Call for Participation

The Department of American Literature, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in collaboration with the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS) and the kind contribution of the Fulbright Foundation in Greece is announcing the organization of the 5th Summer School to take place in Thessaloniki, at Aristotle University (School of English premises; Faculty of Philosophy; 4th floor, Room 417) between

 

Friday June 28 to Thursday July 4, 2019

 

The 2019 Summer School explores perceptions of physical and psychological wellbeing through an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to questions of health, fitness and activism, sickness, trauma, and healing. The Summer School examines the relationship between art, literature, and healing practices with socio-cultural attitudes toward illness and the body in pain.

 

We welcome applications from:

 

  • undergraduate and postgraduate students
  • researchers from all fields of studies
  • educators from primary, secondary and college education
  • IB students
  • the interested public

 

The language of the Summer School is English. The material to be used emerges from the field of American Studies without excluding its conversation with other disciplines and socio-cultural realities.