____________________________________________________________
Summer School on Empathy and Mind Reading in Media and Arts
Amsterdam July 11-13 2011
Call for Applications Deadline March 27 2011
Pleasee forward to potential participants
____________________________________________________________
??? Are you a PhD level student or junior
researcher and Is your research on the reception
of film, visual arts or music, and do you:
? Have a special interest in thhe whys and
ways media and arts provide recipients with
access to the inner life of portrayed figures and that of producers/ authors?
? Want to be acquainted wiith recent
accomplishments in neuroscience and computer
science possibly strengthening your research on
experiences of empathy with and profound
understanding of people figuring in or authoring the production?
? Waant to exchange & expand ideas on your
research with fellow PhD students, junior
researchers and senior experts working on
empathy and mind reading in media and arts, and
with neuroscientists and computer scientists?
? Do you feel at home in interdisciplinary researchh communities?
Then you should definitely participate in the
graduate level summer school Reading Mediated
Minds, University of Amsterdam, July 11 -13.
The summer school offers tuition-free lectures
and master classes where you discuss ways to get
at improved models of empathy and mind reading
combining humanities with neuroscience and
neuropsychology, and more powerful machine
learning based approaches to collecting and
analysing relevant content and other data.
Find the programme and application details on:
http://www.ccct.uva.nl/content/ccct-summer-school-reading-mediated-minds
Ed Tan
CCCT & ASCoR, University of Amsterdam
Convenor
