The Writing Cure: Managing PhD Stress through Creative Writing (Part II)

Dear international PhD students,

We want to kindly invite you to our next upcoming workshop, "The Writing Cure: Managing PhD Stress through Creative Writing" with Marija Spirkovska. This two-part workshop revolves around creative writing as a means to enhance writing skills and help cope with the mental demand of academic writing. Interested? Then this workshop may come in handy!

___WORKSHOP "THE WRITING CURE: MANAGING PHD STRESS THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING"___

Time: 05.02. & 12.02., BOTH AT 14:00-18:00 MEZ TIME.
Format: Online, via WebEx

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

This half-day workshop will be aimed at discovering the values and uses of creative writing for confronting the often heavy mental and emotional toll that the busy academic lifestyle takes on researchers, especially experienced in times of crisis and historic global anxiety, like ours are, and when artistic outlets are reached for as a route to rescue. The workshop will thus aim to help academics practise writing in an entirely different style. It will also help them tap into their creative potential and spur them to develop a style of expression that could add vigour to their overall writing.

TRAINER PROFILE:

Marija Spirkovska is a PhD researcher of 20th and 21st-century literatures in English, urban (literary) studies, and psychology. At higher education level she’s taught Modernist literature and given workshops on spatiality in literary study. She’s also an experienced and award-winning literary translator and has worked as a teacher of English to children and adults. Her semi-academic and creative writing has appeared in the Random Walks blog, where she is also one of the founders and editors.

NO FEE NECESSARY

To register: please write promotionsstudium-international@uni-giessen.de 

We will confirm your registration once you gave written us and send you further information and the WebEx link shortly before the workshop commences. 

With kind regards

Your PhD Support Team