International Conference on Narrative: April 20 - 4
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. Geographical Narratology
Location: 422
Moderator: Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
Presentations:
- What is Geography? Lessons for Narratology
Nancy Easterlin, University of New Orleans - Affording Innerscapes: Exploring the Mind as a Private Geography
Marco Bernini, Durham University - Reconstructing LOST: Connecting Storyworld to Narrative Comprehension in Online Wiki Communities
Laura Bucholz, Old Dominion University - Towards a Geographical Socio-Narratology
Matti Myvarinen, University of Tampere
2. Teaching Medical Narratives in Multiple Contexts
Location: 179
Moderator: Sarah Hardy, Hampden-Sydney College
Roundtable Participants:
- Sarah Hardy, Hampden-Sydney College
- Elizabeth Starr, Westfield State University
- Cindie Maagaard, University of Southern Denmark
- Shena McAuliffe, Earlham College
- Erin McConnell, The Ohio State University
- Jules Odendahl-James, Duke University
- Krista Quesenberry, Pennsylvania State University
3. Feminism and Form
Location: 410
Moderator: Alanna Thain, Â鶹AV
Presentations:
- Gender, Shadow Narratives, and Victorian Plotting
Tara MacDonald, University of Idaho - Redefining the Dramatic Monologue: Feminist Critique and Rhetorical Narratology
Monique Morgan, Indiana University - Composure and Composition: Narrativizing the Female Image in Alfred Hitchcock
Ned Schantz, Â鶹AV
4. Experimental Narrative in Non-Fiction
Location: 423
Moderator: Brian McHale, The Ohio State University
Presentations:
- The Average Guise: Literary Characters in Scientific Diagrams of Evolutionary Change
Daniel Newman, University of Toronto - Strange Minds in Political Rhetoric
Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University - Mind-Reading Eichmann in Mulisch’s Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account
Erin McGlothlin, Washington University in St. Louis - Bechdel’s Modernist Fun Home and the Actual Documentary Truth
Ella Ophir, University of Saskatchewan
5. Agency and High Stakes Storytelling
Location: 210
Moderator: Stephen Paskey, University of Buffalo
Presentations:
- Narrative in Counter-Terrorism Studies
Khuram Iqbal, National Defense University, Pakistan - Law’s DNA: The Double Helix of Rhetoric and Narrative
Stephen Paskey, University of Buffalo - Informal Truth Telling as Justice
Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic, University of Western Ontario - Futures of New York: Narrating Environmental Agency in Fictional and Non-Fictional Texts
Lieven Ameel, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies
6. Narrating Dubious Relationships
Location: 310
Moderator: Jenne Powers, Wheelock College
Presentations:
- Arsenic in the Sugar: Childhood, Violence, and Gender in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Anna Young, University of Oslo - Narrative Betrayals of Women’s Friendships
Jenne Powers, Wheelock College - Narrating Friendship in Le Livre de Sam
Trask Roberts, University of Pennsylvania
7. Multimodal Books and Archives
Location: 340
Moderator: Nathalie Cooke, Â鶹AV
Presentations:
- Technologies of Remembering and Theories of Forgetting: Revising the Archival Metaphor for Memoryss
Torsa Ghosal, California State University, Sacramento - Metonymy in Archival Fiction: Warren Lehrer’s A Life in Books (2013)
Brian Davis, University of Maryland - Playing Paper: Kevin Young and the Undead History of the Phonograph
Paul Benzon, Skidmore College
8. Philosophical Approaches to Narrative
Location: 245
Moderator: Huiyuhl Yi, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Presentations:
- Listening Silences: Phenomenological Hermeneutics and Narrative Theory in Contemporary Poetics
Samuel Caleb Wee, Nanyang Technological University - Reading Descartes’ Meditations as an Experiential Narrative
Michael Campbell, University of Canberra - A Study of Episodic Value Created by Personal Narratives
Huiyuhl Yi, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology - The Paradox of Eventfulness: Narrative Thinking, Doubleness, and the Predestinarian Structure
Marina Ludwigs, Stockholm University
9. Narrators: Within and Without
Location: 360
Moderator: Thomas Haddox, The University of Tennessee
Presentations:
- The Narrator’s Universe: Revisiting the Homodiegetic/Heterodiegetic Distinction and the Narrative Level Concept
Janina Jacke, University of Hamburg - Rethinking the Third Person Narrator in Muriel Spark’s The Comforters
Thomas Haddox, University of Tennessee - Orienting Time’s Arrow: Towards and ‘Ethical’ Narrative Discourse?
Jeremy Scott, Kent University - Modernity From a Minority Point of View: Omniscient Narration and Collective Experiences
Iida Pöllänen, University of Oregon