Cognitive Futures in the Humanities: 2nd call for papers

[Vyv Frederick Evans]

COGNITIVE FUTURES IN THE HUMANITIES

2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, DURHAM UNIVERSITY, UK, 24-26 APRIL 2014


  *   Full call for papers attached
  *   Keynote speakers: Alan Richardson, Alan Palmer, Patricia Waugh, David Herman, Mark Rowlands, Vyvyan Evans
  *   Roundtable on interdisciplinarity with Ellen Spolsky, Mark Turner and Michael Wheeler
  *   5 special thematic conference threads on e.g. Extended Mind
  *   Conference banquet in Durham Castle

Deadline for proposals for 20 min papers or panels: 1st December. Email cog.futures at durham.ac.uk<mailto:cog.futures at durham.ac.uk> (full details below). Please circulate this call to interested colleagues and graduate students.


SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers and preformed panels for the second international conference
associated with the research network, Cognitive Futures in the Humanities, funded by the UK's Arts and
Humanities Research Council. The conference will be hosted by Durham University, on 24-26 April 2014.
The purpose is to explore, and critically evaluate, new ways of working in the arts and humanities that
respond to concepts developed in the sciences of mind and brain. It will be an interdisciplinary
conference for researchers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics,
narratology, cultural studies, critical theory, film, performance studies, and beyond. The aim is to
identify how the 'cognitive humanities' can emerge as a dynamic and critical field of enquiry.

Topics relevant to the conference include (but are not limited to):
Cognitive neuroscience and the arts
Language, meaning and cognitive processing
Embodied cognition
Phenomenology of technologies
Cognitive poetics and interpretation
Social minds
Theory of mind and mind-blindness
The Bayesian brain
Conceptual blending and creativity
Empirical aesthetics
Extended cognition
Ideology and the cognitive sciences
Cognitive approaches to visual culture
Thinking and feeling in narrative
Cognitive historicism
Animal consciousness and perspective
Objects, artifacts and print culture

The following themed sessions will be organised as part of the programme, with a leading specialist
serving as a respondent. Please indicate if you would like your paper to be considered for one of these:

A) Interdisciplinarity in Theory and Practice
B) The Extended Mind
C) Theatre and Performance
D) Storyworlds and Fictionality
E) Brains, Culture and Mental Pathology

Submission Details
Please send 250-word proposals to cog.futures at durham.ac.uk by 1st December 2013. Abstracts should be
included as Word file attachments, and be anonymised. Please indicate clearly in your email whether
your abstract is to be considered for a paper or as part of a panel, and if intended for one of the themed
sessions, including the name of presenter(s), university affiliation(s) and email address(es). Proposers can
expect to hear if their abstract has been accepted by January 2014, and registration will open soon
afterwards.

There will be 2 fee-waiver bursaries available for postgraduates, awarded on a competitive basis. If you
wish to apply, please add a 100-word statement to your proposal explaining how your research
contributes to the developing field of the cognitive humanities.

Please direct any queries to the conference organiser, Dr Peter Garratt (peter.garratt at durham.ac.uk).
Further details about the Cognitive Futures network, project team, steering group, and past events can be
found on the project site, www.coghumanities.com<http://www.coghumanities.com>.


Professor/Yr Athro Vyv Evans
Professor of/Yr Athro Linguistics/Ieithyddiaeth
www.vyvevans.net<http://www.vyvevans.net/>
Prifysgol Bangor University

General Editor of Language & Cognition
A Cambridge University Journal
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President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association
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