PROTOLANG 6: Extended deadline for talks & posters: February 28th, 2019 (but
note that priority will be given to early submissions as places are becoming
limited)
WEBSITE
http://sites.google.com/view/protolang-6/
INFORMATION
The 6th edition of Protolang will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from
September 9-11th, 2019 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Alexandre C. Caldas, Catherine Hobaiter, João Zilhão, Klaus Zuberbühler, Luc
Steels, Rafael Núñez, Roslyn Frank, Tania Kuteva, Tetsuro Matsuzawa
CFA
We invite scholars from A(rcheology) to Z(oology) to contribute data,
experimental and theoretical research.
THEMES
The 2019 conference additionally calls out for contributions on the
following 5 themes:
1 Paleolithic Cosmologies: How Hominins conceptualized Matter,
Space/Ecology, Time, Words & Numbers
2 Defining Protolanguage and the Biological, Cognitive, and Cultural
Mechanisms and Processes whereby it evolved
3 History, Philosophy and Methodologies to Study Primate and Human
Cognition, Communication & Culture
4 Multimodal Theories in Primate Communication and (Proto)Language
5 Modelling of Language Evolution (trees, networks, agent and population
dynamics)
INVITED SESSIONS
*Evolution of language from perspectives of hierarchical complexity -
Chaired by Misato Hayashi
*Emotional and cognitive processes in communication in humans and other
primates -
Chaired by Augusta Gaspar & Ana Margarida Abrantes
*Ontogeny and Evolutionary Processes -
Chaired by Olga Vasileva and Francesco Ferretti
*Pantomime -
Chaired by Przemyslaw Żywiczynski and Slawomir Wacewicz
*Integrated perspectives on gesture -
Chaired by Isabel Galhano-Rodrigues, Anabela Cruz-Santos and Ana Mineiro
*The Grammar of Tool Use: Converging Processes in Grammar and Compositional
Tool manufacture -
Chaired by Natalie Uomini and Antonella Tramacere
*The language of Iberian rock art -
Chaired by Nuno Ribeiro and Anabela Joaquinito
*Skyscape Archaeology in the longue durée: Insights from Cultural Astronomy
applied to the deep past -
Chaired by Roslyn Frank & Fabio Silva
*Beyond material culture: Reconstructing the contents of paleolithic
philosophies -
Chaired by Nathalie Gontier
*Language Evolution at the Crossroad between Comparative and Phylogenetic
Linguistics -
Chaired by Gerd Carling
*The economics of human language -
Chaired by Roland Mühlenbernd, Przemyslaw Żywiczynski, and Slawomir Wacewicz
ABOUT PROTOLANG
The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for
scholarly discussion on the origins of symbolic communication distinctive of
human beings.
The thematic focus of Protolang is on delineating the genetic, anatomical,
neuro-cognitive, socio-cultural, semiotic, symbolic and ecological
requirements for evolving (proto)language. Sign use, tools, cooperative
breeding, pointing, vocalisation, intersubjectivity, bodily mimesis,
planning and navigation are among many examples of such possible factors
through which hominins have gained a degree of specificity that is not found
in other forms of animal communication and cognition.
We aim at identifying the proximate and ultimate causes as well as the
mechanisms by which these requirements evolved; evaluating the
methodologies, research tools and simulation techniques; and enabling
extended and vigorous exchange of ideas across disciplinary borders.
ORGANIZERS
Protolang 6 is organized by the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab and
the Primate Cognition Research Group of the Center for Philosophy of Science
of the Department for History and Philosophy of Science of the Faculty of
Science of the University of Lisbon; the William James Center for Research
of ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences
(ISPA - Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da
Vida); the Católica Research Center for Psychological, Family and Social
Well-Being of the Catholic University of Lisbon (Universidade Católica
Portuguesa); and the Portuguese Association for Archaeological Investigation
(APIA - Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Arqueológica).
Protolang 6 is additionally sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation;
the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; FCiências.ID, the
Association for the Investigation and Development of the Sciences of the
Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon; SEAC - the European Society
for Astronomy in Culture; and the Philosophy of Formal Sciences,
Epistemology and Methodology division of the Center for Philosophy of
Science.
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