Storytelling in the Twenty-First-Century USA

November 13, 2025
15:00
Arrival and Check-In

Leucorea
16:30
Welcome and Introduction

Leucorea
17:00 Keynote
Teaching with Katniss: Critical and Ethical Literacy in The Hunger Games Trilogy
Maxi Albrecht (Universität Siegen)
Leucorea
18:30
Dinner Buffet

Leucorea
20:00 Workshop
Improv Night with schoko mit gurke [improvisionstheater e.V.]

Leucorea
November 14, 2025
08:00
Breakfast

09:00 Workshop
WS I: Reading Nature and Youth in Contemporary Picturebooks
Amanda Halter (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Leucorea
09:00 Workshop
WS II: ’We tell ourselves stories in order to live’: Teaching the Vitality of Poetic Diction
Lucy Cheseldine (University of York)
Leucorea
10:30
Coffee Break

11:00 Workshop
WS I + WS II continued

Leucorea
14:00 Lecture
Teaching Comics/Graphic Narratives
Birte Wege (JFKI/Freie Universität Berlin)
Leucorea
15:00 Lecture
Drama and Democracy in the Digital Age
Johanna Hartmann (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Leucorea
16:00
Coffee Break

16:30 Discussion Groups
Conversation Groups with Speakers

Leucorea
19:00
Roundtable with Speakers and Thanksgiving Dinner at Best Western Stadtpalais Wittenberg

November 15, 2025
08:00
Breakfast

09:00 Lecture
Native American Storytellings
Erik Redling (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Leucorea
10:30
Coffee Break

11:00 Discussion Groups
Exchange Forum for Teachers
Julia Nitz and Jiann-Chyng Tu (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Leucorea
12:30
Feedback and Farewell

Leucorea
14:00
Tour of Lutherstadt Wittenberg