Conceptual Metaphors and Body Symbolism
An international and interdisciplinary two-day workshop on conceptual metaphors and body symbolism.
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This workshop about metaphors and body symbolism听will bring together researchers from Bergen, Prague, Oxford and Yale. The participants听will give talks from diverse perspectives and disciplines, including history of religions, comparative mythology, linguistics, semiotics, psychology, law, and philosophy,听and present case studies from various cultures 鈥� Ancient Egypt, India, Greece and medieval as well as modern Europe. Each of them will give their perspective on how the image of human body is metaphorically used in culture, what function it fulfils, how听the meanings are condensed and transformed,听and how we can understand and describe it today within our scholarly discourse. The comparison of diverse fields and case studies should lead to a formulation of similarities,听differences,听and certain recurrent principles.听
Guests, especially those working on听the topic of metaphors, are welcome to join the sessions and take part in the discussions. Discussions will be the core of the workshop, as each 20-minute听talk will be followed by 30 minutes of discussion.听
The workshop will take place at the听SVT 幸运飞艇计划, Parkveien 9听(/en/svt).听
For more information contact Jan Koz谩k.听
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Programme:听
Thursday, 9 May
8:15 鈥撎�8:30听听听听听Meeting up (PARKVEIEN 9)
8:30 鈥撎�9:00听听听听听Welcoming Address by听Jan Koz谩k and听Jens Eike Schnall: Overview of the Programme
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Session I: Introductory and Comparative
9:00 鈥� 9:45听听听听听Jan Koz谩k (Bergen):听Conceptual Metaphor, Analogic Thinking and Body Symbolism
10:00 鈥� 10:45听听Jens Eike Schnall (Bergen):听The Body Politic and Conceptual Metaphor
11:00 鈥撎�11:45听听听Barbora Sojkov谩 (Oxford):听Talking Heads
Lunch break
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Session II: Medieval Myth and Religion
13:00 鈥� 13:45听听Marie Novotn谩 (Prague):听Was Berserk a Bear?
14:00 鈥撎�14:45听听Eldar Heide (Bergen):听Sexual Metaphors Conveying the Essence of Old Norse Mythology?
15:00 鈥撎�15:45听听Ji艡铆 Dynda (Prague):听Body and Corporeality in the Slavic Anthropogonic Narratives
16:00 鈥撎�16:30 听Presentation of the research groups in Bergen, MSCA and other networking possibilities.
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Friday, 10 May
Session III: The Cultures of Antiquity
9:00 鈥� 9:45听听听听听听J酶rgen Bakke (Bergen):听Imaging Bodies in Ancient Greek Culture
10:00 鈥� 10:45听听Evelyne Koubkov谩 (Yale): Resounding Bodies
11:00 鈥撎�11:45听听Martin Pehal (Prague):听The Wor(l)d is an Image: Bodily Metaphors and Graphic Puns in Ancient Egypt
Lunch break
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Session IV: Beyond Religion 鈥� Philosophy, Psychiatry, Law
13:00 鈥� 13:45听听Rasmus T. Slaattelid (Bergen):听Metaphors of the Labyrinth in Philosophy
14:00 鈥撎�14:45听听Helga Manns氓ker (Bergen):听The Role of Metaphor in Psychiatric Nomenclature and Discourse
15:00 鈥撎�15:45听听听Helen Leslie (Bergen):听The Eyes of Justice: Morality and Body Metaphors in English Legal Texts
16:00 鈥� 16:45听听Concluding Discussion and Reflection:听Similarities and Diversities
