Invitation to the Interdisciplinary College 2018
9-16 March 2018 in Günne/Möhnesee, Germany

ME, MY SELF, AND I.
http://www.interdisciplinary-college.de

The Interdisciplinary College (IK) is an intense annual one-week spring school, offering a state-of-the-art program in neurobiology, cognitive science, psychology, robotics, neural computation, and artificial intelligence. Each year’s theme connects ideas and approaches across the sciences and humanities. The IK provides a unique training opportunity for students, postgraduates and researchers, from academia and industry. Courses are designed to promote dialogue and connectedness, and are taught by top lecturers from across the world. The course sequence includes introductions to the main fields of the IK, followed by in-depth lectures on the focus topic. IK2018’s focus theme is: Me, my Self,  and I.

The focus theme addresses questions such as: Who am I? Where is my self? What is it like to be me? In doing so, different aspects of self models, self perception, and self consciousness will be approached using different epistemic and theoretical approaches in a truly interdisciplinary fashion. IK2018 aims to provide an open space for debate and a framework of courses that should enable participants to extend their knowledge in various disciplines. They will help to establish informed opinions about questions pertaining to the concept I, the self, and personhood. More precisely, we will use the perspectives of different disciplines to approach our focus theme: Biology to investigate the evolution and development self models in animals and Computer science to see if and how we can create artificial selves and what we can learn from them. Philosophy to discuss concepts of self models, self perception, and ethics. Clinical disciplines to investigate what happens when our self models are altered or disrupted by pathologies or unusual states of mind, and finally, arts as a form of self expression and source of self reflection.


Chairs
Dr. Katharina Krämer, University of Cologne, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
PD Dr. Ronald Sladky, University of Zurich, Cognitive Science and Neuroimaging
Prof. Dr. Ipke Wachsmuth, Bielefeld University, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science

Spaces are limited and available on a first come, first served basis.
Registration open until 9 February, 2018
Early bird registration deadline 7 January, 2018

http://www.interdisciplinary-college.de
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