09.00-10.00 | Registration |
| 10.00-10.20 | Welcoming addresses by Troels Nørager , Vice Dean of the Faculty and Armin W. Geertz , Chair of RCC |
10.20-11.00 | Jesper Sørensen : Introduction to the theme of the conference |
11.00-12.00 | Keynote speaker Luther H. Martin : The Deep History of Religious Ritual |
12.00-13.00 | Lunch (at own expense) |
13.00-14.00 | Keynote speaker Joseph Bulbulia : Religion and the Human Nest |
| 14.00-14.30 | Ashwin Budden : Ritual Cybernetics and Distributed Cognition |
14.30-15.00 | John J. McGraw : Divination as Distributed Decision-Making |
15.00-15.30 | Coffee / tea |
15.30-16.00 | Jesper Østergaard : Walking as a Cognitive Technique |
| 16.00-16.45 | István Czachesz : Rituals and Memory |
16.45-17.00 | Break |
| 17.00-17.45 | Craig Bardsley : Religion and the Evolution of Social Reality |
18.00-19.00 | Welcome reception (provided) |
| 19.00- | Dinner (at own expense) |
09.00-10.00 | Keynote speaker Richard Sosis : Ritual and Coping with Uncertainty: Religious Israeli Women’s Responses to War |
| 10.30-11.00 | Else-Marie D. E. Jegindø : Pain and Coping in Rituals: Integrating Objective Measures and Subjective Assessment of Online Religious Activity |
10.30-11.00 | Coffee / tea |
11.00-12.00 | Keynote speaker Quinton Deeley : Ritual, Possession Trance, and Amnesia: Perspectives from Anthropology and Cognitive Neuroscience |
12.00-13.00 | Lunch (at own expense) |
13.00-14.00 | Keynote speaker Pierre M. Lienard : Ritual and Vigilance in an Unstable Environment: A Case for Precaution Biases |
| 14.00-14.30 | Aleš Chalupa : Can a Ritual Make You a God? The Role of Cognition in the Apotheosis of Roman Emperors |
| 14.30-15.00 | Andreas Nordin : Ritual Agency, Substance Transfer, and the Making of Supernatural Immediacy in Pilgrim Journeys |
15.00-15.30 | Coffee / tea |
15.30-16.00 | Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo : Meaning in Action: Modelling the Minimal Meaning of a Ritual |
| 16.00-16.45 | Chris A. M. Hermans : Towards a Theory of the Incarnated Mind in Ritual Actions within Religions |
| 16.45-17.00 | Break |
| 17.00-17.45 | William (Lee) W. McCorkle Jr. : From Compulsion to Ritual Script: The Verticle Transmission of Meaninglessness in Religious Ritualized Forms of Action |
| 17.45-18.15 | Gudmunður Ingi Markússon & Gudberg K. Jonsson : Appraisal, Communication and Religion: T-patterns in Human Interaction Involving Social Information on Religious and Secular Backgrounds |
19.00- | Dinner (provided) |
09.00-10.00 | Keynote speaker Michael Houseman : Theory of Mind and Empathic Simulation in Ritual Context |
| 10.00-10.30 | Laurent Berger : Cognitive Anthropology of Ritual Policies |
10.30-11.00 | Coffee / tea |
11.00-11.45 | Patrick Plattet : Imitation, Substitution and Cognition: Principles of Ritual Action in Koryak Hunting Shamanism |
| 11.45-12.30 | Donald M. Braxton : It Takes Four to Tango: Frequency, Form, Tedium and Alarm in Ritual Modelling |
12.30-13.30 | Lunch (at own expense) |
13.30-14.30 | Keynote speaker Ann Taves : Ritual Efficacy and “Things Set Apart”: Refining Sørensen’s “Sacred Domain” |
| 14.30-15.00 | Anders Lisdorf : The Ritual Vortex |
| 15.00-15.30 | Coffee / tea |
15.30-16.15 | Andreas Lieberoth & J. Tuomas Harviainen : Shaping Information Environments in Play and Ritual: Comparing Evidence from Gaming and Religions in a Cross-disciplinary Perspective |
| 16.30-18.30 | General Assembly of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion (IACSR) – all participants are welcome! |
| 18.30-19.00 | Drinks provided by the IACSR |
| 19.00- | Festive Dinner (provided) |
Don’t forget the workshop
same place, hosted by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in collaboration with the EUROCORES Programme Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context (CNCC), Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF) and the Religion, Cognition and Culture programme (RCC) at the Laboratory on Theories of Religion, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus.
See the great program at: http://www.teo.au.dk/forskning/aktuelt/religion/ritual/schedule
