10.00-11.00

Registration

11.00-11.30

Jeppe Sinding Jensen : Welcome / opening address

11.30-12.30

Keynote speaker Bradd Shore : Mean Streets: Paths to Rethinking 'The Effectiveness of Symbols'

12.30-13.30

Lunch (at own expense)

13.30-14.30

Keynote speaker Robert Turner : How Might Ritual Symbols Work? Insights from Imaging Neuroscience

14.30-15.00

Andreas Roepstorff : TBA

15.00-15.30

Coffee / tea

15.30-17.00

Jesper Sørensen : Symbolization and De-symbolization in Ritualized Behaviour
Joseph Bulbulia : Symbolic groups and non-reciprocal altruism: an experiment

17.00-17.15

Break

17.15-18.00

Mary Harmon-Vukic & Jason Slone : Problems with the “minimal counter-intuitiveness” (MCI) hypothesis

18.00-         

Welcome reception (provided)

09.00-10.30

Gabriel Levy : Written Symbolization: A Selectionist Model for the Transmission of Biblical Fragments
Clemens Cavallin : The Meaning and Meaninglessness of Ritual Action

10.30-11.00

Coffee / tea

11.00-12.30

Istvan Czachesz : God in the Fractals: Recursiveness as a Key to Religious Representation and Behaviour
William McGregor : Symbolisation in linguistic cognition

12.30-13.30

Lunch (at own expense)

13.30-15.00

Anita Leopold : The Making of Symbolic Crossovers .
Ales Chalupa : Mithraic Grades of Initiation: Dead Symbols or Symbolization Alive?
Andreas Lieberoth : Signs of Evil – the Use of Negatively Charged Symbols in Culture and Discourse

15.00-15.30

Coffee / tea

15.30-17.30

Greg Alles : Reasonable Irrationality and the Evolution of Religion: Cognitive Risk-Seeking in Colonial Contexts
Ewa Weiling Feldthusen : The Symbol of Twins in a Historical Perspective – From Duality to Dualism
Tamas Biro : Is Judaism Boring? The Role of Symbols in “Imagistic” Jewish Movements
Sebastian Schüler : Glossolalia - A cognitive-somatic approach to charismatic arousal

18.00-         

Dinner (provided – drinks at own expense)

09.00-10.30

Lluis Oviedo : Increasing Complexity in the Formation of Religious Symbols
Mads Dengsø Jessen : Pigs in Space – Totemic Representations in Iron Age Scandinavia
Gretchen Koch : Signs of the vulnerable body

10.30-11.00

Coffee / tea

11.00-12.30

Jesper Østergaard : The Topographic Mind: An External Mind on Pilgrimage
NN : To be announced

12.30-13.30

Lunch (provided)

13.30-15.00

Thore Bjørnvig : Earth Seen from Space – A Symbol of Salvation
Guðmundur Ingi Markússon : Semantic Filling in: Towards a Cognitive Account of Esoteric Religion
Dimitris Xygalatas : Symbols and Neurotransmitters

15.30

Closing Notes