Upcoming Lectures & Conferences
28–30 May 2025 | ‘“Getting” poetry: How reading tasks modulate the processing and aesthetic experience of poems‘ | Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, University of Messina | Messina, Italy
1 September 2025 | ‘No Such Thing as Neutral: How Anticipated Reading Tasks Shape the Everyday Reading of Poetry’ | Everyday Reading of Literature Symposium, University of Zagreb | Zagreb, Croatia
Past Lectures & Conferences
‘Effects of ease of comprehension and individual differences on the pleasure experienced while reading novelized verb-based metaphors’ (poster) | Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society | Rotterdam, The Netherlands | July 2024
‘Exploring the Effects of Reader Mindset on the Aesthetic Experience of Poetry’ | Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities 2024 | Catania, Italy | June 2024
‘The phenomenological and neural impact of reader response ‘task sets’ on poetic language processing’ | Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities 2023 | University of Warsaw, Poland | July 2023.
‘The sweet spot: an optimal defamiliarisation of conventional metaphors’ | British Society of Literature and Science 17th Annual Conference, Manchester, April 2022.
‘Reading With’ | Perception and Expressive Culture, York University, Toronto / Online, February 2022.
‘The Wood or the Trees? On the (Im)Possibility of an Ecological Criticism’ | LLC English Department Lecture Series, University of Edinburgh / Online, November 2021.
‘Useless Literature: Responding-To and Responding-With’ | Uses of Literature Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark / Online, November 2021.
‘Beyond Critical: A Case for Responding with Poetry’ | Cognitive Futures in the Humanities Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, July 2018.
‘In Kind: How a Co-Creative Response Encourages Enactive Reading of Poetry’ | Educational Role of Language Conference, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2018.
‘Immersive Poetics: Creative Response Writing as an Enactive Approach to Poetry’ | English: Shared Futures, Newcastle University, July 2017
‘Word for Word: The Art of Translation’ (panel chair) | Sustainability and Transformation Conference, Council for European Studies, University of Glasgow, July 2017
‘The Body In Mind: Poetry and the Re-Embodiment of Abstract Thought’ | Contemporary Poetry: Thinking & Feeling, Plymouth University, May 2016
For further information on availability for conferences or lectures, please contact Patrick at pje2105[at]columbia[dot]edu