Project Narrative Symposium, The Ohio State University
March 30—April 1, 2017
Transmedial Narratives: Theory and Interpretation
All sessions will be held in the Will Eisner Seminar Room, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Sullivant Hall, 2nd Floor (use the Oval entrance, not the High Street one.)
Thursday, March 30
Session A: 4:30—5:45 PM
James Phelan, Opening Remarks
Brian McHale, moderator
Jared Gardner, “Transmedial Narrative in the Age of Mixed Media”
Jan Baetens, “The Film-Photo-Novel: Back and Forth between Page and Screen”
Reception 5:45—7:00 PM
Friday, March 31
8:30—10:00 AM Coffee and Continental Breakfast by Eisner Seminar Room
9:00—10:00 AM Tour “Treasures from the Collections of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum”
Session B: 10:00—11:15 AM
Robyn Warhol, Welcoming Remarks
Bertrand Gervais, “Is It Now? Reflexions on Contemporary Imagination and Screen Culture”
Frederick Aldama, "The Mind on Comic Book Films"
Break: 11:15—11:45 AM
Session C: 11:45 AM—12:45 PM
Toon Staes, moderator
Antoine Dechêne, "Serial Detectives: Serialization and Closure in the Metacognitive Mystery Tale"
Ariane Savoie, “Layering Lost Times in Past Spaces: How Digital Technologies May Tell the Story of Places”
Lunch: 12:45—2:00 PM
Session D 2:00—3:30 PM
Violeta Martinez, moderator
Karen Van Hove, “Narrating Pornographic Images: Ekphrasis and Photographic Description in De fotograaf by Claus Trum”
Evelien Neven, “Second Life is Only a Game. Right?”: On the Interplay of New and Old Media in I.L. Pfeijffer’s Work”
Katra Byram, “Upcycling the Bildungsroman: Self-Construction Across Media in Tiny House Narratives”
Break: 3:30—4:00 PM
Session E: The Conversation So Far 4:00—5:15 PM
Sean O’Sullivan, moderator
Robyn Warhol, Anneleen Masschelein, Brian McHale
Saturday, April 1
8:30—9:30 AM Coffee and Continental Breakfast by Eisner Seminar Room
Session F: 9:30—10:30 AM
Katra Byram, moderator
Christophe Collard, “Ecological Sceneography: Towards a New Media Narrativity”
Johan Callens, “The Wooster Group's Town Hall Affair: What A Fair?!”
Break 10:30—11:00 AM
Session G: 11:00 AM--12:00 PM
Nicolas Potkalitsky, moderator
Sean O’Sullivan, “The Old Gods and the New: Game of Thrones as Hybrid Spectacle”
James Phelan, “Fictionality within Global Nonfiction in Print and Graphic Narrative”
Lunch 12:00—1: 30 PM
Session H: 1:30—3:00 PM
Jose-Antonio Alvarez, moderator
Anneleen Masschelein, “The Ghost of Genre: Writing as Lifestyle in the Twenty-First Century”
Amy Shuman, “Narrative and the Moral Economies of Truth and Lies in the Political Asylum System”
Julia Watson, “The New World of Publishing in Open Access: A Personal Tale”
Break: 3:00—3:30 PM
Session I: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 3:30—5:00 PM
Julia Watson, moderator
James Phelan, Jan Baetens, Bertrand Gervais
