Linguistics Symposium: "Literature & Cognition"
February 24, 2012
8:30am - 6:30pm
Stokes Auditorium
Haverford College

Five prominent scholars will address the following questions:

How can cognitive science lead to a better appreciation of literature?
How can literature be useful in understanding how the human mind works?

The speakers will draw on expertise from five theoretical frameworks including artificial intelligence, literary theory, linguistic theory, philosophy of language, mind and aesthetics, and psychology to address the study of literature and cognition.

 

Symposium Commentator

Hans Kamp, Professor, University of Stuttgart Institute for Natural Language Processing

 

 

 

Literature, Cognitive Science, and the Return of Imagination

Alan Richardson, Professor of English, Boston College

 

 

Censorship: What children (and anyone) should and shouldn't be reading

Donna Jo Napoli, Professor of Linguistics, Swarthmore College

 

 

The Mathematical Logic of Comics

Gabriel Greenberg, Professor of Philosophy, UCLA

 

 

 

When Will Computers Understand Shakespeare?

Jerry Hobbs, Research Professor and Fellow, Information Services Institute, University of Southern California

 

 

Psychology for the Third Millennium: How Jane Austen Got There First

Fathali Moghaddam (Psychology Professor and Director of Conflict Resolution Program, Georgetown University)

 

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Organized by Daniel G. Altshuler (daltshul@haverford.edu)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics (Tri-College)

Sponsored by the John B. Hurford ‘60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, The TriCo Mellon Faculty Forum, and Haverford College’s Distinguished Visitors Fund.

Emily Carey Cronin
Associate Director John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center
Haverford College Haverford, PA 19041
610-896-1336 (fax) 610-896-1224

Daniel Altshuler Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Swarthmore College (w/ joint appointments at Haverford and Bryn Mawr)
daltshul@gmail.com
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/Linguistics/xling12altshuler.html