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
Overview
This is a series of seminars that are addressed to students and will focus on the ways narratives travel across borders of difference, be they differences of form, medium or disciplinary knowledge and methodology. This year’s seminars aim, specifically, to explore narrative forms that go beyond written and/or spoken verbal signs. We will discover the narrative possibilities of different medial environments (i.e. sound, still images, new media etc.) and see how such non-verbal narrative forms guide and shift our narrative experience when interacting with verbal ones. Each seminar focuses on a different narrative form, which participants will be invited to explore both through theoretical discussion and hands-on experiment.
Seminars
The seminars scheduled for the following months (December 2018-May 2019) are:
“Tracing Stories: Stories Hidden in Objects”
Pep Beltran & Petrina Vassou (the Museum of Wandering Cultures)
December 2018
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“Drama in Translation: From Page to Stage”
Vasiliki Misiou (translator) & Aggeliki Darlasi (playwright)
January 2019
What happens when translating a play to be staged? Is the translation of a play a new, “autonomous” text that can stand on its own or just a copy of the original? Do translators retell/rewrite the story? To what extent does the relationship and cooperation between a playwright and his/her translator influence the final outcome? Is translation a form of (re)narration?
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“Can music tell a story?”
Michalis Lapidakis (Professor of Composition, School of Music Studies)
(in collaboration with the Laboratory of Contemporary Music, Aristotle University)
February 2019
This seminar will examine how possible it is for music to tell a story using specific musical examples,
especially from Samuel Beckett’s play Words and Music.
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“Narrative Bodies and Poetic Language”
Sophia Emmanouilidou & Katerina Kyvetou
March 2019
What is a narrative body? How can poetry be interpreted though our body movements and facial expressions? This seminar aspires to introduce participants to the unlimited possibilities of non-verbal narration by means of the performing arts. The instructors will combine written language with various drama techniques in a seminar that will explore the proposition
that a critical analysis of poetry can be a performing practice.
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“Under Siege”
The Multimodal Research and Reading Group, June 2019
Under Siege is a hybrid role-playing game which brings together elements of code-based interactive narratives and physical adventure games through the use of digital and material resources. The story revolves around an unprecedented and challenging situation that puts our School of English as a physical location at the center of attention. Players participating in the game are asked to work collaboratively in teams so as to solve a series of puzzles and riddles revolving mostly around pop culture, and American and English literature.
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Narrative Crossings 2018-2019
