Neuro Humanities Studies

“Empathy and the Aesthetics of Language”

We are pleased to announce the publication of the first special issue of the TSLL, “Empathy and the Aesthetics of Language” with the contribution of Renata Gambino, Grazia Pulvirenti, Samuel Rashe and Taylor Enoch.

https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/texas-studies-in-literature-and-language/

Link to the IISN 2024

 

 The Third Annual International Interdisciplinary Seminar on Neuroesthetics, took place at the University of Alicante on the 22 November 2024. The discussed  topic was  ”Imaging Imagination” .
A link to the IISN 2024 website may be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/imagination2024
We are pleased to announce that the website for this event has now been updated with video recordings of all talks and discussion sessions, as well as abstracts and summaries of the questions posed to the panel, including timestamps of the panelists’ replies. The website will continue to be updated with references to recent research that is related to the topic of imagination, so please ensure to check back regularly.
We would, once again, like to thank the University of Alicante for hosting us and providing us with recordings of the seminar. We would also like to thank our sponsors, who may be found on the poster on the website at the link above. We are already looking forward to future sessions of the International Interdisciplinary Seminar on Neuroesthetics!

CFP: International workshop Multimodal language

Call for Papers: International workshop

Multimodal language: theoretical perspectives and research methods

Catania, 13-14 March 

The investigation of linguistic communication in natural contexts cannot ignore that human language is an inherently multimodal system. Indeed, the interaction between the vocal and the other bodily modalities is articulated within closely cooperating semiotic subsystems, dynamically completing each other into a coherent message (McNeill 1992; Kendon 2014; Capirci et al. 2022). Within a perspective that sees language as a form of cooperative action, the vocal and the gestural components – along with gaze and facial expressions – coordinate in a clearly interdependent way. This happens both at the level of expression and at the level of content, with the different modalities interacting on the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic level (see McNeill 1992, Kendon 2004, Loehr 2012, Volterra et al. 2017, among many others).
Differently from the first generation of scholars in multimodality, whose first and essential need was to build terminologies and methods of analysis that could highlights the specifics of each modality, the foremost theoretical challenge in contemporary research is to explore theories and methodologies that could describe how these modalities interact in forming organized structures (Trujillo & Holler 2023). This requires, obviously, new categories and new descriptions, together with a move away from mere quantifications of occurrences towards other variables. It therefore becomes necessary to give greater consideration to the qualitative aspects of each component and the way in which they are deployed in the flow of discourse.
A growing number of scholars in linguistics, psychology and

In memory of prof. Giancarlo Magnano San Lio

«Un uomo perbene. Tormentato, curioso.
Che ha voluto vivere in proprio, conoscendo le miserie dell’Umanità,
ha scelto di amarne la poesia e l’incanto.»

***

«A respectable man. Tormented, curious.
Who wanted to live on his own. Knowing the miseries of Humanity,
he chose to love its poetry and enchantment»

ENID Teach – NOOC Collaborative and Research Methodology

 15th September – 15th November 2024

The NewHums Research Centre kindly invites everyone to join the 4th and last edition of

 NOOC Collaborative and Research Methodology

 

What is this NOOC

This course (NOOC) is part of the training proposal by the project Erasmus+, “European network in D-flexible teaching (ENID-Teach)”, PROJECT NUMBER – 2021-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000027551, KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education, coordinated by UNED – Spain. The main goal of the project is to provide digital training to university lecturers about specific teaching and research methodologies, which can be used and improved introducing digital tools and environments.

This course, produced by University of Catania, introduces participants to the Collaborative and Research Methodology and how digital tools can improve the teaching practice. The course will present the theory of collaborative teaching and research as based on three main theoretical pillars: constructivism, distributed cognition and computer supported collaborative learning. It will also introduce some digital tools to be used to enrich the teaching practice.

More Info about ENID Teach

We warmly invite European educators to enhance their teaching toolkit by participating in our free training programme on “Flexible and Innovative Methodologies.“

Cognitive Futures 2024 @ University of Catania

Deadline: 15th January 2024

10 years Cognitive Futures in The Arts and Humanities

From 4E to 5E Cognition: about Emotions

June 3-5, 2024 – Aesthetic Emotions

10 years ago the series of Cognitive Future conferences started in Bangor, moved to Durham, Oxford, Stony Brook, Kent, Mainz and was held online (instead of in Osnabrück) during pandemic emergency. The war prevented its taking place in St. Petersburg. This year it took place in Warsaw; in 2024 it will be Catania – with a ten-year anniversary.The focus will be on the latest epistemic paradigm of 4E Cognition and

International May 2022 – Oltre il politicamente corretto

 

 

 

PRIN 2017 “Strategie più efficaci per il politicamente corretto. Un modello Retorico/Pragmatico della situazione di discorso totale”

The NewHums Research Centre is glad to announce following International Guests:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-May 26, 2022 (italian time) 11.00 -  Monastero dei Benedettini – Sala Rettangolare ID ZOOM: 917 6088 8939

Rodrigo Borba (Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro)

“Injourious signs: countering hate with hope in contemporary Brazil.”

- May 30  2022 it-h 16.00 – Monastero dei Benedettini – Aula 254 – ID ZOOM: 995 6688 2995

Jonatan Culpeper (Lancaster University)

“Activity types as a pragmatic approach to discourse”

- May 31 2022 it-h 10.00 – Monastero dei Benedettini – Aula 254 ID ZOOM: 934 6971 3850

Elena Semino (Lancaster University)

“Conflict in online discussion about vaccination”

To follow on ZOOM please contact emanuela.campisi@unict.it

 

International Society for the History of the Neurosciences

26th Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, Rome (Italy) June 14-18, 2022

Il 26° Meeting della Società Internazionale per la Storia delle Neuroscienze (ISHN) si terrà a Roma (Italia) dal 14 al 18 giugno 2022.

Il convegno è organizzato dal Museo di Storia della Medicina, Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare, Sapienza Università di Roma in collaborazione con il Polo Museale e i Dipartimenti di Psicologia, Neuroscienze Umane e Scienze Odontostomatologiche e Maxillo-Facciali di Sapienza e in collaborazione con la Società Italiana di Scienze Umane in Medicina (SISUMed), Associazione Culturale Ospedali Storici Italiani (ACOSI) e Gruppo di Storia della Neurologia della Società Italiana di Neurologia (SIN-GSN)

La conferenza si svolgerà presso l’Università La Sapienza di Roma, l’Orto Botanico di Roma e l’Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia.

La conferenza sarà in presenza e trasmessa online, previa iscrizione.

Quote di registrazione scontate fino al 15 maggio 2022.

Programma preliminare scaricabile qui

Registrazione qui

ISHN Website: www.ishn.org
Conference Twitter: @26thIshn
Referente scientifico: Elisabetta Sirgiovanni (Sapienza)

The 26th Meeting of the International Society for the History of Neurosciences (ISHN) will be held in Rome (Italy) on June 14-18, 2022.

The conference is organized by the Museum of the History of Medicine, Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome in collaboration with the Museum Pole and the Sapienza Departments of Psychology, Human Neurosciences and Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences and in partnership with the Italian Society for Medical Humanities (SISUMed), Cultural Association for Italian Historical Hospitals (ACOSI), and Group for the History of Neurology of the Italian Society of Neurology (SIN-GSN).
The conference will take place at Sapienza University of Rome, Botanical Garden in Rome, and the Santo Spirito in Sassia Hospital.
The conference can be joined in-person and online upon registration.
Discounted fees are applicable until May 15, 2022.
A preliminary program is downloadable here

Link to registration here

ISHN Website: www.ishn.org
Conference Twitter: @26thIshn
Local Chair: Elisabetta Sirgiovanni (Sapienza)

Project

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