
All sessions take place in the Music Building.
Thursday, September 26
8:30–9:00 Registration
9:00–10:50 Session 1
Music, Memory + Story | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Jee Yeon Ryu | Voicing Music Teachers' Autoethnographic Narratives
- Allan Thorpe | Music in the Waiting Room – Echoes of Early Memory
Telling + Retelling | Room 201 Abstracts + Bios
- Brett David Potter | Relational Aesthetics and Re-Narrativization – Telling Stories in an Age of Postproduction
- Lucia Popa | Post-Communist Artistic Memorialization: The Portraits of Ceausescu
- Jing Zhang | Paintings to Protect Life: Feng Zikai's Religion-Themed Chinese Cartoon Paintings
10:50–11:10 Break
11:10–12:15 Gregory Wolfe, Keynote
- "The Realism of Distances"
12:15–1:15 Lunch
1:15–2:25 Session 2
Community Narratives 1 | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Colleen Butcher | Playing in Narrative: How Play, Liminality and Improvisation Create a Praxis for Developing Communal Narratives
- Christopher J. Smith | Dancing at the Crossroads: Creative Experience as Practice-Based Research
Relinquishment / Resistance / Story | Room 201
Abstracts + Bios
- Katharine Bubel | Saying Yes to a No: Relinquishment and Assent in Poetry of Sacralized Nature
- Doug Banner + Skye Burn | Creating the World – A Story in the Making
2:25–2:45 Break
2:45–4:30 Session 3
Narrative + Creative Process: Art | Room 210
Abstracts + Bios
- Erica L. Grimm | Art-Making and Releasing the Power of Narrative
- Helma Sawatzky | Anemone Theory: Creative Process as a Flow of Un/Folding, Enfolding and Infolding
- William Catling | Personal Mythology: An Artist's Narrative
Friday, September 27
9:00–10:50 Session 4
Old Stories: Creation, Science, Poetry, Liturgy | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Christopher S. Morrissey | The Wisdom of Poetic Cosmology
- Mark Sprinkle | Accidentally on Purpose: Re-Visioning Origin Narratives Through the Lens of Human Making
- Ilana R. Schroeder | Mechtild of Hackeborn: Liturgy and/as Mystical Narrative
Identity Making 1 | Room 201 Abstracts + Bios
- Cordula Quint | Of East and West: Authentic Origins, Métissage, and the Transnational Emergence of Post-Colonial Diasporas in Robert Lepage's "Four Dragons"
- Connie T. Braun | A Return to Old Country: Travelling the Landscape of Chaos through Silence, Memory and Imagination
- Sharon Fish Mooney | Suffering, Service and Salvation: The Narrative Themes of Vincent van Gogh
10:50–11:10 Break
11:10–12:15 Session 5
Saying More or Less | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Sebastian Huber | 'No Other Tale to Tell': The End of Worldly Narrative in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
- Lynn R. Szabo | I Can't Tell You: Namelessness and Narrative
12:15–1:10 Lunch
1:10–2:25 Session 6
Identity Making 2 | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Leah Cameron | Singing with Sophia: The Theological Imagination of Thomas Merton
- Jaclyn Williams | The Art of Being Human: Exploring and Embracing the Artist Archetype
Mediated Identities | Room 201 Abstracts + Bios
- Loranne Brown | Bluebeard and the Narrative of Self-Transcendence
- Avril Z. Speaks | Pixel Recognition: Redefining "Classic" Film Narratives
2:25–2:45 Break
2:45–4:30 Session 7
Community Narratives 2 | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- David Squires | I Wrote This for You/For Me/For Them: A Composer Reflects on Premieres, Shared Narratives, and Communitas
- Kari Dunham | Viewership and Communal Narrative: Visual Art as Public Confession
- Erin Heisel | Musical Narrative as Shared Process