We invite applications from PhD students, post-doc and young researchers to attend the Summer School on “Shared Experiences : the boundaries of the social brain”, organized by Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway), Ophelia Deroy & Barry Smith ( Centre for the Study of the Senses & Institute of Philosophy, UoL, UK).
The Summer School will take place in the Island of Aegina, Greece (approximately 1 hour by boat from Piraeus, the port of Athens), at the wonderful location of the historic Hotel Apollo, from June 22nd to 28th , 2014.
LINK: http://www.apollohotelaegina.gr/en -> http://www.apollohotelaegina.gr/en
This Summer School builds upon the success of a previous summer school on the “Embodied Intersubjectivity” that we organized in Aigina last year.
We would now like to revisit the question of shared experiences with a particular focus on the boundaries of the social brain. The provisional programme of the school includes sessions on:
- What can (and cannot) be shared? - Ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives on intersubjectivity - Embodying other people’s minds and bodies - Neural and cognitive mechanisms of sharing - Sharing actions and intentions - Intersubjectivity in aesthetics experiences
To deliver the state-of-the-art research in these fields, we have invited leading researchers from the fields of experimental, developmental and social psychology, cognitive and social neuroscience, primatology and philosophy. Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order) include:
Malinda Carpenter (University St Andrews, Scotland) Ophelia Deroy (Centre for the Study of the Senses, University of London, UK) Luciano Fadiga (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy) Katerina Fotopoulou (UCL, UK) Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis, USA) Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma, Italy) Valeria Gazzola (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Netherlands) Christian Keysers (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Netherlands) Guenther Knoblich (Central European University, Hungary) Patrick Haggard (UCL, UK) Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto) Ryan McKay (Royal Holloway, UK) Natalie Sebanz (Central European University, Hungary) Andrea Serino (EPFL, Switzerland) Barry Smith (Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UK) Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway, UK) Philippe Rochat (Emory University, USA) Alessandra Umilta (University of Parma, Italy) Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Further information and Applications forms can be found here: http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/sites/lab/?page_id=610; Deadline for applications: Monday 24th February 2014, 5pm GMT For queries please contact : aiginasummerschool@gmail.com