Upcoming events concerning cognition, language, and literature

[Randy Allen Harris]

There are three public events coming up next week concerning  
cognition, language, and literature, as follows:

The UW Department of English Language and Literature presents a public  
lecture by Mary Thomas Crane, of Boston College. The lecture, entitled  
Analogy, Metaphor, & the New Science: Cognitive Science and Early  
Modern Epistemology, will be on Thursday, 25 June, at 7:00 PM, 3014  
St. Jerome’s University. Click here to learn more or download the  
poster.

The UW Programme in Cognitive Science presents a public lecture by  
Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., of The University of California, Santa Cruz. The  
lecture, entitledEmbodiment in Metaphorical Imagination, will be on  
Thursday, 25 June, at 1:00pm, PAS 1229. Click here to learn more or  
download the poster.

The Department of English, the Cognitive Science Program, the Medieval  
Studies Program at St. Jerome's University, the Faculty of Arts, and  
the University of Waterloo present a one-day, inter- and multi- 
disciplinary workshop on the cognitive underpinnings of allegory,  
bringing together medievalists who work specifically on allegorical  
texts with rhetoricians, literary theorists, psychologists, and  
philosophers who focus on representations of knowledge, at Siegfried  
Hall, St. Jerome’s University, 26 June 2009, starting at 8:00 AM.   
Click here to learn more or download the poster.


A fourth, related event is also coming next week, this one not open to  
the general public, but open to interested members of the university  
community, if they make prior arrangements:

The Chinese University of Hong Kong presents an open class with Peter  
Crisp, of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Crisp will be  
discussing his pioneering studies on the cognitive dimensions of  
allegory. The class will be on Wednesday, 24 June, from 9:00am -  
12:00pm, in Dana Porter Library, Room 329, the FLEX Lab. Please  
contact Randy Harris or Sarah Tolmie for access. Click here to learn  
more or download the poster.


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Randy Allen Harris
Linguistics, rhetoric, and communication design
Department of English, University of Waterloo
Waterloo ON Canada N2L 3G1

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www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~raha
www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~raha/CognitiveAllegory



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