Public Lecture with Laura Suzanne Lieber x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Watch party for Jesse Friedman Laura Lieber’s fantastic lecture on how responses to #Esther changed over time! DiegesisInMind @BlDvlHumanities Jewish Life at Duke

LAST CHANCE TO GET A PAID PHD POSITION! The official deadline has passed but I will consider applications for these two paid (!) PhD positions that reach me over the coming days because I am disappointed with the number of applications - especially by female students, especially

We are so excited to announce our new book series, Diegesis in Mind: Cognitive Disciplines and Ancient Narrative in Dialogue. 🎭🏛️🏺Main editors: Jan Rüggemeier & Elizabeth Shively Bonn University Press Vandenhoeck Ruprecht Verlage @BrillPublishing

Victoria Pöhls explores ways cognitive approaches to ancient narrative help us understand the thoughts and feelings ancient readers may have experienced when engaging with stories. diegesis-in-mind.com/2023/02/01/thi…

Chris Porter (University of Divinity) explains how cognitive science informs his work on religious and social identity. Chris "Azn enough" Porter youtu.be/0eD30bj6Q6I

Piano, Pindar, and pragmatics… Anna Bonifazi (Universität zu Köln) brings a lot to the D/M team! Her core interests include the performative side of oral traditions & the multimodality of storytelling. Read her blog on blended classic joint attention in Pindar. diegesis-in-mind.com/2022/11/01/ble…

Why would someone use cognitive science to read narratives? Victoria Pöhls, @koendetemmerman, and Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen share their answers. youtu.be/yPCzXd4oir0

Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh University) brings many emotions to our research – “I’m especially interested in narrative concepts of mind and emotion, narrative approaches to other-understanding, and the presentation of mind and emotion in narrative.” diegesis-in-mind.com/2022/11/01/con…

Had a very interesting conversation this morning with Elizabeth Shively on cognitive poetics and ancient texts. It’ll be up on the DiegesisInMind podcast once she edits me to appear articulate!

June special! 1st of 4 instalments w Peter Stockwell, Prof of English Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN & author of Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction. He describes how he began to use of cognitive science to study literature & how cog sci entered literary studies. youtu.be/doFhbvHcI0k

Just dropped! 2nd part of interview with Peter Stockwell, Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN English Prof, on ‘cognitive poetics’ and how cognitive science has changed the landscape of language and literature study. View this & 1st part at diegesis-in-mind.com

Part 3 of my interview of Peter Stockwell, Prof of English Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN, on the payoff of using a cognitive approach to literature. View here: youtu.be/ty9s6yaeZy8 and find 1st 2 interviews at diegesis-in-mind.com

As we approach the close of inaugural year, take a look at this video/photo mashup from first D/M recording, 17-21 July '22 at Intl SBL in Salzburg. Feat. Anna-Lena Senk, @koendetemmerman, Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, and NicoleOe.. youtu.be/5cPKUFYe5yM

4th & final part of interview with Peter Stockwell on biggest obstacles to interpreting ancient texts, how cognitive poetics an help, and the extent to which we can apply matters of modern psychology to the ancient mind youtu.be/dyiB7tmqNpE via YouTube

New season kickoff! Check out Eve Sweetser's interview with Historian Line Cecile Engh Universitetet i Oslo & Cognitive Scientist Mark Turner Mark Turner on how vivid physical metaphors in medieval monastic training manuals helped novices to form "blended selves." diegesis-in-mind.com

Gregory Membrez uses Conceptual Metaphor Theory to unpack Aristotle's use of "dwelling in a household" as a metaphor of "metaphor" in our latest blog post diegesis-in-mind.com/2023/10/01/ari…

How can we identify metaphors in ancient texts? Check out our latest blog post by Greg Membrez to find out. diegesis-in-mind.com/2023/11/01/how…