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The International Conference on Narrative will be held at ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ 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. Geographical Narratology

Location: 422
Moderator: Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania

Presentations:

• What is Geography? Lessons for Narratology
  Nancy Easterlin, University of New Orleans
• Affording Innerscapes: Exploring the Mind as a Private Geography
  Marco Bernini, Durham University
• Reconstructing LOST: Connecting Storyworld to Narrative Comprehension in Online Wiki Communities
  Laura Bucholz, Old Dominion University
• Towards a Geographical Socio-Narratology
  Matti Myvarinen, University of Tampere

2. Teaching Medical Narratives in Multiple Contexts

Location: 179
Moderator: Sarah Hardy, Hampden-Sydney College

Roundtable Participants:

• Sarah Hardy, Hampden-Sydney College
• Elizabeth Starr, Westfield State University
• Cindie Maagaard, University of Southern Denmark
• Shena McAuliffe, Earlham College
• Erin McConnell, The Ohio State University
• Jules Odendahl-James, Duke University
• Krista Quesenberry, Pennsylvania State University

3. Feminism and Form

Location: 410
Moderator: Alanna Thain, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ

Presentations:

• Gender, Shadow Narratives, and Victorian Plotting
  Tara MacDonald, University of Idaho
• Redefining the Dramatic Monologue: Feminist Critique and Rhetorical Narratology
  Monique Morgan, Indiana University
• Composure and Composition: Narrativizing the Female Image in Alfred Hitchcock
  Ned Schantz, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ

4. Experimental Narrative in Non-Fiction

Location: 423
Moderator: Brian McHale, The Ohio State University

Presentations:

• The Average Guise: Literary Characters in Scientific Diagrams of Evolutionary Change
  Daniel Newman, University of Toronto
• Strange Minds in Political Rhetoric
  Stefan Iversen, Aarhus University
• Mind-Reading Eichmann in Mulisch’s Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account
  Erin McGlothlin, Washington University in St. Louis
• Bechdel’s Modernist Fun Home and the Actual Documentary Truth
  Ella Ophir, University of Saskatchewan

5. Agency and High Stakes Storytelling

Location: 210
Moderator: Stephen Paskey, University of Buffalo

Presentations:

• Narrative in Counter-Terrorism Studies
  Khuram Iqbal, National Defense University, Pakistan
• Law’s DNA: The Double Helix of Rhetoric and Narrative
  Stephen Paskey, University of Buffalo
• Informal Truth Telling as Justice
  Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic, University of Western Ontario
• Futures of New York: Narrating Environmental Agency in Fictional and Non-Fictional Texts
  Lieven Ameel, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies

6. Narrating Dubious Relationships

Location: 310
Moderator: Jenne Powers, Wheelock College

Presentations:

• Arsenic in the Sugar: Childhood, Violence, and Gender in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  Anna Young, University of Oslo
• Narrative Betrayals of Women’s Friendships
  Jenne Powers, Wheelock College
• Narrating Friendship in Le Livre de Sam
  Trask Roberts, University of Pennsylvania

7. Multimodal Books and Archives

Location: 340
Moderator: Nathalie Cooke, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ

Presentations:

• Technologies of Remembering and Theories of Forgetting: Revising the Archival Metaphor for Memoryss
  Torsa Ghosal, California State University, Sacramento
• Metonymy in Archival Fiction: Warren Lehrer’s A Life in Books (2013)
  Brian Davis, University of Maryland
• Playing Paper: Kevin Young and the Undead History of the Phonograph
  Paul Benzon, Skidmore College

8. Philosophical Approaches to Narrative

Location: 245
Moderator: Huiyuhl Yi, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Presentations:

• Listening Silences: Phenomenological Hermeneutics and Narrative Theory in Contemporary Poetics
  Samuel Caleb Wee, Nanyang Technological University
• Reading Descartes’ Meditations as an Experiential Narrative
  Michael Campbell, University of Canberra
• A Study of Episodic Value Created by Personal Narratives
  Huiyuhl Yi, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
• The Paradox of Eventfulness: Narrative Thinking, Doubleness, and the Predestinarian Structure
  Marina Ludwigs, Stockholm University

9. Narrators: Within and Without

Location: 360
Moderator: Thomas Haddox, The University of Tennessee

Presentations:

• The Narrator’s Universe: Revisiting the Homodiegetic/Heterodiegetic Distinction and the Narrative Level Concept
  Janina Jacke, University of Hamburg
• Rethinking the Third Person Narrator in Muriel Spark’s The Comforters
  Thomas Haddox, University of Tennessee
• Orienting Time’s Arrow: Towards and ‘Ethical’ Narrative Discourse?
  Jeremy Scott, Kent University
• Modernity From a Minority Point of View: Omniscient Narration and Collective Experiences
  Iida Pöllänen, University of Oregon