15th January 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Amanda Miles Ways of cuing autobiographical memory Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
17th January 2013 Professor Ali Tekçan from Bogaziçi University (Turkey) will give a lecture at CON AMORE entitled Retrival of Flashbulb Memories Across the Life Span. Campus, mødelokale 1350-416 kl. 12.00
18th January 2013 Amanda Miles presents her PhD thesis followed by a defence. The subject of the lecture is Ways of cuing autobiographical memory. Campus, auditorium 455, bld. 1342 at 14.15. Assessment committee: Professor Ali Tekçan, Bogaziçi University (Tukey) Professor John Mace, Eastern Illinois University (USA) Associate professor Dorthe Thomsen, Aarhus University (chairman)
29th January 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Lynn Watson Future directions for autobiographical memory and psychopathology research Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
12th February 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Søren Staugaard Posttraumatic growth in veterans Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
19th February 2013 PhD course headed by Annette Bohn and Jonathan Koppel Everything you always wanted to know about conference participation but were afraid to ask! Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 13.15-15.00
22nd February 2013 AGHOK meeting Marianne Horsdal The Body and the environment in autobiographical narratives and in autobiographical narrative research Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.30-14.00
25th February 2013 Feed back meeting for PhD students Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 9.00-13.00 (incl. lunch)
26th February 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Dorthe Thomsen I know my story and I know your story – comparing people’s knowledge of their own and a close other’s life story Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
12th March 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Hildur Finnbogadottir Studies on mental time travel in the context of worry and maladaptive repetitive thinking Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
12th March 2013 PhD course headed by Annette Bohn and Jonathan Koppel Everything you always wanted to know about conference participation but were afraid to ask! Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 13.15-15.00
14th March 2013 AGHOK meeting Joe Fitzgerald From earliest childhood memories to middle-childhood memories: What changes, what doesn't, why? Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15-13.15
15th March 2013 AGHOK meeting Adriel Boals Can autobiographical memory help us understand how people grow from traumatic experiences? Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 11.00-12.00
15th March 2013Hildur Finnbogadóttir presents her PhD thesis followed by a defence. The subject of the lecture is Studies on Mental Time Travel in the context of Worry and Maladaptive Repetitive Thinking Campus, auditorium 455, bld. 1342 at 14.15. Assessment committee: Professor Joseph Fitzgerald, Wayne State University (USA) Associate Professor Adriel Boals, University of North Texas (USA) Professor Carsten René Jørgensen, Aarhus University (Denmark) (chairman)
2nd April 2013Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Dorthe Berntsen Peace and war. A study of PTSD symptoms in Danish soldiers deployed to Afghanistan Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
9th April 2013 PhD course headed by Annette Bohn and Jonathan Koppel Everything you always wanted to know about conference participation but were afraid to ask! Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 13.15-15.00
12th April 2013 AGHOK meeting Richard Moore The Gricean Foundations of Intentional Communication Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.30-14.00
16th April 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Annette Bohn Testing the social-identity-activation theory of flashbulb memory Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
30th April 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Ocke-Schwen Bohn A special register for talking to Danish learning children? Infant directed speech and its implications for language (and memory?) development Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
7th May 2013 PhD course headed by Annette Bohn and Jonathan Koppel Everything you always wanted to know about conference participation but were afraid to ask! Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 13.15-15.00
14th May 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Trine Sonne Event segmentation in Infancy Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
17th May 2013 Joint AGHOK/MINDlab meeting Mia O’Toole Anxious memories in social anxiety disorder and panic disorder (12.30-13.30) Charlie Stone (Induced) Forgetting to form a collective memory (13.45-14.45) Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.30-14.45
28th May 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Gema Martin Ordas Elements of autobiographical memory in great apes Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
4th June 2013 PhD course headed by Annette Bohn and Jonathan Koppel Everything you always wanted to know about conference participation but were afraid to ask! Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 13.15-15.00
7th June 2013AGHOK meeting Samantha Deffler, Duke University Autobiographical memory and self-knowledge Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.30-13.30
12th June 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Culture Club - Conference presentations Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
14th June 2013 AGHOK meeting Rebekah E. Smith, University of Texas at San AntonioProspective memory: the effects of age, TBI, and context Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.30-14.00
18th June 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Dr. Zhifang Shao, East China Normal University Family: a core concept in Chinese culture Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.00
20th-21st June 2013 Social Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory - Memory and Imagination International conference organised by CON AMORE. Conference venue: Hotel Radisson Blu Scandinavia, Margrethepladsen, 8000 Aarhus. 8.30-16.30 both days. Read more HERE
4th July 2013 AGHOK meeting Connie Svob Cognitive processes in the intergenerational transmission of important life events Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.30-13.30
15th August 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Karl Szpunar, Harvard University (USA) Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
16th August 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Qi Wang, Cornell University (USA) Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
3rd September 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Alejandra Zaragoza Scherman The reminiscence bump as an effect of semantic memory: comparing life stories and life scripts Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
12th September 2013 AGHOK meeting Clare Rathbone The organisational role of the self in autobiographical memory distributions Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.30-14.00
17th September 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Josep Call, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Tyskland) On ape planning Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
1st October 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Sinué Salgado Leyva Memory as a test case for distributed cognition Stine Breum RamsgaardThe future is bright and idealized - or is it? Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
29th October 2013 Internal center seminar 12.00 - 20.00
4th November 2013 AIAS Fellows' Seminar AIAS Fellow, associate professor Annette Bohn (CON AMORE) Cultural Life Scripts and The Organisation of Autobiographical Memories AIAS, building 1632, Fellows' Auditorium at 14.15 Read more HERE
12th November 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Scott Cole Symmetrical Simulation Paradigm: A novel way to re-assess the characteristics of past and future thought Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
22nd November 2013 AGHOK meeting Elisabeth Villadsen Speech and language development in children with cleft palate Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.30-13.30
26th November 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting. Dorthe Thomsen I know my story and I know your story: comparing people’s knowledge of their own and close other’s life story, study 2 Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
10th December 2013 Meal - Memory and Lunch. CON AMORE's internal lunch meeting Trine Sonne Understanding the Development of Episodic Memory in Infancy: A Review of the Imitation Paradigm and Event Segmentation Campus, meeting room 1350-416 at 12.15
Visiting Researchers 2013
15th-17th March Professor Joseph Fitzgerald, Wayne State University (USA) Associate Professor Adriel Boals, University of North Texas (USA)
11th-14th April Postdoc Richard Moore, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
13th-17th May Postdoc Charles Stone, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) in collaboration with MINDlab
15th May–24th July Toby Glazer, student from Emory University (USA), has been accepted under the IRES program to be a visiting student at CON AMORE
27th May-23rd June PhD fellow Samantha Deffler, Duke University (USA) in collaboration with MINDlab
June-August Professor David Rubin, Duke University (USA)
17th-22nd June Dr Zhi-fang Shao, East China Normal University (China)
18th-25th June and 30th June-5th July Dr. Connie Svob, University of Alberta (Canada) in collaboration with MINDlab
12th-22nd August Postdoc Karl Szpunar, Harvard University (USA) in collaboration with MINDlab
13th-22nd August Professor Qi Wang, Cornell University (USA) in collaboration with MINDlab
10th-13th September Dr Clare Rathbone, Oxford Brookes University (UK)
16th-18th September Professor Josep Call, Director of Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
News 2013
4th December 2013 We have now opened for registration for the conference ComparativePerspectives on Autobiographical Memory - What Human and Non-human Animals Remember About Their Past. Read more HERE
12th november 2013 Associate professor Dorthe Thomsen, affiliated with Center On Autobiographical Memory Research, has received a grant of 4 million DKK from the Velux foundation for her project ”Chapters in life stories”.
27th September 2013 CON AMORE has received a positive reply from the National Danish Research Foundation to our application for a 2nd grant period. Read more HERE
9th August 2013 Postdoc Gema Martin Ordas' research results on autobiographical memory in orangutans and chimpanzees were recently published in Current Biology and created quite some attention in Danish and international media. Read more HERE
8th August 2013 At the Danish University Extension (Folkeuniversitetet) this fall, researchers from CON AMORE are giving a series of lectures on memories and autobiographical memory.
5th July 2013 See the trailer to the documentary "Genkendelsens Glæde" Erindringsformidling for mennesker med demens ["The joy of recognition" - memory outreach for people with dementia]. With the participation of professor Dorthe Berntsen. (The documentary can be purchased with English subtitles)
1st July 2013 Osman Skjold Kingo is employed as associate professor in developmental psychology as per 1st July 2013.
22nd May 2013 Interview with postdoc Scott Cole about fields of interest, breaking the mould, and about moving to Denmark
15th April 2013 Scott Cole has been employed as postdoc. He defended his PhD dissertation at the University of Leeds (UK) in the spring of 2013
8th April 2013 The preliminary conference program is now available HERE
15th March 2013 Hildur Finnbogadóttir presents her PhD thesis followed by a defence. The subject of the lecture is Studies on Mental Time Travel in the context of Worry and Maladaptive Repetitive Thinking Campus, auditorium 455, bld. 1342 at 14.15. Assessment committee: Professor Joseph Fitzgerald, Wayne State University (USA) Associate Professor Adriel Boals, University of North Texas (USA) Professor Carsten René Jørgensen, Aarhus University (Denmark) (chairman)
18th January 2013 Amanda Miles presents her PhD thesis followed by a defence. The subject of the lecture is Ways of cuing autobiographical memory. Campus, auditorium 455, bld. 1342 at 14.15. Assessment committee: Professor Ali Tekçan, Bogaziçi University (Tukey) Professor John Mace, Eastern Illinois University (USA) Associate professor Dorthe Thomsen, Aarhus University (chairman)