<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are pleased to invite submissions to Exploring the Mind’s Eye: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Imagination for poster presentations. The conference will be held at Bilkent University, Ankara on October 25-26, 2019 and it is organized by the Departments of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience. The aim of the conference is to bring researchers interested in the philosophy and science of imagination together to initiate discussions and possible new collaborations.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The deadline for poster submissions is Friday, July 12, 2019 (midnight, GMT). Poster proposals should be between 500-1000 words and they should be submitted as a PDF file at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=img2019" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=img2019</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Travel and accommodation costs belong to the accepted poster presenters, but we can help with reserving on-campus accommodation.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For the poster presentations, we invite topics on all areas related to philosophy and science of imagination, including (but not limited to):<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- The representational content of mental imagery<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Pretense, play and imagination<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Neuroscience of mental imagery<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Aphantasia and similar neurological conditions<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Psychological significance of imagination<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Modal knowledge, conceivability and imagination<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Mental time travel<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Embodied imagination<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Imagination in aesthetics and philosophy of fiction<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Confirmed Speakers:<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">So far, the confirmed speakers for the conference are (in alphabetical <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">order):<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Adam Zeman, University of Exeter<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Amy Kind, Claremont McKenna College<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Anna Abraham, Leeds Beckett University<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- David Papineau, CUNY Graduate Center & KCL<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Deena Weisberg, Villanova University<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Kourken Michaelian, Université Grenoble Alpes<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Margot Strohminger, University of Oxford<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Tufan Kıymaz, Bilkent University<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All questions about submissions and the conference should be emailed to </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:imgconf@bilkent.edu.tr" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">imgconf@bilkent.edu.tr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for poster proposals: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://easychair.org/cfp/img2019" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://easychair.org/cfp/img2019</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission link: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red"><a href="https://easychair.org/cfp/img2019" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red">https://easychair.org/cfp/img2019</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Registration is required to attend the conference but there is no registration fee.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please register at: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://imgconf.eventbrite.com/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://imgconf.eventbrite.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more information about the conference: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://www.phil.bilkent.edu.tr</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">There will be a Cappadocia trip on October 27-28 following the conference. The conference organizers will handle details and logistics but the presenters who are interested in joining will be expected to cover their own costs. For more information about Cappadocia see: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/cappadocia/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/cappadocia/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Burcu Ayşen Ürgen, PhD</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:small">Assistant Professor</div><div style="font-size:small">Department of Psychology & Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program<br></div><div style="font-size:small">Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center</div><div style="font-size:small">National Magnetic Resonance Research Center</div><div style="font-size:small">Bilkent University</div><div style="font-size:small">06800, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Email: <a href="mailto:burcu.urgen@bilkent.edu.tr" target="_blank">burcu.urgen@bilkent.edu.tr</a></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Website: http://</span><a href="http://burcu.urgen.bilkent.edu.tr" target="_blank">burcu.urgen.bilkent.edu.tr</a></div><div style="font-size:small">Lab: <a href="http://www.ccn.bilkent.edu.tr" target="_blank">http://www.ccn.bilkent.edu.tr</a><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Tel: +90 312 290 30 91 or +90 312 290 1807</div></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><br></div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>