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IX Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture | Neurohumanities: Promises & Threats
*IX Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture* <br> <br> <br> <br>*Neurohumanities* <br> <br>*Promises & Threats* <br> <br> <br> <br>*Lisbon, July 1-6, 2019* <br> <br> <br> <br>*CALL FOR PAPERS* <br> <br> <br> <br>*Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2019* <br> <br> <br> <br>When the US government declared the 1990s “The decade of the brain”, it <br>aimed at raising public awareness toward the use of neuroscience for the <br>enhancement of life quality and as a way to better address the challenges <br>of growing life expectancy. The initiative was further supported by <br>substantial research funding, which not only impressed public opinion but <br>appealed to many research fields. Finding a link to brain research and the <br>processes of the human mind, many disciplines were repositioned and adopted <br>the “neuro” prefix, promising new insights into age-old problems by <br>reframing them from the angle of the brain-mind continuum. <br> <br>Neuroscience seeks to explain how the brain works and which <br>neurophysiological processes are involved in complex cognitive abilities <br>like sensation and perception attention and reasoning, memory and thought. <br> <br>One of the most striking and unique features of the human mind is its <br>capacity to represent realities that transcend its immediate time and <br>space, by engaging complex symbolic systems, most notably language, music, <br>arts and mathematics. Such sophisticated means for representation are <br>arguably the result of an environmental pressure and must be accounted for <br>in a complex network of shared behaviors, mimetic actions and collaborative <br>practices: in other words, through human culture. The cultural products <br>that are enabled by these systems are also stored by means of <br>representation in ever-new technological devices, which allow for the <br>accumulation and sharing of knowledge beyond space and across time. <br> <br>The artifacts and practices that arise from the symbolic use, exchange and <br>accumulation are the core of the research and academic field known as the <br>Humanities. The field has been increasingly interested in the latest <br>developments deriving from neuroscience and the affordances they allow <br>about the conditions and processes of the single brain, embedded in an <br>environment, in permanent exchange with other brains in an ecology that is <br>culturally coded. <br> <br>This turn of the humanities to neuroscience is embraced by many and <br>fiercely criticized by others. The promise of the Neurohumanities, the <br>neuroscientifically informed study of cultural artifacts, discourses and <br>practices, lies in unveiling the link between embodied processes and the <br>sophistication of culture. And it has the somewhat hidden agenda of <br>legitimizing the field, by giving it a science-close status of relevance <br>and social acknowledgement it has long lacked. Here, though, lies also its <br>weakness: should the Humanities become scientific? Can they afford to do <br>so? Should they be reduced to experimental methodologies, collaborative <br>research practices, sloppy concept travelling, transvestite <br>interdisciplinarity? Is the promise of the Neurohumanities, seen by some as <br>the ultimate overcoming of the science-humanities or the two cultures <br>divide, in fact not only ontologically and methodologically impossible and <br>more than that undesirable? And how will fields like Neuroaesthetics, <br>Cognitive Literary Theory, Cognitive Linguistics, Affect Theory, <br>Second-person Neuroscience, Cognitive Culture Studies or Critical <br>Neuroscience relate to the emerging omnipresence and challenges of <br>Artificial Intelligence? <br> <br>The IX Summer School for the Study of Culture invites participants to <br>submit paper and poster proposals that critically consider the developments <br>of the Neurohumanities in the past decades and question its immediate and <br>future challenges and opportunities. Paper proposals are encouraged in but <br>not limited to the following topics: <br> <br>· 4E Cognition: embodied, embedded, enacted and extended <br> <br>· performance and the embodied mind <br> <br>· spectatorship and simulation <br> <br>· from individual to social cognition <br> <br>· mental imagery <br> <br>· empathy <br> <br>· memory, culture and cultural memory <br> <br>· cognition and translatability <br> <br>· mind-body problem <br> <br>· life enhancement <br> <br>· neuro-power <br> <br>· (neuro)humanities and social change <br> <br>· AI, cognition and culture <br> <br> <br>The Summer School will take place at several cultural institutions in <br>Lisbon and will gather outstanding doctoral students and post-doctoral <br>researchers from around the world. In the morning there will be lectures <br>and master classes by invited keynote speakers. In the afternoon there will <br>be paper presentations by doctoral students. <br> <br> <br> <br>*Paper proposals* <br> <br>Proposals should be sent to lxsummerschool@gmail.com no later than February <br>28, 2019 and include paper title, abstract in English (max. 200 words), <br>name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation and a brief bio (max. 100 <br>words) mentioning ongoing research. <br> <br>Applicants will be informed of the result of their submissions by March 15, <br>2019. <br> <br>*Rules for presentation* <br> <br>The organizing committee shall place presenters in small groups according <br>to the research focus of their papers. They are advised to stay in these <br>groups for the duration of the Summer School, so a structured exchange of <br>ideas may be developed to its full potential. <br> <br>*Full papers submission* <br> <br>Presenters are required to send in full papers by May 30, 2019. <br> <br>The papers will then be circulated amongst the members of each research <br>group and in the slot allotted to each participant (30’), only 10’ may be <br>used for a brief summary of the research piece. The Summer School is a <br>place of networked exchange of ideas and organizers wish to have as much <br>time as possible for a structured discussion between participants. Ideally, <br>in each slot, 10’ will be used for presentation, and 20’ for discussion. <br> <br>*Registration fees* <br> <br>Participants with paper – 290€ for the entire week (includes lectures, <br>master classes, doctoral sessions, lunches and closing dinner) <br> <br>Participants without paper – 60€ per session/day | 190€ for the entire <br>week <br> <br>*Fee waivers* <br> <br>For The Lisbon Consortium students, there is no registration fee. <br> <br>For students from Universities affiliated with the European Summer School <br>in Cultural Studies and members of the Excellence Network in Cultural <br>Studies the registration fee is 60€. <br> <br>*Organizing Committee* <br> <br>· Isabel Capeloa Gil <br> <br>· Peter Hanenberg <br> <br>· Alexandra Lopes <br> <br>· Paulo de Campos Pinto <br> <br>· Diana Gonçalves <br> <br>· Clara Caldeira <br> <br>· Rita Bacelar <br> <br> <br>*Organizing Committee* <br>Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture <br>Neurohumanities: Promises and Threats <br> <br>******************* <br>A informação contida nesta mensagem (incluindo eventuais ficheiros anexos) <br>é confidencial, protegida por direitos de autor e dirigida apenas ao seu <br>destinatário. 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