The NYU Center for Ancient Studies announces
The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
Classics and Cognitive Theory
Thursday and Friday, October 27-28, 2016
This conference is generously supported and co-sponsored by the NYU 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.
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)
Session 1: The Heights Lounge, Room 170 Sessions 2-4: Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
SESSION 1 [Chair: Peter Meineck, NYU]
9:00 a.m. Early Career Scholars’ Presentations and Workshop
Jennifer Devereaux, Alexander Forte, Hanna Golab, Javier Gomez-Lavin, Sarah Olsen, Goda Thangada, Alessandro Buccheri
SESSION 2 [Chair: Michael Peachin, NYU]
1:00 p.m. Reading the Critic’s Mind
Alessandro Vatri (University of Oxford)
1:30 p.m. Overimitation: Roman Orthopraxy in Light of a Cognitive Universal
Jacob Mackey (Queens College)
2:00 p.m. Roman Artificial Memory as Distributed System
Andrew Riggsby (University of Texas at Austin)
2:30 p.m. The Care of Souls in Late Antique Monasticism: Cognition and Discipline
Paul Dilley (University of Iowa)
SESSION 3 [Chair: David Levene, NYU]
3:30 p.m. A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to the Historic Present in Livy and Tacitus
Lidewij van Gils and Caroline Kroon (University of Amsterdam)
4:00 p.m. Immersed in the Storyworld: A Cognitive Linguistic-Narratological Approach
Rutger J. Allan, University of Amsterdam
4:30 p.m. From Syntax to Story: The Value of Cognitive Science in Teaching Latin Reading Skills and Text Comprehension
Suzanne Adema, University of Amsterdam
SESSION 4: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
5:30 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
Matthew S. Santirocco (NYU)
Peter Meineck (NYU)
5:45 p.m. Strange: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Embrace the Cognitive Humanities
G. Gabrielle Starr (NYU)
6:45 p.m. Public Reception
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Center for Ancient Studies at 212.992.7978 or at ancient.studies@nyu.edu
The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies: Classics and Cognitive Theory
