Akateemisia tilaisuuksia
Tällä sivulla luetellaan akateemisia seminaareja, konferensseja, symposiumeja ja muita kokouksia Suomessa sekä Virossa, jotka voisivat olla hyödyllisiä parapsykologiasta, anomalistisesta psykologiasta ja digitaalisesta fysiikasta kiinnostuneille sekä aiheeseen liittyvää tutkimusta tekeville. Sivun lopussa on lisäksi joitakin huomionarvoisia säännöllisesti toistuvia konferensseja ulkomailta.
Sivulle on jätetty merkintä myös menneistä tilaisuuksista vuodesta 2010 eteenpäin. Erikseen on lueteltu säännöllisesti Suomessa tai Virossa toistuvat tilaisuudet sekä muut tulevat tapahtumat, joihin on myös mahdollista lähettää oma tutkimuspaperi arvioitavaksi. Jos tiedossasi on mielenkiintoinen tuleva tapahtuma tai olet järjestämässä sellaista, ilmoitathan siitä hyvissä ajoin meille ja lisäämme sen tälle sivulle.
Luentosarjoista kannattaa (instituutin järjestämien tilaisuuksien ohella) seurata seuraavia tapahtumakalentereita: Forum Humanum, Humanistit, Kriittinen korkeakoulu, Luonnonfilosofian seura, Metafysiikan verkosto ja Skepsis.
Tulevia kokouksia
20-22.9 2016 Tieteiden talo (Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki): Wild or domesticated – Uncanny in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives to Mind.
An interdisciplinary conference organized by The Mind and the Other Research Project and by The Finnish Anthropological Society.
12-13.8 2016: Quantum Computing and Computational Quantum Mechanics
The past decade has witnessed a trailblazing development in the experimental realizations of a quantum computer. Namely, the most critical problems related to the decoherence of quantum information have been solved in some physical platforms, the superconducting quantum computer being one of the flagships. Now the working large-scale quantum computer is at the horizon.
This workshop brings together experts in the field of quantum computing, quantum-enhanced computing, open quantum systems, and low-temperature physics. The keynote speakers present recent results in the field of error mitigation in quantum computing including composite pulses and refrigeration schemes for the initialization of quantum bits. Contributed talks on related topics such as quantum information, controlled quantum systems, low-temperature devices, and computational methods for solving quantum dynamics are most welcome.
28.6-1.7 2016 Helsingin yliopisto: EASR 2016 Conference - Relocating Religion
The annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR): Religion has always been a moving concept. Throughout history, it has changed place, shape, function and content; conceptions of religion have been dependent on theoretical or political interests and strategies. Religion can be framed as a means of identity-work, world-building and well-being, but it can also be perceived as a consumer good or a security threat. Due to the open, fragile, and inherently negotiable nature of the category of ‘religion’, rigid definitions produce simplistic and distorted representations of the complexities involved in the formation of religious phenomena. At the same time, attempts to define and redefine religion in various contexts are themselves an important topic of research. All of this requires interdisciplinary scholarly imagination and critical new approaches.
In recent scholarship, religious change has been conceptualized from a variety of theoretical perspectives. When focusing on the modern period, some scholars speak about the vitalization of religions, secularization and post-secularity, while others refer to re-sacralization and re-enchantment. Concurrently, the need for more knowledge and understanding not only of religion, but also of secularization, secular positions and non-religion has been underlined. Many of these perspectives highlight the significance of religious change as a cultural and social phenomenon. Such perspectives are, however, equally applicable to the study of religious transformations in other contexts than the modern period. The conference will offer the opportunity to explore changes and continuities in the forms, practices and implications of religion at all levels of societies and cultures, in the past as well as in the present
20.-21.5 2016 Tieteiden talo: Scientific Models and a Comprehensive Picture of Reality
The Finnish Society for Natural Philosophy arranges together with The Physics Foundations Society a two-day workshop which brings together recognized philosophers, physicists and cosmologists to discuss scientific models and the challenge of making nature understandable. The workshop calls for novel aspects of unifying theories and discusses postulates, testability and the philosophical criteria of the theories.
Toistuvat kokoukset
Satunnaisesti: Kansainväliset ParaDigma-seminaarit
Vuodesta 2000 lähtien yhtä pitkää taukoa lukuunottamatta järjestetty parapsykologiaan ja akateemiseen paranormaalin tutkimukseen erikoistunut tapahtuma. Tapana on ollut järjestää seminaareja joka toinen vuosi, yhdistyksen resursseista riippuen, mutta jatkossa tilaisuuksia on tarkoitus järjestää vuosittain.
Joka toinen vuosi: Kulttuurin tutkimuksen päivät
Kulttuurintutkimuksen seura ry. perustettiin 19.3.2008 ja liitettiin valtakunnalliseen yhdistysrekisteriin 14.8.2008. Seura jatkaa vuonna 1984 perustetun Kulttuurin tutkimuksen verkoston toimintaa tarkoituksenaan edistää monitieteistä ja monialaista kulttuurintutkimusta Suomessa. Se järjestää seminaareja eri teemoilla parillisina vuosina. Tämä on otettu mukaan, koska kulttuurintutkimuksen puitteissa ja liepeillä tutkitaan nykyisin runsaasti parapsykologiaankin liittyviä teemoja.
Joka vuosi: Surukonferenssi
Kuolema ja kriisit sekä kuolemanjälkeinen elämä ovat toistuvia elementtejä sekä parapsykologiassa että surun alueella, joka on näkynyt myös surukonferenssien aihevalinnoissa. Konferenssin tavoitteena on lisätä tietoutta surusta ja surevan tukemisesta sekä tuoda esille suomalaista kuolemaan liittyvää tutkimustietoa. Konferenssin kautta halutaan myös tarjota läheisensä menettäneille ja surevia työssään kohtaaville mahdollisuus vuorovaikutukseen.
Konferenssi on suunnattu sosiaali- ja terveydenhoitoalan, opetus – ja kasvatusalan ja seurakuntien työntekijöille, muille surevia työssään kohtaaville sekä läheisensä menettäneille. Konferenssi on tarkoitettu myös surua ja kuolemaa tutkiville tahoille ja asiantuntijoille.
Surukonferensseja on järjestetty vuodesta 2009 alkaen. Vuosien 2009-2012 konferenssit järjestettiin Jyväskylässä. Vuodesta 2013 alkaen Surukonferenssit on järjestetty Tampereella. Alussa järjestäjinä toimivat surujärjestöt. Myöhemmin järjestäjäjoukko on laajentunut ja mukana konferenssia järjestämässä ovat olleet myös Tampereen Yliopiston Terveystieteiden yksikkö, Suomalaisen Kuolemantutkimuksen Seura ja Suomen Mielenterveysseura. Vuoden 2016 konferenssissa uutena yhteistyökumppanina on Kirkkohallitus.
Menneitä kokouksia
29.4.2016 Turun Yliopisto seminaarisali E221: Esoteerisuus ja kumman kokemukset - Toisia todellisuuksia tutkimassa
Kumma-verkoston, Uuden etsijät -hankkeen ja SELMAn tutkijatapaaminen: Länsimainen esoteerisuus, spiritualismi, teosofia, antroposofia, magia, yliluonnolliset tai kummat kokemukset ja muut toisia todellisuuksia tarkastelevat, etsivät, kokevat ja kuvaavat ihmiset, yhteisöt ja ilmiöt ovat yhä useamman tutkijan kiinnostuksen kohteena. Kolmen tutkimusyhteisön tapaamisessa tarkastellaan eri näkökulmista sitä, mitä tutkitaan kun tutkitaan toisia todellisuuksia ja sitä, miten voidaan tutkia toisia todellisuuksia ja niitä kohti kurottuvia tai niitä kokevia ihmisiä ja yhteisöjä. Millaisia aineistoja ja lähestymistapoja käytetään? Mitä eettisiä ja metodologisia haasteita tällaisessa tutkimuksessa on?
5.3 2016 Oulun Kaupunginkirjasto: Paulaharju ja yliluonnollinen -seminaari
Seminaari on kolmas viiden vuoden aikana toteutettavasta Samuli Paulaharju -seminaarien sarjasta, joka liittyy ohjaaja Juha Hurmeen teatteriprojektiin Operaatio Paulaharju. Tulevana kesänä teatteriryhmä esittää Kevon luonnonpuistossa Akukammilla 21.–27. elokuuta päivittäin klo 18 kansanoopperan Paulaharjun kertomuksesta Suongil, suuri noita. Novelli sisältyy Paulaharjun kokoelmaan Tunturien yöpuolta. Kansanoopperan on säveltänyt Petra Poutanen ja dramatisoinnut ja ohjannut Juha Hurme.
28.-31.1 2016 Tampere-talo: Konferenssi ja koulutustapahtuma psykologisen tiedon ja kristillisen uskon vuorovaikutuksesta
Suomen ACC ry on vuonna 2005 perustettu yhteistyöelin, joka kokoaa yhteen kristillisen terapian ja sielunhoidon alalla toimivia henkilöitä ja yhdistyksiä. Suomen ACC järjestää VI:n konferenssinsa psykologisen tiedon ja kristillisen uskon vuorovaikutuksesta 29.-31.1.2016 Tampere-talossa.
13.11.2015 Tampereen yliopisto: Täydentävät ja vaihtoehtoiset hoidot
Tutkimusseminaari tutkijoille, opiskelijoille ja muille aiheesta kiinostuneille. Yliopiston päärakennus, ls A1 (Kalevantie 4). Onko CAM-tutkimus Suomessa tabu? Täydentävien hoitojen käyttäjiä on paljon, noin kolmannes aikuisväestöstä. Silti hoitojen hyötyjä, haittoja ja käytön syitä ei ole selvitetty tieteellisin tutkimuksin. Epävirallisen hoitamisen kansanterveydellistä merkitystä ei myöskään ole pohdittu. Missä on suomalainen CAM-tutkimus?
10.11 2015 Villa Tammekann (Kreutzwaldi 6, Tallinna): Uncanny experiences and narratives: embodiment, senses, interpretative frames
The event is organised by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu, and the University of Turku (Interdisciplinary Research Project “Mind and the Other“)
25.9 2015 Snellman-korkeakoulu: Tulevaisuuden ihminen -symposium
Rudolf Steiner oli oman aikansa ennakkoluuloton ajattelija. Muun muassa Hegelin, Fichten ja Brentanon ihmistutkimusta (antropologia) seuraten hän kehitti oman filosofisen näkemyksensä, antroposofian (ihmisviisaus) pyrkien näin välttämään edeltäjiensä yksipuolisuudet, mutta samalla seuraamaan antiikista, Platonilta ja Aristoteleelta alkavaa henkistä traditiota.
Signe ja Ane Gyllenbergin säätiö jakaa apurahoja antroposofisen lääketieteen tutkimiseen – lääketieteeseen joka pohjautuu kokonaisvaltaiseen ihmiskuvaan. Ihmistutkimusta ja -viisautta yhdistävä silta on tietoisesti rakennettava ihmiskäsitys, joka ei kuitenkaan ole valmis, vaan ajassa elävä. Miten luonto, ihminen ja yhteiskunta ovat muuttumassa? Minkälaisia ovat aikamme ihmiskuvat ja -käsitykset? Miten koulutukset, työ ja tutkimus ottavat huomioon ihmisen ja muutokset? Minkälaisia ovat tulevaisuuden kuvamme luonnosta ja yhteiskunnasta?
2.9.2015 Lahden kirjasto: Ääniä kuulevan tukeminen & Pyhimyksiä vai mielipuolia? Seminaari moniäänisyydestä.
Pyhimyksiä vai mielipuolia -näyttely yhteydessä syyskuussa 2015 pidettiin kaksi seminaaria; Ääniä kuulevan tukemisesta sekä Pyhimyksiä vai mielipuolia –näyttelyn avajaisseminaari. Seminaarin järjesti Moniääniset-yhdistys.
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25.-28.6 2015 Alandica (33 Strandgatan, Ahvenanmaa): Archipelacon - Beyond the Borders of the Mundane
Archipelacon offered several programme tracks with presentations, panels and lectures on all aspects of science fiction and fantasy. The main language was English, but there was programme tracks also in Finnish and Swedish. The convention also hosted the Finnish SF and Fantasy Researchers Network’s annual academic conference. Archipelacon is a meeting place for science fiction and fantasy fans from all over the world, an international convention with a Nordic flavour.
18-20.6 2015 Tallinnan yliopisto: Religious Innovation and Religious Change in the 21st Century - Conference on New Religions
Conference topics include Change in “old” new religions, New religious movements and the visual arts, Esoteric movements and innovation, New religions operating as global networks and other topics related to New religions.
8.-13.6 2015 Helsingin yliopiston päärakennus: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2015
The 21st annual international, interdisciplinary conference on the fundamental questions connected with conscious experience.
Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology. Cutting edge, controversial issues are emphasized. Held annually since 1994, the TSC conferences alternate yearly between Tucson, Arizona and various locations around the world. The University of Helsinki is proud to host TSC 2015 in the Great Hall of its neoclassical main building located in the downtown area.
26.-29.5 2015 Tarton yliopisto: Old religion and new spirituality: continuity and changes in the background of secularization
Estonia is an extremely secularized European country, characterized by the diminishing institutionalization of religion (de-institutionalization) and the decline of the Christian practices and beliefs (de-Christianization). In order to investigate the historical roots of the situation and clarify the characteristics of the current picture, the research project about religiosity in Estonia was started in 2011. The staff of the project welcomes the researchers dealing with the religious situation in Europe in order to make comparisons of certain features of the changing religious landscape.
27-28.11 2014 Lapin yliopiston Arktinen keskus: Shamanism, Symbolism and Culture
International Shamanism Seminar, where the key speaker is Mihaly Hoppal from Hungary who is the President of the International Institute for Shamanistic Research.
15.11 2014 Kulttuurikeskus Sofia (Kallvikinniementie 35, Helsinki): Aine, henki ja evoluutio seminaari
Evoluutiota, tietoisuutta ja päämääriä käsittelevä filosofinen seminaari. Seminaarin järjestävät yhteistyössä Kulttuurikeskus Sofia, Kriittinen korkeakoulu sekä Filosofiklubi.
22–24.10 2014 Turun yliopisto: Images of Afterlife conference
Images of death and afterlife are rich and manifold in various religious contexts, as well as in artistic, media and other symbolic expressions. Representations of afterlife reflect cultural values, fears and hopes. In the contemporary West collective religious representations are challenged and completed by individual conceptions and beliefs, which, in turn, derive from various cultural sources. How has afterlife – the life and existence of souls and minds (or bodies) after death – been imagined in different contexts and how is it imagined today? What are the contexts in which these images are expressed? Where do afterlife conceptions come from and what is their significance in the societies of the living?
11.-12.9 2014 Hotelli Aavaranta (Espoo): Brain & Mind Symposium 2014
Organized by doctoral program Brain & Mind (B&M), which is a PhD program based on a multidisciplinary network of leading neuroscience research groups at the Universities of Helsinki and Aalto University.
10-11.4 2014 Turun yliopisto: Limits of and Beyond Experience
The aim of our international workshop is to discuss the theoretical and methodological possibilities of studying human experience that is at the limit of our understanding or perhaps beyond it. How to study the invisible; voices which are not shared intersubjectively; presence that is experienced convincingly as being true, but that is weird? These are all sensory experiences which have been of interest to phenomenology in the form of ‘boundary experience’, or later also relevant for pragmatist philosophy, most notably William James. In addition, representations and narrations of “otherworldly beings” and conceptions of magic have been a core area of research within folklore studies and anthropology since the birth of these disciplines.
27.3 2014 Peurunka: 2nd Annual Research Seminar of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research
Jyväskylän yliopiston Montieteinen Aivotutkimuskeskus (CIBR) järjestää vuosittaisen tutkijaseminaarin, jonka teema sivusi tällä kertaa tietoisuutta ja aivojen kytkemistä tietokoneisiin.
10.3 2014 Tampere-talo: Kiistelty usko -seminaari
Saako usko näkyä? Voidaanko uskoa perustella järjellä? Mahtuuko nykyajan kansanusko kirkkoon? Näitä ajankohtaisia kysymyksiä käsiteltiin Kirkon tutkimuskeskuksen seminaarissa ”Kiistelty usko”, joka järjestettiin Tampere-talossa 10.3.2014 klo 10–16.
30-31.1 2014 Jyväskylän yliopisto: Metaphysics and the Mind. Early Modern Views
Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitoksen järjestämä seminaari tietoisuuden metafysiikkaan liittyen.
10.-11.12 2013 Turun yliopisto: Valtakulttuurit ja sopimattomat kokemukset. Tulkinnan ja kohtaamisen ongelmia
Valtakulttuurit ja sopimattomat kokemukset -seminaari kokosi yhteen tutkijoita, jotka työskentelevät yliluonnollisiksi nimettyjen tai laajemmin määritellen valtakulttuuriin sopimattomien kokemusten ja ilmiöiden parissa. Kutsutut puhujat mukaan lukien paikalla oli nelisenkymmentä tutkijaa, joiden tutkimusaiheet inhimillisen kokemuksen kentässä ulottuivat historiallisista nykypäivän ilmiöihin ja kristillisistä kokemuksista ufohavaintoihin.
11.-12.11 2013 Tieteiden talo: Luonnonfilosofian seura 25 vuotta - K.V. Laurikaisen juhlasymposium
The Finnish Society for Natural Philosophy arranges a two day international symposium for the honour of its founder K.V. Laurikainen and its 25 years of activity. The symposium takes place in the House of Science and Letters, at the 1st floor auditorium 104, Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki. The symposium language is English, although some of the presentations will be in Finnish. Proceedings will be published after the symposium.
18.9 2013 Seminaarinmäki, Historica, H306: Ihmisen kuolevaisuuden / kuolemattomuuden merkitys -seminaari
Seminaari käsittelee ihmisen kuolevaisuuden/kuolemattomuuden merkitystä elämälle, etiikalle ja onnellisuudelle. Onko kuolemattomuus moraalin ehto asettaessaan kuolemanjälkeisen tuomion elämän hyvyyden mittariksi? Vai onko sen sijaan oletettava, että juuri kuolevaisuus tekee ihmisen elämän merkitykselliseksi ja mahdollistaa aidon eettisyyden asettaessaan rajan hyvälle toiminnalle tähän maailmaan? Onko kuolemaa pelättävä? Mitä oikeastaan pelkäämme, kun pelkäämme kuolemaa? Miten tuo pelko vaikuttaa elämäämme? Seminaarissa tarkastellaan näitä kysymyksiä historiallisesti laajassa katsannossa mutta kysymyksiin ja niiden ajankohtaiseen merkitykseen pureutuen.
21.-23.8 2013 Turun yliopisto: Honko conference - Role of theory in folkloristics and comparative religion
The Departments of Folkloristics and Comparative Religion at the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, together with the Donner Institute, organized an international interdisciplinary conference to honour the work of Professor Lauri Honko (1932–2002)
11.-12.6 2013 Jyväskylän yliopisto: Witchcraft, Magic and Popular Religion - XI Gustav Vasa seminar
The Gustav Vasa seminar is annually arranged by the Department of History and Ethnology. The seminar represents historical topics of varying fields. The Eleventh annual Gustav Vasa seminar focuses on the themes of popular religion, witchcraft and magic.
22.11 2012 SKS juhlasali: Pahasi parantahaman! – Tietäjät, shamaanit ja kansanparannus kansanuskon päivillä
Vuoden 2012 Kansanuskon päivänä esillä on kansanomaisia parannusmenetelmiä läheltä ja kaukaa. Eri alan tutkijat tarkastelevat Pohjois-Amerikan ja Siperian shamanistista perinnettä sekä Karjalan tietäjien loitsujen runomaailmaa. Kuulijat pääsevät tutustumaan myös maagiseen ajatteluun ja vaihtoehtohoitoihin nyky-yhteiskunnassa.
7.-8.9 2012 Tampereen yliopisto: Edges of Freemasonry: Western Esotericism and the Enlightenment
This two-day conference is an international and academic event organized by the University of Tampere School of Social Sciences and Humanities in association with The Research Lodge Minerva No.27 of the Grand Lodge of F. & A. M. of Finland.
Edges of Freemasonry – Western Esotericism and the Enlightenment aims to investigate exceptional but prominent new currents in human sciences. The conference focuses on modern Freemasonry as a cultural and historically constituted phenomenon but also seeks to create a dialogue with wider contexts like the Enlightenment and especially the history of western esotericism, which has increasingly attracted the attention of academic research. On this basis the conference organizers are hoping to establish a multi-disclipinary and discursive environment to study western cultural and intellectual life from standpoints hitherto somewhat neglected by scholarship.
22.-24.8 2012 Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies: Mortality, death and dying: philosophical and social perspectives
Mortality, death and dying: philosophical and social perspectives was an international and interdisciplinary symposium which addressed broad questions connected to mortality, death and dying from various philosophical and social-scientific perspectives. Keynote lectures were given by Professor Stefan Timmermans (UCLA) and Professor Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University).
Symposium was part of the Human Mortality project (2011-2013) which aimed to discuss death, dying and mortality in an interdisciplinary network. Project was funded by Finnish Cultural Foundation as part of the Argumenta funding model. Argumenta projects were intended to stimulate dialogue between researchers in different fields of science on significant current subjects of research. The project brought together scholars from different fields to discuss topics, such as: How have definitions of death changed? In what ways is the meaning of death changing? Why death studies are a current topic today?
4.-7.6 2012 Tarton yliopisto: Nordic-Celtic-Baltic Folklore Symposium "Supernatural Places"
In 1988 the Department of Irish Folklore, University College, Dublin, hosted the symposium “The Supernatural in Irish and Scottish Migratory Legends”. Other symposia then followed: in Galway (1991), Copenhagen (1993), Dublin (1996) and Reykjavik (2005), and now, for the first time, it will be held on the east side of the Baltic Sea. With each symposium, the international scope has expanded and the number of participants has increased. The local and migratory legends of Northern Europe have remained the major topic of the meetings, providing common ground for discussions about contents, form, performance, history and theories of folk narratives and their relationship to social realities.
The 6th Nordic-Celtic-Baltic folklore symposium returns to the topic of supernatural in legends, which was also discussed during the first meetings. It is also dedicated to the relationship between tradition communities and their environment, expressed in folklore. The symposium will explore the supernatural dimensions of natural places in the cultural landscape and in the wilderness, as they are narrated and manifested in legends and other genres. The supernaturalisation of places – holy groves, churches, haunted houses, cemeteries, grave mounds, hills, lakes, locations of hidden treasures and other tradition dominants of place-lore – will be studied as a narrative practice with social impacts, shaping the everyday-life and behaviour patterns of tradition bearers. The symposium will also study the localisation of legend plots in a local environment, blending legends with social realities and other strategies for enchanting the world through belief narratives. The supernatural also opens narrative space to the realms of fantasy and imagination. Representations of heaven, hell, lands of the dead and other supernatural worlds are a vital part of several oral and literary genres that will also be addressed at the symposium.
17.-19.11 2011 Helsingin yliopisto: Death and Emotions: An International Symposium on Human Mortality
Human Mortality project (2011-2013) discussed death, dying and mortality in an interdisciplinary network. Project was funded by Finnish Cultural Foundation as part of the Argumenta funding model. Argumenta projects are intended to stimulate dialogue between researchers in different fields of science on significant current subjects of research. Similarly, in the Human Mortality project the aim was to open new discussions both academically and among wider audiences and policy makers. This project was also thematically related to the partially targeted calls for applications at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2010-2011 and is thus linked with a number of individual research projects of Collegium Fellows.
The project brought together scholars from different fields, such as philosophy, history, theology, linguistics, law studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, gender studies, psychology, medicine, biology, literature, media and art studies. The overarching questions addressed during the course of the project concerned topics such as changing definitions of death, how the meaning of death is changing and why death studies are a current topic today
14.-17.6 2011 Espoon Dipoli: ICANN 2011 international conference on artificial neural networks
The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). The ideal of ICANN is to bring together researchers from two worlds: information sciences and neurosciences. The scope is wide, ranging from machine learning algorithms to models of real nervous systems. The aim is to facilitate discussions and interactions in the effort towards developing more intelligent artificial systems and increasing our understanding on neural and cognitive processes in the brain.
12.-13.5 2011 Tieteiden talo: Kuolema ja identiteetti -seminaari
Monitieteisessä seminaarissa tarkasteltiin ihmistieteiden näkökulmasta identiteettiä ja sen suhdetta kuolemaan, kuolemiseen, kuolleisiin, kuoleviin ja sureviin sekä kuolemaan liittyviin henkisiin ja materiaalisiin arvoihin, rituaaleihin ja prosesseihin.
Toistuvia tieteellisiä konferensseja ulkomailta
Vuosittain: Academy of Spiritual and Consciousness Studies conference
The Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies, Inc. aims to offer an arena where those with an interest in the study of consciousness and the fringe sciences can gain access to articles, links and other research to educate and interchange ideas in the zone where spirituality and scientific research interface.
Our main event of the year is our annual conference. We feature a wide range of exceptional speakers presenting subject matter that appeals to both scholars and the general public.
Vuosittain: Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre conference
Sir Alister HardyThe Religious Experience Research Centre houses an archive with over 6,000 accounts of first-hand experiences of people from across the world who had a spiritual or religious experience. Founded by Sir Alister Hardy in 1969 at Manchester College, Oxford, the RERC moved to Lampeter in July 2000. The Centre's aim is to study contemporary accounts of religious or spiritual experiences. In addition to its archive of accounts the RERC houses a specialist collection of books and journals. The Centre organises seminars and conferences and supports a postgraduate degree Master by Research in Religious Experience.
Vuosittain: American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences Annual Conference
ACISTE (American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences) was established in 2009 to support people who have spiritually transformative experiences (STEs). The ACISTE conferences have featured some wonderful sessions put on by very talented professionals.
Vuosittain (ja noin joka kolmas vuosi): Annual conference of Society for Scientific Exploration (& SSE European Conference)
SSE Conferences are an opportunity to share and evaluate some of the most exciting and promising original research happening today. The event is highly interdisciplinary, with talks covering subjects ranging across consciousness research, progress in new energy technologies, discoveries bearing upon healing and medicine, and much more. The SSE holds annual conferences in North America, and biennial conferences in Europe. All conferences are open to the public.
Joka toinen vuosi: British congress on medicine and spirituality
British Congress on Medicine and Spirituality, which is a two days event organised by AME-International and BUSS-UK, that occurs every two years.
Vuosittain: European Skeptics Congress
European Skeptics Congresses (ESCs), in which skeptical organisations from many different European countries participate, have been held ever since 1989. The conferences are often held in the month of September, and may last from two up to four days. The ECSO was formed at the 6th ESC on 25 September 1994 in Ostend, Belgium. Since its foundation, the ECSO co-ordinates in the organisation of new ESCs that take place (on average) every other year, and is hosted by a different member organisation each time. Skeptical organisations that are non-ECSO members may also send their delegations.
Vuosittain: Ian Ramsey Centre conferences
The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion (IRC) conducts research into religious beliefs and theological concepts in relation to the sciences. Research into beliefs focuses on the application of scientific tools to religious phenomena, such as in the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). Research into theological concepts focuses principally on those metaphysical principles, such as persons, that are important to theology and are being seen from new perspectives by current developments in science. Members of the Centre also carry out extensive work on the history of science and religion, often challenging simplistic accounts of what has been a complex and varied interaction.
Joka toinen vuosi: Institute of Noetic Sciences international conference
There is so much to appreciate about the IONS 16th International Conference, from the people who attended, to the speakers, to the staff who facilitated it, to the sponsors who helped make it all possible! It was an engaging, inspiring, and wholly electric group that came together outside to share, learn, and discover what it means--and what it takes--to be at the forefront of both the science that connects us and the positive change that discovery and knowing can foster. We can truly call it a community-driven success!
Vuosittain: International Association For Near-Death Studies conference
Near-death experiences (NDEs) often result in a greater sense of well-being and purpose in life. But the journey of integrating the experience is often fraught with challenges as well. NDErs themselves, the professionals who care for them and their families, and NDE educators and researchers, all have a role in helping NDErs stay on the path to healing and wholeness—and in helping humanity to use knowledge of NDEs to pursue this path. We invite you to join us as we explore this path together!
Joka toinen vuosi: International Congress of Consciousness Science
The ICC is dedicated to addressing those research fields that, directly or indirectly, enlighten the different aspects of the nature of the consciousness, free from the many reductionist biases that are still present in the predominant scientific view. Speakers, researchers, and participants with a multidisciplinary background will attend from numerous countries, each enriching the proceedings and debates during the event.
The Congress will bring together both scholars and lay people with a shared interest in the continuous refining of a more advanced scientific approach that acknowledges the existence of non-physical realities and is appropriate for the exploration – in subjective, inter-subjective and objective modalities – of the multidimensional aspects of the consciousness and related phenomena.
Vuosittain: International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine Annual Conference
This symposium and the conference that follows are fundamental to an open-minded search for knowledge, providing information, careful research and theories that advance our understanding of humanity, nature and the workings of the universe.
Kaksi kertaa vuodessa: International Society of Life Information Science Symposiums
Vuosittain: Parapsychological Association Convention
The PA provides an international forum for scholarly exchange through annual conferences, generally held in North America or in Europe, and through publication of the proceedings from these conferences. The PA has also sponsored special sessions for interdisciplinary scientific audiences, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Vuosittain: Quantum Interaction (and Quantum Informatics) conferences
Quantum Interaction is an emerging discipline in artificial intelligence combining mathematics, physics, cognitive and computer sciences. Quantum interaction uses insights, techniques, and models developed in quantum physics and applies them in new areas of informatics. Applications of quantum informatics have so far included organizational dynamics, economics, information retrieval, linguistics, and biomedical informatics.
Vuosittain: The Science of Consciousness Conference
It is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at rigorous and leading edge approaches to all aspects of the study of conscious experience. These include neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, medicine, quantum physics, and cosmology, as well as art, technology, and experiential and contemplative approaches. The conference is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary gathering probing fundamental questions related to conscious experience. As in previous conferences, program sessions will include plenary and keynote talks, concurrent talks, posters, art-science-film demos and exhibits, pre-conference workshops, side trips, and social events in the Tucson tradition.
Vuosittain: The Society For Psychical Research annual conference
The Society holds an annual conference at different venues around the UK, usually over an autumn weekend. You can read reports and abstracts from recent past events and conferences to get the flavour of these events.
Yleensä vuosittain: Symposium of the Bial foundation
In order to provide all fellows with the opportunity of discussing and present their projects, the BIAL Foundation has been organizing, since 1996, Symposia entitled "Behind and Beyond the Brain".