International Conference on Narrative: April 19 - 3

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. Theoretical Takes on Terminological Debates

Location: 422
Moderator: Paul Dawson, University of New South Wales

Presentations:

• Creativity-Narrativity-Fictionality: A Critical Genealogy
  Paul Dawson, University of New South Wales
• Fictionality as Rhetoric
  Richard Walsh, University of York
• On Being Extra Hetero
  Porter Abbott, University of California, Santa Barbara

2. The City

Location: 423
Moderator: Andre Furlani, Concordia University

Presentations:

• Flânoter: The Montreal Pedestrian Narrates
  Andre Furlani, Concordia University
• Architectural Savagery in J.G. Ballard’s High Rise
  Stanka Radovic, University of Toronto
• Narrative Space in Urban Studies and Psychogeographical Writings: A Proposed Study of (Embodied) Metaphors as Triggers of Recipient Emotions
  Kai Tan, RWTH Aachen University
• Junk City: Representing the Urban in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
  Naomi Michalowicz, Columbia University

3. Photography and Film

Location: 179
Moderator: John Bruns, College of Charleston

Presentations:

• Affordances and Constraints of Existing Photographs vs. Objects Available to Photograph in Bimodal Fiction by Shapton, Sebald, and Robbe-Grillet
  Emma Kafalenos, Washington University
• Affect in Visual Narratives of Immigration
  James Catano, Louisiana State University
• Shifting Narratives in Contemporary Photo-Embedded Migrant Fiction
  Sharon Zelnick, Leiden University
• The Bull Here Can Rage: Unassimilated Articulations in the Early Films of Martin Scorsese
  Daniel Bergman, University of Toronto

4. STYLE/ AFFECT/ DISRUPTION: Erika Lopez, Elena Ferrante, Henry James, Charles Reznikoff

Location: 340
Moderator: Kay Young, University of California, Santa Barbara

Presentations:

• Demanding Representation in the Narrative Hijinks of Erika Lopez’s Flaming Iguanas
  Nicole Dib, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Writing to Disrupt: Why Women Love the Novels of Elena Ferrante
  Kay Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
• The Jamesian Lag
  Chip Badley, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Formalizing Emotion in Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony
  Dalia Bolotnikov, University of California, Santa Barbara

5. The Narrating Subject in the Context of “Posts”—Traumatic/Colonial/Communist

Location: 178
Moderator: Monica Popescu, McGill University

Presentations:

• The Blind Spot: Knowledge, Narrative, and Ocular Metaphors in the Works of Christa Wolf
  Robert Blankenship, California State University, Long Beach
• Cuban Necropolitics: Carpentier, Ortiz, and The Rhythm of Narrative
  Wyatt Sarafin, New York University
• Writing the Conflict in Angola after the Cold War: Magical Realism and Narrative Confusion
  Monica Popescu, McGill University
• Tsunami Stories: British Women Write Out the Wave
  Pallavi Rastogi, Louisiana State University

6. The Stakes of Character

Location: 360
Moderator: Kelly March, Missippi State University

Presentations:

• Clones and Nineteenth Century Novels: Or, Why Does Kathy H. Have to be Killed?
  Lauren Pinkerton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Death, Judgment, and Constructing Ethical Hierarchy in The Disguiser
  Michelle Wang, Queen Mary University of London
• Finding Friction: Intersectionality, Empathy and the Politics of Poussey Washington’s Death
  Ashley Ruderman, University of Kentucky
• Reading Characters in Early Modern Allegory: Empathy in The Faerie Queen
  Kyungran Park, University of Buffalo, SUNY

7. Beyond Fictional (Id)entities

Location: 410
Moderator: Sean O’Sullivan, The Ohio State University

Presentations:

• “I imagined a story where I didn’t have to be the damsel”: Characters Unbound in Contemporary TV Serial Narratives
  Sara Casoli, University of Bologn
• The “Syntax of Gender” in “Complex” TV Characters: An Analysis of Popular Narrative Strategies as Gender Performativity
  Stefany Boisvert, McGill University
• Non-Discrete Occurrences in Discrete Narratives: Characters Emergence in Contemporary Television Anthology Series
  Giulia Tuarino, University of Montreal

8. Intimate Narratives of Gender, Health, and Citizenship

Location: 210
Moderator: Jessica Polzer, University of Western Ontario

Presentations:

• Narratives of Motherhood in Vaccine Hesitancy Discourse: Reinforcing and Contesting Neoliberal Citizenship
  Jessica Polzer, University of Western Ontario
• Narratives of Resistance: Public Health, Childhood Vaccines, and the Moral Work of Motherhood
  Alison Thompson, University of Toronto
• Experiences of persons living with HIV and disability in Lusaka, Zambia: Listening with stories and counter-stories
  Janet Parsons, University of Toronto

9. 19th-Century Narrative Discourse

Location: 210
Moderator: Peter Gibian, McGill University

Presentations:

• On Coziness, or Making a Scene
  Elizabeth Wilder, Stanford University
• An Uncanny Assemblage: Scenic Autonomy in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
  Leo Hoar, University of California, Irvine
• Very Punny: Puns and Narrative Discourse in “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
  Jennifer Harding, Washington and Jefferson College

10. Voice

Location: 245
Moderator: Jason Camlot, Concordia University

Presentations:

• The Voice of Mutual Recognition: Communal and Other Weird Voices
  Michelle Banks, Medicine Hat College
• Listening to the Past in Lydie Salvayre’s Novels
  Marla Epp, University of Pennsylvania
• The Emergence of the Devotional Self in Post-Exilic Biblical Narrative
  Robert Kawashima,The University of Florida
• Revisiting Dialogue with Oscar Wilde and George Meredith
  Amy Wong, Dominican University of California