Enaction Summer School

Venue: Ballykisteen Hotel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.

Dates: 27th June – 3rd July 2010.

Deadline for application: 12th March 2010

Deadline for full payment: 31st May 2010

The concept of skill plays a central role in contemporary understandings of embodiment, cognition, development and social interaction. Despite the centrality of the concept in enactive and emerging approaches to Cognitive Science, no unified account of precisely what skill is, how it should be conceived and studied has yet been developed.

The Enaction Summer School will bring together researchers from Cognitive Psychology, Ecological Psychology, Robotics, Human-Computer Interaction and Philosophy in order to provide participants with an array of resources for understanding skill and how it might be integrated into developing models of autonomy, cognition and identity. Participants will have the chance to present their own work and have it discussed in small-group workshops. There will also be at least one demonstration evening where participants will have the opportunity to display technology, videos or experiments that they are working on.

Speakers include:

  • Harry Heft, Denison University, Ohio.
  • Fred Cummins, University College Dublin.
  • Ezequiel Di Paolo, University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian.
  • Kim Kirsner, University of Western Australia.
  • Síle O’Módhráin, Queen’s University, Belfast.
  • Craig Speelman, Edith Cowen University, Perth.
  • Tom Ziemke, University of Skövde.

The School is residential and will take place in the four-star Ballykisteen Hotel in County Tipperary, Ireland, situated on 176 acres of picturesque countryside near the Galtee Mountains and the beautiful Glen of Aherlow.

Cost of the school, including accommodation and meals for the entire duration from Sunday 27th to Saturday 3rd, is €540 (shared accommodation), €660 (single accommodation).

Application forms can be downloaded from here.