News

• 9th May 2012
  The keynote presentations for the conference are now available HERE

• 8th May 2012
  The preliminary program for the conference 11th-12th June is now available HERE

• 27th March 2012
  As of 13th April, we are moving to a new location on the University Campus, together with the rest of the department. Our new address is:
  Center On Autobiographical Memoy Research
  Psykologisk Institut (Department of Psychology)
  Bartholins Allé 9,
  8000 Århus C.
  Our e-mail addresses will still work, but please bear with us for some days, until we are up and running again :)

• 1st February 2012
  Gema Martin-Ordas has been employed as postdoc as per 1st February 2012. Gema Martin-Ordas is coming from a position at the University of Ottawa (Canada), School of Social Sciences.

• 27th January 2012
  Annette Bohn is employed as associate professor in autobiographical memory research as per 1st February 2012.

• 8. december 2011
  The 2012 CON AMORE survivor's guide to Aarhus can be downloaded here :)!

• 7th December 2011
  Associate professor Linda Polka from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) will present her recent research on infants' and adults' word segmentation in English and French. Dr.Polka is invited by professor Ocke-Schwen Bohn, and the lecture will be at the English department, building 1485 room 315, from 14.15-15.30. The title of Dr. Polka's talk is Language rhythms and speech segmentation.

• 8th October 2011
  Registration and call for papers for our 2012 conference are now open! Click on the conference link in the menu to left for more information!

• 15th August 2011
  Several researchers from the center will give lessons in Memories and autobiographical memory at Folkeuniversitetet (Danish University Extension) in the fall. See a lesson plan and sign up here.  

• 11th August 2011
  Assistant professor Annette Bohn is giving a small introduction to Memories at the premiere of  "Midnight in Paris" (directed by Woody Allen) in the cinema Øst for Paradis.

• 8th July 2011
  Mark your calendars :)! CON AMORE will be hosting an international conference again in week 24, 2012: Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory in Clinical Disorders. 

• 30th June 2011
  Our recently held international conference Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory Development (16th-17th June) was a big success, with keynote speakers from USA and Australia, as well as poster presentations from all over the world.
  Read more about the conference here (in Danish).

• 15th June 2011
  Interview with postdoc Jonathan Koppel Facing the challenges of how life scripts affect people's memory 

• 14th June 2011
  Conference - press release (in Danish): Vores tidligste erindringer er stadig et mysterium [Our earliest memories are still a mystery]

• 27th May 2011
  Postdoc Osman Skjold Kingo has been awarded Aarhus University Research Foundation's prestigious ph.d. award for his PhD dissertation Object Individuation and the Emerging Concept Formation in Infancy. The research includes little children's use of information about both appearance and function to keep track of objects in the world.
  The PhD award is each year given to promising young reserchers who have finished their PhD education at Aarhus University the year before. Read more about the award ceremony here (in Danish).

• 19th May 2011
  Interview with postdoc Celia Harris: Moving from Australia to Denmark

• 2nd May 2011
  Ph.d. fellow Sharda Umanath from Duke University (USA) has been granted a scholarship from the research program Nordic Research Opportunity, a collaboration between the National Danish Research Foundation and the National Science Foundation (USA), for a research stay at CON AMORE. Sharda Umanath will visit the center from 1st June till 17th August 2011.

• On Friday 29th April 2011, two of the center's researchers are giving talks on the occasion of Forskningens Døgn (The annual Day of Research):

  Maja O'Connor Det handler om kærlighed - Om sorg hos ældre efterladte [It's about love - Mourning and spousal bereavement]. Jeppe Vontilius Auditoriet (Lake Theatres) at 13.15

  Annette Bohn "Jeg ender sikkert med at blive gift og få et par børn"["I'll probably end up getting married and having a couple of kids"] Merete Barker Auditoriet (Lake Theatres) at 17.30.

• 15th April 2011
  Alejandra Zaragoza Scherman is a new PhD student at CON AMORE

• 15th March 2011
  Christina Duch has been employed as a research assistant.

• 15th February 2011
  Celia Harris has been employed as a postdoc. Celia Harris is coming from a position at the Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia) 

• 1st February 2011
  Johan Willander has been employed as a postdoc. Johan Willander is coming from a position at the University of Stockholm (Sweden)

• 1st January 2011
  Linda Mortensen has been employed as postdoc. Linda Mortensen is coming from a postdoc position at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (Holland)

  Jonathan Koppel has been employed as postdoc. Jonathan Koppel defended his PhD dissertation at the New School for Social Research in New York (USA) in the fall of 2011