🇩🇪 Wie kommt es dazu, dass man sich bei der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit Erzählungen plötzlich einem kognitionswissenschaftlichen Ansatz zuwendet? Eva von Contzen (Universität Freiburg) berichtet über die wissenschaftliche Arbeit, die sie nachhaltig geprägt hat.

Coming to #sblaar22? Check out this workshop with Eve Sweetster entitled “Cognitive Strategies for Identifying Viewpoint in Biblical Texts.” Fri 18 Nov 3-6PM #sblaar2022 #sblaar22 #SBLAAR #cognitive #cognitivelinguistics #biblical #biblicalinterpretation #denver

How can cognitive approaches help us read ancient Greek poetry? Anna Bonifazi (Universität zu Köln) applies blended classic joint attention to Pindar’s Olympian Ode 14. diegesis-in-mind.com/2022/11/01/ble… #cognitive #biblicalstudies #cognitivescience #ancientliterature #greekpoetry #pindar

🎙️ Listen in as Eve Sweetser (cognitive linguist, D/M advisor & contributor) discusses cognition and point of view in this new post at Diegesis-In-Mind.com. #cognitivelinguistics #cognition #pointofview #cognition #ancientnarrative #sblaar22 diegesis-in-mind.com/2022/12/01/cog…

Join us 8-10 Feb in Bonn, Germany as we consider the motives and cross-religious impacts of ancient characters leaving original story worlds to become inhabitants of later narratives. diegesis-in-mind.com/events/

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn @nt_bonn University of St Andrews School of Divinity, University of St Andrews Jan Rüggemeier Elizabeth Shively Beyond Canon Michal Bar-Asher Siegal Yale University Anna Bonifazi Universität zu Köln Evert van Emde Boas Aarhus University Universität Zürich Duke University Universität Regensburg The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity ChristianOrigins Hebrew University @koendetemmerman UGent Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

CFP & Registration for Figuring the Enemy Interdisciplinary and Integrative Workshop Symposium 6-8th of June at the University of St Andrews, Scotland figuringtheenemy.com/2023/02/01/cfp…

Wishing you could participate in the "Characters in Mind" conference but cannot make it to Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn this week? No problem! We will be streaming portions of the event through our social media channels. If you cannot join us in Germany, join us here!

A reminder that proposals for the Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Gospels group at IBR are still welcome. Elizabeth Shively and I would love to hear what you are working on! ibr-bbr.org/annual-meeting…

Join us for “Atonement Matters,” 31 Mar 9AM-5PM. Free, no reg rqrd. Papers by Prof. Douglas Campbell (Duke), Dr Erin Heim (Oxford), Dr Rebekah Lamb (St Andrews), & Dr Jared Michelson (Cornerstone). Book launch for Prof. Crisp's & Dr Moffitt's new publications w Baker Academic.

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

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!

With everyone else posting their SBL papers, let me post to say that I am really looking forward to this little series of papers in Multidisciplinary Approaches this year.

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

Countdown is on!⏳Only 7 days left until the start of the #annualconference bringing together over 900 scholars in the field of religious sciences for insightful discussions and inspiring debates! Check out here👉bit.ly/43xq9L4 for a seamless participation😉 #EuARe2023

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

Read "Jesus, the Shema, and Oneness in the Synoptic Gospels: The Formation of Early Christian Identity" by Elizabeth E. Shively & Max Botner in One God, One People: Oneness and Unity in Early Christianity edited by Stephen C. Barton and Andrew J. Byers. buff.ly/44pXIyl

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

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