Beyond Narrative: Literature, Culture, and the Borderlands of Narrativity – Bibliotheca Albertina

Öffentliche Tagung
Organisiert vom Instute for American Studies Leipzig

Ort: Bibliotheca Albertina, Vortragssaal
Adresse: Beethovenstr. 6, 04107 Leipzig

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This conference aims to map the borderlands of narrativity. It asks how the narrative and the non-
narrative—tied to symbolic forms such as database, play, spectacle, network, or the lyric—work together in instances of cultural expression.

PROGRAM

Thursday, October 10

• 5pm: Opening and Welcome
• 5.30-7pm: Keynote Lecture I
  • Jared Gardner (Ohio State)
  • Title: „Play/Time: The Long History of Comics and Games (& What It Can Teach us About the Future of Both)“
  • Response by Katja Kanzler (Leipzig)
  • Chair: Gesine Wegner (Dresden)
• 7.30pm: Dinner

Friday, October 11

• 9.30-11am: Panel I: Media / Graphic Novels
  • Lukas R.A. Wilde (Tübingen): “Characters without Stories – On the Pre-Narrative State of Fictional Characters”
  • Charlotte Pylyser (Leuven): “Narrative on Edge in the Belgian Graphic Novel”
  • Chair: Katharina Gerund (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• 11-11.30am: Coffee Break
• 11.30am-1pm: Keynote Lecture II
  • Caroline Levine (Cornell, remotely via Zoom)
  • Title: “Endings and Sustainability”
  • Response by James Dorson (Berlin)
  • Chair: Stefan Schubert (Leipzig)
• 1-2.30pm: Lunch
• 2.30-4.30pm: Panel II: Literature
  • Fiorenzo Iuliano (Cagliari): “The Portrait of a Fugue: Henry James’s Baroque Consonances”
  • Laureano Corces (Fairleigh Dickinson): “Expressionist Rambling and Baroque Spectacle in Selected Latin American Texts”
  • Sarah Link (Freiburg): “Narrative and Scientific Logic in Detective Fiction”
  • Chair: Regina Schober (Mannheim)
• 4.30-5.30pm: Poster Presentations on “Narrative Liminality” / Coffee Break
• 5.30-7pm: Keynote Lecture III
  • Maurice S. Lee (Boston)
  • Title: “Stirring Enumerations”
  • Response by Sebastian M. Herrmann (Leipzig)
  • Chair: Stefan Schubert (Leipzig)
• 7.30pm: Dinner

Saturday, October 12

• 9.30-11am: Panel III: Lyricality
  • Samuel Caleb Wee (Vancouver): “Narrativity (versus) Poeticity? Rethinking the Threshold in Narrative Theory”
  • Otilia Teodorescu-Stadler (Konstanz): “Memory and Narrative Liminality in Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Zong!”
  • Chair: Michaela Beck (Dresden)
• 11-11.30am: Coffee Break
• 11.30am-1pm: Panel IV: Play
  • Sören Schoppmeier (Berlin): “Residues on the Palimpsest: Red Dead Redemption’s Ambient Operations and the Narrative Liminalities of the Database Western”
  • Kübra Aksay (Freiburg): “Playing the Narrative in Return of the Obra Dinn”
  • Chair: Sebastian Domsch (Greifswald)
• 1pm: Farewell
• 1-2pm: Optional Lunch

The conference is free and open to the public. Students and other guests are welcome to attend the conference (including only individual sessions).

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http://www.narrative-liminality.de/conference