International symposium: ‘Abstract Concepts: debates on their structure, processing, and modelling’
WHERE: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
ORGANIZERS: Dr. Marianna Bolognesi (COGVIM project), Prof. Dr. Gerard Steen
8 eminent scholars have been invited to Amsterdam to discuss the nature, structure, processing, and modeling of abstract concepts in various disciplines.
The nature of abstract concepts is particularly relevant for metaphor researchers, because it has been argued for decades that metaphors are matters of thought, that allow us to understand abstract concepts by comparing them to concrete ones.
The scholars that confirmed their participation, in alphabetic order, are:
– Prof. Alessandro Lenci
http://www.humnet.unipi.it/linguistica/Docenti/Lenci/
– Prof. Max Louwerse
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/m.m.louwerse.htm
– Prof. Ken McRae
https://sites.google.com/site/kenmcraelab/
– Dr. Diane Pecher
http://www.eur.nl/fsw/psychologie/research/profielen/profiel_mis/10311/
– Prof. Friedemann Pulvermueller
http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we04/institut/mitarbeiter/pulvermuller/index.html
– Prof. Gun Semin
http://www.uu.nl/staff/GRSemin
– Prof. Gabriella Vigliocco
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/experimental-psychology/person/gabriella-vigliocco/
– Prof. Piek Vossen
http://vossen.info/
During the symposium the panelists will present in turn their view and will receive structured comments (prepared in advance) from their peers. A general discussion among all panelists and the audience will follow.