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Major new tenure-track research-focussed positions at University of Edinburgh

4/13/2013

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Forward from the language evolution google group mailing list:

We thought this would be of particular interest to Language Evolution people. The University of Edinburgh has announced 100 new posts across all areas, including those that relate to work carried out in the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, which obviously includes topics relating to Language Evolution. These prestigious new positions will initially be mainly research-focussed initially, giving an unprecedented opportunity for candidates to pursue an active research agenda. It's expected that successful candidates will have a strong research record in the form of publications already.

The deadline is very tight, unfortunately - 18th April - so interested candidates should apply immediately.

More information is available at the following links:

http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/documents/LEL%20Chancellor%20Fellowship%202013.pdf

http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/human-resources/jobs/chancellors-fellowships

Please pass this on to any likely candidates!

Best wishes,
Simon Kirby & Kenny Smith
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Music and the Origins of Language. International Summer School on Agent-based Computational Models of Creativity

4/13/2013

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Call for Participation "Music and the Origins of Language. International Summer School on Agent-based Computational Models of Creativity".

15 - 20 September 2013, Cortona, Italy
http://ai.vub.ac.be/events/cortona-2013

The Evolutionary Linguistics Association (ELA) is proud to announce its second summer school in Cortona on Music and the Origins of Language. The school is intended for postdocs, lecturers and predocs with a background in computer science and a strong interest in music and the origins of language. 

The summer school will be held in Cortona, Italy from Sunday 15 September to Friday 20 September 2013. Lectures, activities and meals are all collocated in Hotel Oasi and the Palazzone di Cortona. Participants will all stay at Hotel Oasi.

The summer school has a wide-ranging program of background lectures introducing concepts from biology, anthropology, psychology, music theory and linguistics that are helpful to understand the nature of creativity, the role and intimate relations between language and music, and the mechanisms underlying cultural evolution. It further contains technical lectures on the fundamental computational components required for language processing as well as technical ateliers to learn how to set up evolutionary linguistics experiments. Participants have the opportunity to present their latest research in a poster session. Embedded in the school is an ERC workshop of the Flow Machines project on musical style and composition. The school also features artistic ateliers in which participants create new creative works and engage in performance.

Interested researchers can apply by following the registration information that is available on the website. There are a limited number of scholarships available that cover participation and accommodation fees.

It receives support from FP7 PRAISE and INSIGHT projects, the euCognition Network of Excellence and the ESF project DRUST.

For information and queries, please visit the website http://ai.vub.ac.be/events/cortona-2013/ or email cortona2013@ai.vub.ac.be.
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