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Call for Posters Theme: Social Understanding Subtitle: Evolution, Culture and Development Type: International Conference Institution: Ruhr-University Bochum Location: Bochum (Germany) Date: 27.–29.9.2012 Deadline: 15.8.2012 __________________________________________________ The conference will focus on the evolution and development of social understanding as well as the cultural differences in understanding others. A further focus will be on the mechanisms underlying social understanding and their explanatory theories. Invited Speakers are: Nalini Ambady (Stanford) Gary Bente (Köln) Katharina Crämer (Köln) Leon de Bruin (Bochum) Thomas Dratsch (Köln) Shaun Gallagher (Memphis) Nivedita Gangopadhyay (Copenhagen/Bochum) Shihui Han (Peking) Shinobu Kitayama (Ann Arbor) Ulf Liszkowski (Nijmegen) Albert Newen (Bochum) Philippe Rochat (Atlanta) Tobias Schlicht (Bochum) Corrado Sinigaglia (Mailand) Dan Sperber (Budapest/Paris) Jürgen Straub (Bochum) Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki) Rineke Verbrugge (Groningen) Kai Vogeley (Köln) Extended deadline: August 15th, 2012 We invite poster presentations as part of our symposium and will financially support the presenters. Posters should be submitted in a completed format or to be described by an abstract of 700 words. Submissions are to be made with EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sun2012 Poster presentations will be supported with up to 75,00€, respectively with up to 150,00€ when the participant is arriving from outside Germany. All travel costs can only be reimbursed on basis of receipts. For further information, please visit our website: http://www.rub.de/philosophy/sun The attendance is free, if you´re interested, please register by writing an email to: [email protected] Scientific Organization Prof. Dr. Newen, Dr. Leon de Bruin, Anika Fiebich (Ruhr-Universität Bochum); Prof. Dr. Gary Bente, Prof. Dr. Vogeley (Universität Köln) Contact: Sekretariat Prof. Newen Institut für Philosophie II Ruhr-Universität Bochum GA 3/153 D-44801 Bochum Germany Tel.: +49 (0)234 32-28339 Fax: +49 (0)234 32-14963 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Web: http://www.rub.de/philosophy/sun __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
