苹果淫院

The International Conference on Narrative will be held at 苹果淫院 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. Dangers of Narrative

Location: 422
Moderator: Henrik Skov Nielsen, Aarhus University

Presentations:

• Environmental Humour and the Dangers of the End: Parodic Reversal of Apocalyptic Narrative in Laura Gustafsson鈥檚 Wilderness Warrior
  Juha Raipola, University of Tampere
• Narrating the Millenial Self in Metamodernist Documentary Film and Media Art
  Tytti Rantanen, University of Tampere
• Dangerous Appropriation of the Literary? Resisting Reader in the Narratives Created and Exploited by Radical Masculinity Movements
  Matias Nurminen, University of Tampere
• What (Mis)reading Populist Political Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Tacit Notions of Narrativity
  Samuli Bj枚rninen, University of Tampere

2. Theatre and Text

Location: 423
Moderator: Roy Sommer, Wuppertal University

Presentations:

• Tragic Narratives: Diegetic Narrativity and Meaning Making in Ancient Greek Drama
  Sarah-Helena Van den Brande, Ghent University
• Narrating the 鈥淎pparatus鈥�: Diegetic Narrativity in 21st-Century British Literature
  Lianna Mark, Kings College London
• Performing Authenticity and Self-Reflection on the Contemporary Stage
  Dorothee Birke, Aarhus University

3. Temporality

Location: 410
Moderator: Lindsay Holmgren, 苹果淫院

Presentations:

• Playing the Accordion: On Narrative Slowness in Literature
  Ella Mingazova, Universit茅 de Li猫ge
• The Sensibility Chronotope
  Amit Yahav, University of Minnesota
• Narrative Interruption, Proleptic Focalization, and the Narrator鈥檚 Deconstructive Desire in Ezekiel 9:7b
  Soo Kim, Azusa Pacific University

4. Contemporary and Beyond

Location: 179
Moderator: Naomi Morgenstern, University of Toronto

Presentations:

• Speculative Narrations: The Future of Human Enhancement Told by Margaret Atwood, Dietmar Dath, and Ray Kurzweil
  Julian Menninger, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
• Posthumanism, Transnational Surrogacy, and Garth Davis鈥� Lion
  Naomi Morgenstern, University of Toronto
• Space, Time, and the Scale of Planetarity
  David Sergeant, University of Plymouth
• Caution: Readers Crossing鈥擬etalepsis and the Fictionality of Cli-Fi
  Eric Morel, University of Washington

5. The List Form Between Experientiality and Materiality

Location: 360
Moderator: Laura-Amalia Oulanne, University of Helsinki

Presentations:

• Subjectivity, Materiality, and Geographical Listing
  Laura-Amalia Oulanne, University of Helsinki
• Diagnostic Lists and Narrative Experientiality
  Anna Ovaska, University of Helsinki
• Dean Animals, Lively Things, the Gentle Comma鈥擱ewriting the Human Perspective
  Anna Tomi, University of Helsinki

6. Counter-Narrative in Political Discourses

Location: 310
Moderator: Per Krogh Hansen, University of Southern Denmark

Presentations:

• Brick by Brick, Drop by Drop: On the Strategic Use of Counter-Narrative and Fictionality in the Lego-Shell-Greenpeace Controversy
  Per Krogh Hansen and Marianne Wolff Lundholt, University of Southern Denmark
• Cognition and Counter-Narratives: Mind-Modeling and the Critical Reception of Political Discourse
  Sam Browse, Sheffield Hallam University
• Using Personal Stories in (Counter-)Argumentation in Political Interviews
  Mari Hatavara, University of Tampere
• Narratives of Inclusion and Exclusion in Danish Adult Education
  Anke Piekut, University of Southern Denmark

7. Music and Lyrics

Location: 210
Moderator: Ivan Delazari, Hong Kong Baptist University

Presentations:

• Lessons in True Confessions: The Problem of Authentic Communication in Indie Lyricism
  Grayson Jeffries, Eastern Connecticut State University
• Narrative in/ and Poetry: Narrative (Mis)Plotting, Music and Irony in Wallace Stevens鈥� Peter Quince at the Clavier
  Anna Shvets, University of Georgia
• Non-Diegetic Music in Narrative Fiction: Is There Such a Thing?
  Ivan Delazari, Hong Kong Baptist University
• Transgeneric Narratology: A New Approach to the Lyrical Novel and the Case of Kraamanijs
  Nele Janssens, Ghent University

8. Dressing for Sex/Early Modern

Location: 178
Moderator: Rae Muhlstock, University at Albany, SUNY

Presentations:

• Genre Blending in Tragicomedy: The Winter鈥檚 Tale
  Mike Sinding, Friedrich-Alexander Universit盲t Erlangen-N眉rnberg
• The Narratological Stakes of Representing Cross-Dressed Characters on the Page
  Rahel Orgis, University of Neuchatel
• The Sex Story: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Pull of Magnetic Plot Elements
  Joseph Perreault, University of Idaho

9. Coetzee

Location: 245
Moderator: Brian Macaskill, John Carroll University

Presentations:

• The Dipytch in Literature: Ethical Paradox in Coetzee鈥檚 Disgrace and Hemmerechts鈥� Alles Verandert
  Caroline Bem, Universit茅 de Montreal
• Coetzee鈥檚 Ontological Plasticity
  Tram Nguyen, CUNY
• Transliterating Narrative: JM Coetzee鈥檚 Slow Man (the Novel and the Opera)
  Brian Macaskill, John Carroll University

10. Graphic Novel and Form

Location: 340
Moderator: Ariela Freedman, Concordia University

Presentations:

• Paradise Lost and Visual Narrative
  Elizabeth Bradburn, Western Michigan University
• It鈥檚 the Death of the Author, Charlie Brown
  Gary Weissman, University of Cincinnati
• Narrative History of Pain in Comics and Graphic Novels
  Ariela Freedman, Concordia University
• Popping into Your Mind鈥檚 Eye: Multimodality and Comics in David Foster Wallace鈥檚 鈥淭he Soul Is Not a Smithy鈥�
  Jason S. Polley, Hong Kong Baptist University