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The International Conference on Narrative will be held at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ 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. Through the Lens of the Chronotope: Bakhtin, Time-Space Configurations, and Narrative Analysis in the Twenty-First Century

Location: 422
Moderator: Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University

Presentations:

• Chronotopic Conservatism
  Linda Yang Liu, Stanford University
• Managing Movement: Time-Space Arrangements in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
  Birgit Spengler, University of Wuppertal
• Narrating (in) the Here-and-Now: Chronotopes in the Present-Tense Novel
  Carolin Gebauer, University of Wuppertal
• The Trouble With Chronotopes: Can Narratology Live With or Without Them?
  Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University

2. World Oriented Approach to Narrative Cognition

Location: 423
Moderator: Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky

Presentations:

• Power Plays
  Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky
• Narrative, Metaphor, and the Human Scale
  Marco Caracciolo, Ghent University
• Narrative Mapping as Cognitive Activity and as Active Participation in Storyworlds
  Marie-LaureRyan, Independent Scholar

3. Post-War

Location: 410
Moderator: Jessica Gokhberg, Duke University

Presentations:

• Atonement in The World My Wilderness
  Allan Hepburn, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
• Transatlantic Reconstructions: Slaughterhouse-Five and the War on Poverty
  Spencer Morrison, University of Toronto
• Narratives of Reconstruction: British Realism After World War II
  Paula Derdiger, University of Minnesota

4. Psychoanalysis, Affect, and Gothic

Location: 310
Moderator: Alexandra Valint, University of Southern Mississippi

Presentations:

• Haunting Futures in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach
  Sarah Stunden, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
• Felt into Being: Credibility and Affect in Queer Narratives of Destitution
  Wibke Schniedermann, Giessen University
• The Turn of the Screw: From Psychoanalysis to Psychonarratology
  Ping Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China
• The Permeable Frame: Gothic Collaboration in Wuthering Heights
  Alexandra Valint, University of Southern Mississippi

5. Multi-Narratives II

Location: 179
Moderator: André Schwarck, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel

Presentations:

• Multi-Narrative Trauma Fictions: The Production of Intersecting Identities
  Jutta Zimmerman, Albretchts University
• Braided Narratives: Multinarrativity as a Strategy for Facing Historical Violence
  Corinne Bancroft, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Theatre After Drama: Multinarrativity in the Work of Jordan Tannahill
  Domenico A. Beneventi, Université de Sherbrooke
• The Cut in Multi-Narratives: Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life
  Jan Horstmann, Universitat Hamburg

6. Unnatural Narratives II

Location: 340
Moderator: Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University

Presentations:

• Impossible Enunciations and ‘the Antinarratable’ in Ali Smith’s Hotel World: Exploring intersections of unnatural and feminist narratologies
  Katherine Weese, Hampden-Sydney College
• Unnatural Acoustic Spaces in Radio Drama: An Audionarratological Approach to Narrative Space
  Siebe Bluijs, Ghent University
• A Collage of Fragments: A Narratological Study of Shashi Tharoor’s Detective Novel Riot
  Ramanpreet Kaur, University of Western Ontario

7. The Fast and The Slow Panel II

Location: 360
Moderator: Merja Polvinen, University Helsinki

Presentations:

• The (Im-)Possibility of Narrating Europe: The Affordances of Length and Cyclicality in British Short Story Cycles
  Janine Hauthal, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Prolonged Defamiliarization and Narrative Experiment in The Novelistic Cycle
  Lars Bernaerts, Ghent University
• What Makes a Very Long Story Very Long?
  Dan Irving, Stony Brook University

8. Evaluating Experiments in Narrative and Medicine

Location: 210
Moderator: Matthew Graziano, Seton Hall University

Presentations:

• Aspects of the Narrative Self in People at High Risk for Developing Schizophrenia
  Hazan Hadar, University of Otago
• Empirically Investigating Triggers of Experientiality in Narrative Texts
  Caroline Kutsch, RWTH Aachen University
• Minimal Departure, and the Cognitive Mechanisms Underpinning the Comprehension of Fiction
  Jeffrey Foy and Paul LoCasto, Stony Brook University
• Pilot Study of Narrative Competence Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Chronic Pain
  Roisin Byrne, University of Toronto