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School Events

School Events

Date: 28/3/2014 
Title: Creative Writing Workshop - "Transparent Windows" event

A creative writing workshop with the title 'The Importance of Character Building: Create your own Superhero' will be offered on Friday March 28th, 2014, by Katherine Marazi (PhD Candidate).

This is going to take place in School of English Library (New Philosophy Building; Room 308; 3rd floor) between 18:00-20:00.

A certificate of attendance will be provided.

The places available for the workshop are limited. So if you're interested in attending, please forward your emails to:
kkostakis@enl.auth.gr and ekarampela@enl.auth.gr

This event is organized in collaboration with the School of English Book Club 'Transparent Windows.' For more information about our group please click on the following link: http://www.enl.auth.gr/trans_windows_en.html


 
ÅVENT ABSTRACT
This workshop stresses the importance of character building in fiction as well as in creative writing but takes its cue from massive multiplayer online video games in to exemplify how the process of character creation for a video game can prove as a source of inspiration for creative writing.. Moreover, it seeks to introduce students to superheroes and emphasize how they can be used in order to create characters in general. Based on the activities included, the workshop will demonstrate the importance of collaborative work which pertains to what is actually happening in the relative comic book, film, animation, gaming industry. Finally, it aims to motivate students to actually play the DC Online Universe game or any such game for that matter and consider what it has to offer differently and more creatively. Finally, it will leave students to ponder how their creation could be extended via trans-media storytelling logic.

BIO
Katherine Marazi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Translation and Intercultural Studies, School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She acquired her BA (2006) in English Language and Literature and her MA (2009) in American Literature and Culture from the same institution. She has attended and spoken at conferences abroad promoting her research which focuses on Adaptation theory, Brand Identity theory, Media Franchise Culture and Cultural Studies. She writes film and television reviews for a blog titled “The Issue” and has been accepted as a reviewer by the Hellenic Association for American Studies and the journal Synthesis (University of Athens). Finally, in 2013 she received a Scholarship for Academic Excellence by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her contact email is: amarazi@enl.auth.gr

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