Successful Presentation at the A. G. Leventis Gallery on January 28
January 30, 2025Event Recap: Invited Talk by Professor Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh
February 19, 2025Our ERC project GROUP MINDS IN ANCIENT NARRATIVE is pleased to welcome Professor Douglas Cairns from the University of Edinburgh, who will be delivering a talk on:
“Emotional Contagion, Empathy, and Sympathy as Responses to Verbal and Visual Narratives: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues”
📅 Date: Tuesday, 18 February 2025
📍 Location: Room 004, Building ΧΩΔ 01 (Panepistimioupoli), University of Cyprus
🎓 Host: Department of Classical Studies and Philosophy, University of Cyprus
Talk Summary
Professor Cairns will explore the emotional connection between audiences and characters in epic and tragedy, with a focus on the role of vision, visualization, and imagination. He will discuss whether audience emotions arise through mimicry, mirroring, or imaginative engagement, and how ancient literary theory can inform modern cognitive humanities research.
The event is open to all interested researchers, faculty, and students.
For more information, please visit this link.
We look forward to seeing you there!
