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Autumn School at SISU (weekends, Oct. 25 –Nov. 16, 2025)

Sustainability and Cognitive Neuroscience:

Time in Aesthetics / Aesthetics of Time

To promote in-depth collaboration between our university and top international institutions in the field of cognitive neuroscience, providing students with interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchange opportunities, SISU will host the Autumn School 2025 in October 2025.

The general theme of the Autumn School is “Sustainability and Cognitive Neuroscience – Time in Aesthetics / Aesthetics of Time”, aiming to explore cutting-edge issues in human cognition from the perspectives of time and aesthetics. The Autumn School is jointly organized by leading universities and research institutions from Europe and China. It will feature internationally renowned scholars as instructors and mentors, many of whom are members of national and international scientific academies such as the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). Lectures will focus on the cognitive processing of aesthetics and time, cross-cultural understanding, and the intersection of art and science.

The Autumn School is open to domestic and international undergraduate and graduate students with a strong interest in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, particularly those who have research interest and perhaps already experience in related fields such as aesthetics, spatial cognition, time perception or language. Applicants are required to submit a brief curriculum vitae and a short motivation letter. Students who successfully complete the program will receive a certificate issued by LMU Munich (Germany), which may serve as a valuable qualification for future academic development. The Autumn School provides not only a high-level academic training opportunity but also a valuable experience to broaden international perspectives and engage in face-to-face exchanges with world-renowned scholars. We invite students to actively participate and jointly explore the profound mysteries of the human mind in its complexity.

Organizers

  • Neurocognitive Image Lab (NIL), SISU
  • World Art History Institute (WAI), SISU
  • Federation of German Scientists (VDW)
  • Institute of Medical Psychology (IMP), LMU

Faculty

  • Prof. Yan BAO, NIL at SISU, Peking University, Member of the EASA
  • Prof. Claus-Christian Carbon, University of Bamberg, Germany, Member of the EASA
  • Prof. Violeta Dinescu, University of Oldenburg, Germany, Member of the EASA
  • Prof. Helena H. Gao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • PD Dr. Evgeny Gutyrchik, IMP at LMU, Germany
  • Prof. LaoZhu (Qingsheng ZHU), WAI at SISU, Peking University
  • Prof. Nicolae Manolache, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bukarest, Romania
  • Prof. Ernst Pöppel, NIL at SISU, IMP at LMU, Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany
  • Dr. Maria Reinisch, VDW, Member of the EASA
  • Prof. Eva Ruhnau, IMP at LMU Munich, Germany, Member of the EASA
  • Prof. Vera Zabotkina, Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow, Russia, Member of the EASA
  • Prof. Semir Zeki, University College London, UK, Member of the Royal Society

Participants

  • International and domestic undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, with special interest in interdisciplinarity as reflected in aesthetics, time perception, spatial cognition, image science or language, and related topics or research fields.

Application

  • A short CV indicating your academic background and skills etc.
  • A letter of motivation (maximum 1 page) explaining why you would like to join this Autumn School.

Benefits

  • Students who successfully participate in the Autumn School will get a certificate from Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich (LMU), Germany.

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