PD Dr. Annemarie Ambühl
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