BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250904T070045EDT-5045kwTfS7@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250904T110045Z DESCRIPTION:The International Conference on Narrative will be held at McGil l University in Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada from April 18 – 22\, 2018.\n\nP rofessor Lindsay Holmgren invites the Desautels Community to attend the Pa nels and Talks hosted at the Desautels Faculty of Management.\n\nPlease no te that the plenary engagements are closed to the public due to limited se ating in Moyse Hall.\n\n\n1. Theoretical Takes on Terminological Debates\n \nLocation: 422\n Moderator: Paul Dawson\, University of New South Wales\n \nPresentations:\n\n\n Creativity-Narrativity-Fictionality: A Critical Gene alogy\n Paul Dawson\, University of New South Wales\n Fictionality as Rhetor ic\n Richard Walsh\, University of York\n On Being Extra Hetero\n Porter Abbo tt\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n\n\n\n2. The City\n\nLocati on: 423\n Moderator: Andre Furlani\, Concordia University\n\nPresentations: \n\n\n Flânoter: The Montreal Pedestrian Narrates\n Andre Furlani\, Concordi a University\n Architectural Savagery in J.G. Ballard’s High Rise\n Stanka R adovic\, University of Toronto\n Narrative Space in Urban Studies and Psych ogeographical Writings: A Proposed Study of (Embodied) Metaphors as Trigge rs of Recipient Emotions\n Kai Tan\, RWTH Aachen University\n Junk City: Rep resenting the Urban in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting\n Naomi Michalowicz\, C olumbia University\n\n\n\n3. Photography and Film\n\nLocation: 179\n Modera tor: John Bruns\, College of Charleston\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n Affordances and Constraints of Existing Photographs vs. Objects Available to Photogra ph in Bimodal Fiction by Shapton\, Sebald\, and Robbe-Grillet\n Emma Kafale nos\, Washington University\n Affect in Visual Narratives of Immigration\n J ames Catano\, Louisiana State University\n Shifting Narratives in Contempor ary Photo-Embedded Migrant Fiction\n Sharon Zelnick\, Leiden University\n Th e Bull Here Can Rage: Unassimilated Articulations in the Early Films of Ma rtin Scorsese\n Daniel Bergman\, University of Toronto\n\n\n\n4. STYLE/ AFF ECT/ DISRUPTION: Erika Lopez\, Elena Ferrante\, Henry James\, Charles Rezn ikoff\n\nLocation: 340\n Moderator: Kay Young\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n Demanding Representation in the Narra tive Hijinks of Erika Lopez’s Flaming Iguanas\n Nicole Dib\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n Writing to Disrupt: Why Women Love the Novels of Elena Ferrante\n Kay Young\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n T he Jamesian Lag\n Chip Badley\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n F ormalizing Emotion in Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony\n Dalia Bolotnikov\, Un iversity of California\, Santa Barbara\n\n\n\n5. The Narrating Subject in the Context of “Posts”—Traumatic/Colonial/Communist\n\nLocation: 178\n Mode rator: Monica Popescu\, 91\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n The Blind Spot: Knowledge\, Narrative\, and Ocular Metaphors in the Works of Christ a Wolf\n Robert Blankenship\, California State University\, Long Beach\n Cub an Necropolitics: Carpentier\, Ortiz\, and The Rhythm of Narrative\n Wyatt Sarafin\, New York University\n Writing the Conflict in Angola after the Co ld War: Magical Realism and Narrative Confusion\n Monica Popescu\, 91 U niversity\n Tsunami Stories: British Women Write Out the Wave\n Pallavi Rast ogi\, Louisiana State University\n\n\n\n6. The Stakes of Character\n\nLoca tion: 360\n Moderator: Kelly March\, Missippi State University\n\nPresentat ions:\n\n\n Clones and Nineteenth Century Novels: Or\, Why Does Kathy H. Ha ve to be Killed?\n Lauren Pinkerton\, University of North Carolina at Chape l Hill\n Death\, Judgment\, and Constructing Ethical Hierarchy in The Disgu iser\n Michelle Wang\, Queen Mary University of London\n Finding Friction: I ntersectionality\, Empathy and the Politics of Poussey Washington’s Death \n Ashley Ruderman\, University of Kentucky\n Reading Characters in Early Mo dern Allegory: Empathy in The Faerie Queen\n Kyungran Park\, University of Buffalo\, SUNY\n\n\n\n7. Beyond Fictional (Id)entities\n\nLocation: 410\n M oderator: Sean O’Sullivan\, The Ohio State University\n\nPresentations:\n \n\n “I imagined a story where I didn’t have to be the damsel”: Characters Unbound in Contemporary TV Serial Narratives\n Sara Casoli\, University of Bologn\n The “Syntax of Gender” in “Complex” TV Characters: An Analysis of Popular Narrative Strategies as Gender Performativity\n Stefany Boisvert\, 91\n Non-Discrete Occurrences in Discrete Narratives: Charac ters Emergence in Contemporary Television Anthology Series\n Giulia Tuarino \, University of Montreal\n\n\n\n8. Intimate Narratives of Gender\, Health \, and Citizenship\n\nLocation: 210\n Moderator: Jessica Polzer\, Universit y of Western Ontario\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n Narratives of Motherhood in Va ccine Hesitancy Discourse: Reinforcing and Contesting Neoliberal Citizensh ip\n Jessica Polzer\, University of Western Ontario\n Narratives of Resistan ce: Public Health\, Childhood Vaccines\, and the Moral Work of Motherhood \n Alison Thompson\, University of Toronto\n Experiences of persons living w ith HIV and disability in Lusaka\, Zambia: Listening with stories and coun ter-stories\n Janet Parsons\, University of Toronto\n\n\n\n9. 19th-Century Narrative Discourse\n\nLocation: 210\n Moderator: Peter Gibian\, 91 Uni versity\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n On Coziness\, or Making a Scene\n Elizabeth Wilder\, Stanford University\n An Uncanny Assemblage: Scenic Autonomy in Ed ith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence\n Leo Hoar\, University of California\, Irvine\n Very Punny: Puns and Narrative Discourse in “The Luck of Roaring C amp”\n Jennifer Harding\, Washington and Jefferson College\n\n\n\n10. Voice \n\nLocation: 245\n Moderator: Jason Camlot\, Concordia University\n\nPrese ntations:\n\n\n The Voice of Mutual Recognition: Communal and Other Weird V oices\n Michelle Banks\, Medicine Hat College\n Listening to the Past in Lyd ie Salvayre’s Novels\n Marla Epp\, University of Pennsylvania\n The Emergenc e of the Devotional Self in Post-Exilic Biblical Narrative\n Robert Kawashi ma\,The University of Florida\n Revisiting Dialogue with Oscar Wilde and Ge orge Meredith\n Amy Wong\, Dominican University of California\n\n DTSTART:20180419T180000Z DTEND:20180419T193000Z LOCATION:Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001 rue Sherbr ooke Ouest SUMMARY:International Conference on Narrative: April 19 - 3 URL:/desautels/channels/event/international-conference -narrative-april-19-3-286515 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR