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litsci-l-digest         Monday, August 1 2005         Volume 01 : Number
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In this issue:

     CFP: Literature and the Cognitive Sciences
     CFP: Lit and Sci Area of ACA

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:45:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Craig Hamilton" 
Subject: CFP: Literature and the Cognitive Sciences

Call for Papers

Literature and the Cognitive Sciences

University of Connecticut, Storrs
April 6-9, 2006

Plenary Speakers:

Raymond Gibbs, UC Santa Cruz
Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut
Elaine Scarry, Harvard University

"Literature and the Cognitive Sciences," the first
conference of its kind, will feature new work being done
at the multiple (and
proliferating) contact points between literary studies and
the
sciences of mind and brain. The conference seeks to
present a broadly representative array of approaches,
theoretical as well as empirical, general as well as
attuned to specific literary topics and fields.  In
addition to literary scholars and theorists, we encourage
paper
proposals from researchers in psychology, linguistics, the
neurosciences, anthropology, and philosophy of mind.

Topics and special fields represented will include (but
are not
limited to) cognitive poetics, conceptual integration
("blending") theory, psycholinguistics and literature,
cognitive cultural studies, "theory of mind" theories and
literary characters/texts/readers,
neuroscientific and cognitive investigations of reader
response,
cognitive rhetoric, literary universals, cognitive
narratology,
evolutionary literary theory, cognitive historicism,
cognitive studies of theater and performance, mental
imagery and the literary
imagination, literature and the neuroscience of emotion,
literary
theory and the embodied mind.

Conference Organizer: F. Elizabeth Hart, University of
Connecticut, Storrs Program Coordinator: Alan Richardson,
Boston College

Send 200-300 word proposals to Alan Richardson by email only:

alan.richardson@bc.edu 

deadline for all proposals: October 1, 2005

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Dr. Craig Hamilton
Lecturer
Department of English
University of California at Irvine
Irvine CA 92697 USA

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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:23:09 -0500
From: Ian Roberts 
Subject: CFP: Lit and Sci Area of ACA

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Call for Papers:

The American Culture Association has a new area! Now there's another
place 
to share ideas and informally meet with others interested in Literature
and 
Science!

The Literature and Science Area of the American Culture Association
invites 
submissions for the 2006 PCA/ACA National Conference, to be held at the 
Marriott Marquis Hotel in charming Atlanta, Georgia from April 12-16.

Interpretive papers focusing on the representation or integration of 
science in specific literary texts are especially encouraged. However, 
proposals dealing with any aspect of the interdisciplinary field of 
literature and science are welcome. Topics related to the interrelations
of 
the humanities and sciences include:

- --Theoretical, methodological, historical, sociological, political, 
economic, international, intercultural, visual, textual, and rhetorical 
commonalities or conflicts
- --Institutionalization and inter/disciplinarity of literature and
science 
as a field of study.
- --Literature and science course philosophy, pedagogy, design, and
texts
- --Use of literature (hard SF and other) to help teach science
- --Literary/rhetorical analyses of scientific texts
- --Origins and effects of such genre distinctions as "science fiction"
and 
"popular science" on literary interpretation and on attitudes toward 
canonicity and professional prestige
- --Differing beliefs about the meaning or significance of evolution,
free 
will, and literacy in the humanities and sciences
- --Literary realism and naturalism as a locus of humanistic and
scientific 
worldviews.
- --Evolutionary criticism and biopoetics

Please submit 150-200 word abstracts of papers or panel proposals by 
November 1, 2005 to:

Ian F. Roberts, Ph.D.
Area Chair, Literature and Science
Associate Professor of English
Missouri Western State University
4525 Downs Drive
St. Joseph, MO 64507
robertsi@missouriwestern.edu 

For further information about the conference, please visit the PCA/ACA 
website at
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