29 October 2024 - 29 October 2024
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
Free
The first of eight workshops over the course of Michaelmas term in conjunction with the large-scale cross-faculty research project, Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture, which explores the syntactical basis of a wide range of phenomena spanning cognitive and cultural domains, from learning and reasoning to narrative and memory to music and dance, to shed new light on the human mind, cultural evolution, and aesthetics.
Artwork by JK Rofling (www. jkrofling.com)
This workshop is free and open to all but capacity of the seminar room is 30, so please register attendance using this MS Form – if there are more registrants than capacity, places will be allocated on a first come first served basis, and the opportunity for online attendance will then be offered.
Further details of topics and background reading can be found here.
The schedule below details the full series of workshops including topic and date.
Workshops 1-2: Mind, brain, cognition
Tuesday 29th October – workshop 1 Tuesday 5th November – workshop 2
Workshops 3-4: Learning, culture, evolution
Tuesday 12th November – workshop 3Friday 15th November – workshop 4
Workshops 5-6: Narrativity, causality, meaning
Tuesday 19th November – workshop 5 Thursday 21st November – workshop 6
Workshops 7-8: Aesthetics, music, dance
Tuesday 26th November – workshop 7 Tuesday 3rd December – workshop 8
Overview, conclusions & next steps
Tuesday 10th December – round table discussion
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