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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Call for Participation "Music and the Origins of Language.
</span></b><b>International Summer School on Agent-based Computational Models of Creativity".</b><br>
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15 - 20 September 2013, Cortona, Italy<br>
<a href="http://ai.vub.ac.be/events/cortona-2013">http://ai.vub.ac.be/events/cortona-2013</a><br>
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The Evolutionary Linguistics Association (ELA) is proud to announce its second summer school in Cortona on Music and the Origins of Language.
<span lang="EN-US">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.
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</span>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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It receives support from FP7 PRAISE and INSIGHT projects, the euCognition Network of Excellence and the ESF project DRUST.<br>
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For information and queries, please visit the website <a href="http://ai.vub.ac.be/events/cortona-2013/">
http://ai.vub.ac.be/events/cortona-2013/</a> or email <a href="mailto:cortona2013@ai.vub.ac.be">
cortona2013@ai.vub.ac.be</a>. <br>
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