Society supports Doctoral Symposia in Tübingen, April 7-9 2025, and Vienna, May 8-10 2025
The Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft supports two Doctoral Symposia in 2025:
Doctoral Symposium on Understanding Context in Cognition at the University of Tübingen, April 7th – 9th, 2025
Topic: Understanding Context in Cognition
Organizers: Ghada Hassan, Johanna Theuer, Max Mittenbühler, Mudar Adas, and Polina Tsvilodub
he symposium emphasized interdisciplinary exchange, integrating perspectives from event cognition, artificial intelligence, psychology, cognitive modeling, and anthropology. It brought in about 60 registrations, including master students, PhD researchers, postdocs. Senior researchers from various universities and cognitive science backgrounds who were invited to the event also participated throughout the symposium events.
Doctoral Symposium on Future Thinking at the University of Vienna,
May 8th-10th, 2025
Topic: From Minds to Movements: Foresight in cognition and activism
Organizers: Ohan Hominis (CEU), Maria Fedorova (UniVie), Xueyi Yao (CEU), Bojin Zhu (UniVie)
“From Minds to Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism” was a hybrid, interdisciplinary graduate conference exploring the topic of future thinking through the lens of cognitive science, philosophy, and activism. The conference coincided with a panel discussion on Current Crises, Possible Futures with Ali Emre Benli (University of Vienna), Brigitte Krenn (OFAI), and Simon Rippon (CEU), organised jointly with the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub.
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Further information on the two events can be found here.