The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
CLASSICS AND COGNITIVE THEORY
October 27-28, 2016
Presented by the NYU Center for Ancient Studies and co-sponsored by the Dean of the College of Arts and Science, the Dean for the Humanities, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Center for Neural Science, the Emotional Brain Institute, the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, English, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology, and the Religious Studies Program
Reading the Critic’s Mind
Alessandro Vatri, University of Oxford
Overimitation: Roman Orthopraxy in Light of a Cognitive Universal
Jacob Mackey, Queens College
Roman Artificial Memory as Distributed System
Andrew Riggsby, University of Texas at Austin
The Care of Souls in Late Antique Monasticism: Cognition and Discipline
Paul Dilley, University of Iowa
A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to the Historic Present in Livy and Tacitus
Lidewij van Gils and Caroline Kroon, University of Amsterdam
Immersed in the Storyworld: A Cognitive Linguistic-Narratological Approach
Rutger J. Allan, University of Amsterdam
From Syntax to Story: The Value of Cognitive Science in Teaching Latin Reading Skills and Text Comprehension
Suzanne Adema, University of Amsterdam
Animal Sacrifices in Roman Asia Minor
Günther Schörner, University of Vienna
Archaeologies of the Imagination: Creativity, Kinesis, and Cognition in Greek Visual Culture
Joan Breton Connelly, NYU
Towards a Processual Understanding of Roman Commemorative Monuments
Diana Y. Ng, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Cognitive Dissonance in the Political and Religious History of Hellenistic Athens
Thomas Martin, College of the Holy Cross
Emotions First. Epistemic Emotions in Plato’s Dialogically Extended Cognition
Laura Candiotto, University of Edinburgh
Roman Cultural Semantics: Image Schemas, Metaphors, and Folk Models of Understanding of Ancient Language and Culture
William Short, University of Texas at San Antonio
Reading the Mind of Ajax
Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania
What Do We Actually See on Stage? A Cognitive Approach to the Interaction of Visual and Aural Effects in the Performance of Greek Tragedy
Anne-Sophie Noel, ENS Lyon
Life beyond the Poem: The Odyssey’s Open End
Joel Christensen, Brandeis University
Positive Emotion and Cognition in the Spectating of Aristophanic Comedy
Angeliki Varakis, University of Kent
The Roman Army as a Rabble in Tacitus Histories I
Garrett Fagan, Pennsylvania State University
