30.111, Calls: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 30.111, Calls: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 03:02:13
From: Alexandra Hilgner [ahilgner at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Concepts of Humans and Nature between Specificity and Universality

 
Full Title: Concepts of Humans and Nature between Specificity and Universality 

Date: 15-Jul-2019 - 17-Jul-2019
Location: Mainz, Germany 
Contact Person: Alexandra Hilgner
Meeting Email: grk1876 at uni-mainz.de
Web Site: https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb07-grk-man-nature/international-conference-1/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Research Training Group 1876 '' Early Concepts of Humans and Nature:
Universal, Specific, Interchanged'' invites to its International Conference
“Concepts of Humans and Nature between Specificity and Universality” to be
held in 2019 on July, 15th–17th at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
(Germany).

The Mainz Research Training Group (RTG) “Early Concepts of Humans and Nature:
Universal, Specific, Interchanged” aims to understand concepts of humans and
nature, their origin, development and dissemination, by focusing on texts,
iconography and material evidence from the Near East, North-Eastern Africa and
Europe dating from about 100000 BCE to the Middle Ages.

The international conference aims to deal with the question of possibly
universal basic patterns of concepts and their causes as well as with the
specific implementations of concepts of humans and nature in early societies.


Call for Papers:
 
We would like to foster a discussion on our research questions in an
international and interdisciplinary environment with three panels which are in
line with the research projects our RTG is currently working on:

A) Conceptualizing Sky and Heaven – Human interactions with meteorological and
cosmic phenomena 
B) „Dead Bodies”– Facing specific and universal aspects of death from
Antiquity to the Middle Ages 
C) Zones, Parts, Functions – The relationship between body experience and body
concepts

Papers are welcome from all academic fields that are related to these research
questions. We are also looking for papers from a cross-cultural, comprehensive
or theoretical perspective. We ask those interested in delivering a paper to
send an abstract of about 300 words along with a short academic biography to
grk1876 at uni-mainz.de by Monday, 31 January 2019. Papers can be presented in
English or German. Travel and accommodation costs will be paid for all
successful applicants. 

A cognitive, linguistic approach to the main questions of the conference is
wanted.

Linguistic Sub-themes:

- cognitive linguistics
- metaphor theories
- cognitive grammars

For more information on the conference, in particular for more information on
the panels, please visit: 
https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb07-grk-man-nature/international-conference-1/




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