Lectures and conversations

Enactive and Predictive Practices of Reading and Belief


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Portrait of a Man Reading a Book, painting by Parmigianino
Photo: York Art Gallery

Join us for a fascinating talk on cognitive research on literary reading!

In his presentation, Mats Haraldsen will give an overview of how we can understand reading and religious practices in new ways by looking at them from the perspective of enactive and predictive cognitive science. Specifically, Haraldsen will discuss how cognitive research on literary reading can contribute to the understanding of religious reading and to the overall nature of religious practices.  This event is co-organised by RADHEART. 

Mats Haraldsen is a completion grant holder at the University of Oslo, with a PhD in French Literature. He works with enactive, extended and predictive approaches to cognition in order to understand different cultural practices, using interdisciplinary methods. He has published research within literary studies, cognitive ethnography, philosophy of the mind, and the cognitive science of religion.

This talk will take place in English.  All welcome!

Literature and Religion Research Group

UiB's Literature & Religion Research Group provides an inclusive forum for all levels of researchers who are working on aspects of literature and religion in a variety of institutes and departments.

RADHEART – Radical Habits of the Heart

The ERC project RADHEART examines the breadth and depth of commitment in radical religion in a fundamental way to understand its persistence.