Resurrecting the Ancient Mind – Cognitive Science in Archaeology and Philology

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Resurrecting the Ancient Mind – Cognitive Science in Archaeology and Philology

Veranstalter
GRK 1876 "Frühe Konzepte von Mensch und Natur: Universalität, Spezifität, Tradierung" / Research Training Group 1876 "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed"
Veranstaltungsort
Institut Français, Schillerstr. 11, 55116 Mainz
Ort
Mainz
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
05.12.2017 - 06.12.2017
Deadline
30.11.2017
Website
https://www.grk-konzepte-mensch-natur.uni-mainz.de/workshop-2017/
Von
PD Dr. Annemarie Ambühl

The Mainz Research Training Group “Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed” aims to understand concepts of natural objects for selected domains of “man and nature” and to analyze their (trans)cultural dissemination in time and space from a wide range of perspectives. Since there seem to be surprising parallels in the early knowledge of man and nature across different cultures, these concepts are to be investigated in light of their universal or specific value.

This workshop is designed to create an interdisciplinary dialogue between the study of the ancient past and the cognitive sciences with the aim of broadening our understanding of how the mind, both modern and ancient, develops and embraces complexity. How did people relate to the representation and understanding of self? How did they engage with the surrounding environment? What are the processes by which acquired knowledge is formulated through language and transformed into concepts? These questions may be found not only within the study of the past civilizations, but are also issues in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy. The underlying mechanics at work in the development of the cognitive abilities of our species are a common denominator, perhaps even a “universal” for all the Human Sciences.
In this light, this workshop introduces and integrates cognitive theories with the study of ancient concepts of man and nature, enriching the methodological framework on both sides of the scientific spectrum.
Cognitive processes such as the perception of the body, as well as of natural phenomena, landscape, and the development of different concepts of space and place, will be examined from a broad range of perspectives including neuroscience, archaeology and philology - by discussing theory as well as specific case studies.

Programm

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

Kontakt

Dr. Silke Bechler

Coordination Office GRK 1876
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

grk1876@uni-mainz.de

https://www.grk-konzepte-mensch-natur.uni-mainz.de/workshop-2017/