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Final Programme
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- Day 1 -
Location: Hof van Liere, Elsschotzaal
9:30-10:00 Registration + coffee
Introduction: E-Cognition and Pretense Practices
10:00-10:15
Word of welcome by Erik Myin
From basic to content-involving cognition
10:15-11:00
Introduction by Zuzanna Rucińska
The benefits and challenges of the enactive-ecological theory of pretense
Official opening of the conference
10 min break
Session I. Pretense - Early Developmental Perspectives
11:10-12:10
Keynote: Vasu Reddy
Teasing, pretending and deceiving: origins in infancy
5 min pause
12:15-12:45
Julia Wolf
Pretence and early belief understanding
12:45-13:45 Lunch break
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Session II. Content, Representations and Enactive Cognitive Science
13:45-14:45
Keynote: Martin Weichold
Embodied pretense:
Rethinking the mechanisms of pretend play by synthesizing enactivist cognitive science and practice theory
5 min pause
14:50-15:20
Marco Faccin
Can radically enactive imagination be contentless?
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15:20-15:45 Coffee break
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15:45-16:15
James Grayot
Imagination, decision-making, and the anti-representationalist agenda
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5 min pause
Session III. Pretend Play and Embodied Sense-Making Activities
16:20-17:20
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Keynote: Thalia Goldstein
Embodiment in Dramatic Play and Social Cognition
End: 17:30
19:30 Conference Dinner @ 'ViaVia'
- Day 2 -
Location: Main City Campus, room S.R. 219
Session IV. Creativity, Fiction and Imagination in Action
9:15-10:15
Keynotes: Arkadiusz Gut & Monika Chylińska
Would 'anything go' in pretense? On exploratory and evaluative
actions of pretending children
5 min pause
10:20-10:50
Abootaleb Safdari Sharabiani
Genuine empathy with inanimate objects
10:50-11:15 Coffee break
Session V. Situated Cognition and Play Environments
11:20-11:50
Daan Dronkers
Pretend play in digital mathematics education
5 min pause
11:55-12:25
Pankaj Singh
Affording pretend play: A situative analysis from the perspective of problem solving
12:30-13:30 lunch break
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Session VI. Round table discussion
13:30-15:00
Interactive round-table discussion on how to turn E-Cognition theories about pretense, imagination and creativity into testable hypotheses. With examples from psychology labs on how to set up pretend play experiments, and from systemic practice on the use of pretend play in therapy. Followed by a discussion on whether E-Cognition can successfully explain findings, and guide new empirical research, on pretend play.
The discussion panel will involve short commentaries from all invited guest speakers, followed by an open discussion.
Guest commentators on pretend play in therapy:
Ellen Reijmers & Thomas Fondelli, Interactie Academie (BE)
15:00-15:25 coffee break
Session VII. Symbols, Metaphors and Ecological Psychology
15:30-16:00
Camila Suárez Acevedo
Why we start symbolizing in play? – an ecological approach to emotion and pretend play
5 min pause
16:05-17:05
Keynote: Agnes Szokolszky
Development of metaphorical thinking and participatory skills via pretend play
17:05-17:10
Concluding remarks
End: 17:15
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