2014 International Conference on Narrative

March 27-29 at the Massachusetts Insititute of Technology

Great Dome (MIT)

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All participants must join the International Society for the Study of Narrative.

Agenda

2014 International Conference on Narrative
Program Overview

Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Time Event
6:30pm-9:30pm Reading by Ted Chiang & Preconference Reception
   
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Time Event
8:00am Registration/ Continental Breakfast
8:30am-10:15am CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE THEORY I
10:30am-12:00pm Session 1
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch [on your own]
1:00pm-2:30pm Session 2
2:45pm-4:15pm Session 3
4:30pm-6:00pm Session 4
6:00pm-7:30pm Newcomers Dinner
7:30pm-9:00pm PLENARY 1: Leslie Bow, University Wisconsin-Madison
9:00pm-11:00pm Reception
   
Friday, March 28, 2014
Time Event
8:00am Registration/ Continental Breakfast
8:30am-10:00am Session 5
10:15am-11:45am Session 6
12:00pm-1:00pm Teaching Narrative Workshop
1:00pm-2:30pm Session 7
2:45pm-4:15pm PLENARY II: Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:30pm-6:00pm Session 8
6:15pm-7:45pm Session 9
   
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Time Event
8:00am Registration/ Continental Breakfast
8:30am-10:15am CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE THEORY II
10:30am-12:00pm Session 10
12:15pm-2:00pm BUSINESS LUNCH
2:00pm-3:30pm Session 11
3:45pm-5:15pm Session 12
5:30pm-7:00pm Session 13
7:30pm-9:00pm PLENARY III: Priscilla Wald, Duke University
9:00pm-midnight Dance & Closing Reception
   

The preconference reception and reading by author Ted Chiang will be held on the 4th floor of the MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center, which is located at 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. The Stata Center is listed as 32 on MIT campus maps: http://whereis.mit.edu/.

All plenaries, Contemporary Narrative Theory sessions, and panel sessions will be held in the MIT Tang Center, located at 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142. The Tang Center is listed as E51 on MIT campus maps: http://whereis.mit.edu/.

The business lunch and closing dance reception will be held in the MIT Media Lab, located at 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. The Media Lab is listed as E14 on MIT campus maps: http://whereis.mit.edu/.

 

2014 Narrative Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Coordinators: James Buzard (MIT) and Sue Kim (UMass-Lowell).