Events
A listing of recent colloquia and
conferences
sponsored or co-sponsored by the
Group Major in Cognitive Science.
October 21, 2008
"Closing the Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Renaissance of Pre-Modern Media and Mindwork",
a lecture by Tom Pettitt of the Institute for Literature, Media and Cultural Studies,
University of Southern Denmark, co-sponsored with Lecture Co-sponsored with the Group Major in Media Studies, and School of Information.
Abstract: The notion of a "Gutenberg Parenthesis" is a usefully provocative
way of formulating the suggestions made from several different perspectives that
current developments associated with the digital media and internet technology
effectively constitute a reversion to conditions prevailing prior to the
dominance of the printed text and the book. The emerging, post-parenthetical,
media have more in common with pre-parenthetical manuscript culture and oral
folklore than any of them have with the textual phase in between. Media Studies
and Medieval Studies (and Folkloristics) should accordingly have much to tell
each other; likewise the energetic confusions and controversies provoked by our
closing of the Gutenberg Parenthesis can be better understood in juxtaposition
with the explosive Shakespearean moment of its opening. It may also be predicted
that this post-parenthetical return to the pre-parenthetical in media processes
will be accompanied by a dismantling of parenthetical configurations in cultural
production and mindwork, for example with regard to the originality, autonomy
and stability of the individual cultural product; the memorial reproduction of
verbal information; the perception and representation of the material world.
Link to Lecture Illustrations (PDF). Link to Handbout (PDF).
July 8-11, 2008
Collective Intentionality VI, a conference on collective
intentionality and social ontology organized by Jennifer Hudin, Lecturer in
Philosophy and Cognitive Science, and others. Link
to the conference website.
March 14-16, 2008
A
three-day workshop in March on the Philosophy and Psychology of Concepts,
organized by Tania
Lombrozo,
assistant professor of psychology, and James
Genone, a graduate student in philosophy. Link
to the conference website.
January 16-18, 2008
A conference on Religion and Cognitive Science, a joint
effort of UCB and the Center for Religion, held at the Church Divinity School of
the Pacific on Holy Hill in January. Link
to the conference website, including the full program, and audio files of the
talks and panels.
July 7-8, 2007
The second Language Creation Conference,
organized by Sai Emrys ’06, once
again brought to campus a number of academics and amateurs interested in
constructed or artificial languages. Link
to the conference website.
April 23, 2006
The first Language Creation Conference, initiated by Sai
Emrys ’06, brought to campus a number of academics and amateurs interested
in constructed or artificial languages. Link
to the conference website.
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