Prof. Mark Turner
Prof. Turner is a cognitive scientist and linguist. He is now a professor at Case Western Reserve University, USA, and has published extensively. Before joining the faculty at Case, he was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
He is Founding Director of the Cognitive Science Network; Co-Director of the Red Hen Lab™; and also:
- Winner of the Anneliese Maier Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Winner of the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises from the French Academy
- Founding President of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts
- Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for the Science of Origins
- Extraordinary Member of the Humanwissenschaftliches Zentrum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
- External Research Professor of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study
- Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hunan Normal University
Read more about Mark Turner at markturner.org/
Turner will participate throughout the ATTR seminar, and will give a research seminar on "Cognitive Textual Interpretation". Read more about the seminar at www.tf.uio.no/attr