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 third Context, Cognition and Communication Conference will be hosted by the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. The main theme of the conference is “Varieties of Meaning and Content”.

The purpose of the CCC conferences is to provide a platform for philosophers, linguists and cognitive scientists for discussing issues connected with the phenomenon of context dependence, general semantics and pragmatics, theories of concepts and theories of mind and agency. We encourage submissions addressing “large-scale” as well as “smaller-scale” foundational philosophical issues.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)
Robin Jeshion (University of Southern California)
Hannes Leitgeb (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Stephen Neale (CUNY)

ORGANIZERS: Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw & Center for Philosophical Research

CONFERENCE VENUE: Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, Institute  of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

 POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP VENUE: Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

DATES:

June 18-21, 2020 (the main conference)
June 22, 2020 (post-conference workshop)

CFP:
Deadline for submissions: February 9, 2020 (extended!) January 31, 2020

The conference 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.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://ccc-conference.org

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Warsaw, June 23-26, 2016

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the recent work on mechanistic explanation, with special stress on particular problems of integration of multiple mechanistic models, robustness, and unification of partial explanations, theories and fields.

There is a growing consensus that cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience explain their phenomena of interest mechanistically. Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary research field, in which methods, tools, and concepts from other disciplines are used. One can ask a fundamental question whether anything unifies the field; or whether it is not just a hodgepodge of heterogeneous research. This kind of doubt can be articulated with regard to any interdisciplinary research field. However, the existence of interdisciplinary collaboration means that there are real connections between disciplines and that their problems are related. But to really dispel the doubt against interdisciplinary research, one needs to answer the question of what makes such conglomerates as cognitive science actually unified.

Invited Keynote Speakers

William Bechtel (California, San Diego)

Carl F. Craver (Washington University in St. Louis)

David Kaplan (Macquarie)

Registration

To register, click here.

More info

The workshop is organized by Marcin Miłkowski and Mateusz Hohol, and financed from National Science Center grant under the decision DEC-2014/14/E/HS1/00803, with support from Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Center for Philosophical Research, Warsaw.

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We are happy to announce the publication of a new book from our series Library of the Centre for Philosophical Research. The book Human and Civil Rights in a Globalized World by Magdalena Gawin, Barbara Markiewicz, Agnieszka Nogal and Rafał Wonicki is available for download free of charge.

Formats: PDF, MOBI, EPUB.

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1:00 pm           Bus leaves Warsaw airport

4:30 pm                      Bus arrives at workshop hotel in Kazimierz Dolny

6:30 pm           Dinner at hotel

Sunday, November 8th

8 am                Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9:30                 Key Speaker Ellen Dissanayake, Evolution and the Arts

11:00 am         Coffee break for all workshop participants

11:30 am         Jerzy Luty – Ellen Dissanayake’s ethological approach to art and its critics

12:10 pm         John Collier – Disputes over the evolutionary origins of music and dance

12:50 pm         Piotr Podlipniak – Tonal qualia and the evolution of music

1:30 pm           Lunch for all workshop participants

2:30 pm           Eveline Seghers and Stefaan Blancke – Metacognition and the origins of art

3:10 pm           Marcin Miłkowski – Brain on Art Meets Honest Signals

3:50 pm           TBA

4:30 pm           End of sessions

Monday, November 9th

8 am                Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9:30 am           Key Speaker Piotr Przybysz – Aesthetic Emotions: Toward a Temporal Dynamics Model of Emotional Processing of Art Stimuli

11:00 am         Coffee break for all workshop participants

11:30 am         Mateusz Migut – Need for functional psychology of music – conceptual struggles with empirical investigation of functions of music

12:10 pm         Alejandra Wah – Processes underlying the artistic experience

12:50 pm         Larissa Mendoza Straffon – The Aesthetic Experience as Social Emotion: Towards an Affective Art History

1:30 pm           Lunch for all workshop participants

2:30 pm           Guided tour of Kazimierz Dolny

4:30 pm           End of tour

Tuesday, November 10th

8 am                Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9:30 am           Key Speaker Ellen Dissanayake – From Ritualization to Ritual and its Arts: Sources of Upper Pleistocene Ritual Practices in Ritualized and Play Behaviours in Ancestral Hominins

11:00 am         Coffee break for all workshop participants

11:30 am         Jakub Matyja – From brains to bodies: recomposing musical simulations

12:10 pm         Witold Wachowski – Contradictory acoustic affordances

12:50 pm         Mateusz Hohol – TBA

1:30 pm           Lunch for all workshop participants

2:30 pm           Piotr Kozak – Art, Formalism, and the Limits of Naturalism

3:10 pm           TBA

3:50 pm           TBA

4:30 pm           End of sessions

6:30 pm           Workshop dinner at restaurant in town (cost not covered by fees)

Wednesday, November 11th

8 am                Breakfast for all staying at the hotel

9 am                Round-table discussion of workshop theme

11:30 am         Bus leaves hotel

2:30 pm           Bus arrives at Warsaw airport

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Serdecznie zapraszamy na drugie spotkanie Kawiarni Filozoficznej w Łodzi. Odbędzie się ono 24 marca 2015 r. o godz. 18.00 w kawiarni “Niebostan”, ul. Piotrkowska 17. Spotkanie poprowadzą dr Paweł Grabarczyk (UŁ, OBF) i dr Tomasz Sieczkowski (UŁ). Jak zwykle, wstęp wolny.

Od wieków religia pełniła wiele funkcji ważnych tak dla jednostek, jak i dla społeczeństw. Stanowiła narzędzie wyjaśniania i rozumienia świata, dawała nadzieję na przezwyciężenie śmierci i cierpienia, organizowała ramy porządku społeczno-politycznego i wyznaczała kanon wartości moralnych, wokół których organizuje się ludzkie życie.

Zainicjowana w okresie nowożytnym rewolucja myślenia przyniosła natychmiastowe pragmatyczne rezultaty i w dużej mierze zagospodarowała wszystkie te funkcje. Okazało się, że nauka lepiej wyjaśnia świat, a świecki porządek społeczno-polityczny jest sprawiedliwszy od teokracji. Okazało się też, a wcześniej było to raczej nie do pomyślenia, że ateiści mogą postępować moralnie.

Jednakże, mimo objawów kryzysu instytucjonalnych religii, religijność ma się dzisiaj zaskakująco dobrze i nic nie wskazuje na to, aby miała być w odwrocie.

Czy zatem religia odpowiada na jakąś potrzebę, której nie sposób zaspokoić inaczej?

Czy redukcja świata doświadczenia do tego, co mówi nauka, jest możliwa i wskazana?

Czy religijność powinno się manifestować publicznie?

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Serdecznie zapraszamy na dyskusję promującą pracę Kim jest człowiek? Abrahama Heschela w tłumaczeniu Katarzyny Wojtkowskiej. Dyskusję z udziałem prof.  prof. Janusza Dobieszewskiego i Stanisława Krajewskiego z Instytutu Filozofii UW poprowadzi Tomasz Herbich, doktorant Zakładu Filozofii Polskiej Instytutu Filozofii UW. Spotkanie odbędzie się 24 lutego 2015 r. o godzinie 17.30 w sali 109 Instytutu Filozofii UW (ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 3).

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