Roundtable: Cognitive roots of creativity: language, literature, and film
September 18, 2024, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Join us for an introductory lecture by Dr. Alexander Bergs and a roundtable discussion exploring intriguing questions about potential connections between work being done in linguistics and the research in fine arts and literary analysis.
The roundtable will open conversations and bring forth ideas on creativity in language originating in Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, while also creating a space for conversation where other conceptualizations of creativity can be presented, so that similarities, and differences, can be explored.
When?
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where?
Green College, Coach house
6201 Cecil Green Park Rd,
UBC, V6T 1Z1
Title: Cognitive roots of creativity: language, literature, and film
Dr. Alexander Bergs will kickstart the event by giving an introductory talk, outlining approaches to the title from his perspective, followed by a roundtable conversation, inviting participants from across the Faculty of Arts to share questions and comments.
Professor Bergs is known for his expertise in several areas of scholarship. He first gained his reputation as a historical linguist, but has also been instrumental in the rise of cognitive poetics – understood very broadly as cognition-based study of meaning emergence in a very broad class of artifacts, textual, but also visual and multimodal. Professor Bergs was an organizer of first a symposium and then a conference on cognitive poetics, and has been one of the primary figures in the establishment of the Oxford University Press book series on cognitive poetics, which has now published a number of volumes on the ways in which the study of cognition enriches our understanding of creative endeavours in fine arts. He has also invested in the growth of studies involving multimodal artifacts. All in all, his expertise and experience cover the range of issues that are likely to emerge in discussion.