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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. Rhetorical Approaches to Character Narration

Location: 422
Moderator: James Phelan, The Ohio State University

Presentations:

• Character Narration and Ideology in the Postcolonial Bildungsroman
  Siddharth Srikanth, The Ohio State University
• Narrating Intertexts in Jesmyn Ward鈥檚 Salvage the Bones
  Kelly Marsh, Mississippi State University
• A Rhetorical Approach to Narrative Audiences, Narratees, Effect, and Affect in Character Narration
  Sarah Copland, MacEwan University
• Refracted Realism, Character Narration, and Teju Cole鈥檚 Open City
  Nicolas Potkalitsky, The Ohio State University

2. Genre Gone Wrong

Location: 423
Moderator: Julie Rivkin, Connecticut College

Presentations:

• Genre Passing in Charles Chesnutt鈥檚 House Behind the Cedars
  Julie Rivkin, Connecticut College
• Sentimental Jeremiad: Callahan鈥檚 Wynema, A Child of the Forest
  Margaret Homans, Yale University
• 鈥淎s a Woman I Have No Country鈥�: Global Proto-Feminism and the Persian Travelogue
  Marie Ostby, Connecticut College

3. Contemporary Expressions of the Environmental Imagination

Location: 410
Moderator: Erin James, University of Idaho

Presentations:

• 鈥淪low Stories鈥�: Affective Experience in Plant Narratives
  Shannon Lambert, Ghent University
• Weird Environments in Post-Apocalyptic Narratives
  Judith Eckenhoff, RWTH Aachen University
• Chthonic Climate Fiction: Monsters From Beneath
  Gry Ulstein, Ghent University

4. Counterfactuality

Location: 340
Moderator: Jan Alber, RWTH Aachen

Presentations:

• La La Land: Counterfactuality, Disnarration, and the Forked (Motorway) Path
  Marina Lambrou, Kingston University
• Counterfactual Narratives as a Tool for Macro-Level Meaning Making
  Tabitha Holmes, SUNY New York
• Counterfactuals and Draft Logic in Marcel Proust鈥檚 Un Amour de Swan
  Victoria Baena, Yale University

5. Videographic Criticism

Location: 360
Moderator: Gregory Brophy, Bishops University

Presentations:

• The Nigerian 鈥淐omicast鈥� as New Media Narrative: Images of Violence
  Chukwamah Ignatius, Federal University, Nigeria
• Screen Unreliabilities Beyond Definitions and Toward Effects
  Elizabeth Nixon, The Ohio State University
• Narrating From the Couch or in Handcuffs: Naturalized Narration in Television Series
  Christian Stenico, University of Innsbruck
• Enabling Impediments? Camera Perspective and Prosthetic Masculinity in Schnabel鈥檚 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Gregory Brophy, Bishops University

6. Identifying the Self in/and the Other: An Epistemology of Empathy

Location: 178
Moderator: Elizabeth Corsun, Transylvania University

Presentations:

• 鈥淭ougher than you imagine鈥�: Perspective in Anne Bronte鈥檚 Agnes Grey
  Kristianne Kalata, Westminster College
• 鈥淪he has made a fiction of herself!鈥�: Narrative Identity in Sarah Waters鈥� Fingersmith
  Courtney Hopf, NYU London
• 鈥淎s If You Are Me鈥�: The Radical Embodied Empathy of Netflix鈥檚 The OA
  Elizabeth Corsun, Transylvania University

7. Time

Location: 210
Moderator: Martin Kreiswirth, 麻豆AV

Presentations:

• Temporal Structure in A Visit From the Goon Squad
  Sean Yeager, Pacific Northwest College of Arts
• Timely Coincidences: The Representation of Time and Chance in Paul Auster鈥檚 Moon Palace
  Yu-Hua Yen, University of York

8. The Rifle on the Wall

Location: 310
Moderator: Greta Matzner Gore, University of Southern California

Presentations:

• Haruki Murakami: When the Loaded Gun Does Not Fire in 1Q84
  Elaine Lux-Koman, Nyack College
• 鈥淎mbrosia has been found, but we don鈥檛 eat it鈥�: The Forbidden Event in Viktor Schlovsky鈥檚 Zoo, or Letters Not About Love
  Nora Scholz, LMU Munich
• Narrating Something By Chatting Along
  Anja Burghardt, Ludwig Maxmilian University of Munich

9. Fictionality/Memoir/Autobiography

Location: 245
Moderator: Aili Peeker, University of California, Santa Barbara

Presentations:

• Presumed/ Delay Factuality: Fictionality in Auto-Fiction and Rhetorical Poetics
  Shang Biwu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Narratives of Self and Modes of Fictionality in Contemporary Auto/Biographical Literature
  Fiona Doloughan, The Open University
• Our Bodies, Our Incoherent Selves: Shifting Concepts of Identity and Narrative in Contemporary Literature and Digital Games
  Julialicia Case, University of Cincinnati

10. New Tech Effects

Location: 179
Moderator: Ellen McCracken, University of Southern California, Santa Barbara

Presentations:

• The Rhetoric of Screen Reading
  Ellen McCracken, University of Southern California, Santa Barbara
• Towards a Narratology of Dynamic Digital Storytelling: The Impact of Locative Mobile Media
  Lai-Tze Fan, Lingnan University
• The 鈥淣ew鈥� New Journalism: Long-Form Narrative Journalism in a Media Landscape Increasingly Driven by Shareable and Clickable Content
  Brett Popplewell, Carleton University