06/02/2019
Th 6th edition of Protolang will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from September 9-11th, 2019 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussion on the origins of symbolic communication distinctive of human beings.
WEBSITE: http://sites.google.com/view/protolang-6/
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)
ORGANIZERS:
- 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
- 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);
- Católica Research Center for Psychological, Family and Social Well-Being of the Catholic University of Lisbon (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
- Portuguese Association for Archaeological Investigation
(APIA - Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Arqueológica)
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR TALKS & POSTERS: February 28th, 2019 (but note that priority will be given to early submissions as places are becoming limited)