20 June 2023, Tuesday - Pre-Conference
21 June 2023, Wednesday - Day 1
Title | Details | Venue |
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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 | NIE5-01 |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break (self-catered) | |
14:00 - 15:30 | Readings in NIE Library | NIE Library |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break (provided) | Outside LT1 |
16:00 - 17:30 | Parallel Scholarly Sessions 2 | 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 |
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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 | NIE5-01 |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break (self-catered) | |
14:00 - 15:30 | Readings in NIE Library | NIE Library |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break (provided) | Outside LT1 |
16:00 - 17:30 | Parallel Scholarly Sessions 2 | NIE5-01 |
18:00 | Buses depart NTU from Block 1 Foyer | NIE1 Foyer |
18:30 - 20:30 |
22 June 2023, Thursday - Day 2
Title | Details | Venue |
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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 | NIE Library |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break (self-catered) | |
13:30 - 15:00 | Parallel Scholarly Sessions 3 | NIE5-01 |
15:00 - 16:30 | Readings in NIE Library | 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 | 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 |
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08:00 | Buses depart from Conference Hotel | Jen Singapore Tanglin by Shangri-La |
09:00 - 10:30 | 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 | NIE Library |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break (self-catered) | |
13:30 - 15:00 | Parallel Scholarly Sessions 5 | NIE5-01 |
15:00 - 16:30 | Readings in NIE Library | 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 |
24 June 2023, Saturday - Day 4
Time | Program | Venue |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
Readings in NIE Library 1: 21 Jun, 14.00 - 15.30
Session | Moderator | Speaker 1 | Speaker 2 | Speaker 3 | Venue |
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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 |
Readings in NIE Library 2: 22 Jun, 11.00 - 12.30
Session | Moderator | Speaker 1 | Speaker 2 | Speaker 3 | Venue |
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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 |
Readings in NIE Library 3: 22 Jun, 15.00 - 16.30
Session | Moderator | Speaker 1 | Speaker 2 | Speaker 3 | Venue |
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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 |
Readings in NIE Library 4: 23 Jun, 11.00 - 12.30
Session | Moderator | Speaker 1 | Speaker 2 | Speaker 3 | Venue |
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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 |
Readings in NIE Library 5: 23 Jun, 15.00 - 16.30
Session | Moderator | Speaker 1 | Speaker 2 | Speaker 3 | Venue |
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Make sure that each writer has water and check to see if more water is available if needed.
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Introduce each writer with a short bio of a paragraph only. All introductions should be under a minute.
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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.)
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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