Session 8 - April 21st

‘The Thousand and One Nights’ stories and the therapeutic power of Sahrãzad’s tales

Gianni Dagliu Orti, Turkish and Islamic Art Museum.

In this session, Ana Rodrigues will explore the therapeutic power of Shahrazad’s magic tales as devices used to interact with the internal contradictions of the sultan. She will investigate key details that lead both to his emotional self-control and internal transformation whilst attempting to keep, at the same time, the moral values of his culture, ultimately inviting reflections on the power of narrative in debates about morality and emotion.

Texts selected for this session include:

White Hayden - The Value of Narrativity.

Betina Hillesheim - A Salvação Pela Palavra Narrada.

See you soon!

Session 7 - Audio File

The audio file for session 7, led by Catarina Rivero, is now available to listen here.

Moralidade&Felicidade

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Session 6 - Audio File

The audio file for session 6, led by Ângela Lacerda Nobre, is now available to listen here.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39965279/2015-03-24-FCSH.mp3


Enjoy!

Next Session - 7th April 2015

In this next session, Catarina Rivero will explore the role of morality and happiness in the construction of an "Equalfelicitas" society. She has selected the following two texts and one inspiring TED about the evolution of compassion.


Rivero, D'Araújo e Marujo, 2013

Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective, 2013

TED Robert Wright - Evolution of Compassion

See you there! In the meantime, wishing you all a HAPPY Easter break!

N.B. Materials from the previous session have been updated.

Next Session - 24 March 2015

In this next session, Ângela Lacerda Nobre will establish a link between semiotics and evolution by focusing on the following table and paper:

                      Saussure's and Peirce's Interpretation of a Sign

- Saussure’s sign theory – ·         A sign is an arbitrary relation; ·         Each sign needs to be combinedwith other signs in order to produce meaning.

Signifier Sounds, letters, gestures.

Signified Image or concept to which thesignifier refers.

- Peirce’s sign theory – ·         A sign has a triadicrelation and is the basis of the theory of signification; ·         A sign has an inbuiltcapacity to create meaning; ·         Each sign develops infinitely in a permanentcycle.

Representamen The physical sign that is to be interpreted; “Something that does the representing” (equivalent to Saussure’s signifier).

Object Image or concept (equivalent to Saussure’ssignified).

Interpretant “A sign in the mind”; It becomes therepresentamen, i.e. the sign to be interpreted, as if it were a physical sign, in the next cycle.

                                                                                                from Ângela Nobre, Semiotic Learning, 2010

- Ângela Lacerda Nobre, Semiotic Learning, 2010: Semiotic Learning;

- Semiotic Learning and Beyond pptx presentation;

- ALNobre - Psychoanalysis and the Power of Deconstruction;

- ALNobre Think Happiness

See you there!

Session 5 - Audio File

The audio file for session 5, led by Ana Pais, is now available to listen here.




Session 6 will take place on Tuesday, March 24, and the selected texts will be announced soon. 

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Next Session - 10 March 2015

The fifth session will be led by Ana Pais, who has selected the following texts for discussion:

- Ana Pais, "The Passive Spectator: Narratives of Affective Transmission in the Theatre" (submitted to the journal Configurations) - to access this text, please e-mail the author anapais2011@gmail.com

- and Sarah Ahmed's The Cultural Politics of Emotion.

See you there!