[ecrea] Storyworlds across Media

Storyworlds across Media. Mediality - Multimodality - Transmediality
June 30th - July 2nd, 2011 at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
www.storyworlds.de


Thursday, June 30

Introduction

10:00-10:45 Karl N. Renner (Mainz):
Introductory Remarks

10:45-11:30 Marie-Laure Ryan (Boulder/Mainz):
Storyworlds across Media


Panel 1: Transmedial Worlds

12:00-12:45 Lisbeth Klastrup/Susana Tosca (Copenhagen):
A Game of Thrones: Transmedial Worlds, Fandom, and Social Gaming

12:45-13:30 Colin B. Harvey (London/Bournemouth):
A Taxonomy of Transmedia Storytelling

13:30-14:15 Van Leavenworth (Umea):
The Developing Storyworld of H. P. Lovecraft


Panel 2: Transmedial Storytelling

15:45-16:30 Jason Mittell (Middlebury):
Strategies of Storytelling on Transmedia Television

16:30-17:15 Mélanie Bourdaa (Bourdeaux):
The Many Facets of Transmedia Storytelling

17:15-18:00 Maria L. Leavenworth (Umea):
Transmedial Narration and Good and Evil Vampires


Friday, July 1

Panel 3: Transmedial Concepts

10:00-10:45 Frank Zipfel (Mainz):
Fictionality across Media: Transmedial Concepts of Fictionality

10:45-11:30 J. Alexander Bareis (Lund):
Mediality and Mediation: The Role of the Narrator in Transmedial 
Narratology

11:30-12:15 Jan-Noël Thon (Hamburg/Mainz):
Subjectivity across Media: On Transmedial Strategies of Subjective
Representation


Panel 4: Visual Storytelling

14:00-14:45 Patrick C. Hogan (Connecticut):
Painting as a Challenge to Narrative Discourse Analysis: The Visual Art
of Rabindranath Tagore

14:45-15:30 Werner Wolf (Graz):
Triggers (Framings) of Narrativity in Literature and Painting

15:30-16:15 Gyöngyvér Horváth (Budapest):
Narrative Ramification: A Visual Response to Transmedial Narration


Panel 5: Multimodal Storytelling

16:45-17:30 Jared Gardner (Ohio/Mainz):
Graphic Narrative and New Media Convergence

17:30-18:15 Wolfgang Hallet (Giessen):
The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Generic Change and Its Narratological
Implications

18:15-19:00 Jeff Thoss (Graz):
Media Rivalry Revisited: The Case of Scott Pilgrim


Saturday, July 2

Panel 6: Interactive Storytelling

10:00-10:45 Jesper Juul (Copenhagen/New York):
The Paradox of Interactive Tragedy: Can a Video Game have an Unhappy 
Ending?

10:45-11:30 Michael Fuchs (Graz):
"Itâ??s Not a Lake. Itâ??s an Ocean." Alan Wake, Transmedia Storytelling,
and Meta-Media-Convergence

11:30-12:15 Marco Carraciolo (Bologna):
Those Insane Dream Sequences: Distorted Experience in Literature and
Video Games


Panel 7: Spatial Storytelling

14:00-14:45 Elke Huwiler (Amsterdam):
Storytelling in Performances: A Historical Perspective

14:45-15:30 April G. Wei (Hong Kong):
A Poetics of Navigational Narrative

15:30-16:15 Erwin Feyersinger (Insbruck):
Transferring Narratological Concepts of Space to Augmented Reality
Environments


16:15-16:30 Marie-Laure Ryan/Karl N. Renner/Jan-Noël Thon:
Closing Remarks


Participation is free, but since the number of participants is limited,
registrations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
Please be sure to register no later than May 31, 2011 by sending your
name and institutional affiliation to (storyworlds /at/ uni-mainz.de).



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