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The ICCI Team13 December 20220

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SMASH Workshop: The cognitive bases of moral diversity
Angarika Deb10 September 20210
We would like to invite you to our workshop The Cognitive Bases of Moral Diversity. Organized in the frames of SMASH PRO, an interdisciplinary PhD training and research program

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Call for papers: Cognitive Science of Nationalistic Behavior – Evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives
The ICCI Team4 May 20190

The Journal of Cognition and Culture (Brill) is hosting a special issue (edited by Dr Michal Fux, Northeastern University) on the role of cognitive science in nationalistic thought and behaviour (CSNB). Spurred by the rise in popularity of nation-based separatist movements, which followed an era of a steady move toward globalization, the editing team is interested in filling a surprising scholarly gap by establishing a wide explanatory framework / cognitive model for CSNB thoroughly integrated with what is known about human cognition and its evolution.

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Two doctoral fellowships for doing interdisciplinary research on cooperation, trust and morality at CEU
Christophe Heintz13 January 20190

Central European University (CEU) invites applications for two new and fully funded interdisciplinary Joint PhD Fellowships starting in the 2019/2020 academic year (programme: SMASH PRO fellowships).

The Joint PhD Fellowship Scheme

The CEU Joint PhD Fellowship Scheme entails co-supervision by faculty members from the Department of Cognitive Science and Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. One Fellow will pursue a PhD in Cognitive Science and the other one a PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology. The PhD students will follow a curriculum that includes courses from both departments being geared towards their acquiring cross-disciplinary training and expertise.

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Post-doc in Cultural Evolution, Text Mining and Social Cognition in Paris
The ICCI Team4 September 20180
A one-year post-doctoral position in Cultural Evolution and Social Cognition is currently open at the Département d’Etudes Cognitives (DEC) of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. This project will be conducted under the supervision of Nicolas Baumard at the Institut Jean Nicod (IJN) and Julie Grèzes

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Post-doctoral position in cultural/cognitive evolution
The ICCI Team3 September 20180
The Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE) – a recently launched interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence at the University of Bergen (Norway) – invites applications from candidates with a background in a cognitive or cultural science for a position as postdoctoral research fellow in cultural and/or cognitive evolution.

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Call for papers: Cultural Evolution
The ICCI Team21 March 20180
Palgrave Communications, the open access journal from Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature), which publishes research across the humanities and social sciences, is currently inviting article proposals and full papers for a research article collection (‘special issue’) on Cultural Evolution.

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Conference on “Cultural Evolution: Arts, Languages, Technologies” in Tartu, June 6-8, 2018
The ICCI Team15 January 20180
Does cultural evolution work the same way in different domains - e.g., arts, technology and language? What is the role and relative influence of various biases, selection pressures or attractors in our cultural history? Has there been historical times when these influences have been stronger or weaker? Can we make predictions about future trajectories of cultural evolution? We would like to invite contributors to a 3-day conference on the cultural evolution in arts, technology, or language in Tartu (Estonia), June 6-8, 2018.

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Studying the foundations of politics with Quentin Atkinson: 2 positions (PhD students)
Olivier Morin17 November 20170

The University of Auckland advertises two new fully funded PhD studentships examining how culture and cognition shape human political belief and behaviour. Closing date: 15th December 2017.

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Communication, Culture, and Cognition in Seville, May 2-4, 2018
The ICCI Team25 October 20170
The Eighth International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS VIII) will be held on 2nd-4th May 2018, at the University of Seville (Spain). The conference theme will be “Communication, culture and cognition”. Deadline for poster and oral presentations abstracts: December 1.

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X. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, 24-27 May 2018
The ICCI Team6 October 20170
The 10th Dubrovnik Conference in Cognitive Science on Communication, Pragmatics, and Theory of Mind, will take place on 24-27 May 2018, in the Center for Advanced Studies of Dubrovnik, Croatia, located by the Adriatic sea at the foot of the old city of Dubrovnik (Croatia), a UNESCO world heritage site.

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Post-Doctoral Fellowships with Christine Legare at Austin, Texas
The ICCI Team4 October 20170
  The Cognition, Culture, and Development Lab (PI: Cristine Legare) at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for three NSF-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowships. The objective of this cross-cultural research project is to study the psychological processes that allow us to learn, create, and transmit culture.

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Assistant professorship in Evolutionary Social Science at ASU
The ICCI Team23 September 20170
The School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University invites applications for an assistant professor to join our world-leading program in evolutionary social science.

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Culture-and-cognition research on the ISIS Frontline
The ICCI Team16 September 20170
Are decisions in extreme conflicts driven by cost–benefit calculations? The work of Scott Atran and colleagues on ISIS fighters casts doubt on this common social science assumption. It illustrates

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The Extension of Biology Through Culture
The ICCI Team7 August 20170
A juvenile capuchin monkey observes a skilled adult male eating a nut it has just broken using a hammerstone. This picture illustrates a special issue of PNAS on the Extension of Biology Through

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First Social Epistemology Network Event, Oslo, May 22-24, 2018
The ICCI Team19 June 20170

The Social Epistemology Network Event aims to  bring together leading figures in social epistemology —  Keynote Speakers will be Cristina Bicchieri, Sandy Goldberg, Alvin Goldman, Katherine Hawley , and Paulina Sliwa — , together with early to mid-career researchers, and outstanding graduate students from around the world.

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Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development 2018
The ICCI Team9 June 20170
The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce the eighth annual BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary (BCCCD18, January 4-6, 2018). We welcome submissions from all areas related to cognitive development. Previous BCCCD meetings featured a variety of topics such as comparative cognition, cognitive bases of culture, biological bases of cognition, conceptual learning, perceptual learning, early social cognition, language acquisition, executive functions, metacognition, communication, numeracy, and object cognition.

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EVOLANG XII (2018): Call for Papers
The ICCI Team7 June 20170
The 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Toruń, Poland, 16-19 April, 2018) invites substantive contributions relating to the evolution of human language. Submissions should be made by September 1, 2017; notification of acceptance will be made by December 1 2017. Registration for the conference opens July 1, 2016. Please share this call widely!

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Inaugural Cultural Evolution Society Conference, Jena, 13-15 September 2017
The ICCI Team27 March 20170
Call for abstracts: submission deadline: June 1, 2017. The Cultural Evolution Society supports evolutionary approaches to culture in humans and other animals. We are committed to fostering an integrative interdisciplinary community spanning traditional academic boundaries from across the social, psychological, and biological sciences, and including archaeology, computer science, economics, history, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy and religious studies.

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Culture Conference in Birmingham
The ICCI Team2 March 20170
The University of Birmingham is organising a Culture Conference on the 25th and 26th of May 2017, on the topic of Innovation in cultural systems. Keynote speakers include:

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Aegina Summer School 2017 – The Social Brain : embodiment and culture
The ICCI Team21 February 20170
Call for Applications (Deadline: 27 Feb.!): We invite applications from PhD students, post-doc and early-career researchers to attend the Summer School on “The Social Brain : embodiment and culture “jointly organized by the Institute of Philosophy &  the Warburg Institute at the University of London, Royal Holloway, and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain.

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Is there a “true self”? A webinar to begin February 12.
The ICCI Team9 February 20170
Some recent work in experimental philosophy and in social psychology addresses central issues in cognition and culture. Case in point: an  article by Nina Strohminger, George Newman, and Joshua Knobe entitled "The True Self: A psychological concept distinct from the self" (forthcoming in Perspectives on Psychological Science and available here.)

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Post-doc offer in Cultural Evolution and Social Cognition
The ICCI Team6 February 20170
A two-year post-doctoral position in Cultural Evolution and Social Cognition is currently open at the Département d’Etudes Cognitives (DEC) of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. This project will be conducted in collaboration with Nicolas Baumard at the Institut Jean Nicod (IJN) and Julie Grèzes at the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (LNC).

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Assistant Professor position at the University of Neuchâtel
The ICCI Team18 January 20170

The University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, invites applications for a position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) of Information and Communication Sciences.

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