SMART Cognitive Science: the Amsterdam Conference

We are happy to announce 'SMART Cognitive Science: the Amsterdam Conference', a conference highlighting the contributions from the humanities to cognitive science. The conference takes place in historic buildings in the center of Amsterdam, from March 25th - March 28th.

The conference consists of 6 intensive 2-day workshops (in 3 parallel sessions), and a plenary evening program with 3 keynote lectures and 2 discussion sessions. The conference is free of charge, but registration is required. Register now!

*Location & Registration*

Day program: Oudemanhuispoort, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Evening program: Zuiderkerk, Zuiderkerksplein, Amsterdam

Registration: see http://smartcs.humanities.uva.nl/

*Workshops*
Embodied Cognition, Art and Affordances
Evolution of Language: the coevolution of biology and culture
Games and Cognition
Shared Processing in Language and Music
Music Cognition: Where computational and cognitive models meet
Communication and Agency

*Keynote Lectures*
Liina Pylkkänen (NYU) on Composition of Complex Meaning: A Brain’s Eye View
Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus) on Predicting, Embodying, Interacting. Critical elements for contemporary mind mapping
Peter Hagoort (MPI/Donders Institute, Nijmegen) on From language to communication from an embrained prespective

*Discussion sessions*
Discussion on The humanities and cognitive science: loyal colleagues or secret competitors?
Discussion on Have we left the nativism-empiricism controversies behind us?

*More information*
http://smartcs.humanities.uva.nl/

*Workshop invited speakers*
    Tim Ingold (Aberdeen)
    Joel Krueger (Exeter)
    Helena de Preester (Ghent)
    Thomas Bolander (Danish Technical University)
    Michael Fellows (Charles Darwin University)
    Paolo Galeazzi (Amsterdam)
    Corrado Grappiolo (Copenhagen)
    Sanne Kosterman (Amsterdam)
    Harmen de Weerd (Groningen)
    Rob Withagen (Groningen)
    Alan Costall (Portsmouth)
    Simon Kirby (Edinburgh)
    Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen)
    Gerhard Jaeger (Tuebingen)
    John Woods (Vancouver)
    Khalil Sima'an (Amsterdam)
    Victoria Williamson (Sheffield)
    Usha Goswami (Cambridge)
    Marcus Pearce (London)
    Stefan Koelsch (Berlin)
    Lambros Malafouris (Oxford)
    Ronald Rietveld (Rietveld Art)
    Marolijn Bol (Berlin)
    Han van der Maas (Amsterdam)
    Kenny Smith (Edinburgh)
    Bart de Boer (Brussels)
    Sanna Muijlaert (Center for Applied Games)
    Enkhbold Nyamsuren (Amsterdam)
    Frances Rosamond (Charles Darwin University)
    Federico Sangati (Fondatione Bruno Kessler)
    Niels Taatgen (Groningen)
    Ivan Toni (Nijmegen)
    Olga Fehér (Edinburgh)
    Dan Dediu (MPI Nijmegen)
    Johan Bolhuis (Utrecht)
    Louis-Jean Boë (Grenoble)

and many others!

*Local organizing committee*
    Enoch Aboh (ACLC)
    Jakub Szymanik (ILLC)
    Willem Zuidema (ILLC)
    Gisela Govaart

*Program Committee*

    Enoch Aboh (ACLC)
    Jakub Szymanik (ILLC)
    Willem Zuidema (ILLC)
    Henkjan Honing (ILLC)

*Workshop organizers and Advisory Board*
    Kees Hengeveld (ACLC)
    Johan van Benthem (Stanford and ILLC)
    Jasmin Pfeifer (ACLC)
    Silke Hamann (ACLC)
    Erik Rietveld (Philosophy)
    Julian Kiverstein (ILLC)
    Ashley Burgoyne (ILLC)
    Aline Honingh (ILLC)
    Paula M. Roncaglia-Denissen (ILLC)
    Nina Gierasimczuk (ILLC)
    Jakub Szymanik (ILLC)
    Willem Zuidema (ILLC)