An online creative workshop with the title 'The Sense of an Ending' will take place on Friday December 6th, 2024, with the participation of John O' Hara (Associate Professor; Stockton U, U.S.). The online workshop will be held between 18:30-20:15 via the ZOOM platform.
The workshop is organized in the context of the AUTh-Stockton U Bilateral Agreement Collaboration.
Language of the workshop: English.
**A certificate of attendance will be provided**
In order to ensure your online participation in the event, please fill in the form available here.
The ZOOM LINK to be used for the event will be sent to everyone registered. A certain number of ZOOM seats are available.
This event is organized by the Creative Seminar Series 'Transparent Windows' (School of English, AUTh).
Event Coordinator: Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou (trapatz@enl.auth.gr)
For any further inquiries, do send your emails to: trapatz@enl.auth.gr (Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou) and svergopo@enl.auth.gr (Dr. Stave Vergopoulou).
ΕVENT ABSTRACT
The Italian writer Italo Calvino observed that a person’s life consisted of a collection of events, the last of which could change utterly the meaning of the whole. In narrative, as in life, endings are essential to giving shape and meaning to all that came before. Let’s face it: If Juliet had awakened and stopped Romeo from poisoning himself, Shakespeare’s play would communicate quite differently. How – and what – do we invest in endings? Not only with drama or fiction, but with narratives of any kind, what do endings do? When, or what, do they satisfy or frustrate? What are some of your favorite and least favorite endings? Join Dr. John O’Hara for a conversation about endings – happy ends, bitter ends, dead ends, living ends, or loose ends, you name it, whether it wraps up, winds down, or leaves you hanging, we will consider the nature of how we encounter and process . . . THE END.
BIO INFORMATION
Dr. John O’Hara holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Miami, Florida, and currently serves as the Chair of the Graduate Program in American Studies at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. He joined the faculty at Stockton in 2013 after teaching for ten years at the University of Miami, FL, and Temple University. He earned his Ph.D. in English in 2003 from the University of Miami with a focus on twentieth-century American literature, war literature and arts, and critical and interpretive theory. His primary academic interests include the Vietnam War, American countercultures, postmodernism, gender studies, and writing/teaching pedagogies.
