The Laboratory of Narrative Research (LNR) is a teaching and research unit that is part of the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It has been designed to bring together scholars and researchers from across the humanities, the social sciences and other scientific fields who have a special interest in the workings and the politics of narrative production.
Lab Director: Dr Effie Yiannopoulou
Forthcoming
(Auto)biographies and place: Workshop on walking site-specific narratives
Wednesday 24/4/2024, 14:00-17:00
Room H
Anna Tzakou
This workshop invites participants to reconnect with the university campus through shape, texture, movement, sound/ word, perspective, passage and the other – than – human element…
Τα σολωμικά χειρόγραφα και ο εκτεταμένος/εκτενής συγγραφικός νους
“Ιστορίες από τα αρχεία”
Πέμπτη, 25 Απριλίου 2024, στις 19.15
Κατερίνα Τικτοπούλου
Τα χειρόγραφα εργασίας ενός λογοτέχνη μπορούν να δώσουν ασφαλείς απαντήσεις στο διαχρονικό φιλολογικό αίτημα της “αυθεντικότητας” καθώς και στο νεότερο ζητούμενο να γίνει κατανοητή η πολύπλοκη δημιουργική διαδικασία σύνθεσης των έργων…
Current Projects
Unraveling the cocoon of memory: Women’s Narratives in a Fading World
This project sheds light on women’s history in Soufli, a town in northern Greece known for its silk production. Aristotle University’s Laboratory of Narrative Research in collaboration with students from the School of English will conduct interviews and research Soufli’s past…
Active Citizenship: The Role of New Media in Literary and Educational Practices
Postdoctoral research Despoina Feleki‘s postdoctoral research project, titled “Active Citizenship: The Role of New Media in Literary and Educational Practices,” investigates the repercussions of the wired social media interactions of contemporary Anglophone writers who employ literary voice in tandem with
Latest events
Εικαστική αναπαράσταση και συναισθηματική εμπειρία
Μαρία Ε. Βίγλη
Τρίτη 16/4/2024 – 18:30-20:30
Οι ερμηνευτικές εκδοχές της εικαστικής αναπαράστασης μπορούν να αποτελέσουν την αφόρμηση για την προσέγγιση των έργων τέχνης, με γνώμονα το προσωπικό πολιτιστικό κεφάλαιο…
Retracing the Footsteps of an Extraordinary Woman of Greek-American Letters: the Case of Iphigenia Copadis
“Stories from the Archives”
Thursday, 28 March 2024, 19.15
Theodora D. Patrona
What happens when a junior researcher receives a prestigious fellowship to look into unprocessed and uncatalogued material based on a hypothesis? Assisted by a curious and passionate curator, she may be lucky enough and discover hidden gems amid crumbling newspapers and mouldy volumes…
Μια φορά και έναν καιρό ήταν…τα (επιτραπέζια) παιχνίδια
Δρ. Αθανάσιος Καρασίμος
20/3/2024, 18:00-20:00
Σε αυτό το εργαστήριο θα παρουσιάσουμε τη διασύνδεση της ψηφιακής αφήγησης με νέες τεχνολογίες, όπως επαυξημένη και εικονική πραγματικότητα και σημασιολογικά δίκτυα και χάρτες…
Mary Shelley’s Greek Studies: An Unpublished Holograph Letter
“Stories from the Archives”
Thursday, 22 February 2024, 19.15
Maria Schoina and Eirini Papadopoulou
This presentation takes as its subject the holograph manuscript of an 1823 letter from Thomas Jefferson Hogg to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Bodleian MS Abinger c. 46, fol.122r-122v) previously known only through its partial publication in…
Storytelling in offline and online contexts: Affective stances and identities
Dr. Angeliki Alvanoudi
13/3/2024, 18:00-20:00
This workshop explores the structural and social aspects of storytelling in spoken and written discourse. In the first part of the workshop, we examine the interactional accomplishment of storytelling in face-to-face encounters and the embeddedness of storytelling within social actions…
Ανακαλύπτοντας χαμένα χειρόγραφα: ιστορίες από αναδιφήσεις σε βιβλιοθήκες
“Ιστορίες από τα αρχεία”
Πέμπτη, 11 Ιανουαρίου 2024, στις 19.15
Σοφία Κοτζάμπαση
Σκοπός της παρουσίασης είναι να δείξει πώς αναδιφὠντας σε βιβλιοθήκες μπορεί κανείς να βρει τυχαία χειρόγραφα ή τμήματα χειρογράφων που λάνθαναν, να ταυτίσει γραφείς που γράφουν τμήματα διαφορετικών χειρογράφων και να ανακαλύψει αυτόγραφα βυζαντινών συγγραφέων…
Δημιουργικές Ψηφιακές Αφηγήσεις στην Εκπαίδευση
LNR Seminars
Narrative Crossings 2023-24
Stories from the archives
Campus Narratives
LNR Gallery
Participants’ responses
I feel grateful for having experienced something real instead of one more ordinary Monday evening. I feel complete having experienced joy, embarrassment, emotion in a collective haven. I feel lucky to have met beautiful people and worked with them. I feel!
It was an amazing experience and a lovely community to exchange ideas in. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity. Looking forward to further seminars of the Laboratory.
I managed to “touch” and feel—at least for a while—the beauty of theater. An unprecedented experience for me!
A great experience that achieved balance between the theoretical part regarding the necessary information about podcast narratives and the actual experiencing of the medium. The input that was provided instigated fruitful dialogue and a very friendly and pleasant atmosphere. Definitely a thought-provoking and worthwhile seminar to introduce somebody to the world of podcast narratives. Thank you so much!!!
Tonight I, the most practical, organized and fixed-in-my-ways person that I know, have managed to escape my comfort zone. I’ve been offered the chance to attend to the needs of my body, not of my mind again. Thank you for this opportunity. You are both amazing, keep inspiring us. DO NOT HOLD BACK!
It was a brilliant seminar!! Dr Karalakos was so inspiring, motivational and he is the kind of teacher that we should all aspire to be! The way he morphed his presentation into an interactive activity was both very enjoyable and easier to follow! Hopefully, we’ll be meeting with him again soon! Thank you so much for all the important lessons!
A very informative seminar that touched upon a heavy subject in a unique and creative way. Dr. Eleftheriou’s perspective and advice on using our personal experiences, however insignificant they might appear, as a source of inspiration was highly appreciated. It was a very pleasant and intimate experience that I hope can be repeated!
When I registered to this workshop, I was skeptical as to how we could practically teach such serious issues as bioethical ones in a classroom. However, the facilitators provided as with a huge variety of examples, drawn from Marvel superhero comics, classic literature, Greek myths from antiquity and even from very recent films and works of fiction! The workshop was so enlightening and gave me so many ideas about how to make learning a transformative experience.
After having attended the seminar I found the experience quite enlightening and very informative. I was especially intrigued by the Graphic Novel incorporated in educational regimes to communicate bioethics and relative subject matters. I would be interested in attending more workshops or lectures of the same field of research as well as of Posthumanism in general. It might be a field of research that interests me in the future. Thank you for having me included.
“Η περίπτωση της Ιφιγένειας Κοπάδη” – Διαδικτυακή διάλεξη για μια εξαιρετική γυναίκα των ελληνοαμερικανικών γραμμάτων
Δημοσίευμα στο ΕΡΤNEWS, 26/03/2024
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Η ψηφιακή αφήγηση στην εκπαίδευση
Δημοσίευμα στην εφημερίδα “Μακεδονία“, 23/03/2022
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