Arthur M. Jacobs
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Deborah Jenson
(Duke University)
Helmut Leder
(University of Vienna)
Gabrielle Starr
(New York University)
Mark Turner
(Case Western Reserve University)
Semir Zeki
(University College London)
Roundtable Respondents
Alexander Bergs (University of Osnabrück), Lorella Bosco (University of Bari), Nicola Laneri (University of Catania), Jana Lüdtke (Freie Universität Berlin), Pierre-Louis Patoine (University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), Theresa Sylvester (Freie Universität Berlin), Hannah C. Wojciehowski (University of Texas at Austin)Andrea Binelli (University of Trento), Silvia Bonacchi (University of Warsaw), Alessandro Fambrini (University of Pisa), Massimo Salgaro (University of Verona).
Team
Renata Gambino, Giovanni Gallo, Daniela Giordano, Grazia Pulvirenti, Giuseppe Spoto, Mario Zappia, Federica Abramo, Salvatore Arcidiacono, Mariaelisa Dimino Elena Maita.
Contacts
Federica Abramo (federica.ab@gmail.com)
Renata Gambino (renatagambino@gmail.com)
Programme
26 May 2016
Aula Magna Rettorato, Piazza Università, Catania
15.00 – 15.15 Opening and welcome
Rector Magnificus Giacomo Pignataro
Head of the Department DISUM Giancarlo Magnano San Lio
15.15 – 15.30 Grazia Pulvirenti and Renata Gambino
The NewHums Research Centre
Chair: Mario Zappia
15.30 – 16.30 Semir Zeki, Mathematical Imagination and the Uses of Beauty
16.30 – 17.00 Discussion
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee Break
17.30 – 18.30 Mark Turner, Brains, Selves, Choices, and Stories: What the new Neuroscience propounds about Blending, Simulating, and Imagining
18.30 – 19.00 Discussion
27 May 2016
Coro di Notte
Monastero dei Benedettini, Piazza Dante 32 Catania
Chair: Giovanni Gallo
09.00 – 10.00 Deborah Jenson, Representations in the Brain
10.00 – 10.30 Discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30 Arthur Jacobs, Imagination and Immersion in reading: a neurocognitive poetics perspective
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion
13.00 – 15.00 Lunch
Chair: Daniela Giordano
15.00 – 16.00 Helmut Leder, Psychology of the Arts: when Perception meets Cognition
16.00 – 16.30 Discussion
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.00 Gabrielle Starr, Top-Down Processes, Imagination, and Poetry
18.00 – 18.30 Discussion
18.30 – 19.30 Conversation with a Writer of Science Fiction:
Alessandro Fambrini interviewed by Andrea Binelli
28 May 2016
Coro di Notte
Monastero dei Benedettini, Piazza Dante 32 Catania
Chair: Renato Bernardini
9.00 – 11.00 Round Table with Keynote Speakers and Respondents
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30 Presentation NHS – Book Series YOUrS