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Conference: Evolution, Cognition, and the Arts

Date
Fri March 13th 2009, 10:00am - 5:00pm PDT
Event Sponsor
Sponsored by the DLCL Aesthetics Workshop and by the Stanford Humanities Center.

Program

  • 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Is Narrative an Adaptation?
    William Flesch (English, Brandeis)
    Jonathan Kramnick (English, Rutgers)
    Blakey Vermeule (English, Stanford)
  • 2:00 - 4:30 p.m.: Music and the Brain
    Jonathan Berger (Music, Stanford)
    Daniel Levitin (Psychology, McGill)
  • 4:30 - 5:00 p.m.: Concluding Remarks

Recommended readings:

  1. Flesch Commeuppance 
  2. Levitin Encyclopedia of Mind
  3. Levitin/Tirovolas