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.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2016
Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, Room 802
SESSION 5 [Chair: Jacob Mackey, Queens College]
9:00 a.m. Animal Sacrifices in Roman Asia Minor
Günther Schörner (University of Vienna)
9:30 a.m. Archaeologies of the Imagination: Creativity, Kinesis, and Cognition in Greek Visual Culture
Joan Breton Connelly (NYU)
10:00 a.m. Towards a Processual Understanding of Roman Commemorative Monuments
Diana Y. Ng (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
SESSION 6 [Chair:Hedwig Schwall, KU Leuven]
11:00 a.m. Cognitive Dissonance in the Political and Religious History of Hellenistic Athens
Thomas Martin (College of the Holy Cross)
11:30 a.m. Emotions First. Epistemic Emotions in Plato’s Dialogically Extended Cognition
Laura Candiotto (University of Edinburgh)
12:00 p.m. Roman Cultural Semantics: Image Schemas, Metaphors, and Folk Models of Understanding of Ancient Language and Culture
William Short (University of Texas at San Antonio)
12:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 7 [Chair: William Short, UTSA]
1:30 p.m. Reading the Mind of Ajax
Sheila Murnaghan (University of Pennsylvania)
2:00 p.m. 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)
2:30 p.m. Life beyond the Poem: The Odyssey’s Open End
Joel Christensen (Brandeis University)
3:00 p.m. Positive Emotion and Cognition in the Spectating of Aristophanic Comedy
Angeliki Varakis (University of Kent)
3:30 p.m. The Roman Army as a Rabble in Tacitus Histories I
Garrett Fagan (Pennsylvania State University)
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