Conceptual Metaphors and Body Symbolism
An international and interdisciplinary two-day workshop on conceptual metaphors and body symbolism.
Hovedinnhold
This workshop about metaphors and body symbolism will bring together researchers from Bergen, Prague, Oxford and Yale. The participants will give talks from diverse perspectives and disciplines, including history of religions, comparative mythology, linguistics, semiotics, psychology, law, and philosophy, and present case studies from various cultures – 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 the meanings are condensed and transformed, 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, differences, and certain recurrent principles.
Guests, especially those working on 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 talk will be followed by 30 minutes of discussion.
The workshop will take place at the SVT UiB, Parkveien 9 (https://www.uib.no/en/svt).
For more information contact Jan Kozák.
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