Immersive Storytelling. The Crossing Case Study

Abstract

Invited Speaker. Tactics and Praxis. Trinity College, University of Cambridge. This series of seminar workshops aims to inspire creative approaches to academic work for its participants, including informing tactics for reading, writing, creative practice and practice-based research. Open to all, the aim is to conceptualise and foster spaces within the constraints of institutional demands for creativity, play, slowness and pleasure. Each of the seminars will bring together, in dialogue, a short presentation from an invited speaker on their own research and practice in areas relating to modern languages and culture, with a specified reading raising theoretical questions of tactics and praxis in academic work.Presentation of Immersive Storytelling case studyEach of the seminars will bring together, in dialogue, a short presentation from an invited speaker on their own research and practice in areas relating to modern languages and culture, with a pre-circulated reading raising theoretical questions of tactics and praxis in academic work. An interdisciplinary seminar and workshop series on academic ‘outputs’ and creativity in the era of the ‘achievement society’ The seminar will consider creative approaches to academic ‘outputs’ both theoretically and pragmatically, casting a critical eye over the embedding of academic work in what Byung-Chul Han has termed, ‘the achievement society’, in which we have gone from the disciplinary negativity of ‘should’ to the equally imperative positivity of ‘can’: ‘Prohibitions, commandments, and the law are replaced by projects, initiatives, and motivation” (Han,The Burnout Society, 2015: 9). Inspired by recent work in the USA in the ‘public emotion project’ (see Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling, 2012), the seminar will explore intersections between personal and collective experience and intellectual praxis. It will examine daily and institutional ‘habits’, and how they might be reinvigorated through a creative understanding of ‘craft’, examining the related and cross-disciplinary questions of stitching, (inter)weaving and montage. The series, which will be open to all, aims to inspire creative approaches to academic work for its participants, including informing tactics for reading, writing, creative practice and practice-based research