ISC 2020 Summer School: ISC 2020 Summer School - Cognitive Challenges of Climate Change Université du Québec à Montréal - UQAM Montreal, Canada, June 2-12, 2020 |
Conference website | https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/isc/en/iscuqam2020 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isc2020summerschool |
Abstract registration deadline | March 31, 2020 |
Submission deadline | March 31, 2020 |
Call for Posters on Cognition and Climate Change
You are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation for the poster session at the ISC 2020 Summer School on Cognitive Challenges of Climate Change, organized by the Cognitive Sciences Institute (ISC) at UQAM, Montreal.
More than 40 renowned researchers will gather together to discuss cognition in the face of the climate emergency from multiple perspectives, such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics, education, neuroscience, anthropology and cognitive computing, but also in biological sciences, chemistry, physics, communication, sociology or political science.
Poster presentations from graduate, postgraduate, and faculty members working on climate change and cognition in any of these fields are welcome.
Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be made through the EasyChair system. Your submission must include:
- A title
- An abstract of about 350 words (2500 characters, spaces included)
- Full name, affiliation and email address of the author and co-authors.
- A minimum of 3 keywords
- The theme relevant to your poster and the discipline(s) studied
Deadline
The submission deadline is March 19, 2020. Notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors by April 9, 2020, with poster guidelines.
***Registration is mandatory to attend and present a poster at the ISC 2020 Summer School. Participants whose posters are accepted will be eligible for the reduced registration rate.
List of Topics
The themes of the ISC 2020 Summer School are listed below, your proposition should be relevant to at least one of those:
- A Perfect Cognitive Storm: Facing Surprises with Nonknowledge
- Designing and Computing Climate Change models: From ‘Limits to Growth’ to IPCC's Reports
- Designing and Computing Climate Change Models: Where Are the Social Sciences?
- The Intersection of Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Sciences and Climate Science
- Cognitive Mechanisms of Climate Change Denial
- Interpreting Signs and Narratives: Communities and First Nations
- Learning, Teaching and Communicating about Climate Change
- New Behaviors at an Individual Level
- New Behaviors at an Organizational Level
- Climate Activism and Environmental Justice
Invited Speakers
More than 40 renowned researchers will gather together to discuss cognition in the face of the climate emergency from multiple perspectives, such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics, education, neuroscience, anthropology and cognitive computing, but also in biological sciences, chemistry, physics, communication, sociology or political science.
Visit the event website to see the experts attending.
Venue
ISC 2020 Summer School - Cognitive Challenges of Climate Change
June 2-12, 2020
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Montreal, Canada
Contact
All questions about submissions or the event should be emailed to isc at uqam.ca