Consciousness Research Network (CoRN) Meeting 2019

Consciousness Research Network (CoRN) Meeting 2019

January 23-25, 2019 Okazaki, Japan https://www.conresnet.org

The second meeting of Consciousness Research Network (CoRN 2019) will be held at the Okazaki Conference Center (Aichi, Japan) in January 23-25, 2019. The venue is near the Nagoya city, one of the biggest and most exciting cities in Japan, with easy access to many traditional shrines and temples, and great food.

Plenary lecturers: 
Shigeru Kitazawa (Osaka University, Japan) 

Speakers: 
Qiufang Fu (Chinese Academy of Science, China), Sakiko Honjoh (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Po-Jang (Brown) Hsieh (Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore), Hakwan Lau (UCLA, USA, University of Hong Kong, HK), Ying-Tung Lin (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan), Shigeru Taguchi (Hokkaido University, Japan), Lu Teng (NYU Shanghai, China), Masataka Watanabe (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany) (More to be added)

The registration itself is free (0 yen) but we will ask you to pay for the following fee at the registration desk if you chose [Get-together on the 1st day + coffee and snack on the 1st-3rd days: 1,500 yen] or [Coffee and snack on the 1st-3rd days: 500 yen]. 

Registration: https://www.conresnet.org/registration.html

For accommodation, the Institute has one accommodation facility (Mishima Lodge) for visiting researchers. It is a 5 min-walk from the venue (The Okazaki Conference Center). We secured a limited number of rooms (~20) at Mishima Lodge. If you wish to reserve a room, indicate it at the registration page. The fee will be 2,400 or 2,600 yen per night. 

Call for Abstracts

Submissions of abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) are invited for oral / poster presentation. We welcome submissions of conceptual/theoretical and empirical work from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, medical science, biology, robotics, as well as other relevant fields.

• For those who prefer poster presentation, notification regarding acceptance will be emailed to authors within one week after submission. The deadline for abstract submission for poster is January 9, 2019. 
• For those who prefer oral presentation, the deadline for abstract submission is November 30, 2018. Notification regarding acceptance for oral session or poster presentation will be emailed to authors by December 14, 2018.

Abstract submission: https://www.conresnet.org/abstract-submission.html