Kukkonen's talk "Creativity and Contingency: A 4/5 E Perspective", is featured as a keynote at the 10th Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities Conference in Catania in June.
With her talk "Autofictional Reading and Transformative Thinking: Possible Selves in Literature and Life", Effe will deliver the very first talk of the ARN Seminar Series.
The research initiative "Eco-Emotions: Affective Response to Environmental Change in and through Literature" led by Stefka Eriksen, will dive into questions related to emotions, environmental changes and literature.
LCE celebrated its new status as a centre with a launch event on 30 January. LCE assistant Victoria Lauritsen presents her personal highlights from the afternoon event. Click here for the full programme.
With her talk "Literature as Uncertainty Practice – Creative Encounters with the World", Karin will speak about how literature provides its readers with a designed sensory flow. (Cancelled).
In her talk, Reiko Abe Auestad will speak about her upcoming book Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature.
Join us for the launch of our new interdisciplinary centre!
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In her talk “The Novel as Lifeworld Technology”, Karin Kukkonen will speak about how literature extends the reach of readers’ cognition beyond the everyday.
Karin Kukkonen speaks about her research on creativity in literary writing, developing a model based on predictions and probabilities.
Joined at the opening seminar by Natasha Bell, Effe presented her paper: "Thinking (Im-)Possibilities: Probability Estimations and Cognitive Feedback Loops in Processing Autofiction".
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The latest issue of the LCE Newsletter was sent to our subscribers on 21 June. You can access it here and sign up to receive our coming newsletters.
In a recent article in Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet, LCE member Ylva Østby Berger dives into new research on how memories and remembering affect our creative abilities.
The latest issue of the LCE Newsletter was sent to our subscribers on 17 March. You can access it here and sign up to receive our coming newsletters.
What relation is there between being moved to tears and the creation of social bonds? In this episode, Thomas Schubert, Professor of Social Psychology, introduces his research on the feeling of 'being moved'.
What is “epic memory”, and what role does it play in our understanding of Ancient Greek literature? In this episode, Silvio Bär, Professor of Classics, presents his research on the classics through cognitive approaches.
What do Old Norse manuscripts have to do with climate crises? Listen to this episode, in which Stefka Eriksen, Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, introduces her work on manuscripts and the sagas.
LCE congratulates convener Karin Kukkonen on receiving an ERC Consolidator Grant for research on the emergence of the novel.
How do 19th-century novels let us explore the limits of our sympathy? In this episode, Tone Selboe, Professor of Comparative literature, presents her research on how feelings are conveyed and challenged in George Eliot, Dickens and Tolstoy.
The latest issue of the LCE Newsletter was sent to our subscribers in January. You can access it online here and sign up to receive our coming newsletters.
What are the alternative storyworlds of the bible, developed by early Christian communities? Listen to this episode, in which Hugo Lundhaug, Professor of Biblical Reception and Early Christian Literature, introduces his work on Coptic Apocrypha.
What ideas do we have about the act of reading, and how do they differ from its actual nature? In this episode, Sarah Bro Trasmundi, Researcher at LCE and Associate Professor in Cognitive Etnography at SDU, shares her findings on the ideal reader.
New research suggests that short breaks help you think more critically and creatively about what you are reading.
Stefan Collini: "Beauty and the footnote: the place of 'literature' as an academic discipline" – A report from the recent LCE Annual Lecture 2022 and its connected events.
