Event

International Conference on Narrative: April 22 - 2

Sunday, April 22, 2018 10:30to12:00
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. Stories of Crisis in the American Midwest

Location: 360
Moderator: Evan Wisdom-Dawson, University of Chicago

Presentations:

  • There’s A Storm Coming
    Evan Wisdom-Dawson, University of Chicago
  • Crisis in Ferguson
    Carolyn Ownbey, McGill University
  • Neighborhood Stories
    Carlo Rotella, Boston College

2. Narrative and Multiplicity of Reading

Location: 340
Moderator: Soo Kim, Shepherd University

Presentations:

  • Accidental Events and the Problem of Contingency in 18th-Century Novelistic Narrative
    Bridget Donnelly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Reading Anachronistically: Jane Austen and the Realism Effect
    Malcah Effron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Queer Performative Narrativity and Rethinking Community
    Helen Davis, Wilkes University

3. The Author

Location: 178
Moderator: Elizabeth King, University of New South Wales

Presentations:

  • Rage Against the Dying of the Author
    Marjorie Worthington, Eastern Illinois University
  • Ferrante’s Fictional Paratexts
    Jaclyn Partyka, Temple University
  • What is an Author (Character)?: A Typology Diachronic Account of Fictional Novelist in Literature
    Elizabeth King, University of New South Wales
  • Who Deserves a Happy Ending?: Trusting as Closure in Our Mutual Friend
    Franziska Tsufim, University of California, Irvine

4. Irish Literature

Location: 310
Moderator: Natasha Chenier, McGill University

Presentations:

  • One Beginning and One Ending: Irish Mythology & Metafiction in the Novels of Flann O’Brien
    Thomas Zurhellen, Marist College
  • The Politics of Reliability in Roddy Doyle’s The Woman Who Walked into Doors
    Keelan Harking, McGill University
  • Narrative as Nightmare: James Hanley’s  No Directions
    Natasha Chenier, McGill University

5. Disorientation

Location: 210
Moderator: James R. Fromm, New Mexico State University

Presentations:

  • Immersed in the Reading Experience: Thoughts Towards a Rhetoricity of E(n)strangement
    James R. Fromm, New Mexico State University
  • Narrative Contestation Between Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife and Antelope Woman
    Kristin Girard, Georgia Military College
  • Lunatics and Crazy Quilts: Denying Answers in Alias Grace
    Lisa Sternlieb, Pennsylvania State University
  • Naked Lunch: The Convulsive Narrative and Grotesque Bodies
    Mohammad Sharifi, University of Western Ontario

6. Clinical Narratology

Location: 410
Moderator: Lewis Mehl-Madrona, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine

Presentations:

  • Northwestern University Life Story Interview
    Patrick McFarlane, Eastern Maine Medical Center
  • Implementing Narrative Medicine
    Barbara Mainguy, Eastern Maine Medical Center
  • Interaction of Medicine or Art
    Dana Walrath, University of Vermont College of Medicine
  • Clinical Use of Heroic Narratives
    Lewis Mehl-Madrona, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
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