[Air-l] Marie-Laure Ryan - Lecture (Maastricht)

[Niels Hendriks]

Marie-Laure Ryan - Lecture Maastricht - May 27 2005
Marie-Laure Ryan (Geneva, 1946) is an independent scholar based in Colorado.
She holds MAs in German and Linguistics ( University of Utah, 1972), a PhD
in French (University of Utah, 1974) and a post-graduate in Computer Science
(University of California). New Literary History classified her as a "critic
without school". Her research and writing projects are indeed quite diverse.
Her books and articles cover the areas of narrative theory, linguistics,
cyberculture and electronic textuality.

Unique opportunity?
Marie-Laure Ryan is an internationally renowned scholar. Her lecture in
Maastricht is a unique opportunity for students, scholars and experts, and
everyone interested in the field of narrativity and digital textuality. The
lecture (both the morning and the afternoon session) is free of fees. The
morning session is accessible to a broad public, while the afternoon meeting
will probably require a more specialised public.

Programme
10u00 Welcome and Coffee
10u30 Keynote Lecture and Discussion
How do the properties of the media influence the narrative itself and the
narrative experience?
Will new media create new narratives?
12u30 Lunch (sandwiches and coffee)
14u00 Symbol Rock
Demonstration and Debate
16u00 Drinks

Keynote Lecture
In her lecture Marie-Laure Ryan will focuss on the question whether the
narrative and the narrative experience are influenced by the properties of
the media. In the article "Multivariant Narratives" (2004) she sketches the
history of writing originating in the oral tradition. The advent of writing
(manuscripts) and the printing press had major consequences for textuality
and narrativity. The question today is whether there is "anything left for
digital media to develop in the territory of the narrative". Ryan turns to
the efficient use of space and time in contemporary computer games to open
up new possibilities for digital texts. Digital texts "must reconquer the
narrative temporality that fuels the reader´s desire".

The lecture will take place in the building of the Project & Servicecenter
C-md, Brusselsestraat 89, 6211 PD Maastricht on May 27.

There are no attendance fees to be paid.

Please register to take part in the lecture by sending an email to
bgeerts at mediawatchvlaanderen.be.
Please include your name, school or institution, and whether you are a
student, teacher, scholar, ...

Organisation
The Marie-Laure Ryan lecture is an organisation of MediaWatch
(http://mediawatchvlaanderen.be/) . Mediawatch is the Flemish branch of the
Project & Servicecenter C-md (www.c-md.be), an international collaboration
project situated in Maastricht. Mediawatch is closely related to
Communication and MultimediaDesign a higher education programme offered by
the Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg (Belgium).