[CogSci] [CILC5] Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Cognitive and Language Sciences, 16-20.09.2020 – call for participation

Human Interactivity and Language Lab UW hill at hill.psych.uw.edu.pl
Mon Jan 20 11:35:14 PST 2020


Dear Colleagues!

we’re happy to announce that the 5th International Conference on
Interactivity, Language & Cognition will take place on September 16-20, 2020,
at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

The theme of CILC 5 is “Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in
the Cognitive and Language Sciences”. The aim is to bring qualitative and
quantitative researchers together (or the quantitative and qualitative
sides within each researcher) for forging closer integration and finding a
common language for better coordination of research efforts. We believe
that our conference will strike a dialogue among speakers representing
divergent backgrounds leading to mutual incorporation of the values
important for both types of methods. The event will be accompanied by two
days of workshops aimed to broaden participants experience by hands-on work
on real research problems.

We encourage you to visit the conference website
<http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/cilc5/> or read the full invitation below.

Keynotes

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   Prof. Hanne de Jaegher, Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow, University of the
   Basque Country, “I am a philosopher of cognitive science, fascinated by
   how we think, work, play — basically, live and love — together. For
   understanding this better, I’m developing a theory of subjectivity and
   intersubjectivity called participatory sense-making.” (see more
   <https://hannedejaegher.net/>)
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   Prof. Bert Hodges, Professor of Psychology, University of Connecticut “His
   work in social psychology, which is related to issues of conformity,
   dissent, truth-telling, and disagreement, has challenged traditional
   approaches to these issues that has opened up new possibilities for
   understanding social interactions and relationships.” (see more
   <https://www.gordon.edu/berthodges>)
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   Prof. Mark Bickhard, Henry R. Luce Professor in Cognitive Robotics and
   the Philosophy of Knowledge, Lehigh University “His work ranges from
   process metaphysics and emergence to consciousness, cognition, language,
   and functional models of brain processes, to persons and social ontologies.”
   (see more <https://psychology.cas2.lehigh.edu/content/mhb0>)
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   Prof. Li Wei, Professor in Applied Linguistics, University College
   London, “My personal take on Linguistics is driven by my belief in the
   constitutive nature of linguistic practice. Human beings construct their
   social space (including identity, personal relations, ideology) through
   strategic use of language (and other communication resources) in real-life
   situations.” (see more
   <https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=LWEIX65>)
   -

   Sarah Bro Trasmundi, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Southern
   Denmark “Currently she works with cognitive ethnography and embodied
   interaction on a large research project The Ecology of Psychotherapy:
   Integrating Cognition, Language, and Emotion (EPICLE). She is the director
   of the upcoming CogEthno-Lab at Department of Language and Communication“
   (see more <https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/sarbro>)
   -

   Prof. Michael Richardson, Macquarie University “My research is directed
   towards understanding the lawful dynamics of human perception, action, and
   cognition. I have expertise in experimental and applied psychology,
   cognitive science, human-movement science, perception-action, joint-action
   and social coordination, virtual-reality, complex systems, quantitative and
   statistical analysis methods, and dynamical modeling.” (see more
   <https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/michael-richardson>)
   -

   Prof. Vasu Reddy, University of Portsmouth “I am interested in the
   origins and development of social cognition, mainly in young infants. For
   twenty years now I have been exploring the role of emotional engagement in
   social understanding, focusing on the everyday, ordinary engagements (such
   as teasing and joking and showing-off or feeling shy) which often tend to
   get ignored in mainstream theories.” (see more
   <https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/vasu-reddy>
   )

CALL FOR PAPERS

Focus

Human behavior and experience is richer than any measurement can show and
is fragile under the measurements. Within ecological, enactive, cognitive,
ethnographic and dynamical systems frameworks there is a long-standing
worry about reducing persons, their deeds and feelings to measurements and
relating the measurements to each other by (most often) linear models. Yet
the dialogue among them and the exchange of research experience on the
methodological level still seem rather limited.

With this conference we aim to strengthen the ongoing conversations among
researchers from these approaches, to unite them in a common concern for
the complexity, richness and fragility of individual and collective
cognition as it arises from language-infused interactions. We will try to
give due weight to the qualitative methods, under the assumption that the
best “measuring device” for human purposes is another human being: we have
evolved not only to read each other but to feel with each other and act
together. In seeking “tender” quantitative methods we will turn to those
approaches which:

   -

   do not take operationalization to be a straightforward process,
   -

   can respect complexity, reciprocal causality and emergence,
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   refrain from hasty reifications of theoretical constructs, and
   -

   promote process-oriented analyses.


Invitation

We invite researchers from the fields of psychology, language sciences,
cognitive sciences, anthropology, philosophy, biology and computer sciences
to present reflection on their research, which would shed light on the
abovementioned problems. We accept both individual submissions and thematic
sessions (4 talks each). Topics may include but should not be limited to:

   -

   research on interaction and early interaction
   -

   research on language development in interaction
   -

   research on language emergence and use in interactions, task oriented
   and others
   -

   philosophical analyses of the impediment to the integration of the
   qualitative and quantitative methods
   -

   how to acknowledge value-realizing in interactions with the environment
   and others
   -

   research employing dynamical systems approach to behaviour and
   interaction analysis
   -

   research on early semantic development and participatory sense making
   -

   theoretical analyses on limits of measurement and the types of knowing
   -

   methods of modeling heterogeneous, multiscale phenomena (for example,
   dynamical models, agent-based models, statistical models)
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   mixed methods integrating qualitative and quantitative data


Submissions

We invite the following types of submissions:

   1.

   thematic sessions of up to 4 talks,
   2.

   regular talks,
   3.

   posters.

See details: http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/cilc5/submissions/

We especially encourage submissions from members of groups traditionally
underrepresented in academia!

Travel Awards

Depending on available funding, we might have a limited number of travel
awards for students and PhD candidates without funding, who proposed talks
or posters of outstanding quality. More information on that should be
posted on the conference website in April/May.

Important deadlines

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   Jan 15th – April 15th sessions proposals submission;
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   Jan 15th – May 1st abstracts submission;
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   May 1st sessions acceptance notification;
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   May 15th sessions abstracts final version submission
   -

   June 1st abstracts acceptance notification

Call for Papers: http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/cilc5/cfp/

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2676630182426566/

In case of questions, please contact us: cilc at hill.psych.uw.edu.pl

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On behalf of the ISSILC <https://issilc.wordpress.com/> & HILL
<http://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/>

the Local Organizing Committee

Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, Prof.

Julian Zubek, PhD

Ewa Nagórska

Wiktor Rorot

Konrad Zieliński
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