Interdisciplinary Symposium, July 1-3, 2020, Łódź, Poland

Lab of Dance aims to build an exchange platform covering contemporary research strategies in dance studies, including, among others, emergent artistic research practices, as well as tool-disciplined cognitive science methodologies, both vividly drawing on a variety of theoretical and philosophical contexts. On such ground, together with the invited keynote speakers and participants of the symposium, we plan to discuss the methodological difficulties and challenges of interdisciplinary dance research and the benefits that can be derived from overcoming them. At the same time, we recognize the expansion of dance and related terms to other branches of knowledge, where it appears as the preferred research material, but also a source of functional concepts and metaphors. Thus, we invite researchers, philosophers and practitioners to jointly study the expanding space of the dance laboratory.

Invited Speakers
Scott Delahunta (Coventry University)
Pil Hansen (University of Calgary)
Agnieszka Jelewska (University of Adam Mickiewicz)
Rudi Laermans (KU Leuven)

Timeline
March 25, 2020 – Extended submission deadline
April 4, 2020 – Notification of accepted presentation proposals
April 4, 2020 – Registration opens
May 31, 2020 – Registration fee
July 1, 2020 – Conference opening

Organizers
Centre for Philosophical Research
Faculty of Philology, University of Łódź
Academy of Music in Łódź
Institute of Music and Dance
Polish Association of Creative Strategies

The symsposium is funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education from the funds for the dissemination of research (DUN), contract no. 818/P-DUN/2019.

The symposium website: https://sites.google.com/view/labofdance

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We are pleased to invite you to participate in the symposium organized on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Avant Project that will be held on May 22-23, 2020, in Toruń, Poland.

Other important dates:
April 15, 2020 – submission deadline
April 20, 2020 – notification of accepted presentation proposals
May 10, 2020 – registration fee

Organizers:
Centre for Philosophical Research
Institute of Philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Department of Cognitive Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University

The symposium website: https://sites.google.com/view/10-years

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Avant, Volume XI, Issue 1
ISSN: 2082-6710
Editor: Krystyna Bielecka

Cover and illustrations
by Julia Knap

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface
Articles:
1. Mira Marcinów: Methodology of History of Polish Madness
2. Szymon Wróbel: Plural Form of Polish Madness. Side Notes to Mira Marcinów’s The History of Polish Madness. Vol. 1. The Study of Melancholy
3. Maja Białek: Depression, Folk Psychiatry and the Task for 4E Philosophy of Psychiatry
4. Krystyna Bielecka: Is There any Chance for a Biologically-Oriented History Of Psychiatry?
5. Andrzej Kapusta: Genealogy of Polish Melancholy. Commentary to Mira Marcinów’s Book The History of Polish Madness
6. Przemysław R. Nowakowski: Tracking the Objects of the Psychopathology. On Interdisciplinarity of Psychopathology on the Margins of Historia polskiego szaleństwa
Book review:
7. Jakub Zawiła-Niedźwiecki: Twisted Ways from Melancholy to Depression (in Polish Lands)

The publication has been funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education from the funds for the dissemination of research (DUN) within the framework of publishing activity, contract no. 711/P-DUN/2019, period of implementation: the years 2019–2020.

You can access the issue on the journal’s website: http://avant.edu.pl/en/12020-2

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The focus of this conference is on cognition in the context of agency, affect, and its extensions. The event includes lectures, symposia, workshops, discussions, and posters covering a broad range of topics related to the theme of the second edition of Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Discussions regarding the limits and the nature of that what we call cognition have been going on for a long time. These discussions include, among others, debates over the role of the body, the bounds of the mind, the contribution of the environment (from the physical and biological level to the social and cultural level), the collective nature of cognition and minds, including linguistic coordination, but also the role of affects and our agency in cognitive processes. In these contexts, there also appears the problem of relations between cognitive science and action science, psychology of emotions, linguistics, and social sciences, as well as philosophy, especially epistemology.

During our conference, we would like to tackle the following issues:
(a) main theoretical challenges regarding the concept of embodied cognition;
(b) bodily representations: whether and in what way they exist, and how they can be studied;
(c) the possibilities of researching the products of our agency as evidence of human cognitive abilities;
(d) the role of affective processes in cognition, or even conceptualizing these processes as cognitive ones;
(e) the connections between action and perception;
(f) cognitive research on language and gesture;
(g) framing cognitive systems as social systems; the issue of the existence of group / collective minds;
(h) the role of broadly understood environment and artifacts in cognitive processes;
(i) as well as the most basic questions regarding the nature of cognition, and the role of the categories of cognition and behavior in cognitive explanations.

Forms of participation in the conference:
1) lecture
2) paper related to one of the conference symposia
3) poster
4) participation in workshops and discussions

The conference symposia will be focused on the selected topics related to that of the main theme.

The following symposia are planned:
* Perception-action coupling
* Troubles with embodied cognition theories
* Situatedness and models of mechanisms
* Affected cognition
* Social cognition

Key speakers

Kenneth Aizawa (Rutgers University)
Mark H. Bickhard (Lehigh University)
Giovanna Colombetti (University of Exeter)
Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis)
Marcin Miłkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Frederique de Vignemont (Institut Jean-Nicod)
Andrew Wilson & Sabrina Golonka (Leeds Beckett University)
and others

Important dates

Abstract submission: August, 15th, 2015
Acceptance notification: August, 18th, 2015
Conference: October 15-18th, 2015, Warsaw, Poland

For more information, see the event website.

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One of the most common questions in today’s cognitive studies is the one regarding embodied cognition. The answer to this question draws our attention to many factors, including bodily actions, which also work to embody cognition. With this in mind, enactivism is included in discussions of embodiment. Some authors are comparing cognition to a handshake and dancing. Enactivism equates cognition with action, focusing on its very performance.
The present issue consists mainly of ten articles that are ten standpoints on enactivism: not only from the point of view of the critics (K. Aizawa, P. Steiner, F. Cummins, K. Bielecka) and the proponents (S. Gallagher & M. Brower, R. Ellis, Q. Li & I. Winchester), but also spokespeople for the moderate approach (D. Reid, R. Briscoe, J.L. Petit). The abovementioned papers are significantly complemented by two interviews: one with S. Gallagher, and the other with R. Rupert, as well as by two book reviews by P. Grosse and Ch. Drain; they are able to direct the attention towards more broadly conceived issues connected with situating cognitive processes.

“Enactivism: Arguments & Applications”. AVANT, Volume V, Issue 2/2014. ISSN: 2082-6710. Editors of the Issue: Tomasz Komendziński, Przemysław Nowakowski, Witold Wachowski.

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Trzon najnowszego „Avantu” (pod red. P. Nowakowskiego i W. Wachowskiego) stanowią przekłady czterech prac z zakresu kognitywistyki – dotyczą one: teorii poznania ucieleśnionego (A.D. Wilson i S. Golonka), enaktywizmu (F. de Vignemont), teorii poznania rozproszonego (D. Kirsh) i zastosowań Gibsonowskiej teorii afordancji w projektowaniu robotów (T.E. Horton, A. Chakraborty i R. St. Amant). W numerze znajdziemy również artykuł M. Dombrowskiego poświęcony Witkacowskiej metafizyce cielesności, analizę instalacji Wielka szyba Duchampa (artykuł M. Włudzik) oraz komentarz Ł. Jędrzejczaka do eseju T. Metzingera na temat relacji między duchowością, religią i uczciwością intelektualną. Ponadto – recenzje dwóch książek: Radicalizing Enactivism Daniela Hutto i Erika Myina oraz Mindvaults Radu Bogdana.

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The latest issue of the Avant journal, entitled A Laboratory of Spring, commemorates the centennial of the first-night performance of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The articles cover a wide range of fields, including musicology, history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, ethnography and cognitive science of music.

Editors of the issue: Witold Wachowski, Monika Włudzik, Przemysław Nowakowski.

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The recent issue of Avant is called STS meets CS.

The issue is devoted to the problems between science, technology and society studies and cognitive science.

Editors: Łukasz Afeltowicz, Morana Alač, Aleksandra Derra, Przemysław Nowakowski, Witold Wachowski.

Managing Editor: Aleksandra Derra.

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