Join us for a two-day event discussing creativity and cognition, in conversation with Professor Karin Kukkonen and Professor Laura Otis.
Thursday, 12 June, 15.30 – 17.00 BST: A Conversation
Friday, 13 June, 14.30 – 17.00 BST: A Workshop
What better way to close the year than a final term on creativity and cognition? The Narrative and Cognition Lab has a specific mission to turn mind research into a creativity interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, models, and methods. NCL, however, also wants to show how academic interdisciplinary work can be, and to some extent has to be, creative, generative, and risky.
Interdisciplinary careers probably more closely resemble works of art, driven as they are by reaction to unplanned challenges, and the looping chase of ideas and material work, cognition and creativrt. Interdisciplinary careers and creative work in the arts are thus equally coloured and cognitively ruled by a fairly wild and driven surrendering agency to the unpredictability of processes unfolding in time – in what Malafouris calls an enactive and extended ‘dance of agency’ (How Things Shape the Mind, 2014).
We have invited two highly committed and successful interdisciplinary scholars, cognitive literary scholar Professor Karin Kukkonen and former neuroscientist turned literary scholar and novelist Professor Laura Otis to share backstage stories about their interdisciplinary careers in convcersation with cognitive literary scholar Marco Bernini, and then reflect on creativity and cognition in a dedicated workshop.
Please register for each day of the event separately.
