Thinking Affect: Memory, Language, and Cognition

Advisory Committee:

Lillian Hoddeson, Stephen Levinson, Andrew Pickering, Richard Powers, and Neal Cohen.

Keynote Speakers, (biographies linked):

-Pheoebe Sengers: Information Science and Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University.

-Neal Cohen: Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

This conference intends to open real lines of communication between researchers in cultural studies, the humanities, and the sciences. We will focus on linked topics that are being investigated by a diverse community of scholars and critical thinkers: memory, language, and cognition. Although methods vary widely across disciplinary boundaries, we contend that everyone can benefit from a conversation that revolves around the key questions that are currently shaping the fields of interpretive theory, cognitive science, linguistics, history, computer science, literature, science and technology studies, and others. We will create this mutually beneficial forum for cross-disciplinary discussions by avoiding compartmentalization as best we can. We hope to assemble panels with speakers from different backgrounds, in order to construct a new horizon for future interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration.