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Narrative and Multimodality : Programme

Events for 27th April
TimeEvent
9.00 Registration and Coffee
9.45 Welcome
10.00 Fiona J. Doloughan, University of Surrey
Multimodal Storytelling: Performance and Inscription in the Narration of Art History
10.30 Ruth Gregson, Lancaster University, UK
MTV in Corsets: First-Person Narrative and the Modern Costume Drama
11.00 Dr. Jeremy Scott, University of Kent
Talking Back at the Centre: Demotic Language in Contemporary Scottish Narrative Fiction
11.30 David Herman, Ohio State University
Word-Image/Utterance-Gesture: Case Studies in Multimodal Storytelling
12.30 Lunch & Poster presentations
1.30 Astrid Ensslin, University of Bangor
Respiratory Narrative and Cybertextual De-intentionalisation: Kate Pullinger’sThe Breathing Wall’
2.00 Hans Kristian Rustad, Hedmark University College/Agder University College, Norway
The Interruption of the Narrative Progression: Poetic Function and Defamiliarization in Multimodal Hyperfiction.
2.30 Jess Laccetti, De Montfort University
Multimodal Reading: Theory and Practise
3.00 Sonia Fizek: University of Lodz, Poland
Multimodality in the Context of Cyberliterature – Have the New Electronic Media Revolutionized a Narrative?
3.30 Coffee
3.45 Sue Thomas, De Montfort University
The Uses of Transliteracy: Narratives across Media
4.45 Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, University of Birmingham
Narratives of Identity Change, Reallocation and Multi-positioning: Brazilians in Britain
5.15 Paul J. Thibault, Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway
Hypermedia Selves and Hypermodal Stories: Narrativity, Agency and Meaning-Making in Personal Blogs
6.00 Wine reception
7.00 National Academy of Writing Masterclass: Graham Joyce
Events for 28th April
TimeEvent
9.00 Dr Andrew Salway, Burton Bradstock Research Labs
A Computer-based Framework for the Combined Analysis of Narrative and Multimodality
9.30 Kai Sørfjord, Agder College, Kristiansand, Norway
Aspects of Cohesion in Multimodal Narratives
10.00 Dr. Rocío Montoro, University of Huddersfield
Mind style: From Written to Filmic Narratives
10.30 Ulf Cronquist, Ph D, English Department, Gothenburg University, Sweden
‘Natural’ and ‘Un-Natural’ Narrativity: The Legend of the Holy Drinker
11.00 Teaching Workshop: Narratives and New Media in Practice
(Coffee will be served during the workshop)
12.00 Dr. Jennifer Riddle Harding, Washington & Jefferson College
Multimodal Collaborative Learning and the Short Story
12.30 Polina Eysmont, Saint Petersburg State University
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words: a Study of Russian Narrative
1.00 Lunch
1.45 Sarah Hatton, Melissa McGurgan, Xiang-Jun Wang, Arizona State University
Using Sound Maps in Multimodal Environments to Promote Interactive Narrative
2.15 Helena Barbas (Prof.), New University of Lisbon
No Recall or Foretelling for ID Narrative
2.45 Alison Gibbons, University of Sheffield
I contain multitudes”: Narrative Multimodality and the book that bleeds
3.15 David Machin, University of Leicester
Looking for Narrative Structures in Images: The Dangers of Linguistic Imperialism
3.45 Coffee
4.00 Richard Walsh, University of York
Why Dreams Disturb the Sleep of Narrative Theory
4.30 Alan Palmer, Independent Scholar
The Fictional Minds Toolkit and Multimodality
5.00 Michael Toolan, University of Birmingham
Hi-tech Multimodal Narratives and Literary Form
6.00 Roundtable and Closing Comments