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Friday, January 14th, 2011
McCune Conference Center, UCSB
Humanities Social Sciences Building, Sixth Floor, Room 6020
Reception 5-6pm

ANTONIO DAMASIO, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience; Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, USC

Author of Descartes’ Error, The Feeling of What Happens, Looking for Spinoza, and most recently, Self Comes to Mind*

The intent of Literature & Mind is to create an intimate gathering that encourages a conversational exchange with Dr. Damasio.

We are filming the event.  The film will be available for viewing on our website http://mind.english.ucsb.edu/ and will be available as a dvd.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT *SEATING IS LIMITED* FOR THIS EVENT TO 100. (There is no pre-registration.) 

Co-sponsored by the Center for Portuguese Studies and the Sage Center for the Mind
*Dr. Damasio is happy to sign books during the reception…

 

 

PAST EVENTS

Friday, October 15th, at 4 pm in SH 2635

VERA TOBIN, our new Arnhold Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, will present on the topic of "Playing Fair in Fiction and Cognition."
She will give a short talk related to a pre-circulated paper and then lead a round-table discussion on the subject of fair play and other kinds of "appropriate" or "inappropriate" moves in narrative literature.
We will read in advance her paper "Cognitive Bias and the Poetics of Surprise."

Friday, November 19th, at 3:30pm in SH 2635

ALAN RICHARDSON, Professor of English at Boston College and one of the pioneers of cognitive approaches to literary studies, will present on "The Return of the Romantic Imagination in Recent Neuroscience." 

Friday, February 25th, from 3:00-6:00 in SH 2635

CHRISTOPHER BOLLAS, world-renowned psychoanalyst and literary analyst, will speak on his latest book, The Evocative Object World.
He requests that we read his book in preparation for the event.

Friday April 15 and Saturday April 16

Our symposium on the topic "Entrenchment and Plasticity" (details to follow) with special attention to linkages among cognitive linguistics, neuroscience, and literary studies.

DEFENDING THE UNIVERSITY TEACH-IN, OCT. 14, 2009, 2:30-MIDNIGHT CAMPBELL HALL 

"HOW EDUCATION CHANGES THE BRAIN"

Aranye Fradenburg, Department of English, UCSB

Kay Young, Department of English, UCSB

Janis Caldwell, M.D., Department of English, UCSB
"The Medical Humanities"

A "LITERATURE AND THE MIND" BREAKOUT SESSION
7PM 2706 SOUTH HALL

 

 

 

LITERATURE AND THE MIND'S "TALKING CURES" SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCES
A PRESENTATION BY DR. FRANCIS STEEN, COMMUNICATIONS, UCLA, AND HIS COLLEAGUES:

"PARTICIPATORY KNOWLEDGE AND TRANSFORMATIVE UNDERSTANDING: BRIDGING SOME GAPS BETWEEN THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES"

Dr. Wendy Traynor (Social Psychology), David DeLiema (Psychological Studies in Education), and David Jeong (Communications)

Monday, October 19, 2009, 3:30-5pm, South Hall 2635


LITERATURE AND THE MIND AND THE INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES CENTER
PRESENT A "TALKING CURES" CONFERENCE
      
"SPEAK WHAT WE FEEL":  AFFECTS, SYMBOLS, CHANGE

Dr. James Fosshage
New York University Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
"How Do We 'Know' What We Know?  And Change What We 'Know'?  Imagistic and Linguistic Symbolic Encoding and Processing"

Dr. Regina Pally
Clinical Psychiatry, UCLA
New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
"The Brain Processes Self and Other Using the Same Circuits:  Implications for Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy"

Dr. Steven Smith
Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology
UCSB
"Brains, Blots and the Nature of Narrative"

Saturday, November 21, 2009,  1:00-5:00pm McCune Conference Room, IHC


"All psychic particles seem to enter into a common chaotic pool, made worse and overflowing by a malevolent curiosity and a saboteur with no good internal objects to sort things out."  James Grotstein, 1977.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edvard Munch's "Anxiety."
 

Symposium on Literature and the Emotions:

For 2009-11, the topic of the Symposium on Literature and the Emotions will be "Talking Cures." We are now planning events on symbol-affect connections (coding and processing, assessment, attachment activity); the behavior of specific affects (fear, shame, and disgust); the idea of plasticity. Please visit this section for further postings.

Spring 2009 Symposium

--"Why an Ourang-Outang? Thinking and Computing with Edgar Allan Poe," Sydney Levy, Department of French and Italian, UCSB.

--"Elaine Scarry's Dreaming by the Book," facilitated by Kay Young and Ken Hiltner, Department of English, UCSB. Colloquium co-sponsored by the Initiatives on Literature and the Mind, and Literature and the Environment, Department of English, UCSB. 

Winter 2009 Symposium

--"Deborah Britzman's Novel Education," facilitated by Julie Carlson, Department of English, UCSB.

--"The Geist in the Machine: Taking Humanities Beyond Dualism," by Edward Slingerland, Asian Studies, UBC. Co-sponsored by the Department of Psychology, UCSB.

--"The Work of Marie Laure Ryan," co-facilitated by Marie Laure Ryan and H. Porter Abbot, Department of English, UCSB.
 

Fall 2008 Symposium

--"Neuroplasticity: Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself,"  facilitated by Aranye Fradenburg, Department of English, UCSB.

--"Speculations in Neurobiology and Literary Theory: The Brain and the Literary Text as 'Transducers,'" presented by Noelle Batt, American Studies, University of Paris 8.

--"Attention! Katherine Hayles and Barbara Stafford," facilitated by Rita Raley, Department of English, UCSB.