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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
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??? 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