Events

Creativity and Cognition

A conversation and a workshop with cognitive literary scholar Karin Kukkonen and novelist Laura Otis reflecting on creativity and cognition.

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March

An Interdisciplinary Conversation with Rachele Maistrello (Part 2: The Diamonds Series)

Part 2 of a hybrid interdisciplinary interview. Hosted by the Narrative and Cognition Lab.

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March

An Interdisciplinary Conversation with Rachele Maistrello (Part 1: The Early Works)

Part 1 of a hybrid interdisciplinary interview. Hosted by the Narrative and Cognition Lab.

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February

AI Gossip

A passport talk on Artificial Intelligence and Gossiping by Joel Krueger. Brought to you by the Narrative and Cognition Lab.

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December

Implicit Narrativity: The Workshop

An international workshop with scholars from cognitive sciences and narrative studies advancing on the problem of 'implicit narrativity'.

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Paul Armstrong: ‘The Neuroscience of Literary Time-Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance’

Passport talk by Paul Armstrong.

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Implicit Narrativity and Cognitive Ecologies: The Case of Music

Interconcept Talk No. 4 by Mike Wheeler in the Narrative and Cognition Lab.

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Open Lab

Durham, in-person only, IMH seminar room

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Implicit Narrativity Reading Group 2 (Mike Wheeler)

Reading Group, Mike Wheeler leading on DINGS, “The Dynamic and Recursive Interplay of Embodiment and Narrative Identity."

Empirical and Semiotic Environments

Interconcept talk No 3 by Richard Walsh in the Narrative and Cognition Lab.

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Cognitive and Narrative Attention

Interconcept talk No. 2 by Richard Walsh brought to you by the Narrative and Cognition Lab.

Open Lab

Durham, in-person only, IMH seminar room

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October

Implicit Narrativity Reading Group 1 (Richard Walsh)

Richard Walsh leads this reading group on ABBOTT, P.H. 'Narrativity' in The Living Handbook of Narratology.

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October

Self-Narrative and the Narrative Self

Interconcept talk by Mike Wheeler brought to you by the Narrative and Cognition Lab.

October

Open Lab

Durham, in-person only, IMH seminar room

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May

Narrative Theory and Cognitive Science: Still a Problematic Relationship?

This workshop will host international, world-leading players in the fields of narrative theory and cognitive science.

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May

Writing, Creativity and Keystroke Data

In this Passport Talk seminar, Lamyk Bekius presents on her her empirical work on literary writers' keystrokes analysis.

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April

Characters and Cognition

Daniel A. Newman offers a talk titled 'Character and Action', followed by a talk by Sean Yeager, titled 'Aesthetic Kinship'.

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