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20 June 2023, Tuesday - Pre-Conference

21 June 2023, Wednesday - Day 1

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Venue
07:30

Buses depart from Conference Hotel

JEN Singapore Tanglin by Shangri-La
08:00 - 18:00

Registration (The registration table will be closed during the Opening Ceremony from 0900 to 1000 hours.)

NIE6-01-LT1
09:00 - 10:00

Opening Ceremony – featuring a musical tribute to Singapore culture by the students from the Visual and Performing Arts, National Institute of Education, and a musical adaptation of a local short story by the students from Anglo Chinese Junior College (ACSian Theatre).

NIE6-01-LT1
10:00 - 10:15

Break

10:15 - 11:00

Keynote Address by A/P Angelia Poon, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore “A Significant Form: The Short Story in Singapore”

NIE6-01-LT1
11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break (provided)

Outside LT1
11:30 - 13:00

Parallel Scholarly Sessions 1

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NIE5-01
13:00 - 14:00

Lunch break (self-catered)

14:00 - 15:30

Readings in NIE Library

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NIE Library
15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break (provided)

Outside LT1
16:00 - 17:30

Parallel Scholarly Sessions 2

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NIE5-01
18:00

Buses depart NTU from Block 1 Foyer

NIE1 Foyer
18:30 - 20:30

21 June 2023, Wednesday - Day 1

Title
Details
Venue
07:30

Buses depart from Conference Hotel

JEN Singapore Tanglin by Shangri-La
08:00 - 18:00

Registration (The registration table will be closed during the Opening Ceremony from 0900 to 1000 hours.)

NIE6-01-LT1
09:00 - 10:00

Opening Ceremony – featuring a musical tribute to Singapore culture by the students from the Visual and Performing Arts, National Institute of Education, and a musical adaptation of a local short story by the students from Anglo Chinese Junior College (ACSian Theatre).

NIE6-01-LT1
10:00 - 10:15

Break

10:15 - 11:00

Keynote Address by A/P Angelia Poon, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore “A Significant Form: The Short Story in Singapore”

NIE6-01-LT1
11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break (provided)

Outside LT1
11:30 - 13:00

Parallel Scholarly Sessions 1

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NIE5-01
13:00 - 14:00

Lunch break (self-catered)

14:00 - 15:30

Readings in NIE Library

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NIE Library
15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break (provided)

Outside LT1
16:00 - 17:30

Parallel Scholarly Sessions 2

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NIE5-01
18:00

Buses depart NTU from Block 1 Foyer

NIE1 Foyer
18:30 - 20:30
Program
22Jun

22 June 2023, Thursday - Day 2

Title
Details
Venue
08:00

Buses depart from Conference Hotel

Jen Singapore Tanglin by Shangri-La
09:00 - 10:30

Plenary 1 – Importance of Flash Fiction

Chair: Dr Shady Cosgrove

Panelists: Dr. Julia Prendergast, Dr. Billie Travalini, Dr. Gay Lynch



NIE6-01-LT1
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break (provided)

Outside LT1
11:00 - 12:30

Readings in NIE Library

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NIE Library
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch break (self-catered)

13:30 - 15:00

Parallel Scholarly Sessions 3

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NIE5-01
15:00 - 16:30

Readings in NIE Library

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NIE Library
16:30 - 17:00

Coffee break (provided)

(Participants registered for the Arts House sessions scheduled this evening may collect their bento boxes from the Information Counter during this coffee break.)

Outside LT 1
17:00 - 18:30

Parallel Scholarly Sessions 4

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NIE5-01
18:45

Buses depart NTU from Block 1 Foyer

NIE1 Foyer
19:30 - 21:30

Two concurrent panel discussions at Arts House

(Event is open to the public, but please register for bus booking purposes. Conference participants registered for these Arts House sessions may collect their bento boxes from the Information Counter from 1630 to 1700 hours.)

The Arts House

23 June 2023, Friday - Day 3

Time
Program
Venue
08:00

Buses depart from Conference Hotel

Jen Singapore Tanglin by Shangri-La
09:00 - 10:30

Plenary 2: Diversity in Storytelling: Race, Religion, Sex, Politics – from political correctness to language correctness

Chair: Prof. Teresa Cid, Lisbon  Co-Chair: Dr. Maurice A. Lee 

Panelist: Prof. Robert Olen Butler

NIE6-01-LT1
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break (provided)

Outside LT1
11:00 - 12:30

Readings in NIE Library

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NIE Library
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch break (self-catered)

13:30 - 15:00

Parallel Scholarly Sessions 5

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NIE5-01
15:00 - 16:30

Readings in NIE Library

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NIE Library
16:30 - 17:00

Coffee break (provided)

Outside LT1
17:00 - 18:00

Featured Lecture:“Stories and the Cinema”

Speaker: Robert Olen Butler

NIE6-01-LT1
18:30

Buses depart NTU from Block 1 Foyer

NIE1 Foyer
23Jun
24Jun

24 June 2023, Saturday - Day 4

Time
Program
Venue
11:30

Buses leave Conference Hotel

Jen Singapore Tanglin by Shangri-La
12:00 - 14:00

Gala Lunch at Ginger, Parkroyal Beach Road Hotel

Ginger
14:30 - 16:30

A walking tour of Kampong Gelam.

(Registration is required)

Parallel Scholarly Session 1: 21 Jun, 11.30 - 13.00

Panels
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3 (Moderator)
Venue (Blk 5 level 1)
1A: Language and the World: The Short Story as a Linguistic Tool and Object

Chong Yin Teng [Singapore]

The Power of Short Stories in an Ethnographic Study

Shady Cosgrove [Australia]

Nothing to it: the paragraph break and its role in short-short fiction

Mercy Jesuvadian [Singapore]

Micro-Fiction as an Andragogic Tool

TR501
1B: The Short Story and the Critical Imaginary: Climate Change, The Anthropocene, & Democratic Form

Prasanthi Ram [Singapore]

The short story cycle as a utopian home for literary representations of family: a review of practice-led research

Julian Novitz [Australia]

Story cycles and climate disaster: Finding alternative structures for literary realist narratives in the Anthropocene

Nina Venkataraman [Singapore]

Instagram stories of climate change: Is it a story of domesticating the risk?

TR503
1C: The Short Story, Folklore, & Children’s Literature

Jackie Fung King Lee [Hong Kong]

Production of Digital Stories to Nurture Children’s Positive Values

Nivedita Kumari [Thailand]

Folktales from India and Japan

Hannah Ming Yit Ho [Brunei]

Anglophone children’s short stories: An emerging didactic practice in Brunei Darussalam

TR504
1D: History Reimagining in the Short Story: Postcolonial Dialogues and Contemporary Comparisons

Mei Xiaohan [China]

Historical Representation, Metahistory, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Ideas of History in his Short Historical Fictions

Zeng Yu [Singapore]

A Haunted Story: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies and Postcolonial Writing

Debasree Ghosh [New Zealand]

Divided Identities: An exploration of Rudyard Kipling's "Baa Baa Blacksheep" and Ruskin Bond's "The Room of Many Colors"

TR505
1E: Existentialist Themes in the Short Story: Life, Language, and Literature

Vikas Lathar [India]

Aging and Existential Concerns: A Study of Anita Desai’s Select Short Stories

Sepehr Hafizi [UK]

The Meaning of Life in Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Signs and Symbols’

Teresa Cid [Portugal]

“Turning away from the wall”: Katherine Vaz and Her Short Stories

TR506

Parallel Scholarly Session 2: 21 Jun, 16.00 - 17.30

Panels
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3 (Moderator)
Venue (Blk 5 level 1)
2A: The Short Story and the Image of the World: Culture, Family, Society, & the Self

Yoriko Izumi [Japan]

Reading Short Stories for Psychological Well-Being

Li Yunxiao [China]

Loneliness of the Glass Family

Christopher MacGowan [USA]

“O. Henry’s Dark Thanksgiving”

TR501
2B: Conceptualizing The Role of Short Stories in Pedagogy & Assessment in the Singapore Classroom

Shreenjit Kaur [Singapore]

“What if we put the students at the centre?” Rethinking the role of stories in a Singapore primary classroom

Serene Tan [Singapore] Using Narrative Advertisements to Deepen Learning and Encourage  Perspective-taking and Creative Expression in the Language Classroom

Rajenthiran Sellan [Singapore]

Retelling as a Pedagogical and Assessment Strategy to Develop Deeper Learning in the Language Classroom

TR503
2C: Diversity and Writing: The Short Story in a Multi-Modal Moment

Verena Tay [Singapore]

Straddling Two Worlds: The Delights and Dilemmas of Being a Literary Writer and Oral Teller of Stories

Sathish Kumar [India]

Science Fictions Will No Longer Be Treated Fictional: A Thematic study of Isaac Asimov’s “Robot Dreams”

Wen-Shing Ho [China]

“Game-Mode” Improvisation: Composing Short Stories With Filmed Diaries

TR504
2D: The Short Story and the Aesthetics of Narration

Ted Morrissey [USA]

Beauty Must Come First: The Short Story as Art Made of Language

Sarah Giles [Australia]

A Lot Like Joy: Fractured fragments represented within a composite narrative

Ni Zengxin [Singapore] - Speaker 3

The Event of Waiting: Affective Suspension in James Joyce’s “Eveline”

Julian Novitz [Australia] - Moderator


TR505
2E: The Short Story and Alternative Conceptualizations of the Subject: Truth and Ethics in a Posthumanist Context

Farah Vierra [Singapore]

Empowering a Diversity of Student Voices: An Ethical Pedagogical Approach to the Short Story in the Post-Truth Age

Xu Tianyu [China]

The Posthumanist Ecological Awareness in J. M. Coetzee’s “The Lives of Animals” and “The Old Woman and the Cats”

Liang Iping [Taiwan]

Between Humans and Animals: On the “Trans-species” in “The Vet” by Charlson Ong

TR506

Parallel Scholarly Session 3: 22 Jun, 13.30 - 15.00

Panels
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3 (Moderator)
Venue (Blk 5 level 1)
3A: The Short Story and Language Learning in the Asian Context I

Suzanne Kamata [Japan]

Creating Mash-up Stories in the EFL Classroom

Jeyaraj John Sekar [India]

Short Stories in Language Classes in Indian Universities

Suzanne Choo [Singapore]

Ethical Readings of Violence in Short Story Anthologies Studied in Singapore Schools

TR503
3B: The Short Story and Global Process: Culture & Tradition from Asia and Beyond

Angus Whitehead [Singapore]

In the island of the tunnel-visioned, the one-eyed widow is pragmatically shifted: Goh Sin Tub, Gregory Nalpon and representations of the Bukit Ho Swee fire in the early Singapore short story

Kai-Lung Chang [Taiwan]

The Implied Author in the English Translation of Wang Zhenhe’s Short Story “An Oxcart for Dowry”

Allan Weiss [Canada]

Science and Spiritualism in the Early Canadian Fantasy Story

TR504
3C: The Short Story and Literary Imagination: Place, Space, and Emotion

Teresa Alves [Portugal]

Landscapes for storytelling: the elusive archipelagos of Onésimo Almeida and Darrell Kastin

Goh Qi Wei [Singapore]

Passing the Baton: Silence, Vulnerability and the Storytelling Relay in Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch

Ian Tan [Singapore] - Moderator

TR505
3D: Corporeality and Feminism in the Short Story: The Way of the Body

Qiujie Cheng [China]

“The Fisherman and his Soul” Revisited: Disabled Body, Stockholm Syndrome, and Podophilia


Jiachen Zhang [China]

Sushi and Otter: Intersections of Abject Food, Women and Race in David Wong Louie’s “Bottles of Beaujolais”

Victor Felipe Bautista [Philippines]

Intuitive Seeing, Feminist Knowing: A Reading of "Sleep" and “Dreams of Love, Etc.”

TR506
3E: Enabling Language: Representing Different Voices in the Short Story

May Ouma [Japan]

Warring culture, home and belonging in 'The Heartsick Diaspora'

Jenny Sung [Taiwan]

Not for Us: Voices of the Migrants in Jeremy Tiang's "National Day"

Rebecca Hill [UK]

“A Feast of Sound and Mouths”: Deaf Representation in Short Fiction

TR507

Parallel Scholarly Session 4: 22 Jun, 17.00 - 18.30

Panels
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3 (Moderator)
Venue (Blk 5 level 1)
4A: The Short Story and Language Learning in the Asian Context II

Hengshan Jin [China]

The Representation of the Side Effects of Economic Reform in Contemporary Chinese Short Stories

Tara McIlroy [Japan]

Digital short fiction and language learning: Insights from a CLIL course in Japan

TR503
4B: The Short Story and Singapore Literature: Contemporary Perspectives

Ow Yeong Wai Kit [Singapore]

Longings and Belongings: Explorations of Ethnicity and Identity in Wena Poon’s and Alfian Sa’at’s Short Stories

Kevin Martens Wong [Singapore]

Via Hierosa: Excavating and Reclaiming the Kristang Hero’s Journey as embodied in the Eurasian Short Story

Rahul Singh [Singapore]

Towards Ikigai - A collection of real life short stories

TR504
4C: Gender & Identity in the Short Story

Brian Rugen [Japan]

Masculinity and sport in the short stories of Tom Perrotta

Hannah Wen-Shan Shieh [Taiwan]

Spinsterhood and Care in Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” and “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”

Hawk Chang [Hong Kong]

‘God, the hypocrisy of (wo)men!’: Religion and Gender in Frank O’Conner’s “First Confession”

TR505
4D: The Short Story and Different Modes of Realism: The Ordinary and the Fantastic

Keiko Kiriyama [Japan]

A Comparison of Goblins in Charles Dickens’ and Marie Corelli’s Christmas Stories

Joan Qiong Zhang [China]

Intrinsic Tensions Within and Beyond: on Woolf’s Three Short Stories

Flora Schildknecht [USA]

‘Garments Shed by Ghosts’: Magical Realism and Trauma in Short Stories of Displacement

TR506

Parallel Scholarly Session 5: 23 Jun, 13.30 - 15.00

Panels
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3
Speaker 4
Speaker 5 (Moderator)
Venue (Blk 5 level 1)
5A: Can/Cannot, Lah: On Anthologizing Asia

Robin Hemley [USA]

Xu Xi [Hong Kong]

Suzanne Kamata [Japan]

Sarah Soh [Singapore]

Darryl Whetter [Canada]

TR503
Panels
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3 (Moderator)
Venue (Blk 5 level 1)
5B: Migration, Trains & Diversity in the Short Story

Tejash Kumar Singh

[Singapore]

Migrating from National Memory: Evolving Transient Indentured & Migrant Bodies in 19thand 21st Century Singapore

Gay Lynch

[Australia]

The Short Story Train: Concatenation

Jessica Byrne

[Australia]

Looking Within and Beyond ‘Neighbours’: A Closer Look at the Short Story by Tim Winton

TR505
5C: The Short Story and the Practice and Craft of Writing: Adaptation and the Reframing of Context

Alexandra May Cardoso [Philippines]

Didto Sa Amo (Where I Am From): Retelling and Staging Epefania’s Sugilanon

Liao Weichun [China]

Personal Statements for College Application Written by Chinese Students: Emergence of A Subgenre of English Short Story in China

Bernardo Palmeirim [Portugal]

Lydia Davis’ Writing vs the Conceptual ‘Writing’ of Kenneth Goldsmith

TR506
Parallel Scholarly Sessions
PS2
PS3
PS4
PS5
Readings in NIE Library

Readings in NIE Library 1: 21 Jun, 14.00 - 15.30

Session
Moderator
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3
Venue
1A
Ann Ang
Hsin-Hui Lin
He Wun-Jin
Anitha Devi Pillai
Gallery
1B
Angelia Poon
Anjana Menon
Min-De Ang
Kamaladevi Aravindan
Research Commons
1C
Darryl Whetter
Robin Hemley
Xu Xi
Nina Dai Tang HaiYun
SMART Room
R2

Readings in NIE Library 2: 22 Jun, 11.00 - 12.30

Session
Moderator
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3
Venue
2A
Flora K. Schildknecht
Rebecca Hill
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Madeleine D’Arcy
Gallery
2B
Shady Cosgrove
Sheila Armstrong
Robert Olen Butler
Lin Ying
Research Commons
2C
Ann Ang
Julia Prendergast
Lily Kong
Michael Mirolla
SMART Room
R3

Readings in NIE Library 3: 22 Jun, 15.00 - 16.30

Session
Moderator
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3
Venue
3A
Billie Travalini
Dominique Hecq
Ted Morrissey
Anna Solding
Gallery
3B
Michael Mirolla
Rebekah Clarkson
Domas Chien-Lee Yung-Song
Keith Jardim
Research Commons
3C
Clark Blaise
Shady Cosgrove
Yingchao Xiao
Ann Ang
SMART Room
R4

Readings in NIE Library 4: 23 Jun, 11.00 - 12.30

Session
Moderator
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3
Venue
4A
Rebecca Hill
Flora K. Schildknecht
Chantal Danjou
Paul McVeigh
Gallery
4B
Kim Gentles
Gay Lynch
Billie Travalini
Verena Tay
Research Commons
4C
Ian Tan
Marion Bloem
Clark Blaise
Suzanne Kamata
SMART Room
R5

Readings in NIE Library 5: 23 Jun, 15.00 - 16.30

Session
Moderator
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3
Venue
5A
Peter Gentles
Rahul Singh
Anica Liu
Allan Weiss
Gallery
5B
Ann Ang
Wen-Shing Ho
Jannis Jizhou Chen
Sydney Alice Clark
Research Commons
5C
Anna Solding
Nancy Freund Fraser
Jamie O'Connell
Russ Soh
SMART Room

GUIDELINES FOR MODERATORS:  (In General)

  1. Get to the room at least five to ten minutes before the session, if possible. If a presenter has asked for special technology, make sure that it is working. A technician should be available.  Recognize the conference, 16th International Conference on the Short Story in English, and thank the host, National Institute of Education (NIE) for hosting it.

  2. Meet the readers; ask how they want to be introduced and place them according to the reading schedule. (Usually, the scholars or authors read according to how they are listed in the program). Do not change the reading schedule, because participants plan their attendance according to the listings. Whether or not they read from the podium or seated at a desk, make sure that the microphone works, if one is there and if it is needed. If the area requires a microphone, make sure that there is one for the audience during the Q&A period as well.

  3. Make sure that each writer has water and check to see if more water is available if needed. 

  4. Introduce each writer with a short bio of a paragraph only. All introductions should be under a minute. 

  5. Start on time; inform both the audience and the readers of the time frame and let them (scholars and authors) know that you will notify them when they are two minutes from the end of their time slot. You can just say "two minutes" to notify them, or signal, etc. The difficult thing is cutting someone off when they have not finished, but if you don't, they will read for another five minutes or more, and then you have a problem. Obviously, one thinks of the Q&A period as a "space" that is available should the readings go over the time limit, but if you do use it that way, i.e., let all of the readers go over and have no time for the Q&A, then it is a huge disservice to the audience who always have questions to ask. So, the moderator has to be polite but stern. This problem is even more pronounced in the scholarly sessions. The scholars want their views to be known and those sessions require good moderators. (We will suggest to the scholars that they may want to summarize sections as they proceed to ensure that they get all points addressed.)

  6. During the Q&A session, tell the audience to just ask one question initially to give everyone a chance to ask one. (Note: It may happen that one writer is getting all of the questions. In such cases, it is good if the moderator makes sure that the other authors get a question by posing one herself). 

 

Note:   In the reading sessions, it will be difficult for the moderator to know ahead of time what will be read, since such notification is not required. So, the moderator should take notes as the readings are being given so that questions may be asked afterwards, or at least the moderator can give her or his summation during the Q&A as a springboard to questions.

With the scholarly papers, some may be completed, but many will not be completed, so the same problem exists. However, if the moderator wants, we will try to connect them with the scholars ahead of time so that they can discuss any concerns the presenters may have.  It is a good idea for the moderator to take notes during the scholarly presentations as well. Please enjoy your sessions and have a good time. Thanks for your service.

 

Maurice A. Lee

Moderator Guidelines
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