International Conference on Narrative: April 21 - 1
The International Conference on Narrative will be held at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ 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, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ - 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, ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ - 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