CDN Digital Narrative PhD Summer School

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Workshop 10.06.2025 - 09.30–14.06.2025 - 15.00 Bergen, Norway Registration deadline 30.01.2025 - 23.59 Apply here Add to calendar The Center for Digital Narrative invites PhD students who are writing a dissertation on digital narratives to participate in a five-day PhD summer school at the University of Bergen from 10-14 June 2025. Participants will: learn methods for researching digital narratives both from a scholarly and an artistic perspective interact with world-leading scholars in digital narrative receive feedback on work in progress from experts and fellow PhD students build a network of colleagues in the field explore beautiful Bergen in June We welcome applications from PhD students in disciplines such as digital culture, literary studies, game studies, media studies, digital art or design. Applicants can be working on a research-based PhD or a PhD using creative practice or artistic research. Content of the summer school The summer school has three main components. Keynotes by Maria Mäkelä (Finland), Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (Sri Lanka), Alexandra Saemmer (France), and Fox Harrell (USA). Feedback on writing: Students will share a draft of a chapter or article they are working on. Participants will be assigned to feedback groups that will work together each morning. Facilitators will include Jason Nelson, Kristine Jørgensen, Jill Walker Rettberg, Caitlin Fisher and other experts in the field. Each participant will be asked to read all the drafts for their groups (6-10 people in each group) and to be lead respondents on two drafts. Each student will get 30-50 minutes discussion time for their draft. Workshops: After lunch participants will choose one of two or more methods workshop options led by experts in the field of digital narrative. Each day there will be a choice between a creative and a critical methods course. Workshop convenors include Gabriele de Seta, Lin Prøitz, Scott Rettberg, Jason Nelson, Alinta Krauth, Caitlin Fisher and others. Each workshop will be about a specific method that is relevant for the study and creation of digital narratives, e.g. within creative practice, digital humanities, narrative analysis or ethnography.

Initiator(s):
Center for Digital Narrative , University of Bergen

Deadline: 30.01.2025

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Event: CDN Digital Narrative PhD Summer School

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