Burges, University of Rochester
• More or Less Human: Second-Order Anthropomorphism and the Attribution of Character
  John Hegglund, Washington State University
• Mimetic, Synthetic, Thematic: 鈥淭ypical鈥� Characters and Luk谩cs鈥檚 鈥淭he Typical鈥�
  Joe Shapiro, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

4. Discourse in Narrative

Location: 410
Moderator: Ond艡ej Sl谩dek, Czech Academy of Sciences

Presentations:

• Toward a Theory of Interest Structure
  Justin Ness, Northern Illinois University
• Jan Muka艡ovsk媒鈥檚 Approach to Literature: Structural Narratology
  Ond艡ej Sl谩dek, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Chronological Order, the Narrative Present, and Dialogue
  Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv University
• Discourse and Narrative: Success and Failure in Discussing Difficult Stories
  Robert Price, University of Toronto, Mississauga

5. Unsettling Allegory

Location: 360
Moderator: Rachel Hile, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Presentations:

• Non-Narrative Allegory in Memes and Cartoons: Implications for a Theory of Allegory
  Rachel Hile, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
• Allegorical Vehicles: Format and Narrative Passages in E.M. Forster
  Kurt Koenigsberger, Case Western Reserve University
• Realism as Allegory
  Nicholas Carr, University of Amsterdam
• Allegorical Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
  Carrie Shanafelt, Fairleigh Dickinson University

6. Situated Self Writing

Location: 340
Moderator: Katra Byram, The Ohio State University

Presentations:

• Strangers to our Shores: Narrative Perspectives on Immigration and the Immigrant Experience
  John McTighe, Ramapo College of New Jersey
• An Emotional Coloring of History: Fictive Discourse in Family Life Writing
  Katra Byram, The Ohio State University
• The Narrative-I and the Experiencing-I in Autobiographical Narratives
  Zuzana Foniokova, Masaryk University
• The Function of Autobiographies in the Construction of a Trans Narrative
  Sandy Artuso, Universit茅 du Luxembourg

7. Representing Childhood and Adolescent Interiority

Location: 210
Moderator: Lorna Martens, University of Virginia

Presentations:

• Hexed! The Child鈥檚 Perspective
  Lorna Martens, University of Virginia
• The Queer Potential of Narrative Voice in Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Alice Novels
  Steven Greenwood, 麻豆AV
• Narrative Empathy and the Representation of Adolescent Emotions in This One Summer
  Rocio Davis, University of Navarra
• Cognitive Disability and Representational Contests in The Child Who Never Grew and The Adventures of Augie March
  Evan Chaloupka, Case Western Reserve University

8. Multi-Narratives I

Location: 310
Moderator: Jutta Zimmerman, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel

Presentations:

• Multi-Narratives: A Framework
  Andre Schwarck, Kiel University
• Authorial (Para)Text and Narratorial Omniscience in Rudy Wiebe鈥檚 A Discovery of Strangers
  Tristan Kugland, Kiel University
• More Than a Sum of Parts: Multinarrativity in Jack Kay鈥檚 Poetry Sequence 鈥淭he Adoption Papers鈥�
  Liz Bahs, Royal Holloway University

9. Strange Temporalities: Reconstructing Master Narratives of History in Contemporary Speculative Fiction

Location: 245
Chair: Teemu Ikonen, University of Tampere

Presentations:

• Being in History: Creating the Present through Imagined History in Robin Hobb鈥檚 Farseer
  Markus Laukkanen, University of Tampere
• History After the End: Folded Temporalities and Building History in Emily St. John Mandel鈥檚 Station Eleven
  Mikko Mantyniemi, University of Tampere
• The Misty Beginning of History: Narrativization of Mythical and Historical Knowledge in Kazuo Ishiguro鈥檚 Buried Giant
  Elise Kraatila, University of Tampere

10. Inner and Outer Landscapes

Location: 178
Moderator: Lutas Liviu, Linnaeus University

Presentations:

• In an Imagined State: The Use of Adynaton in Lafayette鈥檚 La Princesse de Cl猫ves
  Adele Kudish, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
• From 鈥淛ustified Sinner to 鈥淭he Ettrick Shepard鈥�: Narration and Personal Identity in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
  Wanlin Li, Peking University
• Representations of the Anthropocene in Narratives for Children
  Lutas Liviu, Linnaeus University
• Narrativizing Landscape in Diderot鈥檚 Salons
  Maury Bruhn, University of North Carolina atChapel Hill