7 Feb
2012
7 Feb
'12
4:48 p.m.
Kedves Kollégák,
Mint az ESCOP (European Society of Cognitive Psychology) magyar képviselője továbbítom ezt
a levelet.
Az első örömteli hír, hogy a 2013-as ESCOP konferencai Budapesten lesz. Jegyezzétek elő, a
lentiek szerint.
Másrészt, kérek mindenkit, aki szeretne rajta lenni az ESCOP levelezési listán, daja meg
nevét, munkahelyét s email címét, pleh(a)cogsci.bme.hu címre méjus 2-ig.
Köszönettel
Pléh Csaba
Dear colleagues,
I am forwarding this letter to you as the local (Hungarian) representative of the European
Society of Cognitive Psychology. There are two interesting issue. First, the next ESCOP
conference shall be in Budapest. Second, at the end of the letter you see that we would
like to compile a mailing list. Please send to pleh&cogsci.bme.hu your name,
affiléiation, and email to pleh(a)cogsci.bme.hu if you wish to be on the list.
Thanks
Csaba
1. The committee met the organizers of the next ESCoP conference, Prof. Csaba Pleh and
Prof. Guenther Knoblich. The next ESCoP conference will hold between Thursday 29 August
and Sunday 1 September 2013 at Budapest (Hungary). Departments of Cognitive Science of two
universities will take in charge the organisation: the Budapest University of Technology
and Economics (BME, http://www.cogsci.bme.hu/eng/) and the Central European University
(CEU, http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/). The organisers presented their planning, the venue
and the social events. The executive committee is very excited by the project. Budapest is
cited as one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Its extensive World Heritage Site
includes the banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter, Andrássy Avenue, Heroes'
Square and the Millennium Underground Railway, the second oldest in the world. Other
highlights include a total of 80 geothermal springs, the world's largest thermal water
cave system, second largest synagogue, and third largest Parliament building. The city
attracts about 2.3 million tourists a year. The city is ranked as "Europe's 7th
most idyllic place to live" by Forbes. Budapest can easily be reached by
international transport. The International Ferenc Liszt Airport has direct flights to most
major European cities. Low budget airlines also operate to Budapest (Wizzair, Easyjet).
There are many international train and bus services available as well. The organisers
found a perfect venue located nearby the banks of the Danube. This new ESCoP conference
should be a great event! So, mark these dates on your agenda and start to pass the word
within your community. Keep an eye on ESCoP webpages to know about the different deadlines
of submission.
Second, the committee constantly keeps in thinking how ESCoP could improve its visibility
and gain members. For this purpose we need you, because you know your scientific community
in your country. We would like you provide us a list of people working within the field of
cognitive psychology (in the broad sense, i.e. including developmental cognitive
psychology, social cognition, neuroscience, etc) in your country. Having a look on
who's publishing in cognitive psychology journals in your country could help you to
identify the relevant people. We would like to have such a list of people (name and email)
to contact them to advertise ESCoP by the end of April. We are aware that depending on the
size of your country or of your community the work is more or less easy and
straightforward, but maybe you could find people around you to help you, or such list may
exist in your national cognitive psychology society. We all need to be more proactive to
maintain cognitive psychology a strong discipline in Europe.
Pléh Csaba e. tanár, BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszéke
az ESF Standing Committee on the Humanities tagja
Dept of Cognitive Science BME
Budapest Egry József utca 1 T 502
H-1111 Hungary
főszerkesztő, Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle ed. chief, Hungarian Review of Psychology
http://www.akademiai.com/content/119727/
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