<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">There are three public events coming up next week concerning cognition, language, and literature, as follows: </span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"></span></font><br><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The UW Department of English Language and Literature </b></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">presents a public lecture by Mary Thomas Crane, of Boston College. The lecture, entitled Analogy, Metaphor, & the New Science: Cognitive Science and Early Modern Epistemology, will be on Thursday, 25 June, at 7:00 PM, 3014 St. Jerome’s University. </span></font><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/%7eraha/CognitiveAllegory/contributors.html#CraneTalk"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Click here to learn more</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> or </span></font><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/%7eraha/CognitiveAllegory/files/Crane.pdf" target="new"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">download the poster</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></font></span></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>T</b></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>he UW Programme in Cognitive Science </b></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">presents a public lecture by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., of The University of California, Santa Cruz. The lecture, entitledEmbodiment in Metaphorical Imagination, will be on Thursday, 25 June, at 1:00pm, PAS 1229. </span></font><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/%7eraha/CognitiveAllegory/contributors.html#GibbsTalk"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Click here to learn more</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> or </span></font><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/%7eraha/CognitiveAllegory/files/Gibbs.pdf" target="new"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">download the poster</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">. </span></font></span></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The Department of English, the Cognitive Science Program, the Medieval Studies Program at St. Jerome's University, the Faculty of Arts, and the University of Waterloo</span></font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> present a one-day, inter- and multi-disciplinary workshop on the cognitive underpinnings of allegory, bringing together medievalists who work specifically on allegorical texts with rhetoricians, literary theorists, psychologists, and philosophers who focus on representations of knowledge, at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Potsdam; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome</span></font><span style="font: 18.0px Old English Text MT"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">’</span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">s University, </span></font><span style="font: 18.0px Old English Text MT"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">26</span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> June </span></font><span style="font: 18.0px Old English Text MT"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">2009, starting at 8:00 AM. </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/%257eraha/CognitiveAllegory/index.html"></a><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/%7eraha/CognitiveAllegory/contributors.html#CraneTalk"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Click here to learn more</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> </span></font>or </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/%257eraha/CognitiveAllegory/files/CogAllegoryPoster.pdf"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">download the poster</span></font></a>.</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><div><br></div>A fourth, related event is also coming next week, this one not open to the general public, but open to interested members of the university community, if they make prior arrangements:<br></span><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The Chinese University of Hong Kong</b> presents an open class with Peter Crisp, of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Crisp will be discussing his pioneering studies on the cognitive dimensions of allegory. The class will be on Wednesday, 24 June, from 9:00am - 12:00pm, in Dana Porter Library, Room 329, the FLEX Lab. Please contact </span></font><a href="mailto:raha@uwaterloo.ca"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Randy Harris</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> or </span></font><a href="mailto:stolmie@uwaterloo.ca"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Sarah Tolmie</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> for access. </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/%7eraha/CognitiveAllegory/contributors.html#CrispTalk">Click here to learn more</a> </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">or </span></font><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/%7eraha/CognitiveAllegory/files/Crisp.pdf" target="new"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">download the poster</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></font></span></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; 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