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Editorial note
In this section of our issue we introduce the block of materials that stemmed out from a recent ‘narratological’ conference held in the city of Ghent (Belgium). The scholarly forum was entitled: ‘Event, Eventfulness and Tellability’ and constituted of an ‘International Narratology Workshop’ that took place on 16-17 February 2007 at the friendly headquarters of the Ghent University. The conference was co-organized by the ‘Interdisciplinary Centre for Narratology’ at the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the German Department at the University of Ghent. It was generously sponsored by the ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’ and by the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Ghent University.
The program of the conference consisted of ten papers, and six of them are presented in the current issue of AJCN. Friday session (02/16/07), chaired by John Pier (Paris/Tours) opened with the presentation of Wolf Schmid (Hamburg) entitled ‘Eventfulness as a narratological category’. Then the floor was given to David Herman (Columbus, Ohio) with a presentation ‘Nonfactivity, Tellability, and Narrativity’. This paper was followed by Meir Sternberg (Tel Aviv) with a presentation aimed to answer a question on ‘How to Decompose Narrative?’. The talk of Jan Christoph Meister (Hamburg) was devoted to the topic ‘Why events matter - and how they create it? The event matrix’.
The next day of the conference (Saturday 02/17/07) was chaired by Jorg Schonert and Hans-Harald Muller (Hamburg). The day was opened with the paper of Gunther Martens (Ghent) entitled ‘Narrative Notability and Discourse Events between Rhetoric and Narratology’. Thereafter Peter Huhn (Hamburg) delivered a paper ‘Eventfulness in poetry and prose fiction’. Benjamin Biebuyck (Ghent) gave a presentation on the topic of ‘Figurativeness figuring as condenser between action and event’. The two presenters - Luc Herman (Antwerp) and Bart Vervaeck (Brussels) presented a paper on ‘The Tellability of Non-Events’. The whole event was concluded with a lecture of Eyal Segal (Tel Aviv) on ‘Narrativity and the Closure of Event Sequences’.
Wolf Schmid
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