2023

Delioglanis, Vasileios N. “Locative Treasure Hunts and Urban Walks as Educational Tools for Active Citizenship.”Active Citizenship in the Digital Age, 1 December 2023, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Delioglanis, Vasileios N. “(E)motion and Gaming Practices: Constructing Emotional Narrative Spaces through Mobile Games.” (E)motion in Changing Worlds, 3 November 2023, School of English and HASE, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Delioglanis, Vasileios N. “Locative Treasure Hunts and Urban Walks as Storytelling, Gaming, and Educational Tools: The Cases of Locatify and ActionBound.” Electronic Literature Organization Conference 2023: “Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change,” Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), 14 July 2023, Center for Portuguese Literature (CLP) at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Kleidona, Evgenia et al., panelists. “Roundtable with Educators.” Active Citizenship in the Digital Age International Symposium, 1 December 2023, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Kleidona, Evgenia. “Queering Interactivity: (Self)representation in Interactive Fiction as a Medium for Social Change.” Electronic Literature Organization – 2023 International Conference and Media Arts Show – Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change, 12-15 July, 2023, Coimbra, Portugal.

Kleidona, Evgenia. “Oscillating between the Digital and the Physical in Porpentine’s With Those We Love Alive (2014).” Research Topics on Materialities of Literature 3 – State of the Art, 23 June 2023, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Mantzaris, Thomas. “Analogue Mobilities: Don DeLillo’s The Silence.” (E)motion in Changing Worlds, 3 November 2023, School of English and HASE, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Mantzaris, Thomas. “The Strategy of Multimodality in Fiction and its Impact on Global Education: Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive and the Global Migration Crisis.” Unity Day 2023: Unity in Global Education, 30 March 2023, Stockton University, New Jersey, U.S.A.

2022

Delioglanis, Vasileios N. and Mitskidou, Paschalia. “Preserving American Cultural Memory: The Case of the Wayback Machine Web Archive.” 34th EAAS Conference: Wastelands, 6 April 2022, UNED, Madrid, Spain.  

Mitskidou, Paschalia. “Virtual Reality, Nostalgia and Digital Immortality: The Case of Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”.” ExRe(y) 2022 – ExπRE: Going Off in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture, 2 December 2022, Maria-Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland.

Delioglanis, Vasileios N. “‘Survival or Extinction’:  End-of-the-World Rhetoric and the Collapse of the Western World in Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s Westworld.” ExRe(y) 2022 – ExπRE: Going Off in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture, 2 December 2022, Maria-Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland.

Tsikopoulou, Maria Virginia. “Urban (Re)mappings: Literary and Artistic Trends in 21st Century New York City.” 6a convocatoria PhD Complutense, 6 October 2022, Escuela de Doctorado de la UCM (EDUCM), Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Mantzaris, Thomas. “A Haunting, Mobile Reality: Kate Pullinger’s Breathe (2018) and the Prospects of Digital Storytelling.” 4th DCAC: Interdisciplinary Creativity in Arts and Technology, 14 May 2022, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.

Mantzaris, Thomas. “A Wasteland of Lives: Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive.” 34th EAAS Conference: Wastelands, 7 April 2022, UNED, Madrid, Spain.

Feleki, Despoina. “Bodies, Brains and Burnout Systems.” 34th ΕΑΑS Conference: Wastelands, 7 April 2022, UNED, Madrid, Spain.

Feleki, Despoina. “Testimonies of Wellness in a COVID-19 Period: Turning Grief into Creation.” 3rd HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium – Sharing Critical Testimonies of Wellness in Times of Crisis, 26 February 2022, Thessaloniki.

2021

Tsikopoulou, Maria Virginia. “April May(be), or @AprilMaybeNot? Negotiating Identity and (Digital) Space(s) in Hank Green’s novel An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (2018).” Digital Americas, the 48th Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 22 October 2021, Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Feleki, Despoina. “Stranger Things Multimedia Franchise to Support STEM Teaching.” Popularizing STEM: Science and Technology in 21st-Century US Popular Culture. 16 November 2021, Instituto Franklin UAH, Madrid, Spain.

Delioglanis, Vasileios N. “Rethinking Space and Narrative Practices in Locative Texts: The Case of The Silent History.” 33rd EAAS Conference – 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal, 1 May 2021, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Delioglanis, Vasileios N. “Representations of ‘Smart’ Cities in William Gibson’s The Peripheral (2014) and Agency (2020)” International Conference Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data, 28 June 2021, University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Feleki, Despoina. “The Political Impact of New Media on American Literature and Culture.” 33rd EAAS Conference: 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal, 1May 2021, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Kleidona, Evgenia. ‘“City-center, Mid-Traffic, I Wake to Your Public Kiss:” The Interrelation of Gender and Space in Olga Broumas’s Feminist Re-tellings of ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.” 33rd EAAS Conference – 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal, 1 May 2021, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Mantzaris, Thomas.  “Visual Maps in Literature: Multimodality and Narrative Experimentation in Where You Are (2013) by 16 Writers/Artists/Thinkers.” 33rd EAAS Conference: 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal, 1 May 2021, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Mitskidou, Paschalia. “Utopian Visions in Fictional Representations of American Theme Parks and the Role of the Virtual.” 33rd EAAS Conference: 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal, 1 May 2021, University of Warsaw, Poland.

2020

Mitskidou, Paschalia. “Sanitizing American History: The Absence of Historical Conflicts in Fictional Representations of American Theme Parks.” 2nd HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium, 19 Sept. 2020, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Tsikopoulou, Maria Virginia, and Dimitra Nikolaidou. “Publishing your research: Notices to Young Scholars.” 2nd HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium, 19 Sept. 2020, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

2019

Delioglanis, Vassilis. “Female Presences in the Field of Locative Media: The Case of Teri Rueb.” Feminism and Technoscience, 6 Apr. 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

Feleki, Despoina. “Intertwining Feminist Narratives: Political Writing and Speech in Networked Spaces.”Feminism and Technoscience, 6 Apr. 2019,  Amphitheater of Byzantine Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Pournara, Lizzy. “Patchwork Palimpsest: Performing Gender in Electronic Hypertext.” Feminism and Technoscience, 6 April 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

2018

Delioglanis, Vassilis. Challenging Reading Practices through Location-Based Games: The Case of Ingress.” Reading Practices in the Digital Age, 26 Nov. 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Delioglanis, Vassilis. “Locative Space as Exhaustion: Revisiting War through William Gibson’s Remediation of Paula Levine’s San Francisco ↔ Baghdad.”  ExRe(y) 2018. Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture, 10 May 2018, Lublin, Poland. 

Delioglanis, Vassilis. “Locative Media and Site-Specific Narratives: Examining Teri Rueb’s Times Beach and Fens.” 1st HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium, 8 Dec. 2018, Athens, Greece. 

Feleki, Despoina. “Social Networking Sites as Collaborative Platforms and Spaces for Political Speech/Action.” 1st HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium, 8 Dec. 2018, Deree College, Athens, Greece.

Feleki, Despoina. “On-/off-line in the High School Classroom: Fostering a Global Identity and Social Awareness through Interactive Digital Platforms.” RoundtableTitle: “Place, Protest, Possibility, and Pedagogy: A Roundtable on Teaching.” 32nd EAAS Conference, 7 Apr. 2018, King’s College London, UK. 

Kleidona, Evgenia. “Interacting with Space(s): The Self-Subversive and Self-Reflective Implications of Space in Nick Montfort’s Ad Verbum and Adam Cadre’s Photopia.” 32nd EAAS Conference, 6 Apr. 2018, London, U.K.

Mantzaris, Thomas, and Katerina Marazi. “A Series of What? Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar.” 1st HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium, 8 Dec.2018, Deree: The American College of Greece, Athens.

Mantzaris, Thomas.  “Landscapes as Sites of Protest.” 32nd EAAS Conference, 6 Apr. 2018, King’s College London, UK. 

Pournara, Lizzy. “Susan Howe’s Experimental Poetics.” 32nd EAAS Conference, 5 April 2018, London, U.K.

Pournara, Lizzy. “Augmented Reality as a New Mode of Literary Expression.” ExRe(y) 2018. Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture, 10 May 2018, Lublin, Poland.

Tsikopoulou, Maria Virginia. “Once Upon a Global City: Tales of Homogenization and Differentiation.” 1st HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium, 7 Dec. 2018, Athens, Greece.

2017

Delioglanis, Vassilis. “Constructing Locative Space through Remediations of Locative Media Projects in William Gibson’s Spook Country.” Politics of Space and the Humanities, 15 Dec. 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Feleki, Despoina. “Space, Narrative, and Digital Media in Teju Cole’s Twenty-First Century Narrative Fiction.” The Politics of Space and the Humanities, 15 Dec. 2017, Nikolaos Germanos Congress Center, Helexpo, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

Kleidona, Evgenia. “Interacting with Space(s): The Self-Subversive and Self-Reflective Implications of Space in Adam Cadre’s Photopia.” The Politics of Space and the Humanities, 2017, 15 Dec. 2017, Thessaloniki. Greece.

Mantzaris, Thomas. “Reconfiguring the space of the print book: Multimodal Narratives, Book Design and Zachary Thomas Dodson’s Bats of the Republic: an Illuminated Novel.” The Politics of Space and the Humanities, 15 Dec. 2017, Nikolaos Germanos Congress Center, Helexpo, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Marazi, Katerina. “Adaptation, Intertextuality and Intentionality: Establishing the Marvel Superhero Brand Context of Total Entertainment.” 1st International Interdisciplinary Conference Translation Studies, Semiotics, Adaptation Studies, 12 Nov. 2017, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Marazi, Katerina. “Superhero v. Superhero: Contemplating the BRAND of Justice.” Branded: The Semiotics of Branding in Culture and Context, 3rd International Conference & Exhibition on Semiotics and Visual Communication, 4 Nov. 2017, Lemesos, Cyprus.

Marazi, Katerina. “Meaning-making Revisited: the Realm of White Space and Power Play.” Politics of Space and the Humanities, 15 Dec. 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Marazi, Katerina.  “A Brand of Adaptation: Franchises, White Space and Reevaluating Dilemmas.” Film Adaptation: Theory, Practices, Reception, 26 May 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Mitskidou, Paschalia. “Storyscapes: Virtual Reality Documentary Film and Its Potential for Immersive Storytelling.” The Politics of Space and the Humanities, 16 Dec. 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Pournara, Lizzy. “Typographic Portrayals of Space in Alison Clifford’s The Sweet Old Etcetera.” The Politics of Space and the Humanities, 16 December 2017, Greece. 

Pournara, Lizzy. “Creative Writing and Reading Practices in New Media: The Case of Abra.” 3rd International Conference in Creative Writing, 7 October 2017, Corfu, Greece. 

Tsikopoulou, Maria Virginia. “Socio-spatiality and Psychological Crisis in David Mamet’s Edmond and Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs.” The Politics of Space and the Humanities, 16 Dec. 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

2016

Feleki, Despoina. “Wikia Fandom Craze: Connecting, Participating, Creating, and Re-negotiating Boundaries.” 31st EAAS Conference, 23 Apr. 2016, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania. 

Mantzaris, Thomas. “Hybrid Textualities – Heteroglossic Narratives.” 31st EAAS Conference, 23 Apr. 2016, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania.

2014

Delioglanis, Vassilis. “Literary (Re-)Configurations of Human and Textual Bodies.” The War on the Human: Human as Right, Human as Limit and the Task of the Humanities, 28 Nov. 2014, Athens, Greece. 

Mantzaris, Thomas. “Marking the Visual: Human Traces on the Print Book.” The War on the Human: Human as Right, Human as Limit and the Task of the Humanities, 28 Nov. 2014, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Mantzaris, Thomas. “Visuality in the Novel.” 4th Annual Research Conference, School of Arts and Humanities, 20 Jun. 2014, Nottingham Trent University, UK. 

Mitskidou, Paschalia. “Glimpses of the Posthuman Condition in Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘The Circular Ruins.’” The War on the Human: Human as Right, Human as Limit and the Task of the Humanities, 29 Nov. 2014, Athens, Greece.

Pournara, Lizzy. “Redefining Humanities through a Redefinition of Reading Habits.” The War on the Human Human as Right, Human as Limit and the Task of the Humanities, 28 November 2014, Athens, Greece. 

2013

Feleki, Despoina. “Stephen King’s Computer Experience ‘Discordia’: In Between Narratology, Ludology and Cinematography” & “Hypertextual Literary Writing: Stephen King’s Case.”Comparative Literature as a Critical Approach, 19 & 20 July 2013, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France.

Feleki, Despoina. «Ηλεκτρονική Χωρικότητα και Νέες Δυνατότητες Ποπ Γραφής» [Digital Space and New Potentialities for Popular Writing]. HELAAS Symposium (in Greek) «Χωρο/χορογραφώντας την Αμερική» [Mapping America], 7 Dec. 2013, Amphitheater of Byzantine Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Marazi, Katerina. “Brand Identity: A Metaphorical Concept for the Purposes of Adaptation.” Intermediality in the Digital Age, 24 Oct. 2013, Transylvania, Cluj- Napoca, Romania. Μarazi, Katerina. «Η Μεταφορά των Brand στον Χωροχρόνο της Κουλτούρας Franchise». HELAAS Symposium (in Greek) «Χω/ορο-γραφώντας την Αμερική» [Mapping America], 7 Dec. 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece.