International Conference on Narrative: April 21 - 3
The International Conference on Narrative will be held at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ 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. Teaching the Loose Baggy Monster
Location: 422
Moderator: Hilary Schor, University of Southern California
Presentations:
- Serials and Plot Structures: Teaching in the Rare Books Room
Michael Gorra, Smith College - Dealing with the Firm of Charles Dickens: Whole and in Parts
Hilary Schor, University of South California - Weak Ties, Minor Characters
Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania
2. Narratology as Method
Location: 423
Moderator: Martin Kreiswirth, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ
Presentations:
- The Critique Again Common Versions of Narratology and Why it Does Not Seem to Have Any Effect
Greger Andersson, Orebro University Sweden - Bruno Latour as a Romancier and Narrator: Rethinking the Value of Narrative With the Actor-Network-Theory
Ann-Marie Riesner, University of Giessen - The Limits of Postcolonial Narratology
Luc Herman, University of Antwerp - Aristotelian and/or Nietzschean Narratology
Antonino Sorci, Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris
3. War
Location: 178
Moderator: Jakob Lothe, University of Oslo
Presentations:
- Seeds of Destruction: Narrating Nazis and Fascist Sympathizers in Pre-World War II British Texts and Their Relationship to Later Holocaust Texts
David Young, Duquesne University - The Ethics of Narrative Beginnings: Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will and Olympia
Jakob Lothe, University of Oslo - Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort
Samantha Solomon, Washington State University - Aerial Vision and the Cinematic Construction of Modern Subjectivities
Ruth Johnston, Pace University
4. Roundtable: Philosophies of Narrative
Location: 179
Moderator: Hanna Meretoja, University of Turku
Presentations:
- Ontological, Epistemological, Ethical, and Aesthetic Assumptions in Narrative Studies
Hanna Meretoja, University of Turku - The Philosophical Roots of Narratology: A Defense of Structuralism
Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Carnegie Mellon University - Poststructuralism, Narrative, and the Ethical Turn
Colin Davis, University of London - Singularity, Sensitivity, and Sense-Making
Jens Brockmeier, American University of Paris
5. Real World Communication
Location: 310
Moderator: Luke K. Kwong, Nanyang Technological University
Presentations:
- I’m Not a Museum: Narratives of Activism and Ageism
Jayme Tauzer, Central European University - Synontological Communicative Acts as Atypical Rhetoric
Rhona Trauvitch, Florida International University - Assessing the Preventability of an Accident in Conversational Storytelling
Luke K. Kwong, Nanyang Technological University
6. Graphics, Comics, Cognition
Location: 340
Moderator: Claudine GĂ©linas-Faucher, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ
Presentations:
- Characters “In-Between”: The Sleeper Agent as Hybrid Character
Vanessa Ossa, University of Tubingen - Inconsistent Visual Representation in Comics: The Case of Brecht Even’s Panther and its Unconventional Characterization
Lauranne Poharec, Memorial University - Narrating to Oneself and to Another: Within and between the Pieces of Chris Ware’s Building Stories
Hannah Rosefield, Harvard University
7. Genre/Metanarrative
Location: 360
Moderator: Nick Bollinger, The Ohio State University
Presentations:
- A Comforting Sense of the Ridiculous: Narrating the Parodic Antihero in Peter Fleming’s Brazilian Adventure
Oliver Buckton, Florida Atlantic University - Fantasy, Metafiction, and Plagiarism: Literary Territories in Donald Bartheleme’s Snow White and Catherynne Valente’s Six-Gun Snow White
Victoria Dezwaan, Trent University - Reading Conrad’s Nostromo as a Nostalgic Metafiction
Hanji Lee, University of Western Ontario
8. Adapting the Self Through Personal Narratives
Location: 210
Moderator: Aaron Ngozi Oforlea, Washington State University
Presentations:
- The Case for Narrative Medicine with the Ideological State Apparatus Healthcare System
Lori Douglas, Texas A & M University - The Ruins of Detroit: Reading Sickness in David Small’s Stitches: A Memoir
Preeti Singh, The Ohio State University - Reevaluating the Efficacy of Chick-Lit: An Examination of Author-Reader Dynamics in Medical Narrative of Disability
Alison Monaghan, The Ohio State University - Virtual Labyrinths: Nancy K. Miller and Susan Gubar’s Cancer Online Narratives
RosalĂa Baena, University of Navarra
9. Sexuality and Narrative Beyond Structure
Location: 245
Moderator: Chiara Pelligrini, Newcastle University
Presentations:
- Queer Narrative Form and Second-Person Address
Tyler Bradway, SUNY - Tellings and Times of Marriage in Mrs. Dalloway
Brooke Clarke, Rice University - Narration as Orientation in James and Hollinghurst
Ryan Fong, Kalamazoo College - Narrosis
Judith Roof, Rice University
10. Video Games
Location: 410
Moderator: Jan-Noël Thon, University of Nottingham
Presentations:
- Playing for the Plot? Narrative Complexity in Independent Video Game
Jan-Noël Thon, University of Nottingham - Revisiting Immersion in Digital Fiction: Complexity, Hybridity, Fluidity
Astrid Ensslin, University of Alberta - A transmedial approach to maximalist narratives in Video Games
Anna Douglass, University of New South Wales - It’s All on You: Implicative Storytelling in Digital Narratives
Tony Magagna, Millikin University