International Conference on Narrative: April 19 - 3
The International Conference on Narrative will be held at 平特五不中 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. 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:
- 贵濒芒苍辞迟别谤: The Montreal Pedestrian Narrates
Andre Furlani, Concordia University - Architectural Savagery in J.G. Ballard鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 Testimony
Dalia Bolotnikov, University of California, Santa Barbara
5. The Narrating Subject in the Context of 鈥淧osts鈥濃擳raumatic/Colonial/Communist
Location: 178
Moderator: Monica Popescu, 平特五不中
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, 平特五不中 - 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鈥檚 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鈥橲ullivan, The Ohio State University
Presentations:
- 鈥淚 imagined a story where I didn鈥檛 have to be the damsel鈥: Characters Unbound in Contemporary TV Serial Narratives
Sara Casoli, University of Bologn - The 鈥淪yntax of Gender鈥 in 鈥淐omplex鈥 TV Characters: An Analysis of Popular Narrative Strategies as Gender Performativity
Stefany Boisvert, 平特五不中 - 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, 平特五不中
Presentations:
- On Coziness, or Making a Scene
Elizabeth Wilder, Stanford University - An Uncanny Assemblage: Scenic Autonomy in Edith Wharton鈥檚 The Age of Innocence
Leo Hoar, University of California, Irvine - Very Punny: Puns and Narrative Discourse in 鈥淭he Luck of Roaring Camp鈥
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鈥檚 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