Literature, Cognition and Emotions
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S3 – 6. Thomas Schubert: The Experience of “Being Moved”
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Thomas Schubert, Professor of Social Psychology at University of Oslo talks to Karin Kukkonen about the emotion of "being moved". Lear...
S3 – 5. Silvio Bär: Ancient Greek Literature and Heroes without Texts
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Silvio Bär, Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo, speaks to Karin Kukkonen about Ancient Greek literature and its heroes. Learn how the “...
S3 – 4. Stefka Eriksen: The Old Norse Sagas
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, you can listen to a conversation between Stefka Eriksen, Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research...
S3 – 3. Tone Selboe: The 19th-Century Novel and Situations of Sympathy
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Karin Kukkonen interviews Tone Selboe, Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo, about her research on feelings ...
S3 – 2. Hugo Lundhaug: The Coptic Apocrypha
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hugo Lundhaug, Professor of Biblical Reception and Early Christian Literature, joins Karin Kukkonen in conversation about Coptic Apocrypha and their r...
S3 – 1. Sarah Bro Trasmundi: In Search of an Ideal Reader
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The ideal reader is usually presented as someone engrossed in a book, sitting still and not turning their gaze from the page. But how does this image ...
S2 – 5. Karin Kukkonen: Probability Designs
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do readers respond to, experience, and make sense of a literary text? In this podcast, Karin Kukkonen, professor in comparative literature at the ...
S2 – 4. Olivia Fialho: Transformative Reading
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can reading fiction change us? In this podcast, Olivia Fialho (uu.nl), postdoctoral researcher at the Huyghens-ING/KNAW, Lecturer of Comparative ...
S2 – 3. Alexandra Effe: Autofiction from a Cognitive Perspective
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Life writing continues to be popular, both judging by the titles sold in bookshops and the books that receive literary awards. With many recent life-w...
S2 – 2. Natalia Igl: The Materiality and Multimodality of Literature
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is a multimodal novel? And why is the genre on its return in our digital age? How should we understand the notion of the embodied reader? And why...
S2 – 1. Yasemin Hacıoğlu: Thinking through Poems in Romantic-Era Novels
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Gothic novel calls to mind abandoned castles, ghosts and vampires. But perhaps it is time to look beyond these familiar tropes. Often taking their...
S1 – 6. Rolf Reber: Literature and the Artful Mind
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rolf Reber, Professor in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Oslo, speaks to Karin Kukkonen about reading and emotional engagemen...
S1 – 5. Stephan Guth: The Literature of the Middle East
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stephan Guth, Professor of Middle East Studies, talks to Karin Kukkonen about the Arab novel in the context of social and political reform in Middle E...
S1 – 4. Stijn Vervaet: Cultural Memory in Balkan Literature
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stijn Vervaet is Associate Professor in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Balkan Studies at the University of Oslo. In this episode, he joins Karin Ku...
S1 – 3. Beate Seibt: Kama Muta or The Feeling of Being Moved
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We often express the feeling of ‘being moved’ in everyday language – but what does it mean? Beate Seibt, Professor in Social Psychology a...
S1 – 2. Halvor Eifring: The Power of the Wandering Mind
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Halvor Eifring, Professor of Chinese studies at the University of Oslo, joins Karin Kukkonen in a conversation about what mind-wandering and non-direc...
S1 – 1. Reiko Abe Auestad: Emotions and Affect in Japanese Literature
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Does one feel differently in Japanese novels? When Western novels came to Japan, they brought with them new ways for telling about the self and new mo...
Welcome to Literature, Cognition and Emotions (LCE) Podcast
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In "Literature, Cognition and Emotions" podcast, Karin Kukkonen discusses topics on the edge of literature and psychology with colleagues from th...