2011

Seminars 2011

  • 11th January 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Maja O'Connor PTSD and old age spousal bereavement
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00. 
  • 25th January 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Peter Krøjgaard DG-rapportering
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 28th January 2011:
    Feedback meeting for PhD students
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 10-13.
  • 8th February 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Christina Ottsen Lundsgaard The cultural life script of Qatar
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00. 
  • 22nd February 2011:
    Perspectives on autobiographical memory development
    Ph.d. course 22nd February, 15th March, 12th April, 10th May, 30th May,
    16th-17th June (conference), 16th August and 13th September.
    Nobelparken, meeting room 83-533 at 13.00-15.00. 
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  • 22nd February 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Hildur Finnbogadottir Mental time travel in the context of worry
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 8th March 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Anne S. Rasmussen Frequency and Functions of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memories in Daily Life
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 10th-11th March 2011:
    Internal retreat seminar at Sophiendal Conference Center
  • 22nd March 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Dorthe Berntsen Cultural life script and borderline personality disorder
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 5th April 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Osman Skjold Kingo og Peter Krøjgaard Data from a study on children's memory for props and persons over long delays
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00. 
  • 26th April 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Celia Harris Memory in context; From autobiographical, to social, to collective memory. Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 6th May 2011:
    Seminar on Autobiographical Memory with speakers from Oslo University.
  • 10th May 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Katrine Willemoes Rasmussen A case of Focal Retrograde Amnesia?
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00. 
  • 11th May 2011:
    Symposium on Cognition and Memory with speakers from Stockholm
    University.
  • 19th May 2011:
    Joint AGHOK/CON AMORE meeting.
    PhD fellow Malene Damholdt Heterogeneity in Parkinson's disease -Identifying subgroups that have implications for personality or cognition
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 24th May 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting.
    Jonathan Koppel The contrasting effect of expertise on social contagion and socially
    shared retrieval-induced forgetting: Explorations across two contexts.
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 7th June 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting.
    Celia Harris and Lynn Watson Practice of SARMAC and ICOM5 presentations.
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 9th June 2011:
    Professor Patricia Bauer, Emory University Locating episodes in time and place: Developments in childhood.
    Nobelparken, room 1483-620 13.15-15.00
  • 10th June 2011:
    Professor Patricia Bauer, Emory University Facilitating learning and memory in infants and young children: Mechanisms and methods.
    Nobelparken, room 1483-620 13.15-15.00
  • 16th-17th June 2011:
    CON AMORE hosts the conference Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory Development. Conference venue: AULA. Read more here. 
  • 20th June 2011:
    Professor Rick Hoyle, Duke University Self-regulation: Conceptualization and Measurement.
    Nobelparken, room 1483-620 10.00-11.30.
  • 21st June 2011:
    Professor Rick Hoyle, Duke University Structural Equation Modeling: Basics and Applications.
    Nobelparken, room 1483-620 10.00-11.30.

    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Dorthe Thomsen Practice of SARMAC and ICOM5 presentations.
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00. 
  • 27th-29th June 2011:
    Researchers from CON AMORE will participate in the SARMAC IX Congress 
    in New York, NY.
  • 4th-8th July 2011:
    Researchers from CON AMORE will participate in The 12th European Congress of Psychology in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • 28th July 2011:
    Misia Temler, Macquarie University, Sydney (AU) Social Contagion Without Contagion: The Effects of Social Cues, Personality and Culture on the Narrative Style and Accuracy of Memories of Unshared Personal Events.
    Nobelparken, room 1483-531 at 12.00
  • 31st July-5th August 2011:
    Researchers from CON AMORE will participate in the 5th International Conference on Memory (ICOM5) in York, England.
  • 9th August 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Sharda Umanath "What makes "other" life story events "other"
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00. 
  • 19th August 2011:
    AGHOK meeting
    Professor Norman Brown, University of Alberta, Canada
    Transition Theory: A New Perspective on the Organization of Autobiographical Memory
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-620 at 12-14.
  • 23rd August 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Norman Brown title to be announced
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00. 
  • *NEW DATE* 30th August 2011:
    PhD course/reading club headed by Peter Krøjgaard
    On the relativity and (vanishing?) laws of memory
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 13.15-15.00
    Text to be read:
    Roediger, H.L. (2008). Relativity of remembering: Why the laws of memory vanished.
    In S. Fiske (Ed.), Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 225-254. 
    Non-PhD students are more than welcome to attend too!
  • 6th September 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Linda Mortensen The role of language in bilingual memory: What happens before a memory is selected for recall?
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00. 
  • 8th September 2011:
    AGHOK meeting
    Associate professor Lene Vase, Aarhus University
    Pain modulation: psychological and neurophysiological processes which may enhance or decrease the perception of pain
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12-14.
  • 13th September 2011
    PhD course/reading club headed by Peter Krøjgaard
    A history of memory research
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 13.15-15.00
    Text to be read:
    Bower, B.H. Bower, G.H. (2000). A brief history of memory research. In E. Tulving & F.I.M. Craik. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Memory, (pp. 3-32).
    Non-PhD students are more than welcome to attend too!
  • 20th September 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Alejandra Zaragoza Scherman The life script across cultures
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00. 
  • 20th September 2011:
    PhD course headed by Dorthe Berntsen, Lynn Ann Watson og Maja O'Connor
    Clinical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 13.00-15.00
  • 4th October 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Postdoc Jonathan Koppel The Role of the Cultural Life Script in Shaping Memory for a Fictional Life Story. Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00. 
  • 4th-5th October 2011:
    Researchers from CON AMORE participate in the conference
    EyeTrackBehavior 2011 - Tobii Eye Tracking Conference on Behavioral Research
  • 11th October 2011:
    PhD course headed by Dorthe Berntsen, Lynn Ann Watson og Maja O'Connor
    Clinical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 13.00-15.00
  • 25th October 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Postdoc Johan Willander Phenomenological experiences of autobiographical memories
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 8th November 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Tina Menzel A study on the Living-in-history effect
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 14th November 2011:
    AGHOK meeting
    Professor Maryanne Garry, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
    History of false memories and methods
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533, at 10-16
  • 15. november 2011:
    AGHOK meeting
    Professor Maryanne Garry, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and talks by members of CON AMORE
    Nobelparken, mødelokale 1483-533, at 10-16
  • 16th November 2011:
    Associate professor Heidi Kloos, University of Cincinnati, USA, will give a guest lecture at CON AMORE, with the title Parameter Dynamics of Abduction in Children's Reasoning.
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 14.15-16.00
  • 22nd November 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting.
    Postdoc Kim B. Johannessen Current concerns and autobiographical memory
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 22nd November 2011:
    PhD course headed by Dorthe Berntsen, Lynn Ann Watson og Maja O'Connor
    Clinical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 13.00-15.00
  • 25th November 2011:
    Postdoc Gema Martin Ordas, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, will give a guest lecture at CON AMORE entitled Episodic Memory: A Comparative Approach.
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-620 at 12-14.
  • 6th December 2011:
    Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. 
    Dorthe Thomsen Life story chapters and memories and future scenarios...and personality
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 12.00.
  • 15th December 2011:
    PhD course headed by Dorthe Berntsen, Lynn Ann Watson og Maja O'Connor
    Clinical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory
    Nobelparken, meeting room 1483-533 at 13.00-15.00

Visiting Researchers

  • 5th-6th May 2011
    Tim Brennan and Ines Blix from Oslo University are visiting the center on the occasion of the seminars on Nordic Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory

  • 10th-12th May 2011
    Maria Larsson, Lars-Göran Nielsson, Torun Lindholm and Åke Wahlin, alle from the University of Stockholm, are visiting the center on the occasion of the seminars on Nordic Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory

  • 6th June - 4th July 2011
    Professor Rick Hoyle, Duke University (USA)

  • 8th-21th June 2011
    Professor Patricia Bauer, Emory University (USA)

  • June - September 2011
    Professor David Rubin, Duke University (USA)

  • 8th August - 4th September 2011
    Professor Norman Brown, University of Alberta (Canada)

  • 14th - 16th November 2011
    Professor Maryanne Garry, Victoria University (VIC) of Wellington, New Zealand

News 2011

  • 8. december 2011
    The 2012 CON AMORE survivor's guide to Aarhus.
  • 7th December 2011
    Associate professor Linda Polka from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) will present her recent research on infants' and adults' word segmentation in English and French. Dr.Polka is invited by professor Ocke-Schwen Bohn, and the lecture will be at the English department, building 1485 room 315, from 14.15-15.30. The title of Dr. Polka's talk is Language rhythms and speech segmentation.
  • 8th October 2011
    Registration and call for papers for our 2012 conference are now open! Click on the conference link in the menu to left for more information!
  • 15th August 2011
    Several researchers from the center will give lessons in Memories and autobiographical memory at Folkeuniversitetet (Danish University Extension) in the fall.  
  • 11th August 2011
    Assistant professor Annette Bohn is giving a small introduction to Memories at the premiere of  "Midnight in Paris" (directed by Woody Allen) in the cinema Øst for Paradis.
  • 8th July 2011
    Mark your calendars :)! CON AMORE will be hosting an international conference again in week 24, 2012: Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory in Clinical Disorders. 
  • 30th June 2011
    Our recently held international conference Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory Development (16th-17th June) was a big success, with keynote speakers from USA and Australia, as well as poster presentations from all over the world.
  • 15th June 2011
    Interview with postdoc Jonathan Koppel Facing the challenges of how life scripts affect people's memory.
  • 14th June 2011
    Conference - press release (in Danish): Vores tidligste erindringer er stadig et mysterium [Our earliest memories are still a mystery]
  • 27th May 2011
    Postdoc Osman Skjold Kingo has been awarded Aarhus University Research Foundation's prestigious ph.d. award for his PhD dissertation Object Individuation and the Emerging Concept Formation in Infancy. The research includes little children's use of information about both appearance and function to keep track of objects in the world.
    The PhD award is each year given to promising young researchers who have finished their PhD education at Aarhus University the year before.
  • 19th May 2011
    Interview with postdoc Celia Harris: Moving from Australia to Denmark.
  • 2nd May 2011
    Ph.d. fellow Sharda Umanath from Duke University (USA) has been granted a scholarship from the research program Nordic Research Opportunity, a collaboration between the National Danish Research Foundation and the National Science Foundation (USA), for a research stay at CON AMORE. Sharda Umanath will visit the center from 1st June till 17th August 2011.
  • On Friday 29th April 2011, two of the centers' researchers are giving talks on the occasion of Forskningens Døgn (The annual Day of Research):
  • Maja O'Connor Det handler om kærlighed - Om sorg hos ældre efterladte [It's about love - Mourning and spousal bereavement]. Jeppe Vontilius Auditoriet (Lake Theatres) at 13.15
  • Annette Bohn "Jeg ender sikkert med at blive gift og få et par børn"["I'll probably end up getting married and having a couple of kids"] Merete Barker Auditoriet (Lake Theatres) at 17.30.
  • 15th April 2011
    Alejandra Zaragoza Scherman is a new PhD student at CON AMORE
  • 15th March 2011
    Christina Duch has been employed as a research assistant.
  • 15th February 2011
    Celia Harris has been employed as a postdoc. Celia Harris is coming from a position at the Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia) 
  • 1st February 2011
    Johan Willander has been employed as a postdoc. Johan Willander is coming from a position at the University of Stockholm (Sweden)
  • 1st January 2011
    Linda Mortensen has been employed as postdoc. Linda Mortensen is coming from a postdoc position at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (Holland)
  • Jonathan Koppel has been employed as postdoc. Jonathan Koppel defended his PhD dissertation at the New School for Social Research in New York (USA) in the fall of 2011