Dear Colleagues,


We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for our ASA18 panel:
*Blending,
meaning and imagination* (University of Oxford, 18-21 September 2018).


This panel explores perceptual and conceptual blending processes as the
emergence and communication of meaning on various levels (cognitive,
cultural, linguistic, etc.) and their crucial role in the comprehension of
human imagination.


If you would like to submit a proposal, please send a title, a short
summary of up to 300 characters and an abstract of 250 words via the online
form by 23:59 GMT on Friday 20th April at:
https://nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2018/conferencesuite.php/paperproposal/6860.


Please don't hesitate to circulate this CFP widely!


All the best,



Jordi Vallverdú (Autonomous University of Barcelona) [log in to unmask]

Corentin Chanet (Université Libre de Bruxelles) [log in to unmask]

David Eubelen (Université Libre de Bruxelles) [log in to unmask]



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CFP: Blending, meaning and imagination



ASA 2018 Annual Conference, 18-21 September, Oxford, United Kingdom



Convenors : Jordi Vallverdú (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Corentin
Chanet (Université Libre de Bruxelles), David Eubelen (Université Libre de
Bruxelles)



Over the last three decades there has been a significant shift operating
from representational to "enactive" and "embodied" perspectives on
cognition and perception, both in anthropology and cognitive sciences
(Csordas 1990, Dreyfus 2009, Ingold 2000).



However, when dealing with imagination and creativity (Turner and
Fauconnier 1999), it seems impossible not to consider conceptual
representation and "mental imagery", or equally inconceivable to study
these issues without referring to material and bodily entanglements.
Consequently, rather than fueling the conceptual divide between
environmental features and internal representations, we argue that meaning
emergence and communication continuously relies on blending processes
within and across mind and environment. Metaphors (Oakley 1999) and visual
blending (Hutchins 2005) entail the coexistence of perceived and imagined
features that are essential for achieving cognitive tasks and communicating
cultural experiences (Lemonier 2012). At the crossroad of linguistics,
cognitive sciences and anthropology, the notion of blending has thus opened
up a vast and promising field of research (Turner 2001, Liu and Stasko
2010).



Several issues are worth investigating. What are the material, social and
cognitive conditions for blending processes to occur? How do blended
cognition and perception relate to cultural imaginaries and shared
narratives? To what extent can creative or daily practices rely on the
superimposition of anticipatory "images"? How is blending involved in
learning environments? In this panel, we call upon papers dealing with
these issues through a multidisciplinary approach, as well as papers
providing micro-level ethnographic accounts of blending processes and
artistic, religious or mundane occurrences of human imagination.





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David Eubelen
PhD Student - Assistant
Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains
<http://lamc.ulb.ac.be/>

ULB - Institut de Sociologie
44 avenue Jeanne - CP 124 - 1050 Brussels
Office: S12.125
Tel.: +32 2 650 46 92 - Fax.: +32 2 650 43 37
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