Life, Structure and Cognition 2024 – A multitude of times

As part of the “Life Structure and Cognition 2024 : A multitude of times” meeting,  Lera Boroditsky (University of California, San Diego), Professor of sciences cognition will present the conference « How languages and cultures construct time » on June, 19th at 6pm in Buffon amphitheater.

“How do we think about time? On the one hand, time is abstract: we cannot smell time, we cannot taste time, we cannot see it or touch it with our hands. On the other hand, time forms the very fabric of our experience; we can’t experience anything outside of time. So how do we construct our understanding of this fundamental domain? And how do we even go beyond and invent fanciful notions like time-travel? I will show how languages and cultures allow us to build complex representations of time that go way beyond what we can experience. Because languages differ, humans around the world think about time in remarkably different ways, with culturally-based notions of time deeply embedded in the organization of our brains.”

The lecture is free, but registration is mandatory by June 2nd, 2024 at : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-structure-and-cognition-2024-lera-boroditsky-tickets-894263926477

The 2024 edition of the LSC Meeting, “A Multitude of Times,” will focus on time and its declinations within social, biological, and physical systems. The scope of this in-person 4 day-long meeting is to bring together scientists from the LSC Committee with invited experts and the IHES scientists to present the latest progress in understanding time as a multifaceted concept and its many implications on different aspects of life. The idea is to fuel discussions, brainstorm, and explore alternative paths toward understanding how the multitude of ways we can conceive time contribute together to the richness of Biology and Cognitive processes.

More informations about the meeting: https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/11509/overview

Speakers:
Lera Boroditsky, Relationships between mind, world and language (UC San Diego, US)
Julien d’Huy, Evolution and spreading of myths (Collège de France, FR)
Margarete Diaz Cuadros, Species-specific developmental rates (Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard University, US)
Leon Peshkin, Aging clocks (Harvard Medical School, US)
Joe Thornton, Molecular mechanisms of evolution (University of Chicago, US)
Warrick Roseboom, Time perception, perceived causality, and memory (University of Sussex, UK)

Organization:

• Yves Barral, ETH Zurich
• Eugene Koonin, NIH
• Mikhail Gromov, IHES/Univ. Paris-Saclay & NYU
• Nicolas Minc, Univ. Paris Cité/CNRS
• Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA Bordeaux
• Bob Penner, IHES/Univ. Paris-Saclay & UCLA
• Yukiko Yamashita, MIT

Executive organization: Grazia Gonella, ETH Zurich
contact: lsc@biol.ethz.ch