Here you can find titles and links to the last papers in our archive:
Franziska Holzner, Christian Fuchs, Art as a Complex, Dynamic System .
Mark Turner, Compression and representation 2006.
Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas, Conceptual Blending Theory and the History of Emotions .
http://www.ted.com Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology — and invents ways to keep itself alive.
Series: 9th conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language (CSDL)
Meaning, Form and Body
Title: How Compression Gives Rise to Metaphor and Metonymy.
Speaker: Gilles Fauconnier: Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego.
Date: October 18, 2008
Recorded at the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence on the Campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
We want to promote a really interesting e-megazine: Edge.org. As we can read in its description
“Edge is a Conversation: Edge is different from the Algonquin Roundtable or Bloomsbury Group, but it offers the same quality of intellectual adventure. Closer resemblances are the early seventeenth-century Invisible College, a precursor to the Royal Society. Its members consisted of scientists such as Robert Boyle, John Wallis, and Robert Hooke. The Society’s common theme was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation. Another inspiration is The Lunar Society of Birmingham, an informal club of the leading cultural figures of the new industrial age — James Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgewood, Joseph Priestly, and Benjamin Franklin.
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Edge.org encourages people who can take the materials of the culture in the arts, literature, and science and put them together in their own way. We live in a mass-produced culture where many people, even many established cultural arbiters limit themselves to secondhand ideas, thoughts, and opinions. Edge.org consists of individuals who create their own reality and do not accept an ersatz, appropriated reality. The Edge community consists of peole who are out there doing it rather than talking about and analyzing the people who are doing it.”
In particular, we bring under your attention the article “Adventure in behavioral neurology, or: what neurology can tell us about human nature“, wrote by Vilayanur Ramachandran and its video.
11-12-13 April 2012
122, Via dei Volsci, Rome
Fourth International Conference
Dialogues between Theatre and Neuroscience
promoted by Clelia Falletti and Luciano Mariti
organised by Gabriele Sofia
FREE ENTRY
As in the last three years, the University of Rome “La Sapienza” will be hosting artists, performers, directors, scholars and neuroscientists, hailing from various European and American centres of research for the International Conference Dialogues between theatre and neuroscience.
Topics will vary from Theatre anthropology to Ethnoscenology; from studies on mirror neurons to the neuroscience of human interaction; from theories on embodiment to studies on memory in dance, spanning issues related to epistemology, philosophy, pedagogy, theatre-therapy and neuroaesthetics. The programme will be further enriched by performances and work demonstrations. This will be the basis of three days of dialogue, debate and contaminations directed towards a multidisciplinary approach to the study of human interaction in the theatre and the complexity of its processes. Read the rest of this entry »
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Saturday 28 April 2012, Sutherland Building (Great Hall)
What have the arts and humanities learned from the cognitive science revolution? How far have we evolved new knowledge and models in areas such as literary, aesthetic and historical analysis in connection with cognitive paradigms? What future possibilities lie open for the analysis of culture and cultural objects using concepts from cognitive science?
Speakers include:
Alan Richardson (Boston College)
Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve)
David Miall (University of Alberta)
Ellen Spolsky (Bar Ilan University)
This symposium marks the launch of a new AHRC-funded interdisciplinary network for researchers working across the cognitive sciences and the arts and humanities. There will be panels on: mind, body and technology; empirical aesthetics; language, culture and complexity; and beyond narratology. The day will conclude with a roundtable discussion.
Attendance is free; all welcome. For further details visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/cognitivefutures <http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/cognitivefutures> or email Dr Peter Garratt (peter.garratt@northumbria.ac.uk) to indicate you wish to attend.
12 April 2012
Location: 20 St Giles, St John’s College, Oxford
This symposium wishes to initiate a conversation between and about science and literary criticism. The event brings together a range of approaches that represent and reflect on promising developments within the broad field of science-inspired ways of studying literature.
For further information please visit St John’s College website.
From Mirror Neuronsh. 15,00 – 20.03.2012
Aula Magna, Via Università 12, Parma.
The Department of Culturale Heritage and and Entertainment and the Doctorate of Art and Show History are organizing a metting with Prof. Vittorio Gallese on the theme “From Mirror Neurons to Embodied Simulation: the body in the aesthetic experience“.
Vittorio Gallese is one of the discoverer of mirror neurons and is always promoting an international exchange of ideas between scientific culture and humanities, by proposing theories about aesthetic experience, empathy and intersubjectivity, such as his concept of “embodied simulation”.
Main goal of the meeting is to delve into the reflection on the extraordinary impact that neurocognitive sciences are having within the aesthetic, philosophical, historical and artistic discussion.
The meeting is open to everyone.
Music and Neurosciences: listening, memory, meditation and performance
was the title of the international meeting, which has taken place in Rome during the 5th and 6th December, promoted by Conservatory of Santa Cecilia (Rome) and Association Sahaja Yoga. The main topics of this convention, like memory, dyslexia, musical pedagogy, emotion in music, mirror neurons have been discussed and related to each other with the hope of an interdisciplinary collaboration between teachers, musicians and neuroscientists.
