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Interacting Minds: Workshop and Centre Opening

Aarhus University has established the Interacting Minds Centre as a new interdisciplinary initiative, 2012-16.

Info about event

Time

Friday 24 August 2012,  at 09:30 - 17:00

Location

Nobel Salen, Room 123, building 1485, Aarhus University

The Centre brings together researchers from all four main academic areas in experimental studies of cognition, communication and choice. The Centre opens August 24 with an academic workshop.

At the same occasion, we also mark the end of Niels Bohr visiting professorship to Chris Frith, the Aarhus University Research Foundation visiting professorship to Uta Frith and of the Interacting Minds a Biological Basis project. Read about the interview with Andreas Roepstorff on the new centre (in Danish).

Programme

Morning session: 9.30 – 12.30

Interacting Minds, Scientific Workshop

09.30: Mette Thunø, Dean of Arts, Aarhus University: Welcome and opening of workshop

09.40: Günther Knoblich & Nathalie Sebanz (Budapest): Interactive Minds: Past and Future

10.10: Hanne de Jaegher (San Sebastian): TheInteractive Brain Hypothesis

10.35: Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen): Empathy and Projection

11.00: Break

11.15: Jakob Hohwy (Melbourne): Phenomenally Social

11.40: David Dreyer Lassen (Copenhagen): TBA

12.05: Stefan Beck (Berlin): Minding (:) anthropology's business

Afternoon Session: 14.00 – 17.00