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18th Trends in Classics International Conference

Cognitive Theory and Later Latin: Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

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)