Two Workshops on Memory, Mind, and Media
Sydney, November/ December 2004

John Sutton, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
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Papers from the workshops will appear in special issues of the journals  Scan: journal of media arts culture,
    Cognitive Processing: international quarterly of cognitive science, and Philosophical Psychology.
    For details click here.

See below for some relevant links.
The programme for these workshops is in html here - or download it in rtf here.
You can see some photos taken by Dave Chalmers at the event here.
#1. WORKSHOP #1
Monday-Tuesday, November 29-30, 2004
Venue: Tusculum Mansion, 3 Manning St, Potts Point, Sydney
DAY ONE: The Embedded, Extended Mind: new foundations for cognitive science? (9.30-5.00)
DAY TWO: Time, Affect, and Autobiographical Memory (9.00-6.30)

#2. WORKSHOP #2
Thursday-Friday, December 2-3, 2004
Venue: Union (SAM) Building, Macquarie University, Sydney
DAY THREE: Embodied Memory, Action, History (10.30-6.00)
DAY FOUR: Memory, Media, and Culture (9.30-6.00)

 To coincide with the visit of Andy Clark to Macquarie University in late 2004, two workshops on
    memory, mind, and media were held in Sydney on November 29-30 and December 2-3.

We aimed to bring together researchers with common interests from the cognitive sciences, the social
    sciences, and the humanities. Will it ever to be possible again to study brain and culture
    simultaneously, to harness the increasing specialization of training and research skills productively
    in communal interdisciplinary enquiry? These workshops explore the interdisciplinary study of
    memory as a test case for Clark’s optimistic vision of a new kind of cognitive science:
      ‘Much of what matters about human intelligence is hidden not in the brain, nor in the technology,
      but in the complex and iterated interactions and collaborations between the two.… The study of
      these interaction spaces is not easy, and depends both on new multidisciplinary alliances and new
      forms of modelling and analysis. The pay-off, however, could be spectacular: nothing less than
      a new kind of cognitive scientific collaboration involving neuroscience, physiology, and social,
      cultural, and technological studies in about equal measure’ (Mindware, Oxford 2001, p.154).

Speakers included Sue Campbell (Dalhousie), Andy Clark (Edinburgh), Jérôme Dokic (Institut
    Jean Nicod, Paris),  Jordi Fernandez (Macquarie), Christoph Hoerl (Warwick), Jenann Ismael
    (Arizona), Stephen Muecke (UTS), Elisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris),
    Mark Rowlands (Hertfordshire), Kate Stevens (University of Western Sydney), Karola Stotz
    (Pittsburgh), Elizabeth Wilson (Sydney), Rob Wilson (Alberta)

Program Committee:
Tim Bayne (Philosophy, Macquarie); Jennifer Biddle (Anthropology, Macquarie);
Max Coltheart (Cognitive Science, Macquarie); Philip Gerrans (Philosophy, Adelaide);
Helen Groth (English, Macquarie); Doris McIlwain (Psychology, Macquarie);
Andrew Murphie (Media, UNSW); Gerard O’Brien (Philosophy, Adelaide);
John Potts (Media, Macquarie); Huw Price (Centre for Time, Sydney);
Karen Salmon (Psychology, UNSW); Kate Stevens (Psychology/
MARCS Auditory Labs, University of Western Sydney)

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Macquarie University, the Centre for Time at
    Sydney Uni, and the Australian Research Council.

For all enquiries please contact: John Sutton (Philosophy, Macquarie)

Some relevant links:
Andy Clark's online papers
Resources and bibliographies for the interdisciplinary study of memory

Other and Upcoming Conferences
Conference on Memory, Monuments, & Memorials in Hobart, November 2004
Conference on Memory, 1500-1800 at UCSB, February 2005
'Remembering Lives: biography, memory, & commemoration', Canberra, 2006


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