Event

International Conference on Narrative: April 21 - 3

Saturday, April 21, 2018 15:45to17:45
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. 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, McGill University

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 Gélinas-Faucher, McGill University

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
    Rosalía 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
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