BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250904T163946EDT-0949v2Cd8w@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250904T203946Z 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. Margins Transforming Centers in 21st Century Televisual Storyworlds\n\nLocation: 151\n Moderator: Frederick Aldama\, The Ohio State University\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n What Comes After Complex TV? \n Jason Mittell\, Middlebury College\n Anatomy of the Cold Open\n Sean O’Sul livan\, The Ohio State University\n Webisodes as Alt-Storyworld Space for L atinx Subjects\n Frederick Aldama\, The Ohio State University\n\n\n\n2. Dan gers of Fictionality\n\nLocation: 422\n Moderator: Maria Mäkelä\, Universit y of Tampere / Aarhus University\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n A History of the D angers of Fictionality from Lucian to Kurl-on Mattresses\n Simona Gjerlevse n\, Aarhus Universit\n Hazardous Fictionalized Encounters: Borat\, The Amba ssador and Yes Men\n Louise Jacobsen\, Aalborg University\n Dangers of Autof iction\n Stefan Kjerkegaard\, Aarhus University\n Fake News as Satire and as Deception\n Henrik Nielsen\, Aarhus University\n\n\n\n3. Narrative Theory and Contemporary Environments\n\nLocation: 423\n Moderator: Erin James\, Un iversity of Idaho\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n Fuzzy Spatialization in the Anthr opocene\n Erin James\, University of Idaho\n Of Ice and Octopi: Nature Poetr y and Unnatural Narrative\n Brian McAllister\, The Ohio State University\n M edeas of the Bayou in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones\n Ned Schaumberg\, Un iversity of Washington\n Slippery and Frayed: Observing Spaces of Contact i n the Work of Mohsin Hamid\n J. Caity Swanson\, Stony Brook University\n\n \n\n4. The Fast and The Slow Panel I\n\nLocation: 178\n Moderator: Lars Ber naerts\, Ghent University\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n The Speed of Plot: Narrat ive Acceleration and Deceleration\n Karin Kukkonen\, University of Oslo\n Se lf-Reflection as Speed in John Barth’s On With the Story\n Merja Polvinen\, University of Helsinki\n Slow Reading\, Slow Violence: Description and Cog nitive Ecology\n David Rodriguez\, Stony Brook University\n\n\n\n5. Music a nd Narrative\n\nLocation: 179\n Moderator: Anna Lewton-Brain\, 91 Unive rsity\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n Shifting Focalization and Musical Form in Jam es Joyce’s Ulysses\n Alison Cummins\, The Ohio State University\n Proust’s M usical Narrative\n Katherine Elkins\, Kenyon College\n Sourcing Story: Broke n Narrative Time in Alice Munro’s “Friend of My Youth” and Tan Dun’s “Ghos t Opera”\n Alex Creighton\, Harvard University\n “Everybody tests the membra ne/ but no one pushes through”: Theorizing Lyric Narration in John Darniel le’s Body of Song\n Bronwyn Malloy\, University of British Columbia\n\n\n\n 6.Thinking about Austen Thinking\n\nLocation: 210\n Moderator: Wendy Jones\ , Independent Scholar\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n Austen’s Catherine Morland: S avvy Sexual Strategist\n Beth Lau\, California State University\, Long Beac h\n Does Austen’s Mind Have a Tune?\n Alison Case\, Williams College\n Jane A usten and the Therapeutic Power of Narrative\n Wendy Jones\, Independent Sc holar\n\n\n\n7. Narrative at Large\n\nLocation: 310\n Moderator: Cynthia Qu arrie\, Concordia University\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n The Role of Narrative in the Social Construction of Risk: Crime in Mexico as a Case Study (2004- 2012)\n Gonzalo Soltero\, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México\n The Narr ative that Wasn’t: What Passes for Discourse in the Age of Trump\n Emily An derson\, Knox College\n Murder She Narrated: Female Narration in True Crime \n Ashleigh Hardin\, University of Saint Francis\n An Argument for Narrative Truthiness: Tim O’Brien and Using Complex Narrative to Counter Fake News \n Annjeanette Wiese\, University of Colorado\, Boulder\n\n\n\n8. Queer/ Tr ans Citizenship\n\nLocation: 340\n Moderator: Roberto Benedicto\, 91 Un iversity\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n Henry James’ The Bostonians and the Narrat ive Structure of Queer Political Time\n Will Clark\, University of Californ ia\, LA\n She was sick when she loved you: Queer Temporality in Cold War Am erica\n Courtney Jacobs\, University of Oklahoma\n In/Exclusion Zone: Queer Narrative Liminality and Hypothetical Focalization in The Last of Us: Left Behind\n Jordan Clapper\, Brandeis University\n Reclaiming My Narrative: Th e Transgender Revolution in Paul Preciado’s Testo Junkie.\n Gillian Mozer\, University of Miami\n\n\n\n9. Resisting the Boundaries of Autobiography: Counter-Narration in Novels\, Comics\, and Stand-Up Comedy\n\nLocation: 36 0\n Moderator: Theresa Rojas\, Modesto College\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n Re-im agining the Self in Roth’s The Plot Against America\n Howard Sklar\, Univer sity of Helsinki\n Johnny Legs and the Biblical Piñata  of Locusts: John Le guizamo’s Ghetto Klown as Graphic Pathography\n Theresa Rojas\, Modesto Col lege\n Countering the Homonormative Narrative: Manu Nna Takes on Netflix Mé xico\n Doug Bush\, Converse College\n\n\n\n10. Modernism and Modernist Poet ics\n\nLocation: 410\n Moderator: Allan Hepburn\, 91\n\nPres entations:\n\n\n Narrative Invisibility in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine and The Invisible Man\n Andrew Ade\, Westminster College\n Gothic as a Fictiona l Mode in Hispanic Modernist Novels\n Alexandra Bazhenova-Sorokina\, Nation al Research University Higher School of Economics\n Non-Contemporaneity: Un creative Practices with Narratological Consequences\n Teemu Ikonen\, Univer sity of Tampere\n Modernism’s Posthumous Queer Temporalities\n Jody Medd\, C arleton University\n\n DTSTART:20180420T174500Z DTEND:20180420T191500Z LOCATION:Bronfman Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1G5\, 1001 rue Sherbr ooke Ouest SUMMARY:International Conference on Narrative: April 20 - 3 URL:/desautels/channels/event/international-conference -narrative-april-20-3-286519 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR