Memory Day 2015: Memory and skill across time
Please save the date: 6-9 December 2015 for Memory Day 2015, to be held at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Memory Day is an annual interdisciplinary showcase of research and scholarship on memory, sponsored by the Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders.
This year for the first time the University of Otago will be hosting the colloquium, which will be sponsored by The Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund.
Join the Memory Day 2015 Facebook page to follow the progress of this event.
This year's exciting programme focuses on memory and skill across time, conceived of as historical time; the experience of time in high-pressure, high-stakes events such as sport and performance; and the developmental life course.
Keynote Addresses
Professor of Cognitive Science David Kirsh, University of California, San Diego
Developmental psychologist, Professor Qi Wang, Cornell University
Historian and Macarthur Fellow Pamela O. Long
Dr. Chris Button, School of Physical Education, University of Otago
More to be announced!
And presentations by:
PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, early career researchers and other staff, researchers at the University of Otago, members of the Collective Cognition Team at Macquarie as well as collaborators and colleagues from across and beyond Macquarie and Otago and within and across disciplines.
Programme
Sunday 6 December: Keynote #1 and opening reception
Monday 7 December – Wednesday 9 December: Further keynotes, panels, and roundtables
Venue
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand (see map).
Organising committee
Evelyn Tribble (English, Otago); Amanda Barnier (Cognitive Science, Macquarie); Elaine Reese (Psychology, Otago); Kirk Michaelian (Philosophy, Otago)
Call for Papers
Limited space is available for brief papers on any aspect of the topic. Please email an abstract (200 words) along with a very brief biography to Evelyn Tribble ([email protected]) no later than30 September. Acceptances will be notified on a rolling basis, so please submit your proposal as soon as possible.
All welcome!
More details will follow about registration. In the meantime, please put Memory Day 2015 into your calendars and share this link within your networks!
Host city information
Information about Dunedin, the host city, including accommodation, transport and our famous weather
Please save the date: 6-9 December 2015 for Memory Day 2015, to be held at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Memory Day is an annual interdisciplinary showcase of research and scholarship on memory, sponsored by the Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders.
This year for the first time the University of Otago will be hosting the colloquium, which will be sponsored by The Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund.
Join the Memory Day 2015 Facebook page to follow the progress of this event.
This year's exciting programme focuses on memory and skill across time, conceived of as historical time; the experience of time in high-pressure, high-stakes events such as sport and performance; and the developmental life course.
Keynote Addresses
Professor of Cognitive Science David Kirsh, University of California, San Diego
Developmental psychologist, Professor Qi Wang, Cornell University
Historian and Macarthur Fellow Pamela O. Long
Dr. Chris Button, School of Physical Education, University of Otago
More to be announced!
And presentations by:
PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, early career researchers and other staff, researchers at the University of Otago, members of the Collective Cognition Team at Macquarie as well as collaborators and colleagues from across and beyond Macquarie and Otago and within and across disciplines.
Programme
Sunday 6 December: Keynote #1 and opening reception
Monday 7 December – Wednesday 9 December: Further keynotes, panels, and roundtables
Venue
Barclay Theatre, Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand (see map).
Organising committee
Evelyn Tribble (English, Otago); Amanda Barnier (Cognitive Science, Macquarie); Elaine Reese (Psychology, Otago); Kirk Michaelian (Philosophy, Otago)
Call for Papers
Limited space is available for brief papers on any aspect of the topic. Please email an abstract (200 words) along with a very brief biography to Evelyn Tribble ([email protected]) no later than30 September. Acceptances will be notified on a rolling basis, so please submit your proposal as soon as possible.
All welcome!
More details will follow about registration. In the meantime, please put Memory Day 2015 into your calendars and share this link within your networks!
Host city information
Information about Dunedin, the host city, including accommodation, transport and our famous weather