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

Konferencja MUR III

Adres

Collegium Maius
Sala im. Michała Bobrzyńskiego,
ul. Jagiellońska 15
31-010 Kraków

Termin

28.02–01.03.2015