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Our Story

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

Our Story

“Existence is elsewhere”: A workshop on surreal(ist) narrative crossings

Dr. Despina Alexandra Constantinides
Wednesday 1 March 2023
18:00-20:30

Sprung in Paris during the interwar period, the movement of surrealism lay at the heart of multiple crossings. The direct descendant of the Dada movement, but with a different political agenda, informed…

The myth of Writing/ Writing the myth: A Creative Writing Workshop

Ms Alexandra Kostoulas
Thursday 12 January 2023
16:00-18:00

Stories, just like all writing, have a structure that organizes and categorizes the work. In journalism, this happens in the form of the inverted pyramid structure. In expository writing, the thesis statement is the organizing principle of the work…

Βιβλιοπαρουσίαση

Παρασκευή 09/12/2022
Ώρα: 19:00
Αίθουσα 417

Το Εργαστήριο Αφηγηματικής Έρευνας του Αγγλικού Τμήματος ΑΠΘ διοργανώνει την παρουσίαση του βιβλίου της Μαριάνθης Τεντζεράκη Ο Σακάτης (εκδόσεις Άλφα-Ωμέγα, 2022)…

Campus Narratives

This project idea was fueled by a need and a loss. The loss was that of campus community life, as ruptured in the coronavirus years and transferred on bio-bubbles and virtual screen-scapes. The same loss was amplified, on return to

Soundscapes and Oral History

Dr. Andromachi Vrakatseli
Tuesday 29 November 2022
17:00-19:30

Participants of this workshop will investigate how soundscapes shape oral history and what are the auditory qualities of the latter…

Waiting for Godot

(at the Old Building of Philosophy) 5 November 2022 Samuel Beckett’s play, set under a tree in a country road, was adapted for a short staging in the Old Building of Philosophy yard. Two students, waiting for their face/name-less Godot,

on synergies: sound, ‘motion’ in hybrid spaces

Dr. Stylianos Dimou
Tuesday 20 December 2022
18:00-20:30

The symbiosis between humans and computer-based technologies has a profound impact on artistry. [“Art -Tech”/ nological] frameworks enable technology to be part of the creative process and the performance practice, while dynamically…

Campus Narratives: An Audio Performance Tour for ENL first-year students

20/10/2022

We are sure you are by now acquainted with the department’s main premises, but there are still stories, testimonies, images and sounds to share of the places you’ll frequent in the four years to come. Bring ear/headphones and a fully charged phone along (ideally with QR code reader installed) and join us in a creative audio walking tour of campus and department spaces; this is both a get-to-know tour but also one that seeks to unearth some of the private, yet collective, stories these public spaces hide.

Narrative Crossings 2022-2023

A series of workshops on narrative across different fields of knowledge
October 2022 – May 2023

Text and Textile: Knitting and Narrative

Joyce Goggin
October 2022
In this talk I will discuss the relationship between text and textile, from Penelope’s shroud, to James Joyce’s exhortation to “weave, weaver of the wind”, by looking at knitting in literary contexts and texts…