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

John Sutton, Philosophy Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
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You can see some photos taken by Dave Chalmers at the event here.
Three special journal issues arising from these workshops have been published in 2005-06.

Further information: contact John Sutton, phone (02) 9850 8817
For registration forms and suggestions on accommodation see

http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/MemoryWorkshops.html

http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/MemoryWorkshopsaccommodation.html

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Workshop #1
DAY ONE  (Mon Nov 29, Tusculum, Potts Point): The Embedded, Extended Mind: new foundations for cognitive science?
DAY TWO (Tues Nov 30, Tusculum, Potts Point): Time, Affect, & Autobiographical Memory

Workshop #2
DAY THREE (Thurs Dec 2, SAM Building, Macquarie Uni): Embodied Memory, Action, History
DAY FOUR (Fri Dec 3, SAM Building, Macquarie Uni): Memory, Media, and Culture
   



Programme

Workshop #1

DAY ONE Monday 29 November - Tusculum, 3 Manning St, Potts Point
THE EMBEDDED, EXTENDED MIND: NEW FOUNDATIONS FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE?

                  9.00 Registration and Coffee

           
1.       9.30-9.40 Welcome

                  9.40-10.50
  Andy Clark (Edinburgh)
                        Beyond the flesh: enacting the boundaries while constructing the niche

                   Coffee

 
       2.     11.10-11.50  Karola Stotz (Pittsburgh)
                         Cognitive technology and molecular epigenesis:

                         some lessons from the genome

            
            3.    11.50-12.30  Richard Menary (Hertfordshire)
                                    Attacking the bounds of cognition

                    Lunch (own arrangements)

       
4.    1.20-2.00  
  Gerard O’Brien (Adelaide)
                                   
Memory and connectionist weight representations

            5.    2.00-2.30  
Mitch Parsell (Macquarie)
                        Extending an evolutionary mind into the environment:

                        can Clark bear the cognitive load?

                                   
            6.   2.30-3.00    Pamela Lyon (Australian National University/ Adelaide)

                        Anthropogenic and biogenic approaches to cognition

                    Coffee

            7.   
3.20-4.00
    Mark Rowlands (Hertfordshire) - Cognition unbound

            8.   
4.00-5.00
   Jerome Dokic (Jean Nicod, Paris)
                        Can the world be an external memory?

                    DRINKS! (in the lovely Tusculum villa next door)

                     
and

                   
CONFERENCE DINNER (own expense) - Puntino Trattoria, 41 Crown St, Woolloomooloo/ Darlinghurst



DAY TWO Tuesday 30 November - Tusculum, 3 Manning St, Potts Point
TIME, AFFECT, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY

                  8.30 Registration and Coffee

            1.       
9.00-9.30   Russell Downham (Macquarie)

                                   
Seeking self-consistency with integrity:

                        an interdisciplinary approach to the ethics of self and memory

        2.   9.30-10.00   James Ley (Sydney)

                        
On the likely form of ‘autobiographical memory’ for Aristotle
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            3.   10.00-11.00 
Sue Campbell (Dalhousie)
                       
Our faithfulness to the past: reconstructing memory value

                     Coffee

            
4.  11.30-12.10  
Elizabeth Wilson (Sydney)
                        Childish computation

             5.  12.10-12.50  Doris McIlwain (Macquarie)

                        Already filtered: affect meets culture at the schema

             6.  12.50-1.30    Philip Gerrans (Adelaide)

                        Tacit knowledge, rule-following, and

                        Pierre Bourdieu’s philosophy of social science

                   
Lunch (own arrangements)

         7.  2.30-3.30  
Jenann Ismael (Arizona)
                        Autobiography, agency, and the self

         8.  3.30-4.30  
Christoph Hoerl (Warwick)
                        Turning one's attention to the past:

                        joint reminiscing, temporal thought, & the development of episodic memory

             
Coffee

              9.   5.00-5.40  
Paul Memmott (Queensland)
                        Lardil orders of time: an ethnographic approach

        
10.  5.40-6.20  Jennifer Biddle (Macquarie)

                        Intercultural memory & other impossible imperatives of
Central Desert art



Wednesday 1 December: no workshop - day off!



Workshop #2
DAY THREE Thursday 2 December - Union (SAM) Building, Macquarie University
EMBODIED MEMORY,ACTION, HISTORY

                    10.00 Registration and Coffee

                    10.30 Welcome
              1.    10.40 - 11.30 Mark Rowlands (Hertfordshire)
  
                           Body Language: representation in action 

                       Coffee

             2.       
12.00-12.30 Oliver Granger (Macquarie)

                         Defining vehicles: vehicle externalism and the vehicle-content distinction

                 
             3.    12.30-1.10   
John Sutton (Macquarie)
                        Habit, skill, and history


                   Lunch (provided)

             4.    2.10-2.40    
Francine Hanley (Victoria University, Melbourne)
                        The body-image psychology forgot:

                        the role of movement and kinesthetic perception in body image construction  

        
5.   2.40-3.20 
Kate Stevens (University of Western Sydney) and
                                   
Shirley McKechnie (Victorian College of the Arts)

                        Unspoken knowledge:

                        creating, performing, and responding to contemporary dance

              6.  3.20-4.00   Peta Tait (La Trobe)
                        Muscular memory and historical re/memberings of circus bodies

               Coffee             

              7.  4.30-5.10    Lyn Tribble (Otago) 

                        Cognition in the Globe:
                        socially distributed cognition and the demands of playing

              8.  5.10-5.50    Helen Groth (Macquarie)
                        Memory, wonder, and Victorian phantasmagoria
       
       
                    DRINKS
                        and

                    CONFERENCE DINNER




DAY FOUR Friday 3 December - Union (SAM) Building, Macquarie University
MEMORY, MEDIA, AND CULTURE

                   9.00   Registration and Coffee
   
            
1.   9.30-10.00 
Carl Windhorst (Macquarie)
                        The slave model of autobiographical memory


             2.  10.00-10.40
Jordi Fernandez (Macquarie)
                        Intentionality and phenomenology: the case of memory

        Coffee

             3.   11.10-12.20  Andy Clark (Edinburgh)
                        Pressing the flesh: a tension in the study of the embodied, embedded mind


             4.      
12.20-1.20   Rob Wilson (Alberta)

                                   
Group-level memory:

                        w
hat is is (and isn’t), and why it matters to the biological and social sciences

                     Lunch (provided)
   
            5.     2.20-2.50  
Mike Leggett (UTS)
                        Pathscape: indexing audio-visual digital media
  
            6.     2.50-3.20 Monte Pemberton and John Sutton (
Macquarie)
                        Maurice Halbwachs, social memory, and distributed cognition


            7.      
3.20-4.00  Andrew Murphie (UNSW)
                        The mutation of cognition and the end of modern culture


                    Coffee


            8.      
4.30-5.10    Maryanne Garry, Deryn Strange, Kimberly Wade, Lauren French
                                    &
Rachel Sutherland (Victoria Uni, Wellington)
                        Digital technologies and personal memory

            9.   5.10-5.50   Anna Gibbs (UWS)
                         Memory prosthetics and the arts of forgetfulness
 



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