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CogFest 2020 Day 1

Arrival movie shot
February 8, 2020
All Day
Wexner Center for the Arts, Film and Video Theater

Time: 2-5:30 p.m.
Event Host: The Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Wexner Center for the Arts
Short Description: Ohio State University’s Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, in partnership with the Wexner Center for the Arts, is excited to present CogFest 2020 on Feb. 8 and 14, including a Feb. 8 film screening of Arrival with a special guest presentation and Q&A with Jessica Coon, associate professor of linguistics at McGill University.


Saturday, Feb. 8 from 2-5:30 p.m.
Wexner Center for the Arts, Film and Video Theater

Ohio State University’s Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, in partnership with the Wexner Center for the Arts, is excited to present CogFest 2020 on Feb. 8 and 14. 

Feb. 8 includes a film screening of Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016) with a special guest presentation and Q&A with Jessica Coon, associate professor of linguistics at McGill University.

Ohio State University’s Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Wexner Center for the Arts are pleased to make this event free and open to the public.

Arrival largely focuses on one question: How do you communicate with an alien? If an alien civilization is advanced enough to build a spaceship to traverse interstellar space to reach Earth, then bridging a language barrier between them and us might seem like a trivial affair. The film illustrates such an assumption to be quite tenuous. Amy Adams stars as Louise Banks, a linguist who is recruited to communicate with an alien species that has landed on Earth. She races to crack the alien language code, while doubt and fear among the world's governments threaten to give way to full-scale military confrontation.

Coon’s presentation following the film screaning will be geared to a broad audience of non-experts and experts alike, reflecting on her experiences working on the film and discusses its central linguistic themes. Additionally, she will talk about linguistic fieldwork and highlight the importance of linguistic diversity.

For more information please visit the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences or the Wexner Center for the Arts.
 

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