Communications 8 at 60

In 1966, the eighth volume of the French journal Communications ushered in a new way of reading and describing narratives. Sixty years later, scholars from a variety of fields—Classics, Religious Studies, Film and Media, Comparative Literature, English, and others—reflect on what the essays collected in this volume still mean to them, and what the future of narrative studies looks like today.

The two-day colloquium schedule is as follows:

Friday, February 6

8:30-9:00 - Breakfast

9:00-10:00 - Eugenie Brinkema (MIT) on Roland Barthes and Christian Metz

10:00-12:30 - Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley), Dennis Yi Tenen (Columbia), and Hanna Meretoja (Turku) on Gérard Genette

12:30-1:30 - Lunch

1:30-2:30 - Kent Puckett (Berkeley) on Violette Morin

2:30-4:00 - Ayodeji Ogunnaike (McGill) and Marta Figlerowicz (Yale) on A.J. Greimas

4:00-4:30 - Coffee Break

4:30-5:30 - Pardis Dabashi (Bryn Mawr) on Tzvetan Todorov

6:00 - Dinner

Saturday, February 7

8:30-9:00 - Breakfast

9:00-10:30 - Michal Beth Dinkler (Yale) and Benedek Kruchió (Yale) on Jules Gritti and Claude Bremond

10:30-12:00 - Alessandro Giammei (Yale) and Ramzi Fawaz (Wisconsin-Madison) on Umberto Eco

12:00-1:00 - Lunch; end of event