[alife] Call for Participation "Music and the Origins of Language. International Summer School on Agent-based Computational Models of Creativity".

Luis Zaman luis.zaman at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 17:40:21 PDT 2013


*Call for Participation "Music and the Origins of Language. International
Summer School on Agent-based Computational Models of Creativity".**
**
**15 - 20 September 2013, Cortona, Italy**
**http://ai.vub.ac.be/events/cortona-2013*


The Evolutionary Linguistics Association (ELA) is proud to announce its
second summer school in Cortona on Music and the Origins of Language. The
school is intended for postdocs, lecturers and predocs with a background in
computer science and a strong interest in music and the origins of language.

The summer school will be held in Cortona, Italy from Sunday 15 September
to Friday 20 September 2013. Lectures, activities and meals are all
collocated in Hotel Oasi and the Palazzone di Cortona. Participants will
all stay at Hotel Oasi.

The summer school has a wide-ranging program of background lectures
introducing concepts from biology, anthropology, psychology, music theory
and linguistics that are helpful to understand the nature of creativity,
the role and intimate relations between language and music, and the
mechanisms underlying cultural evolution. It further contains technical
lectures on the fundamental computational components required for language
processing as well as technical ateliers to learn how to set up
evolutionary linguistics experiments. Participants have the opportunity to
present their latest research in a poster session. Embedded in the school
is an ERC workshop of the Flow Machines project on musical style and
composition. The school also features artistic ateliers in which
participants create new creative works and engage in performance.

Interested researchers can apply by following the registration information
that is available on the website. There are a limited number of
scholarships available that cover participation and accommodation fees.

It receives support from FP7 PRAISE and INSIGHT projects, the euCognition
Network of Excellence and the ESF project DRUST.

For information and queries, please visit the website
http://ai.vub.ac.be/events/cortona-2013/ or email cortona2013 at ai.vub.ac.be.


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