In December 2025, Aftenposten interviewed Alexandra Effe and Kari Spjeldnæs about the benefits of reading fiction.
In August 2025, Alexandra Effe conducted an interview with newly appointed inaugural Commonwealth Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh.
With her talk "Reconstructing Charlotte Brontë’s Creative Process", Kukkonen will present work from her LCE project on Creativity and Contingency.
An article co-written by the LCE project 'Voice in Literature' has been selected as the Runner-Up (second-place winner) for The Sebeok-Love Award 2024.
In her talk, "Literature as Uncertainty Practice – Creative Encounters with the World," Kukkonen will speak about how literature provides its readers with a designed sensory flow.
From January 2025, Centre for Human Interactivity (CHI) will become a cooperation partner with Centre for Literature, Cognition and Emotions (LCE).
An article co-written by the LCE project 'Voice in Literature' has been selected as 'Editor's Choice' in the journal Language Sciences.
With her talk "Creative Writing in Times of Crisis: Social Functions and Therapeutic Potentials," Alexandra Effe will present LCE financed work during her research stay at the University of Auckland.
With her talk, "Contingent Minds: Companions, Proxies and Nobodies in Literary Writing," Karin Kukkonen will present in the Fiction and Other Minds seminar series.
Karin Kukkonen and Alexandra Effe will present work from their LCE projects at the SIRFF conference 18.-20 October.
A new teaching video has been added to LCE's video catalogue. Join Alexandra Effe as she gives an introduction to empirical methods in the study of literature.
The Manuscript group at LCE invites papers for their third workshop on 17.-18. October 2024.
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", Kukkonen 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!
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".
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.
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.
