28 Apr
2025
28 Apr
'25
8:27 p.m.
Dear Colleagues,
We warmly invite you to the graduate conference "From Minds to
Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism", taking place from May 8
to May 10, 2025, at the University of Vienna.
The conference will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person
and online participation. Information about registration and how to
obtain the Zoom link can be found below.
The first two days of the conference will be held at Aula am Campus Hof
1.11, featuring workshops on Conceptual Change and Climate Activism,
alongside presentations by PhD and postdoctoral researchers in
philosophy and cognitive science. On the third day, the conference will
move to the Sky Lounge at Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, focusing on further
research presentations and concluding with a discussion on future
research directions.
The symposium will also coincide with a panel discussion on The Future
of Knowledge, AI, and Climate Science, organised jointly with the Vienna
Cognitive Science Hub. All conference participants are warmly invited to
attend the panel and the subsequent reception.
You can find the full schedule of the conference below and on the
conference’s website, alongside other details concerning venue
information and registration procedure:
https://mindstomovements.carrd.co/.
Participation is free of charge and open to all.
If you wish to attend the conference, please register here:
https://forms.gle/BGicd3G3kMJHadtQ7.
Participants joining online will receive a Zoom link upon registration.
If you have any inquiries, please contact us at:
mindstomovements.cogsci(a)univie.ac.at.
The symposium is supported by the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub and the
Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft.
Warm regards,
The Organising Committee
Ohan Hominis
Maria Fedorova
Xueyi Yao
Bojin Zhu
Conference Schedule
Thursday, May 8
Coffee & Registration
09:00 – 10:00
Reasoning under Uncertainty:
Hope, Anxiety, and Bounded Rationality
Juliette Vazard (Central European University)
10:00 – 10:55
Flooding with disinformation
Ákos Szegőfi (Central European University)
11:00 – 11:35
Coffee Break
11:35 – 11:50
Divergence Of Collective Memories Across Different
Sociopolitical Identities In Türkiye (Online)
Zeynep Eylül Gül (Koç University)
11:50 – 12:25
Strategic Ignorance in Early Childhood:
Turning a Blind Eye to a Partner’s Cheating
Tindaya Déniz (Leipzig University)
12:30 – 12:55
Lunch
13:00 – 14:30
Workshop: Conceptual Change
14:30 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:00
Labeling events in political discourse (Online)
Mengyuan Qi (University of Pittsburgh)
16:00 – 16:35
From Perception to Possibility: Reformulating Analogical Reasoning
through Affordance Landscapes
Mohsen Forghani (University of Warsaw)
16:40 – 17:05
Novel, Uncertain or Surprising? Young Children’s Exploration
When Simultaneously Facing Different Curiosity Triggers
Kai-Xuan Chai (Technical University of Munich)
17:10 – 17:35
Evening Panel Discussion
17:45 – 19:00
Reception
19:00
Friday, May 9
Coffee & Registration
09:00 – 10:00
Perspectival Models:
What Cognitive Science Can Learn From Climate Science
Moritz Kriegleder (University of Vienna)
10:00 – 10:55
Higher-Level Cognition in Predictive Processing:
Grounded Cognition & Conceptual Spaces
Jannis Friedrich (German Sport University Cologne)
11:00 – 11:35
Coffee Break
11:35 – 11:50
Predictive Processing and the Extended Mind Thesis:
A Persuading Story of Indifference (Online)
Muzaffar Abass Wazir (Indian Institute of Technology)
11:50 – 12:25
How in-group opinions skew perceptions of polarization
in the climate debate
Peter Steiglechner (Complexity Science Hub)
12:30 – 12:55
Lunch
13:00 – 14:30
Workshop: Climate Activism
14:30 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:00
Masking: Epistemic Harm, Testimonial Smothering, and
the Medicalization of Neurodivergence in Healthcare (Online)
Roxy Alexander (American University)
16:00 – 16:35
Blind spots in the mind’s eye
Andreas Arslan (Central European University)
16:40 – 17:05
Ecological Perception and (Information) Anticipation
Martyna Meyer (University of Southern Denmark)
17:20 – 17:25
Beyond Belief: An Enactive Account of Culture
and Its Existential Dimension
Felipe Machado (University of Vienna)
17:30 – 17:55
Saturday, May 10
Coffee
09:00 – 10:00
The Revitalization of Democracy in Serbia:
Participant Observation and the Student Movement
Aleksandra Knežević (University of Belgrade)
10:00 – 10:55
Escaping Russia, Trapped by Identity:
National Identity Negotiation in Light of In-group Wrongdoing
Elena Mikhina (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
11:00 – 11:35
Coffee Break
11:35 – 11:50
Bargaining between the sexes: Gender inequalities in households
Angarika Deb (Central European University)
11:50 – 12:25
Children’s preference for democracy erodes in light of personal reward
Francesca Bonalumi (Central European University)
12:30 – 12:55
Closing & Group Lunch
13:00 – 13:30