Dear readers,
In our current newsletter we look forward to what awaits us after the summer at LCE in Oslo: Regina Fabry will join us as a guest researcher in August / September, Douglas Cairns will hold a guest lecture, and we will organise another LCE Salon. We have also a new series of reading group sessions and workshops prepared for the autumn, and further events in the planning stages. Emotions, the imagination or self-narrative – many exciting topics wait to be explored.
Below, we also present the latest publications and presentations from LCE members, ranging from opinion pieces in the national press to articles in peer-reviewed journals.
We wish you pleasant holidays and inspiring summer reads and look forward to connecting with you again in the autumn.
Best wishes, Karin.
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Guest Researcher: Regina Fabry |
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In August and September, Regina Fabry, Philosopher of Mind and Cognition at Macquarie University (Australia), will visit LCE. During her stay, Fabry will work on a project about the relationship between grief and self-narrative with Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking as a case study.
The project investigates claims that have been made recently about how narratives can help navigate and negotiate a lifeworld that has been substantially disturbed by the irreversible loss of a significant person. However, it remains unclear how and to what extent self-narratives can play this role, and existing philosophical work lacks a systematic, narratologically informed analysis of the possibilities and limitations of certain narrative forms and practices for representing — and potentially influencing — grief experiences.
Fabry's project seeks to start closing this gap by developing an account of grief memoirs — a particular kind of self-narrative, which brings together research in philosophy of mind and cognitive narratology.
To read more about the project, please find our full interview with Fabry on the LCE website. There you will also find Fabry's reading recommendations.
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In August and September, Regina Fabry, Philosopher of Mind and Cognition at Macquarie University (Australia), will visit LCE. During her stay, Fabry will work on a project about the relationship between grief and self-narrative with Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking as a case study.
The project investigates claims that have been made recently about how narratives can help navigate and negotiate a lifeworld that has been substantially disturbed by the irreversible loss of a significant person. However, it remains unclear how and to what extent self-narratives can play this role, and existing philosophical work lacks a systematic, narratologically informed analysis of the possibilities and limitations of certain narrative forms and practices for representing — and potentially influencing — grief experiences.
Fabry's project seeks to start closing this gap by developing an account of grief memoirs — a particular kind of self-narrative, which brings together research in philosophy of mind and cognitive narratology.
To read more about the project, please find our full interview with Fabry on the LCE website. There you will also find Fabry's reading recommendations. |
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LCE Guest Lecture: Douglas Cairns |
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Photo: Unsplash / Delia Giandeini |
On 6 September, Douglas Cairns, Professor of Classics, will give a lecture titled "Emotional Contagion, Empathy, and Sympathy as Responses to Verbal and Visual Narratives: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues". In his guest lecture, Cairns uses a cognitive approach to explore how emotional responses arise in audiences of ancient texts.
The lecture inquires into the relationship between the emotions of characters and audiences in genres such as epic and tragedy, as well as into what role imagination and visualization play in the mediation of this relationship. Do the emotional responses of audiences depend to any significant extent on forms of mimicry or mirroring of the emotions of characters, and if they do, must these emotions be elicited by direct visual stimuli or can they be set in train by the imagination? And how can ancient theory and practice help us frame these questions?
To read more about the lecture and add it to your calendar, please visit the LCE website. |
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LCE Salon — Boccaccio and Mansfield |
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Photo: Unsplash / Nicola Nuttall |
In connection with Douglas Cairns’ Guest Lecture, LCE arranges a salon on 5 September. The LCE salon explores methods, knowledge structures and research objects between disciplines in a novel way. Literary texts serve as the basis for this interdisciplinary exchange, provoking reflections on the limits of disciplinary knowledge and facilitating dialogues across these boundaries. This time, we discuss two short stories — Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, Day 5, Story 9 ("Falcon novella"), and Katherine Mansfield’s "Miss Brill". This LCE Salon assembles - Douglas Cairns, Professor of Classics at The University of Edinburgh,
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Pia Campeggiani, Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Bologna,
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Regina Fabry, Philosopher of Mind and Cognition at Macquarie University,
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Silvio Bär, Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo,
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Reiko Abe Auestad, Professor of Japan Studies at the University of Oslo,
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Stephan Guth, Professor in Middle East Studies at the University of Oslo.
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The salon is moderated by Karin Kukkonen, Professor in Comparative Literature and convener of LCE at the University of Oslo.
To read more about this LCE Salon and add it to your calendar, please visit the LCE website. |
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Here is our preliminary list of LCE events for the autumn — please note the dates and keep an eye out for these coming events. The LCE website is regularly updated with details on upcoming lectures, reading groups and workshops.
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23 August, 2:15 PM 28–29 August 5 September, 2:15 PM
6 September, 2:15 PM 20 September, 2:15 PM 27 October, 2:15 PM |
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Here is our preliminary list of LCE events for the autumn — please note the dates and keep an eye out for these coming events. The LCE website is regularly updated with details on upcoming lectures, reading groups and workshops.
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23 August, 2:15 PM Reading Group with Regina Fabry 28–29 August Workshop on Creativity, Constraints and Affordances, organised by Sarah Bro Trasmundi and Essi Varis
5 September, 2:15 PM LCE Salon — Boccaccio and Mansfield 6 September, 2:15 PM
Guest Lecture with Douglas Cairns 20 September, 2:15 PM Reading Group with Alexandra Effe 27 October, 2:15 PM
Reading Group with Karin Kukkonen |
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| Alexandra Effe
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (UiO) Effe, Alexandra, Melissa Schuh & Carmen-Francesca Banciou.
“Fictionalisation of Testimony.” in The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture. Ed. Sara Jones & Roger Woods. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 185–207 |
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| Alexandra Effe Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (UiO) Effe, Alexandra, Melissa Schuh & Carmen- Francesca Banciou. “Fictionalisation of Testimony.” in The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture. Ed. Sara Jones & Roger Woods. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 185–207 |
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| Natalia Igl
Associate Professor in German-language literature and culture, hiof Igl, Natalia. "Stylistic Design Elements of Literary Texts." in Language and
Emotion. An International Handbook. Volume 3 (= HSK 46/3), edited by Gesine Lenore Schiewer, Jeanette Altarriba and Bee Chin Ng. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023, pp. 1511–1528.
<https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795486-008> |
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Natalia Igl Associate Professor in German-language literature and culture, hiof Igl, Natalia. "Stylistic Design Elements of
Literary Texts." in Language and Emotion. An International Handbook. Volume 3 (= HSK 46/3), edited by Gesine Lenore Schiewer, Jeanette Altarriba and Bee Chin Ng. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023, pp. 1511–1528.
<https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795486-008> |
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| Karin Kukkonen
Professor in Comparative literature and Convener of LCE, UiO Kukkonen, Karin. Studying Creativity: Cognitive Poetics and Interviews (Keynote). Presented at Cognitive Poetics Conference, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, 31 March 2023 Kukkonen, Karin. “Contingent Selves in Creative Writing” (Keynote). Presented at NarraLinCog 2023 Conference, Universidad Complutense Alcala de Henares, 18 May 2023 |
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Karin Kukkonen Professor in Comparative literature and Convener of LCE, UiO Kukkonen, Karin. Studying Creativity: Cognitive Poetics and Interviews (Keynote). Presented at Cognitive Poetics Conference, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, 31 March 2023 Kukkonen, Karin. “Contingent Selves in Creative Writing” (Keynote). Presented at NarraLinCog 2023 Conference, Universidad Complutense Alcala de Henares, 18 May 2023 |
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| Jasmin Richter
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, UiO Richter, Jasmin, Kristine M. Lescoeur, Ida B. R. Nilsen & Rolf Reber.
Morally wrong ≠ false. Moral judgments and truth judgments depend on different cognitive processes [Poster Presentation]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention 2023, Washington, D.C., United States, May 25–28, 2023 |
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| Jasmin Richter Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, UiO Richter, Jasmin, Kristine M. Lescoeur, Ida B. R. Nilsen & Rolf Reber. Morally wrong ≠ false. Moral judgments and truth judgments depend on different cognitive processes [Poster Presentation]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention 2023, Washington, D.C., United States, May 25–28, 2023 |
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Photo: Olaf Christensen / UiO |
| Rebecca Suter
Associate Professor in Japan Studies, UiO Suter, Rebecca. "Akutagawa Ryūnosuke" in Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Work of Short Fiction Writers. Farmington Hills: Gale Group, 2023, pp. 1–42. ISSN 9780028674001 |
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Photo: Olaf Christensen / UiO |
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Rebecca Suter Associate Professor in Japan Studies, UiO Suter, Rebecca. "Akutagawa Ryūnosuke" in Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Work of Short Fiction Writers. Farmington Hills: Gale Group, 2023, pp. 1–42. ISSN 9780028674001 |
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