 Announcing "Literature and the Emotions: Talking Cures," the "Literature and the Mind" Symposium series, 2009-11.
The next two years of the "Literature and the Mind" symposium focuses on the power of codes, forms, symbols--especially but not exclusively verbal/paraverbal expressivity--to transform human behavior and experience.
Our first event will be "Participatory Knowledge and Transformative Understanding: Bridging Some Gaps Between the Sciences and the Humanities."
Dr. Francis Steen, of the UCLA Communications Studies Department, and members of his research team, will be presenting.
Steen was recently awarded the Brian P. Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology. He is the author of many articles on cognition, motivation, aesthetics, gaming, and learning, including "A Cognitive Account of Aesthetics," in Mark Turner's collection The Artful Mind, and "The Paradox of Narrative Thinking," Journal of Culture and Evolutionary Psychology. He co-authored "Evolution's Pedagogy: An Adaptationist Model of Pretense and Entertainment" (Journal of Cognition and Culture) and co-edited a special issue of Poetics Today on "Literature and the Cognitive Revolution."
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