COGNITIVE FUTURES IN THE HUMANITIES

1st International Conference, 4-6 April 2013, Bangor University, UK

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite 20-minute paper submissions for the first international conference organized in association with the new research network on the Cognitive Futures in the Humanities, which is supported by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Confirmed plenary speakers include:

• Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham)
• Ellen Spolsky (Bar Ilan University )

• Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis)

• Lisa Zunshine (University of Kentucky)

• Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University)

• Elena Semino (Lancaster University)

What is the ‘cognitive humanities’? In what ways is knowledge from the cognitive sciences changing approaches to language, literature, aesthetics, historiography and creative culture? How have practices in the arts and humanities influenced the cognitive sciences, and how might they do so in the future? This conference will facilitate the exchange of new, innovative research at the intersection of established disciplines, such as philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, art history and cultural studies. It will also help define an emerging international research community.

Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/coghumanities-conference for the full call for papers. Two postgraduate bursaries will be offered. For further information contact one of the organizers, Dr Peter Garratt (peter.garratt@northumbria.ac.uk), Professor Vyv Evans (v.evans@bangor.ac.uk) and Dr Matt Hayler (m.s.hayler@exeter.ac.uk).

Please send 250-word abstracts to az.cognitivefutures@northumbria.ac.uk by the closing date of 30 November 2012. 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, as part of a 3-person panel, or poster, along with the name of presenter(s), university affiliation(s) and email address(es).