"Literature, Cognition, Emotions, and Embodiment" Roundtable Discussion

MAR 01, 2013 | 4:30 PM TO 5:30 PM

Details

WHERE:

The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue

ROOM:

1201: Elebash Recital Hall

WHEN:

March 01, 2013: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

ADMISSION:

Free

Description

Roundtable discussion featuring English Program faculty Meena Alexander, John Brenkman, Glenn Burger, Anne Humpherys, and Nancy Yousef in discussion about the "mind-body" problem in terms of recent theoretical questions in their field, in their work, or in work by graduate students. Issues discussed may consider the relationship between literature or literary studies and cognition, affect, emotions, embodiment, neuroscience, trauma, phenomenology, and the body.