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(Co)Ignition Calendar of Events
(Co)Ignition Speaker Series and Member Research Presentations
For the final discussion
group of the semester (details to come) we shall be discussing excerpts
from Goldman's Simulating Minds.
(Co)Ignition members Paula Leverage and Richard Schweikert are proud to announce a talk by Dr. Curtiss Hoffman of Bridgewater State University entitled "Dreams in the Operas of Wagner" on Friday, November 6th, at 2:30 to 3:25 in Beering 1254.
The Center for Cognitive Literary Studies would also like to announce the special colloquium being held by the Departments of Psychology and Philosophy on Friday, November 6th when Pascal Boyer of Washington University will give a talk at 3:30 in LWSN 1142.
On October 26th, Amy Cook gave a well-attended public lecture entitled “Hamlet’s Mirror: Shakespeare and the Conceptual Blending Mind.”
September 28th saw a discussion of two recent articles by Antonio Damasio: "Neuroscience and Ethics: Intersections," and "We Feel, Therefore We Learn: The Relevance of Affective and Social Neuroscience to Education."
To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the program in Cognitive Literary Studies at Purdue brought Professor Merlin Donald to campus to speak about his research on the evolution of the human brain. The free talk he gave was entitled "What We Were, What We Are Becoming: Cognitive Evolution," and was attended by a capacity crowd at Krannery Auditorium. The Center for Cognitive Literary Studies graciously thanks all of the sponsors for this event, including Purdue University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the Department of Psychological Sciences, the Deparment of Comparative Literature, and the Anthropology Department, as well as Wabash College.
March 30th saw a discussion of Donald's latest book, "A Mind so Rare"
On Tuesday, March 24th (Co)Ignition Director Professor Paula Leverage gave a talk for the Center for Undergraduate Instructional Excellence entitled, "Cognitive Approaches to Literature, Film and Pedagogy: An Evolutionary Perspective."
Professor of Psychological Sciences and (Co)Ignition member, Richard Schwiekert, gave a talk on Thursday March 12th, entitled "Experimental Factors that Selectively Influence Processes in Immediate Recall."
On March 3rd, (Co)Ignition member Professor Julien Simon gave a lecture at Indian University East titled "Cognitive Literary Studies: An Introduction."
March 2nd completed (Co)Ignition's examination of Merlin Donald's "Origins of the Mind."
February the 13th, (Co)Ignition member Professor Ryan Schneider presented a talk on "Cognitive Studies and the Color Line" for the American Studies Colloquium.
February 9th continued discussion of Merlin Donald's "Origins of the Modern Mind," and brought about a concrete date for his presentation here at Purdue.
January 26th was the first meeting of the semester for (Co)Ignition and the discussion covered visiting scholar Merlin Donald's book, "Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition."
On December 14th, 2008, Isabel Jaen-Portillo and Julien Simon presented their preliminary plans for an upcoming fMRI and pet scan based project.
On November 11th and 12th, 2008, Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer, and Literature, Science, and a New Humanities, gave three addresses to the extended (Co)Ignition community. The first was a small, informal presentation shared with the members of (Co)Ignition, in which discussion centered around Literature, Science, and a New Humanities and the difficulties facing a paradigmatic revolution in the humanities, as well as the need for establishing consilience between the humanities and the sciences. The second was a public talk to the Purdue community at-large, this one a descriptive lecture introducing his evolutionary and historical examinations of Homer's works. His last talk was given to a select group of undergraduates at Wabash College.