Thessaloniki, 30-31 May 2024
Thursday, 30 May, 2024
 
 9:00–9:15
 Welcome and general introduction
 
 PANEL 1. Chair:  Chrysanthe Tsitsiou-Chelidoni (Thessaloniki)  
 
 9:15-10:45
 Paul Dilley (Iowa), Monastic Renunciation, Hagiography, and Mental Health
 Stefan Tilg (Freiburg), How Do They Know? Knowledge of Invented Characters and Events in Early Modern Latin Prose Fiction
 
 
 11:15-13:30
 Maik Patzelt (Berlin), On Martyrs, Demons and Devils: A Cognitive Approach to Christian Horror Stories
 Sean Leatherbury (Dublin), Living and Thinking with Things in Late Antiquity: Ennodius on Firmina's Jewelry
 Isabella Sandwell (Bristol), Embodied Doctrine: The Cognitive Benefits  of Using Material Images of Natural Reproduction to Represent Relations  Between the Divine Father and Son
 
 PANEL 2. Chair:  Evina Sistakou (Thessaloniki)
 
 14:30-16:45
 Roy Gibson (Durham), Late Antique Letter Collections as Extended Cognition?
 Anders K. Petersen (Aarhus), Changing the Mind of the Unlearned and the  Ill Taught: Cognitive Perspectives on Augustine's Teaching in De  cathecizandis rudibus and De utilitate credenda
 Katharine Earnshaw (Exeter), St Augustine and Bede: A Crossover Between Environmental and Cognitive Approaches
 
 17:15-18:45
 Istvan Czachesz (Tromsø), A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Apocalyptic Literature: The Visio Pauli as a Test Case
 Niklaus Largier (Berkeley), The Symbolic Potential of Form: Shaping Cognition in Prayer
 
 Keynote Lecture
 
 18:45-19:45
 Miranda Anderson (Edinburgh), A History of Distributed Cognition: Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
 
 
 Friday, 31 May, 2024
 
 PANEL 3. Chair:  Panagiota Sarischouli (Thessaloniki)
 
 9:00-10:30
 Anna Novokhatko (Thessaloniki), Embodied and Situated Cognition in Augustine's Discussions on Metaphor
 M. William Short (Exeter), Alanus de Insulis' Omnis mundi creatura from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics
 
 11:00-13:15
 Frank Bezner (Freiburg), Cognition and Perception in 12th Century Latin Lyrics
 Racha Kirakosian (Freiburg), Meister Eckhart's Theory of Mind: Towards Neuromedievalism
 Jesper Sørensen (Aarhus), Malleus Maleficarum: Magic and Witchcraft Between Community and State
 
 PANEL 4. Chair:  Florian Schaffenrath (Innsbruck)  
 
 14:30-16:00
 Niall Slater (Atlanta), Supplementary Similes and Metamorphic (Dis-)Embodiment: Vegio's Revisions of Vergil
 George Kazantzidis (Patras), Mental Illness, Cognitive Errors and Cognitive Therapy in Caelius Aurelianus' De morbis chronicis 
 
 
 16:30-18:30
 Yasmin Haskell (Melbourne), Programming Piety: The Cognitive-Affective Codes of Jesuit Poetic Pedagogy 
 Martin Korenjak (Innsbruck), Virtual Space Travel in Early Modern Times
 
 Concluding Remarks
Lieu de la manifestation : Thessaloniki, KEDEA, Aristotle University Campus (http://kedea.rc.auth.gr). 
Organisation  : Anna Novokhatko (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Florian  Schaffenrath (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien)  Stefan Tilg (University of Freiburg) Antonios Rengakos (Aristotle  University of Thessaloniki & Academy of Athens) Stavros Frangoulidis  (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Contact : Anna Novokhatko (anovokhatko[at]lit.auth.gr)
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