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story, Metaphor, Vision: 

Cognitive Science and the Humanities

statement | speakers | schedule

November 10 - 12, 2004

All lectures free and open to the public.

Wednesday, November 10

• 7:00 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS

  Steven Pinker, Harvard University
  The Humanities and the Human Mind

Kresge Auditorium

555 Nathan Abbott Way 

Thursday, November 11

Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

• 1:00 p.m. Conference Session

  Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School
  Vision and Art

David Freedberg, Columbia University
Empathy, Motion and Emotion in the History of Art

• 3:00 p.m. Break

• 3:30 p.m. Conference Session

  Brian Rotman, Ohio State University
  Some Remarks on the Virtual

Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University
The Confluence of Story, Metaphor, and Vision

Friday, November 12

Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

• 9:30 a.m. Conference Session

  Elaine Scarry, Harvard University
  Imagining Colors  

• 10:30 a.m. Break

• 11:00 a.m. Conference Session

  Semir Zeki, University College London
  Ambiguity in Art and the Brain
  

• 1:30 p.m. Conference Session

  Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley
  "Viewpoints": Concrete, Abstract, Visual/Gestural and Literary
  

• 2:30 p.m. Break

• 3:00 p.m. Conference Session

  Mark Johnson, University of Oregon
  Imagination Incarnate

  V.S. Ramachandran, University of California, San Diego
  The Human Brain:  A Bridge Between the Two Cultures

 

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CHCI Conference

April 16-17, 2004

"The study of the humanities is grounded in tradition. But at Stanford we also believe that tradition can inspire innovation. To be a 'university of high degree' we must continue to be on the frontiers of the search for knowledge."

—Stanford President John Hennessy

Past Presidential Lectures available online

Kwame Anthony Appiah's November 1, 2004 lecture The Ethics of Identity and Isabel Allende's May 10, 2004 lecture A Sense of Place are now available in RealPlayer format.

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