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First AHRC Workshop on

The Interactive Mind, Sheffield

Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

 

 

 

This workshop took place on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th April 2005

A report can be found here

Venue

Seminar room, ICOSS (Informatics Collaboratory for the Social Sciences), University of Sheffield

Local Organiser

Eric Clarke (Department of Music, University of Sheffield).

Programme

Friday April 8

1.00 – 2.00 Buffet lunch at ICOSS

2.00 Welcome and introduction: Eric Clarke (Sheffield: Music)

2.15 – 3.45: Presenters 1, 2 + 3:

Chris Gosden (Oxford: Anthropology): ‘The sociable object’

Sally Shuttleworth (Sheffield: Eng Lit): ‘First Impressions: Mind, language and childhood in late-C19th literature and science’

Michael Siegal (Sheffield: Psychology): ‘Conceptual change in children’

3.45 Tea

4.15 – 5.45: Presenters 4, 5 + 6:

Mark Greengrass (Sheffield: History): ‘Governing passions: an early-modern perspective’

Mike Wheeler (Stirling: Philosophy): ‘Spreading the word: material symbols and the extended mind’

Tim Ingold (Aberdeen: Anthropology): ‘Evolution and the ecology of mind’

5.45 – 6.30 General discussion – themes from the day.

7.30 Dinner.

 

Saturday April 9

9.30 – 11.00: Speakers 7, 8 + 9:

Gerard Duveen (Cambridge: Psychology): ‘Symbolic resources in development’

Jim Hurford (Edinburgh: Linguistics): ‘Three evolutionary levels of 'concepts' - the last two influenced by interaction’

David Walker (Sheffield: French): ‘Writing the mind of the shopper’.

11.00 Coffee

11.30 – 1.00 General discussion: conceptions of ‘The Interactive Mind’, and how it might be studied/theorised/explored. Future directions/plans.

1.00 Buffet lunch at ICOSS and close.

 

The AHRC funds postgraduate training and research in the arts and
humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and
dance. The quality and range of research supported not only provides
social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic
success of the UK. For further information on the AHRC, please see
our website www.ahrc.ac.uk

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