Thursday, September 18 in the EIZ Theater, B192 JFSB
9:00 am – Welcome and Introduction (Rex Nielson, Chip Oscarson)
Session: Storytelling and the Arts
9:10 am – 10:30 am
- Shea Owens: Beyond Words: How Opera Connects Us Through Musical Storytelling
- Keely Song Glen: Through the Sinews and Shadows
- Fidalis Buehler: Words from the Bone Box
10:30 am – Break
10:45 am – Plenary: Jane Alison: Finding Natural Form in Narrative
12:15 pm – Lunch
Session: Architecture and Story
2:00 – 2:50 pm
- Steve Tuttle: Somewhere a Dog is Always Barking: the Value of Cliché in Storytelling
- Brian Croxall: Adventure Architectonics: Distant Reading Choose Your Own Adventure
2:50 pm – Break
Session:
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm
- Jill Rudy: Fairy-Tale Retellings and New Technologies: Feeding Communicative Omnivores
- Miranda Wilcox: The Stories We Tell When We Confess Our Faith: The Christianization of Early Medieval England
3:50 pm – Break
Session: Stories and the Natural World
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
- Steve Peck: Red Rock Runs Through My Veins: Emergences from the Canyonlands of Southeastern Utah
- George Handley: Trees and the Stories They Tell: Botanical Animacy in Literature
Friday, September 19, in the EIZ Theater, B192 JFSB
Session: Cognition, Experience, and Storytelling
9:00 am – 10:30 am
- Leslee Thorne-Murphy: Mind-Reading and Visions: Why Victorian Spiritualists Told the Best Children’s Ghost Stories
- Laura Hatch: Romance Minds: Storytelling, Cognition, and the Pre-Realist Imagination
- Nile Hatch: Story as Exploration: Experience and Innovation in Entrepreneurial Theory and Practice
10:30 am – Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm – Plenary: David Eagleman: Story and the Brain
12:15 pm – Lunch
Session: Stories, Bodies, and Emotions
2:00 pm – 3:15pm
- Rex Nielson, Dan Dewey, and Stephanie Rivera: The Joy of Reading Fiction
- Jamin Rowan, Kennedy Kleinman, & Jaycelin Eyre: Our Need for Stories: The Neuroscience of Storytelling & Belonging
- Kristen Erekson: Every Body Tells a Story
3:15 pm – Break
Session: Storytelling as a Mode of Inquiry 1
3:30 – 4:20 pm
- Janis Nuckolls: The Voices We Hear and the Ones We Don’t: Narratives as Sources for Multi-Perspectival Truths
- Justin White: The Pasts We Carry with Us and the Stories We Tell: Merleau-Ponty on Human Temporality
4:20 pm – Break
Session: Storytelling as a Mode of Inquiry 2
4:30 – 5:20 pm
- Faith Blackhurst: Crafting Stories: Artistic Practice as Pedagogical Tool in the Latin American Studies Classroom
- Chanel Earl & Richard Sandberg: Bringing Storytelling to Physics 416