UNC’s Institute for the Arts & Humanities (IAH) recently awarded ECOM a grant to support a speaker series for the upcoming 2012-2013 academic year. Check the Events page for details about the speaker series.
ECOM director Dorit Bar-On is co-organizing a conference on language evolution for the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, to be held on April 18-20, 2013. The keynote speaker will be Robert Seyfarth (Penn).
ECOM director Dorit Bar-On recently gave a talk entitled “Gricean Intentions, Expressive Communication, and Origins of Meaning” at both the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and St. Andrews Psychology.
ECOM director Dorit Bar-On and Senior RA Jim Sias (along with UNC alum Matthew Chrisman) recently gave a talk entitled “(How) Is Ethical Neo-Expressivism a Hybrid View?” at a conference on “Hybrid Theories in Metaethics” at the University of Edinburgh (co-organized by another UNC alum, Mike Ridge), July 2-4, 2012.
ECOM director Dorit Bar-On recently gave a talk entitled “Mind: the Gap” at the Fifth British Wittgenstein Society (BWS) Conference on “Wittgenstein, Enactivism, and Animal Minds” at the University of Hertfordshire, July 7-8, 2012. Videos of the conference presentations should soon be available here. ECOM member Kevin Richardson also attended the conference, after being awarded a travel stipend.