DISCOS: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self International Conference, Heidelberg, 13-15 November, 2008
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR POSTERS
Registration and further information: 
www.discos2008.unitt.de
During the last decade, philosophical, psychological and neurobiological approaches to the self have increasingly overcome their disciplinary constraints and entered into a productive dialogue. Different levels of self-awareness such as the "core" or "minimal self" and the "extended" or "narrative self" have been distinguished and investigated from a phenomenological, developmental and neurocognitive perspective. In this context, disorders of self-experience have also attracted growing attention. The concept of embodiment may serve as a crucial junction for integrating these different approaches to a common framework. This idea has also inspired the European Marie-Curie Research Training Network "Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self" (DISCOS), a consortium of 10 European research facilities which organizes this conference.
The conference is aimed at creating an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas on the themes of embodiment, self-awareness and its disorders. Special emphasis will be placed on
- the interplay of biological and social factors for establishing self-coherence
- the relevance of intersubjectivity and intercorporeality for the development of the self
- neuropsychiatric disorders of the embodied self, their nature and origins
- therapeutic and ethical consequences.
A number of distinguished speakers have been invited for the conference. There will be a schedule of plenary sessions and poster sessions. We look forward to meeting you in the charming city of Heidelberg and its beautiful surroundings.
Contact:
discos2008(at)med.uni-heidelberg.de
Programme
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Day | Activity | Lecturer |
Thursday 13th | ||
Philosophy - What makes up a Self? Self Coherence and its origins | ||
14:00 | Minimal self and narrative self: A distinction in need of refinement | Dan Zahavi |
14:40 | Out of the body and into the mind | Thomas Metzinger |
15:20 | Composing ourselves: Embodied engagements and narrative extension | Dan Hutto |
16:00 | Break | |
16:30 | Origins of the self and the body: How do they communicate after brain lesion? | Yves Rossetti |
17:10 | Structured discussion | |
19:00 | Poster session 1 | |
Day | Activity | Lecturer |
Friday 14th | ||
Neuroscience - Brain, Consciousness and self | ||
09:00 | Is there anybody in there? Brain function in disorders of consciousness | Steven Laureys |
09:40 | Embodied simulation and its role in intersubjectivity | Vittorio Gallese |
10:20 | Self-consciousness and social cognition | Kai Vogeley |
11:00 | Break | |
11:30 | Embodied self-awareness and the 'resting state': A neurophenomenological approach | Evan Thompson |
12:15 | Structured discussion | |
13:00 | Node Leader Meeting | |
Day | Activity | Lecturer |
Friday 14th | ||
Developmental Phychology - Is there a self without selves? Development of self and intersubjectivity | ||
14:00 | Me and mine in early development | Philippe Rochat |
14:40 | Trusting the self and trusting the other | Paul Harris |
15:20 | Attachment, mentalisation, and intersubjectivity: The development of the representational affective self. | György Gergely |
16:00 | Break | |
16:30 | Non-representational intersubjectivity | Thomas Fuchs |
17:10 | Structured Discussion | |
18:30 | Poster session 2 | |
20:30 | Social event | |
Day | Activity | Lecturer |
Saturday 15th | ||
Psychiatry / Psychosomatic Medicine - How to treat a self. Self disorders and their therapy | ||
09:00 | The structure of the self as seen through the prism of psychopathology of schizophrenia | Josef Parnas |
09:40 | Treatment outcome of mentalisation-based interventions for self-pathology | Peter Fonagy |
10:20 | The impact of structural functioning for the embodied self | Gerd Rudolf |
11:00 | Break | |
11:30 | Disordered self on many levels -any chance for therapeutic integration? | Peter Henningsen |
12:15 | Structured discussion | |
13:30 | Closing of the conference | |