LINGUIST List 9.811

Sat May 30 1998

Calls: Literature and Cognitive Science,CogSci'98

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

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1. Clai Rice, CFP: Literature and Cognitive Science (deadline change)
2. CogSci Summer School, CogSci 98: deadline close

CFP: Literature and Cognitive Science (collection)

The deadline for proposals has been extended to July 1 to accomodate
the call for papers scheduled to appear in the next issue of PMLA.

Please address any questions to Claiborne Rice (criceatlas.uga.edu)
or Anne Williams (awilliamparallel.park.uga.edu).

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Below is the full text of the CFP:

	 The editors seek submissions for a collection that aims to
facilitate a discussion between the disciplines of literary criticism
and cognitive science, centering on the reading of literature. In the
spirit of _More Than Cool Reason_ and subsequent work by Mark Turner,
George Lakoff and others, we believe that cognitive approaches to
literary texts benefit both disciplines. Therefore, we are soliciting
two types of papers, works by cognitive scientists/linguists that
employ literary texts primarily as examples of language use, and works
of literary criticism that use cognitive linguistics or conceptual
blending, broadly construed, as tools for analysis. Each paper should
be an original and valuable contribution to the idiom of its own
field. Optionally, the papers may either critique some aspects of a
conceptual approach or contrast this approach with other approaches
current in the respective discipline.

Possible topics include:

genre definition/canon formation
textual criticism
conceptual basis for literary constructions, including iconicity
	issues
translation studies
stylistics/poetics
historical development of conceptual structures
categorization issues
polysemy

Date: Please submit two-page paper or email abstracts by July 1 to:

Anne Williams 
email: awilliamparallel.park.uga.edu 
Department of English University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-6205

or

Claiborne Rice			email: criceatlas.uga.edu
Department of English
Park Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-6205

This is a reminder that the deadline is very close.

5th International Summer School
in
Cognitive Science
Sofia, NBU, July 13 - 25, 1998

Call for Papers and School Brochure

The Summer School features advanced courses in Cognitive Science,
workshop, participant symposia, panel discussions, and intensive
informal discussions. Participants will include university teachers
and researchers, and graduate students. Working language is English.

Courses

Mappings in Thought and Language - Gilles Fauconnier (U of California
San Diego, USA)

Coherence in Thought and Action - Paul Thagard (U. of Waterloo,
Canada)

Analogy-Making - Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University, USA), Boicho
Kokinov (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria)

Concepts and Categorization - James Hampton (City University London,
UK)

The Psychology of Decision Making - Arthur Markman (Columbia
University, USA)

Brain Organization of Human Memory and Thought - John Gabrieli
(Stanford, USA)

Creative Cognition - Thomas Ward (Texas A&M University, USA)

Cognitive Development - Graeme Halford (University of Queensland,
Australia)

Animal Cognition - Roger Thompson (Franklin & Marshall College,
Lancaster, PA, USA)

Connectionist Models of High-Level Cognition - John Barnden
(University of Birmingham, UK)

Plenary Talks

Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana University, USA) Analogy as the Core of
Cognition

Gilles Fauconnier (UCSD, USA) Analogy and Conceptual Integration

James Hampton (City Univ. London, UK) The role of similarity in how we
categorize the world

Jaime Carbonell (CMU, USA) Analogy in Problem Solving, from the Routine to
the Creative

Ken Forbus (Northwestern University, USA) Qualitative Mental Models:
Simulations or Memories?

Graeme Halford (U. of Queensland, Australia) The Problem of Structural

Complexity in Cognitive Processes: A Metric Based on Representational
Rank

Paul Thagard (U. of Waterloo, Canada) Emotional Analogies

David Oden (La Salle University, USA), Roger Thompson (Franklin and

Marshall College, USA) and David Premack (USA) Analogical
Problem-Solving by Chimpanzees

Usha Goswami (U. College London, UK) Analogical Reasoning in Children

Mark Keane (Trinity College, Ireland) Why Conceptual Combination is
Seldom Analogy

Adam Biela (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Analogical Resoning
as a Base for Structuring Cognitive Schemata in New Situations: A Case
of Economic Transformation in Post-Communist Countries

Dedre Gentner (NWU, USA) Comparison and Cognition

Keith Holyoak (UCLA, USA) The Place of Analogy in a Physical Symbol
System

Boicho Kokinov (NBU, Bulgaria) Analogy is like Cognition: Complex,
Emergent, Context-Sensitive


Workshop: Advances in Analogy Research:

Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive, Computational, and
Neural Sciences In parallel to the Summer School a workshop on analogy
will take place (July 17-20). For a description of the workshop see
workshop announcement.

Participant Symposia

Participants are invited to submit papers reporting completed research
which will be presented (30 min) at the participant symposia. Authors
should send full papers (8 single spaced pages) in triplicate or
electronically (RTF format) by May 31. Selected papers will be
published in the School's Proceedings. Only papers presented at the
School will be eligible for publication.

Local Organizers

New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarian
Cognitive Science Society

Local Organizing Committee

Boicho Kokinov - School Director, Elena Andonova, Gergana Yancheva,
Iliana Haralanova

Sponsors

Open Society Institute - Budapest, Open Society Fund - Sofia,
Cognitive Science Society (USA)

Application Submissions

Applicants for participation should send the registration form, their
CV, statement of purpose, list of publications (if any) and short
summary of up to three of them, letter of recommendation (if they
don't have publications).

There will be up to 70 participants in the Summer School, so
applications will be processed on a "first come first processed"
bases.

Financial Support

Applicants from all Central and Eastern European as well as from the
former Soviet Union countries are eligible for grant application. Up
to 30 grants provided by the Open Society Institute in Budapest will
be assigned by the selection committee on the basis of the above
application documents. Participants from the rest of the world will
have to find their own sources for participation, but their number
will be up to 30 as well.

qMethods of Payment Bank transfer to: New Bulgarian University -
CogSci97, Bank account 1100-13-111-4, ING Bank, Bank code: 145-91-458,
Sofia, Bulgaria. (transfer fees prepaid). Check made payable to New
Bulgarian University (add USD 10 processing fees) Pay in cash (in USD
only) at on site registration, in this case add USD50 for late
registration.

Cancellations and Reimbursement

If you cancel your registration before June 30 you will be refunded
with a 15% reduction, afterwards no refunding will be possible.


Send your Registration Form as soon as possible to:
CogSci98
Central and Easter European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria
e-mail: schoolcogs.nbu.acad.bg
(If you don't receive an aknowledgement within 3 days, send a message to
kokinovbgearn.acad.bg)


Timetable

As we have received a huge number of inquiries about the Summer School
and the number of participants in the Summer School is limited, the
applications will be served on a first-come-first-served basis. So,
please register (and make the due payments) as soon as possible.

Deadline for application submission:	May 31
Deadline for paper submission: 	May 31
Notification for acceptance:		June 15
Early registration:			June 30
Arrival date and on site registration	July 12
Summer School			July 13-25
Excursion				July 19
Departure date			July 26
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 International Summer School in Cognitive Science
Sofia, July 12 - 26, 1998

Registration Form

Last Name:

First Name:

Status: Professor / Academic Researcher / Applied Researcher /
Graduate Student / Undergraduate Student

Sex: Female / Male (to be used for accommodation)

Affiliation:

	University:

	Department:

Country:

Mailing address:



e-mail address:

fax:

I intend to submit a paper for the symposium: (title)


I am registering for the following courses (you can register for all
courses if you are interested, there will be no parallel sessions):

Special Food Requirements: (e.g. vegetarian)

I am registering for the following housing option:

* single room in a 3 star hotel + full board + registration fee USD
995

* single room in a 2 star hotel + full board + registration fee USD
670

* shared room in student hostels + full board + registration fee USD
400

Method of payment:

*I have made a bank transfer (transfer fees should be prepaid)
*I am enclosing a check payable to New Bulgarian University (add USD
	10 to cover the processing fee)
*I will pay in cash on site (add USD50 for late registration)
*I am from Eastern/Central Europe and I would like to apply for
financial support


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