Collegium Maius
Michał Bobrzyński Hall
Jagiellońska 15
31-010 Kraków
SATURDAY
28th February 2015
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:00 Opening lecture: Małgorzata Sacha (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
"What about religion?: Towards a new psychoanalytic paradigm"
10:00-10:15 Coffee break
10:15 – 11:30 PANEL SESSION I: chairman Anna Hojdeczko
10:15 – 10:35 Stanisław Radoń (The Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków):
Connections between creativity and possession on the light of neurological research
10:35 - 10:55 Wacław Romer (University of Wrocław, Wrocław):
Sex: metaphysics versus neuroendocrinology
10:55 – 11:15 Matylda Ciołkosz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
The Possible Significance of the Activity of Mirror Neurones and Neural Synchronization in Modern Postural Yoga Practice
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00 PANEL SESSION II: chairman Katarzyna Szlęk
11:45 – 12:05 Krzysztof Dolega, (Ruhr-Universiät, Bochum):
Can a brain scientist believe in an afterlife?
12:05 – 12:25 Mateusz Kusio (University of Oxford, Oxford):
Where is the place of understanding? – a case for dialogue between neurosciences and scriptural interpretation
12:25 – 12:45 Dorota Tomaszewska, Adrian Mróz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań):
How is our* immortality doing?
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:15 PANEL SESSION III: chairman Kama Wodyńska
14:00-14:20 Hans Van Eyghen (Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam):
A framework for understanding religious cognition as a form of advanced social cognition
14:20 – 14:40 Jan Krátký, Martin Lang, John H. Shaver, Daniela Jerotijevič & Dimitris Xygalatas (University of Masaryk, LEVYNA laboratory, Brno):
Inducing Anxiety in a laboratory setting results in ritualized behavior
14:40 – 15:00 Paweł Chyc (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań):
Heider-Simmel demonstration in Amazonia. Preliminary remarks from cross-cultural study of intentionality attribution
15:15-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:45 PANEL SESSION IV: chairman Anna Maćkowiak
15:30-15:50 Aleš Chalupa (Masaryk University, LEVYNA, Brno):
Pythia and Inspired Divination in the Delphic Oracle: Cognitive Perspective
15:50-16:10 Olaf Stachowski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
The Magic Root: The history and possible future use of Ibogaine
16:10-16:30 Jakub Szczęśniak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
Altered states of consciousness as an adaptation
16:45 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30 DISSCUSSION PANEL:
"The significance of neurobiological mechanisms triggered during ritual for the formulation and interpretation of doctrinal notion"
Participants:
Ede Frecska (University of Debrecen, Debrecen)
Sebastian Schüler (Leipzig Univeristy, Leipzig)
Radek Kundt (Masaryk University, LEVYNA, Brno)
Tomasz Komendziński (Nikolaus Copernicus University, Toruń)
chairman: Matylda Ciołkosz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
SUNDAY
1st march 2015
10:15 – 11:30 PANEL SESSION V: chairman Kama Wodyńska
10:15-10:35 Maciej Dulewicz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
Neural correlates of religious experience - two basis approach in neurocognitive studies of religion
10:35-10:55 Magdalena Pietrzak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań):
When does a child start to believe? – the cognitive and psychosocial readiness to the faith
10:55-11:15 Karolina Łapińska (University of Silesia, Katowice):
Viruses, memes, religion. Controversy around memetics and theory of religious viruses of the mind
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00 PANEL SESSION VI: chairman Anna Maćkowiak
11:45 – 12:05 Silvie Kotherová, Jakub Cigán, Paul Reddish (Masaryk University, LEVYNA, Brno):
Three hands. Does meditation practice cause body misperception?
12:05 – 12:25 Michał Wójcik, Rafał Węgrzyn (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wrocław):
How to exceed the limits of the body? Neurobiological basis for the "out of body expereince" phenomenon and other bodily illusions.
12:25 – 12:45 Kamil Nowak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
Self-knowledge in Chan Buddhism
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 POSTER SESSION: chairman Karol Kaczorowski, Katarzyna Szlęk
15:00-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-16:30 PANEL SESSION VII: chairman Anna Hojdeczko
15:15 – 15:35 John MacMurphy (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam):
Lucid Dreaming and the Mystical Experience
15:35-15:55 Anna Mandrela (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
The conception of subconscious in New Age spirituality
15:55-16:15 Marcin Koculak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
Glimpses of another world - scientific approach to Near Death Experiences
16:30 – 16:45 Coffee break
16:45-18:00 PANEL SESSION VIII: chairman Katarzyna Bajka
16:45 – 17:05 Jakub Cigán, Silvie Kotherová, Mudr. Milan Sepši, Lenka Krajčíková, Mudr. Mária Holická, Jiří Jarkovský (Masaryk University, LEVYNA, Brno):
Meditation makes me sick: Meditation and sensitivity to parasympathetic nervous system stimulation
17:05 – 17:25 Beata Bober (University of Wrocław):
Willpower in the light of research on religiosity: can prayer be a panacea for many social problems?
17:25-17:45 Krzysztof Dyga (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
Mindfulness (and) meditation. Blessing for patients with severe mental illness or precipitator of psychosis?
Posters
Paulina Chmura, Elżbieta Szary (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin):
Is the low level of religiousness followed by the predisposition to depression?
Karolina Karpe, Natalia Maryniaczyk, Mikołaj Michta (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań):
Gratitude and multidimensionality of prayer practice
Małgorzata Skwierczyńska (Academy of Special Education):
"A mare is tormenting me!" - a personification of sleep paralysis
Jakub Knurek, Izabela Bany, Katarzyna Wołoszyn (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin):
Biochemical effects of Physallis sp., a plant used in herbal medicine
Joanna Gorgol, Jonatan Dalasiński (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń):
Induced God
Maria Sadowska,1; Janusz Guzowski,2
(1Institute of Psychology, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszczy; 2Institute of Phylosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń):
Looking for the religious person within the various models of personality structure
Łukasz Miciuk (The John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin):
Religiosity and well-being - the latest explorations
Małgorzata Charęzińska (The John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin):
The question of Free Will in the face of the selected studies in the field of neuroscience
Kamila Olga Stępień (The University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk):
Border situation in the perspective of lifelong learning
Conference MUR III
Address
Collegium Maius
Michał Bobrzyński Hall
Jagiellońska 15
31-010 Kraków
Date
28.02–1.03.2015