Society for Literature and Science

Annual Meeting 1997

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

October 30 - November 2

Cognitive Culture Theory
Special panel organized by Francis Steen, UC Santa Barbara

Cultural Anthropologists such as Scott Atran, Pascal Boyer, Lawrence Hirschfeld, and Dan Sperber have been developing a cognitive approach to culture that may be fruitful to literary theorists and historians. The session will discuss some of the obstacles to the development of a cognitive culture theory, outline its possible scope, and show with some concrete examples how cognitive theories can be invaluable in understanding cultural processes.

Program

1.	Negotiating Darwin	Francis Steen UC Santa Barbara
2.	Cognition and Power	Janet McIntosh University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
3.	Cognitive Literary Studies - A Review	Lisa Zunshine UC Santa Barbara

Back to Cognitive Cultural Studies Related Resources: Blending and Conceptual Integration. Mark Turner's site with links to articles on the subject by a wide variety of scholars.

CogWeb: Cognitive Culture Theory. Francis Steen's site on the relevance of the study of human cognition to literary and cultural studies.

Literature, Cognition & the Brain: research at the intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience. Edited by Mary Crane and Alan Richardson, Boston College.

Francis F. Steen, Communication Studies, University of California, Los Angeles