Schedule

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: Title TBA
  • Keely Song: Title TBA
  • Fidalis Buehler: Words from the Bone Box

10:30 am – Break

10:45 am – Plenary: Jane Alison: Title TBA

12:30 pm – Lunch 

Session: Architecture and Story

2:00 – 2:50 pm

  • Steve Tuttle: Title TBA
  • 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 – 5:15 pm

  • Toni Pilcher: Rewilding the Stories in Qualitative Research
  • Steve Peck: Title: TBA (biology)
  • George Handley: Trees and the Stories They Tell: Botanical Animacy in Literature

 

Friday, September 19 in the East Conference Room, Hinckley Building

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

12:30 pm – 1:45 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: 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 – 4:35 pm

  • Faith Blackhurst: Crafting Stories: Artistic Practice as Pedagogical Tool in the Latin American Studies Classroom
  • 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

4:35 pm – Break

Session: Storytelling as a Mode of Inquiry 2

4:45 – 5:30 pm

  • Chanel Earl & Richard Sandberg: Bringing Storytelling to Physics 416
  • Teresa Bell: Constructing Identity Through Narrative: A Study of Storytelling as Self-Discovery in Peter Handke’s Repetition