[DiGRA UK] Ludic Literature, Literary Games conference - 7th December 2015

[Alison Gazzard]

We would like to inform you about this exciting conference taking place on Monday 7 December 2015 at the British Library.

Tickets are available here: http://www.bl.uk/events/ludic-literature-and-literary-games

The transformation of popular literature and children's literature into giant franchises of book, film and game is a commonplace event in contemporary culture. It is less common to find similar transformations of canonical literary texts. This day will show how literary treasures such as unique manuscripts in the British Library archive might be re-imagined through drama, film and videogame by students and young people. It will feature game-play, film and drama demonstrations, and talks by academics, educators and curators with different takes on how such transformations happen and what they mean.

Suitable for researchers and educators in literary studies, game studies, media studies, film studies, mediaeval studies; curators and archivists in the GLAM sector.

Speakers include:

PROFESSOR IAN BOGOST
Georgia Institute of Technology

PROFESSOR ANDREW PRESCOTT
Theme Fellow, AHRC Digital Transformations

And members of the Playing Beowulf project team: Prof Andrew Burn, Prof Richard North, Dr Alison Gazzard, Dr Jane Coles, Theo Bryer, Morlette Lindsay, Dr Vicky Symons, Stella Wisdom, Abi Barber, Emily Klimova, Prof Michael Anderson, Dr David Cameron


This day marks the end of Playing Beowulf: Gaming the Library, a project conducted by UCL Education and English, in partnership with the British Library and University of Sydney, supported by the AHRC's Digital Transformations programme.
http://darecollaborative.net/category/projects/playing-beowulf/





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