Conferences & External Workshops 2023 – 2026
Workshop in Cognitive Science and Philosophy
Imagination in the Context of Situated Cognition
18/10/2024, Ruhr University Bochum
The third cohort of PhDs has successfully started their projects in our Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’. Now, the PhDs are ready to give insights into their projects and research in more detail. This workshop will discuss all there is to discover in the sphere of imagination, such as its role in creativity, connection to mind wandering and its special phenomenology in aphantasics. What can we learn when we let our imagination take the lead? Is it fruitful to let our minds wander? In this workshop, together with the RTG’s PhDs and our distinguished keynotes Julia Langkau and Gregory Currie, we will take a closer look at what current research is uncovering in the broad field of imagination, especially with regards to recent developments in Situated Cognition. This workshop marks the end of the first year of our final cohort, providing us with insight into their ongoing projects and research.
You can find more details here: Imagination in the Context of Situated Cognition Workshop
Program Overview
– Friday, 18th of October –
| TIME | TYPE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Introduction | Nikola Kompa & Albert Newen | |
| 09:10 – 10:20 | Keynote | Julia Langkau | Creative Imagination |
| 10:20 – 11:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:40 – 12:25 | 3rd Cohort PhD | Kirill Leshchinskii (UOS) | Depersonalisation and Embodiment: An Existential Inquiry |
| 12:25 – 13:10 | 3rd Cohort PhD | Sofia Pedrini (RUB) | Imaginative justification: How Imagination Provides Reasons for Empirical Beliefs |
| 13:10 – 13:20 | Photo Session | ||
| 13:20 – 14:30 | Lunch Break | ||
| 14:30 – 15:15 | 3rd Cohort PhD | Yizhi Li (RUB) | Between Agency and Passivity: Unpacking the Agential Status of Mind Wandering |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | 3rd Cohort PhD | Christian Scholz (RUB) | Competency, Skepticism, Nescience: Three Puzzles of Aphantasia |
| 16:00 – 16:25 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:25 – 17:10 | 3rd Cohort PhD | Matteo Cerasa (RUB) | Bayesianism and Awareness Growth |
| 17:10 – 18:20 | Keynote | Gregory Currie | The Role of Mental Representation in Imagination and Pretence |
Workshop in Cognitive Science and Philosophy
Empirical Investigations of Situated Cognition
06 – 07/06/2024, University of Osnabrück
The third cohort of PhDs has successfully started their projects in our Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’. Now, the PhDs are ready to give insights into their projects and research in more detail. Starting out with a workshop focused on the empirical investigations within situated cognition, our PhDs present their work and are joined by our highly regarded keynote speakers. Alice Auersperg, Sam Wass, and Tobias Meilinger give us their perspective on questions such as how problems are solved in non-human animals, what developmental trajectories can tell us about later cognitive abilities or how cognition differs when in virtual versus real space. This first workshop will cover current trends and topics in the fields of Animal Cognition, Developmental Psychology, and Virtual Reality. In order to continuously learn more about structural injustice at university and to foster a diverse and equal environment, we have also invited Anna Welpinghus to give a workshop as well as talk.
You can find more details here: Empirical Investigations of Situated Cognition Workshop
Program Overview
– Thursday, 6th of June –
| TIME | TYPE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Introduction | Nikola Kompa & Albert Newen | |
| 14:10 – 15:10 | invited Talk | Anna Welpinghus | About General Perspectives in Science: Dealing with Structural Injustice at the University |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Short Presentation Associate | Renee Ye | AI Companionship Qua Interactive Exotica |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Short Presentation 3rd Cohort PhD | Anıl Bayindir (RUB) | The neural representation and plasticity of pigeons’ body plan |
| 16:10 – 16:35 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:35 – 17:45 | Keynote (hybrid) | Alice Auersperg | Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Birds Primates and Human Infants |
| 18:30 | Dinner at Rimio Asian Fusion |
– Friday, 7th of June –
| TIME | TYPE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 09:00 – 10:10 | Keynote (hybrid) | Sam Wass | How Early Inter-Personal Interaction Dynamics Drive Attention and Intentional Communication |
| 10:10 – 10:55 | 3rd Cohort PhD | Leonard Kulisch (RUB) | The Effects of Parental Cognitions on Dynamic Parent-Child Interactions and Separation Anxiety Symptoms |
| 10:55 – 11:15 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:15 – 12:00 | 3rd Cohort PhD | Syrine Rekhis (UOS) | How Do Our Chemosenses Communicate With Metabolism? |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | 3rd Cohort PhD | William Angkasa (UOS) | Mindreading – Mindinforming – Mindshaping: A Situated Approach to Understanding Crowd Psychology |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Photo Session | ||
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch Break | Mensa Westerberg | |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | 3rd Cohort PhD | John Jairo Madrid Carvajal (UOS) | In the Driver’s Seat: Principal Components of Sensorimotor Coordination in Autonomous and Manual Driving |
| 15:00 – 15:45 | 3rd Cohort PhD | Aitana Grasso Cladera (UOS) | New Perspectives on the Approach-Avoidance Bias: Preliminary Results |
| 15:45 – 16:10 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:10 – 17:20 | Keynote (hybrid) | Tobias Meilinger | Situated Cognition in Real and Virtual Spaces |
First Conference of the Third Cohort
Three Generations RTG ‘Situated Cognition’
05–06/10/2023, Ruhr University Bochum
Our Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’ has now started its third and last training generation of twelve new PhD students, with the second cohort simultaneously finalizing their projects. At this unique point in time, we would like to unite all three generations of PhDs together with many current, former and future members and collaborators, both internal and external. This includes our highly regarded keynote speakers: Louise Barrett, Joel Krueger, Peter König, and Heidi Maibom covering topics like situated affectivity, agency, perspectivism, social cognition and the interaction of neuroscience and AI.
Program Overview
The detailed schedule can be found here.
– Thursday, 5th of October –
| TIME | TYPE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Introduction | Albert Newen | |
| 10:00 – 11:10 | Keynote | Heidi Maibom | Why Perspectives Matter |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | 3rd Cohort Speed Presentations (I) | 4-PERC: Syrine Rekhis (UOS) 5-PERC: Anil Bayindir (RUB) 6-AGEN: John Jairo Madrid Carvajal (UOS) 7-AGEN: Aitana Grasso Cladera (UOS) 8-SESC: Alessandra Mascaro (UOS) 9-SESC: Leonard Kulisch (RUB) | Empirical Projects in the RTG ‘Situated Cognition’ |
| 17:15 – 18:25 | Keynote | Louise Barrett | Giving up the Ghost, and Getting Into the Goo: Embracing the Brain as an Organ of the Body (Not the Mind), and Taking Sociality Seriously |
– Friday, 6th of October –
| TIME | TYPE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 09:00 – 10:10 | Keynote | Peter König | Normative Ethics of the Human and Artificial Agent Interaction |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | 3rd Cohort Speed Presentations (II) | 1-META: Christian Scholz (RUB) 2-META: Yizhi Li (RUB) 3-PERC: Matteo Cerasa (RUB) 10-SESC: William Angkasa (UOS) 11-LING: Kirill Leshchinskii (UOS) 12-LING: Sofia Pedrini (RUB) | Theoretical Projects in the RTG ‘Situated Cognition’ |
| 15:20 – 16:40 | Panel discussion | Imke von Maur (Panelists: Beate Krickel, Sabrina Coninx, Martina Havenith-Newen) | Women in Science and Philosophy |
| 16:50 – 18:00 | Keynote | Joel Krueger | Affordances, Affect, and Spatial Agency |