ASSC12 Confirmed speakers and workshops_CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you the latest list of confirmed speakers and workshops of ASSC12 (the 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness), which will be held in Asia for the first time in Taipei, Taiwan this year during June 19-22, 2008.
Confirmed speakers and workshops include:
Presidential Address:
David Rosenthal, City University of New York, USA
Keynote Speakers:
Thomas Metzinger, The Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany
Mitsuo Kawato, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International,
Japan,
Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Kyoto University, Japan,
Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute,USA,
Confirmed Symposium Speakers:
Ned Block, New York University, USA
Victor Lamme, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sid Kouider, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Barbara Jones, McGill University, Canada
Donald Pfaff, Rockefeller University, USA
Steven Laureys, University of Liege, Belgium
Adrian Owen, University of Cambridge, UK
Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK
Keiji Tanaka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Glyn Humphreys, University of Birmingham, UK
Shaul Hochstein, Life Sciences Institute and Neural Computation Center,
Israel
Tim Bayne, University of Oxford, UK
Ryan McKay, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Ian Gold, McGill University, Canada
Robyn Langdon, Macquarie University, Australia
Confirmed Tutorial Workshops:
Antoine Bechara, topic: Emotion, Feeling, and Interoception
Juliane Wilcke, topic: The Evolutionary Function of Consciousness
Jennifer Windt/ Thomas Metzinger, topic: Dreaming
Tim Bayne, topic: Creature Consciousness
Andrew Brook, topic: Consciousness Terminology
Shigeru Kitazawa, topic: Consciousness of Time Perception
Since your research interests are highly related to issues in consciousness studies, we thought you might be interested in the details of the upcoming meeting. Therefore, we enclosed the call for papers and posters of this meeting and also the relevant information about ASSC 12 for your reference.
ASSC 12 is a meeting that promotes interdisciplinary discussions and debates about current empirical and theoretical issues in the study of consciousness, from the perspectives of neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, computer science, and cognitive ethology.
We look forward to seeing you in the meeting in Taipei.
ASSC 12 website: http://www.ym.edu.tw/assc12/
ASSC 12 email: assc12@ym.edu.tw
Sincerely yours,
Allen Houng, Ralph Adolphs (Co-Chairs), and Shinsuke Shimojo
Scientific Program Committee, ASSC12
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THE THIRD CALL FOR PAPER & POSTER PROPOSALS
ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
12TH ANNUAL MEETING
Gis Convention Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
June 19-22, 2008
http://www.ym.edu.tw/assc12/
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