We would like to inform you about this exciting conference taking place on Monday 7 December 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.

 

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. www.darecollaborative.net/playingbeowulf

 

 

 


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