GEECT Spring Conference 2022

You are invited to NeuroCine kick-off Conference, which takes place on May 16 – 18 at Baltic Film, Media and Arts School in Tallinn University.

NeuroCine Conference´s aim is to pave the ground for future joint interdisciplinary research endeavours between filmmakers and neuroscientists in cinematic storytelling, film viewing and related first-person experiences.

Tallinn invites scholars and creative professionals to contribute to the Baltic NeuroCine kick-off conference. Its aim is to enhance joint interdisciplinary research endeavours on cinematic storytelling, film viewing, and related first-person experiences.

Keynotes:

• Uri Hasson, Princeton University: How we share memories across brains using storytelling

• Katrin Heimann, Aarhus University: Making films come true – dreams about a neuro-phenomenology of the moving image and its consequences for our mind

Invited talks:

• Vittorio Gallese, University of Parma: Being moved. The embodiment of moving images

• Clare Grall, Dartmouth College: From media to neuroscience: Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition

• Iiro P. Jääskeläinen, Aalto University School of Science: Movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging studies of perspective taking

• Joseph P. Magliano, Georgia State University: The Contributions of Cinematics and Content on the Understanding of Film

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NeuroCine conference is organised as a GEECT Spring conference 2022 at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM) with the generous support of the European grouping of film and television schools (GEECT) and Baltic-American Freedom Foundation (BAFF).

Register here.