Schedule-at-a-Glance

The following tentative schedule is subject to change.

Wednesday, March 14

6:30PM-10:00PM

Pre-Conference Reception & Registration

 

Thursday, March 15

7:30AM-6:00PM

Registration

8:15AM-10:00AM

Contemporary Narrative Theory I

10:15AM-11:45PM

Session 1

12:00PM-1:00PM

Teaching Narrative Lunch (Boxed Lunch Available)

1:15PM-2:45PM

Session 2

3:00PM-4:30PM

Session 3

4:45PM–6:15PM

Session 4

6:30PM–7:45PM 

Newcomer Dinner

8:00PM–9:30PM

Plenary 1

VANESSA SCHWARTZ, University of Southern California – "Get That Picture: Photo-Journalism, Mobility, and the Non-Fiction Narrative"

9:30PM–11:00PM

Reception

 

Friday, March 16

8:00AM-6:00PM

Registration

8:30AM–10:00AM 

Session 5

10:15AM–11:45AM

Session 6

11:45PM–12:45PM

Lunch (on your own)

12:45PM–2:15PM

Plenary 2

STEVEN MAILLOUX, Loyola Marymount University – "Narrative as Embodied Intensities: the Eloquence of Travel in 19th-Century Rome"

2:30PM–4:00PM

Session 7

4:15PM–5:45PM

Session 8

6:00PM–7:30PM

Session 9

 

Saturday, March 17

8:00AM-12:00PM

Registration

8:30AM–10:00AM 

Session 10

10:15AM–11:45AM

Session 11

12:00PM–1:00PM

Business Lunch

· The Booth Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Narrative

· The Perkins Prize

· The Best Graduate Student Essay from last year's conference

· The Best Essay in the Narrative in the past year

1:15PM–2:45PM

Plenary 3

RAMÓN SALDÍVAR, Stanford University – "Race, Form and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary Narrative"

3:00PM–4:30PM

Session 12

4:45PM–6:15PM

Session 13

6:30PM–8:15PM

Narrative Theory 2