Karín Lesnik-Oberstein ‘Children’s Literature, Literature and Neuroscience: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose’

This term I am delighted to welcome Prof Karín Lesnik-Oberstein from the University of Reading to CLOC. Karín will be speaking on Friday February 7^th, 4pm. Her talk is entitled ‘Children’s Literature, Literature and Neuroscience: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose’ and she will discuss a range of critical and scientific papers on neuroscience and children’s literature, including sections from the original scientific papers on ‘mirror neurons’ by Rizzolatti et al, from papers on ideas of child language development and evolutionary psychology by David S. Miall and Ellen Dissanayake and by Jonathan Gottschall, and sections of children’s literature criticism. 

Tea and Coffee will be served after the talk.
St Cross Room, St Cross College, St Giles, OX1 3LZ 


RSVP cara dot bartels-bland at stx dot ox dot ac dot uk