The Research Training Group 1876 "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed" invites to its
International Workshop
Resurrecting the Ancient Mind - Cognitive Science in Archaeology and Philology
to be held on 5th and 6th December 2017 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany).
Program
December 5th, 2017 / Institut Français, Schillerstr. 11, 55116 Mainz
Opening Talk and Discussion
| 10:15-10:30 | Welcome and Introduction by Tanja Pommerening and Sonja Speck (Mainz/Egyptology) |
| 10:30-11:30 | Lambros Malafouris (Oxford/Archaeology) Archaeology, Mind and Material Engagement: On the Cognitive Ecology of Marks, Lines and Traces |
| 11:30-12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break |
Panel 1: Cognitive Theory in Art and Archaeology
(organizers: Sonja Speck, Katharina Zartner and Prof. Dr. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser)
| 13:30-14:00 | Bob Kentridge & Charles Heywood (Durham/Psychology) Can Factors in the Psychology of Visual Perception Account for Stylistic Regularities in Palaeolithic Art? |
| 14:00-14:30 | Paul Pettitt (Durham/Archaeology) Cave Art, Cognitive Style. Materials and Methods for the Scientific Investigations of the Origins of Art |
| 14:30-15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00-15:30 | Christoph Huth (Freiburg/Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology) The Many Faces of Prehistoric Pictorial Representations |
| 15:30-16:30 | Panel Discussion with Brief Lecture by Sonja Speck (Mainz/Egyptology) and Katharina Zartner (Mainz/Archaeology) |
| 16:30 | Optional Visit of the Christmas Market in Mainz |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
December 6th, 2017 / Institut Français, Schillerstr. 11, 55116 Mainz
Panel 2: Cognitive Approaches to Natural Phenomena and Landscape
(organizers: Laura Borghetti, Mari Yamasaki and Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening)
| 09:30-10:00 | Ezra Zubrow (Buffalo/Anthropology) Ancient Cognition and Mind: The Creation of the Cultural Landscape |
| 10:00-10:30 | Almo Farina (Urbino/Ecology) The Rural Sanctuaries: Heritage from the Past to Have a Better Future |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Fiona Coward (Bournemouth/Archaeology) Putting the ‘Fit’ back into ‘Survival of the Fittest’: Environments, Landscapes, and Multiscalar Evolution in the Human Lineage |
| 11:30-12:30 | Panel Discussion with Brief Lectures by Laura Borghetti (Mainz/Byzantine Studies) and Mari Yamasaki (Mainz/Archaeology) |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break |
Panel 3: Cognitive Lingustics and Philology
(organizers: Shahrzad Irannejad, Mirna Kjorveziroska, Marie-Charlotte von Lehsten, Oxana Polozhentseva, PD Dr. Annemarie Ambühl and Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening)
| 14:00-14:30 | Ines Köhler (Berlin/Egyptology) Let the Sky Fall. How Landscape and Nature Shape Ancient Egyptian Thinking |
| 14:30-15:00 | Anthony Corbeill (Oxford/Classics) Perceiving the Roman World through Latin Grammatical Gender |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:00 | John R. Taylor (Otago/Linguistics) Words and the World |
| 16:00-17:00 | Panel Discussion with Brief Lecture by Shahrzad Irannejad (Mainz/History of Medicine) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks |
| 17:30 | End of the Workshop |