Rich Blundell Lecture 11/12

Guy Fawkes Day Speaker David Cobb

2014-2015 Schedule

The Narrative Studies Colloquium will hold its inaugural event on Wednesday, October 1st at 3:30pm in the Spencer Gallery, Manninen Center for the Arts.

Professor Sergio Inestrosa will present "Everyone Has a Story to Tell (but Only Some of Us Win Nobel Prizes for It): The Notebooks of Jose Saramago."








Also, the following schedule of speakers has been announced:

• David Hartsough "Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist"
• Nathalie Saltikoff & Dana Modell "Narrative Therapy: The Talking Cure"
• David DiSarro "iSocrates vs iSophistry: Zan and the Art of Narrative Maintenance"
• David Cobb (2004 Green Party presidential candidate) "We the People"
• John Kelly "Narrative Medicine and the Placebo Effect"
• Charlotte Ryan (UMass Lowell) "The Sociology of Public Communication"

A New Kind Of Literary Analysis

A New Kind of Literary Analysis
Ethan Gilsdorf
WBUR / NPR

Meredith Reiches Lecture 11/7

Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind

Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind
David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano
Science 342, 377 (2013)

Willie Young Lecture 10/23