R-Net @ Impact 2015

Sebastian Faulks on the art of storytelling

Overview:

"The prose is affectless, blanked out, not really capable of generating or bearing any thematic weight, [which] is really about how people don't need to engage with the facts of life any more. Life can be lived at a remove." Not a harsh verdict on a research debrief, but novelist Sebastian Faulks's view on the modern French novel.

For the sixth year in a row, young researchers are being offered the opportunity to attend the climactic session of the MRS Annual Conference, which this time around is a keynote from the acclaimed author of Birdsong, Charlotte Grey and Devil May Care in which he explains the secrets of the narrative arc, how to interpret the expectations of your readers – and what messages really hit home when you're trying to communicate emotion.

The session would ordinarily only be open to paying conference delegates, but as an R-Net subscriber you are invited to join the audience for free and stay on for the announcement of the Conference Awards finalists and to network at the exclusive closing drinks reception.

This is an excellent chance for young and new researchers to attend an event you might not ordinarily have access to, and at no cost to you or your company.

Time: Registration at 4:10pm for a 4:40pm start. Conference closes at 5.30pm, after which there will be a closing drinks reception.