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Reading Group - Cognition, Aesthetic Experience, Kinesic Imagination

Th 01 Oct 2026 13:15 – 15:00, Meeting - Reuvensplaats 1.46a, Leiden University

The LUCAS research reading group The Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics is dedicated to examining affective, cognitive-enactive, and new materialist approaches to the arts.

It is open to anyone interested in experiential interactions between the arts (in a broad sense), their makers, and audiences.

Come join the next LUCAS “Role of Experience” reading group session to discuss:

Mia Burnett and Shaun Gallagher, “4E Cognition and the Spectrum of Aesthetic Experience,” JoLMA 1:2 (2020) 157–75. [The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts; open access] https://doi.org/10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2020/02/001

Guillemette Bolens, “Embodied Cognition, Kinaesthetic Knowledge, and Kinesic Imagination in Literature and Visual Arts,” Frontiers in Communication 7 (2022), art. 926232. [open access] https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.926232

Location:
Leiden University, Reuvensplaats 1.46a
Thursday 1 October, 13:15-15:00

Contact Sophie van Romburgh s.van.romburgh@hum.leidenuniv.nl for further details.

More on the LUCAS “Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics” cross-cluster research theme at https://researchplatform.art/projects/lucas-research-group/.

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