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Department of English Studies

Implicit Narrativity: The Workshop

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5 December 2024 - 5 December 2024

9:30AM - 6:00PM

Institute for Medical Humanities, Confluence Building, Durham University

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An international workshop with scholars from cognitive sciences and narrative studies advancing on the problem of 'implicit narrativity'

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Join us for a one-day workshop with 7 international, multidisciplinary speakers working at the confluence of cognition and narratives.

 

Full program and speaker biographies here

 

Is human life inherently narrative or do we narrativise our experiences? Is our consciousness an impersonal random stream or is it rather an experiential story? When we look at the world do we see randomness , like in the autumn falling leaves; or do we perceive a storyline or narrative patterns in each and every slice of our multi-sensory percepts ? The jury is still out, and the debate is fascinating.

This interdisciplinary and international workshop will bring together scholars from cognitive sciences and narrative studies to advance on the shared problem of ‘implicit narrativity’ and look at it as a multidisciplinary opportunity. New methods and angles - from developmental psychology to life-writing, from cognitive narrative theory to medical humanities, from philosophy of mind to cross-media and cross-process analyses - will be compared and collectively discussed in a full day dedicated to one of the most compelling yet undertheorised aspect of cognition.

No preparation is needed. Narrativists and non-narrativists all welcome!

This hybrid event is brought to you by the Narrative and Cognition Lab in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

 

Zoom details for online attendees will be circulated closer to the event.

 

This event is free to attend.

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