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International Conference on Narrative: April 21 - 1

Saturday, April 21, 2018 08:15to09:45
Bronfman Building 1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 1G5, CA
Price: 
Free

The International Conference on Narrative will be held at McGill University 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, McGill University
  • 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, McGill University
  • 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
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