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International Conference on Narrative: April 19 - 3

Thursday, April 19, 2018 14:00to15:30
Bronfman Building 1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 1G5, CA
Price: 
Free

The International Conference on Narrative will be held at Â鶹AV in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from April 18 – 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. Theoretical Takes on Terminological Debates

Location: 422
Moderator: Paul Dawson, University of New South Wales

Presentations:

  • Creativity-Narrativity-Fictionality: A Critical Genealogy
    Paul Dawson, University of New South Wales
  • Fictionality as Rhetoric
    Richard Walsh, University of York
  • On Being Extra Hetero
    Porter Abbott, University of California, Santa Barbara

2. The City

Location: 423
Moderator: Andre Furlani, Concordia University

Presentations:

  • ąó±ôâ˛Ô´ÇłŮ±đ°ů: The Montreal Pedestrian Narrates
    Andre Furlani, Concordia University
  • Architectural Savagery in J.G. Ballard’s High Rise
    Stanka Radovic, University of Toronto
  • Narrative Space in Urban Studies and Psychogeographical Writings: A Proposed Study of (Embodied) Metaphors as Triggers of Recipient Emotions
    Kai Tan, RWTH Aachen University
  • Junk City: Representing the Urban in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
    Naomi Michalowicz, Columbia University

3. Photography and Film

Location: 179
Moderator: John Bruns, College of Charleston

Presentations:

  • Affordances and Constraints of Existing Photographs vs. Objects Available to Photograph in Bimodal Fiction by Shapton, Sebald, and Robbe-Grillet
    Emma Kafalenos, Washington University
  • Affect in Visual Narratives of Immigration
    James Catano, Louisiana State University
  • Shifting Narratives in Contemporary Photo-Embedded Migrant Fiction
    Sharon Zelnick, Leiden University
  • The Bull Here Can Rage: Unassimilated Articulations in the Early Films of Martin Scorsese
    Daniel Bergman, University of Toronto

4. STYLE/ AFFECT/ DISRUPTION: Erika Lopez, Elena Ferrante, Henry James, Charles Reznikoff

Location: 340
Moderator: Kay Young, University of California, Santa Barbara

Presentations:

  • Demanding Representation in the Narrative Hijinks of Erika Lopez’s Flaming Iguanas
    Nicole Dib, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Writing to Disrupt: Why Women Love the Novels of Elena Ferrante
    Kay Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • The Jamesian Lag
    Chip Badley, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Formalizing Emotion in Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony
    Dalia Bolotnikov, University of California, Santa Barbara

5. The Narrating Subject in the Context of “Posts”—Traumatic/Colonial/Communist

Location: 178
Moderator: Monica Popescu, Â鶹AV

Presentations:

  • The Blind Spot: Knowledge, Narrative, and Ocular Metaphors in the Works of Christa Wolf
    Robert Blankenship, California State University, Long Beach
  • Cuban Necropolitics: Carpentier, Ortiz, and The Rhythm of Narrative
    Wyatt Sarafin, New York University
  • Writing the Conflict in Angola after the Cold War: Magical Realism and Narrative Confusion
    Monica Popescu, Â鶹AV
  • Tsunami Stories: British Women Write Out the Wave
    Pallavi Rastogi, Louisiana State University

6. The Stakes of Character

Location: 360
Moderator: Kelly March, Missippi State University

Presentations:

  • Clones and Nineteenth Century Novels: Or, Why Does Kathy H. Have to be Killed?
    Lauren Pinkerton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Death, Judgment, and Constructing Ethical Hierarchy in The Disguiser
    Michelle Wang, Queen Mary University of London
  • Finding Friction: Intersectionality, Empathy and the Politics of Poussey Washington’s Death
    Ashley Ruderman, University of Kentucky
  • Reading Characters in Early Modern Allegory: Empathy in The Faerie Queen
    Kyungran Park, University of Buffalo, SUNY

7. Beyond Fictional (Id)entities

Location: 410
Moderator: Sean O’Sullivan, The Ohio State University

Presentations:

  • “I imagined a story where I didn’t have to be the damsel”: Characters Unbound in Contemporary TV Serial Narratives
    Sara Casoli, University of Bologn
  • The “Syntax of Gender” in “Complex” TV Characters: An Analysis of Popular Narrative Strategies as Gender Performativity
    Stefany Boisvert, Â鶹AV
  • Non-Discrete Occurrences in Discrete Narratives: Characters Emergence in Contemporary Television Anthology Series
    Giulia Tuarino, University of Montreal

8. Intimate Narratives of Gender, Health, and Citizenship

Location: 210
Moderator: Jessica Polzer, University of Western Ontario

Presentations:

  • Narratives of Motherhood in Vaccine Hesitancy Discourse: Reinforcing and Contesting Neoliberal Citizenship
    Jessica Polzer, University of Western Ontario
  • Narratives of Resistance: Public Health, Childhood Vaccines, and the Moral Work of Motherhood
    Alison Thompson, University of Toronto
  • Experiences of persons living with HIV and disability in Lusaka, Zambia: Listening with stories and counter-stories
    Janet Parsons, University of Toronto

9. 19th-Century Narrative Discourse

Location: 210
Moderator: Peter Gibian, Â鶹AV

Presentations:

  • On Coziness, or Making a Scene
    Elizabeth Wilder, Stanford University
  • An Uncanny Assemblage: Scenic Autonomy in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
    Leo Hoar, University of California, Irvine
  • Very Punny: Puns and Narrative Discourse in “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
    Jennifer Harding, Washington and Jefferson College

10. Voice

Location: 245
Moderator: Jason Camlot, Concordia University

Presentations:

  • The Voice of Mutual Recognition: Communal and Other Weird Voices
    Michelle Banks, Medicine Hat College
  • Listening to the Past in Lydie Salvayre’s Novels
    Marla Epp, University of Pennsylvania
  • The Emergence of the Devotional Self in Post-Exilic Biblical Narrative
    Robert Kawashima,The University of Florida
  • Revisiting Dialogue with Oscar Wilde and George Meredith
    Amy Wong, Dominican University of California
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