International Conference on Narrative: April 19 - 4
The International Conference on Narrative will be held at 成人VR视频 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. Sociality and Affectivity in Narrative Contexts
Location: 151
Moderator: Donald Wehrs, Auburn University
Presentations:
- Sociality and Affect in Tony Kushner鈥檚 Homebody/Kabul
Thomas Blake, Monroe Community College - More Than a Feeling: Shelley鈥檚 Affects
Joel Robert Faflak, University of Western Ontario - Social Cues
Audrey Jaffe, University of Toronto - Human Prehistory in Oral Storytelling in Light of Sociality鈥檚 Evolutionary Prehistory
Donald Wehrs, Auburn University
2. Cultural Narratives I
Location: 422
Moderator: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky
Presentations:
- Contesting Napoleon: Cultural Narrative and Ekphrastic Refusal
Mary Louise Kete, University of Vermont - Joseph O鈥橬eil鈥檚 Netherland: The Cultural Fantasy Work of Neoliberalism
Donald Pease, Dartmouth College - The Public Sphere in the Disinformation Age
Timothy Melley, Miami University
3. Mimetic, Thematic, Synthetic
Location: 410
Moderator: Kelly Marsh, Mississippi State University
Presentations:
- Rearranging the Furniture: The Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects in Rhetorical Narratology
Matthew Clark, York University - Narrative as Rhetoric and the MTS Model
James Phelan, The Ohio State University
4. Creative Classroom Strategies for Teaching Narrative Theory
Location: 210
Moderator: Jody Rosen, New York City College of Technology
Roundtable Participants:
- Jody Rosen, New York City College of Technology
- Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY
- Joanne Freed, Oakland University
- Zoltan Varga, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
5. Core Concepts in Critical Race Narratology
Location: 210
Moderator: James Donahue, State University of New York, Potsdam
Presentations:
- Focalization and the Ideological Construction of Race
Shaun Morgan, Tennessee Wesleyan University - Voice and Racialization
Claudia Breger, Columbia University - Whose Story is This Anyway?
Jennifer Ann Ho, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Navigating Race in Storyworlds
Deborah Noel, University of Vermont
6. Seriality
Location: 245
Moderator: Monique Morgan, Indiana University
Presentations:
- Previously On...The Iliad: A Field Report on Epic Episodes
Lynn Kozak, 成人VR视频 - It Is Happening Again: Twin Peaks, Seriality, and the Failures of Nostalgia
Anne Moore, Tufts University
7. Thinking with Narrative in David Foster Wallace
Location: 310
Moderator: Yonina Hoffman, The Ohio State University
Presentations:
- Problems of Wallace鈥檚 Poetics: Comedy, Voice, and Visuality in Broom of the System
Yonina Hoffman,The Ohio State University - Listen: Wallace鈥檚 Short Story Endings and the Narration of Silence
Jeffrey Severs, University of British Columbia - Thinking with David Foster Wallace: A Cognitive Reading of 鈥淢ister Squishy鈥
Christopher White, Governors State University - Complex Plots: Representations of Emergence in Godel, Escher, Bach, and Infinite Jest
Toon Staes, University of Antwerp
8.聽 Wander, Decenter, Transform
Location: 178
Moderator: Katharine Streip, Concordia University
Presentations:
- The Possibility of Stories: Things We Learn from Talking Birds
Kara Wittman, Pomona College - Beat Narrative and Posthumanism
Katharine Streip, Concordia University - Intertextuality and Metanarrative Discourse in Akutagawa Ry奴nosuke鈥檚 The Man from the West (1927)
Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University - Narrating Epic: Dante鈥檚 and Milton鈥檚 Transformation of the Classical Epic
Deseree Cipollone, 成人VR视频
9. Practices of Narrative Reading and Writing from the 4e Perspective
Location: 245
Moderator: Karin Kukkonen, University of Oslo
Presentations:
- Attachment, Narratives, and the Understanding of Self and Others
Camilla Chams, University of Oslo - Re-thinking Narratives: Composing Images into Poems Within Late Eighteenth-Century Women鈥檚 Novels
Yasemin Hacioglu, University of Oslo - Enacting 鈥渢he Embodied Reader鈥
Kaisa Kortekallio, University of Helsinki
10. The Politics of LatinX-Women
Location: 360
Moderator: Frederick Luis Aldama, The Ohio State University
Presentations:
- Visions of X-treme Ni帽as: Monstrosity, Citizenship, and Girlhood in Marvel鈥檚 鈥淟ogan鈥
Danielle Orozco, The Ohio State University - My Spanish is Way Better When I鈥檓 Pissed Off: Tensions Between Puerto Rican and American Identities in La Borinque帽a and Paths
Nicole Pizarro, The Ohio State University - Hola! Superhero ExploraDora: Commodification of Dora the Explorer and Friends: Into the City! And Loss of Latina Empowerment
Cristina Rivera, The Ohio State University - Cultural Crowdsourcing: America Chavez, Laura Kinney, and Fandom鈥檚 Minority Narratives
Erica Massey, Southern Methodist University