Events

"Multicultural Narratives and Narrative Theory"
Symposium Schedule
October 25-27

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Thursday, October 25

All events at the Blackwell Hotel & Conference Center, 2110 Tuttle Park Place

Pre-conference for the Project Narrative Symposium and the 2007 Festival of Cartoon Art
Graphic Storytelling: Academic Perspectives (Pre-conference co-sponsored by the Cartoon Research Library, Project Narrative, and the Ohio State University Department of English)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM Contemporary Graphic Storytelling

• Theresa Tensuan (Haverford College), "Breaking the Frame: Reviewing Disabilities in Epileptic, Cuckoo, and The Spiral Cage"
• Rebecca Wanzo (Ohio State University), "It's a Hero?: Black Comics and Satirizing Subjection"
• Julia Watson (Ohio State University), "Reading Pleasures in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: Translating Literature into Life"
• Nicole McDaniel (Texas A&M), "Seriality and Collections of 'Old Comic Strips' in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers"
• Chair: Jared Gardner (Ohio State University)

1:00-2:30 PM History & Time: Graphic Storytelling

• Sean Connors (Ohio State University), "Portrait of the Cartoonist: An Examination of Milton Caniff's Growth Between 1933 and 1935"
• Daniel Yezbick (Peninsula College), "Pie-faced Panels and Arthrological Antics: Semiotic Reversals and Jingle-Jangled Narrative in George Carlson's 'Pie-faced Prince of Pretzelberg'"
• David Olsen (St. Louis University), "Who Watches the Watch?: Keeping Time in Graphic Narratives"
• John Jennings & Damian Duffy (University of Illinois, Chicago), "Virtual Unreality and the Shape of Time: Virtual Comics, Postmodern Self-referentiality, and the Fourth Dimension"
• Chair: Jared Gardner (Ohio State University)

2:45-4:15 PM Graphic Storytelling and Narrative Theory

• Kai Mikkonen (University of Tampere), "The Narrative Agent in Graphic Storytelling"
• David Herman (Ohio State University), "Multimodal Storytelling and Identity Construction in Graphic Narratives"
• Frederick Aldama (Ohio State University), "Your Brain on Latino Comics"
• David FitzSimmons (Ashland University), "Picture Books and Graphic Novels: An Undergraduate Introduction to Narrative Theory"
• Chair: James Phelan (Ohio State University)

4:30-5:30 PM R.C. Harvey, "The Storytelling Art of Milton Caniff"

Friday, October 26

8:45 Opening Remarks by Frederick Aldama

9:00 AM - 12:40 PM Promises and Progress (Moderator: Julia Watson)

9:00-9:50 Werner Sollors, "Narratives of the American Occupation of Germany after World War II"

9:50-10:40 Robert Warrior, "False Promises in Native American Narrative"

10:40-11:00 Break

11:00-11:50 Viet Nguyen, "The Uses of Cosmopolitanism: On War, Empathy, and Narrative"
11:50-12:40 Sue-Im Lee, "Nonidentity in Chuang Hua's Crossings"

12:40-1:40 Lunch break

1:40 - 5:30 PM Borders, Boundaries, Beginnings (Moderator: Nina Berman)

1:40-2:30 Robyn Warhol-Down, "Narration and Assimilation: Structuring Multi-Cultural Subjectivity in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine"

2:30-3:20 Suzanne Keen, "Strategic Empathizing: Bounded, Ambassadorial, and Strategic Narrative Empathy"

3:20-3:50 Break

3:50-4:40 Catherine Romagnolo, "Initiating Dialogue: Narrative Beginnings in Multicultural Narratives"

4:40-5:30 Ellen McCracken, "Canon and Kitsch: Narrative and Semiotic Strategies of Chicana High Culture and Chica Lit"

Saturday, October 27

9:00 AM - 12:40 PM Experiencing African American Literature (Moderator: Valerie Lee)

9:00-9:50 James Phelan, "Narrative Beginnings, Rhetorical Theory, and Multicultural Narrative: The Beginning of Toni Morrison's Beloved"

9:50-10:40 Josephine Park, "Narrating Nobody"

10:40-11:00 Break 11:00-11:50 Adélékè Adéèkó, "Responsibility to/of Words in Activist African American Poetry"

11:50 -12:40 Carl Gutierrez-Jones, "Paranoia and Homeopathy"

12:40-1:40 Lunch break

1:40 - 5:30 PM Film, Television, Song: Media Narratives (Moderator: Sean O'Sullivan)

1:40-2:30 Maria Herrera-Sobek, "Violent Constructions of Subjectivity: The Narrative Voice of the Subaltern in the Mexican narcocorrido"

2:30-3:20 Patrick Colm Hogan, "Emplotting Nationalism: Cognitive Structures and Cultural Particulars in Hindi Cinema"

3:20-3:50 Break

3:50-4:40 Hilary Dannenberg, "Narrating Multiculturalism in British Media"

4:40-5:30 Lalita Pandit, "Emotion and Irony in Multi-Cultural Narrative: Why the Rogue Becomes a Mahatama in R.K. Narayan's Guide"