Jesus Acapulco, Author at Young Academy of Europe

Posted on December 17, 2016

Fidora

Affiliation: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES

Keywords: Philosophy, Cultures and cultural diversity

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Alexander Fidora, born 1975 in Offenbach (Germany), studied philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He obtained his PhD in 2003 at Frankfurt University, where he has been co-director of a DFG-research project. In 2006 he accepted a position at ICREA in the Department of Ancient and Medieval Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he is also Executive Director of the Institute of Medieval Studies. He has been a Visiting Professor at Saint Louis University, the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been distinguished with the “Premi Internacional Catalònia” (2011) and the “Samuel Toledano Prize” (2012). He is a member of the board of the SIEPM and president of SOFIME. Member of the board of the YAE. Co-editor of the “Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies”.

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Alexander Fidora is working on the interreligious dimensions of medieval Hispanic philosophy. In particular, he studies cultural contacts between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as: reception, interpretation and transformation of philosophical and theological translations from Arabic by Jewish and Christian authors; Latin philosophy into Hebrew; Polemics, controversial theology and interreligious dialogue in the Middle Ages; and Consequences of the confrontation between the three religions of the Book for the formation of European culture (ERC-Research Projects “The Latin Talmud” and “Latin Philosophy into Hebrew”).

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Aikaterina Fotopoulou

Affiliation: University College London, UK

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Katerina runs KatLab (see www.fotopoulou.com), a group of researchers and students that conduct studies on topics and disorders that lie at the borders between neurology and psychology and challenge any rigid distinction between mind and body. The lab is particularly interested in understanding how our embodiment, including the rooting of the mind in our embodied interactions with other people, influence the function of our brain and ultimately shape how we understand ourselves and our new experiences.

Our studies use behavioural, electrophysiological, neuroimaging and pharmacological methods to study body feelings, sensorimotor signals and related body representations in healthy individuals and in patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders of body awareness, including patients with stroke-induced unawareness of deficit and related body delusions, functional sensorimotor disorders and eating disorders.

Katlab is funded by Volkswagen Foundation (Germany), HDRF (US), ISAN (Israel) and more recently a Starting Investigator Grant from the European Research Council. Current research projects focus on the psychological and neural mechanisms by which our interoceptive body feelings, as well as multimodal representations of the body, are influenced by internalised social expectations, on-line interactions with other people and by neuropeptides known to enhance social feelings. These studies point to unique neural mechanisms by which our bodies are interpersonally ‘mentalised’ and perceived to form the basis of our selves.

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Frank

Affiliation: University of Southern Denmark, DK

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I write and teach in the following fields: literatures of the 18th-21st centuries (American, British, French, German, and Scandinavian) with particular focus on migration and borders as well as maritime history and culture. I have also published on the aesthetics and history of soccer.

My book on migration in post-WWII Europe entitled Migration and Literature: Günter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjærstad came out with Palgrave Macmillan in 2008. My book on soccer entitled Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Cultural Analysis of Manchester United came out with Bloomsbury in 2013. I have also published a book on Salman Rushdie (2011) and co-edited three books.

I am currently working on a book tentatively entitled Reading the Sea: Modes of Being in Maritime Modernity that examines the role of the sea in literary and cultural history through concepts and phenomena such as history, rhythm, technology, ecology, and aesthetics. I have recently initiated a project on the role of the border in post-1989 European novels.

I am chair of the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award’s academic advisory board, Denmark’s biggest literary prize. In 2011-12 I co-directed a research group on the role of space and place in literature, culture, and media.

My stays abroad include two visits to Stanford University as visiting researcher (2005) and visiting scholar (2008), and in 2011 I was Senior Fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) at the Bauhaus-Universitet Weimar in Germany.

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Helene Frowe

Affiliation: Stockholm University, SE

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I’m Wallenberg Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University, where I direct the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace.

I did my PhD (graduating in 2007) at the University of Reading with Brad Hooker and Andrew Williams. The final part of my PhD was spent working with Jeff McMahan at Rutgers University. I specialise in the ethics of war and self-defence, and am particularly fond of killing the innocent. Prior to taking up my current post at Stockholm, I was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield and a Visiting Fellow at the Philosophy Department at Harvard. I’m on the Executive Committees of both the Society for Applied Philosophyand the British Society for Ethical Theory. I’m a Research Associate at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.

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Most of my research focuses on the ethics of war and defensive killing. I’m especially interested in the moral status of non-combatants and the permissibility of killing innocent people in self-defence. I’ve also written on ethics more generally, including the permissibility of euthanasia and on the importance of the doing / allowing distinction. You can access drafts of some of my forthcoming work by clicking on the links below.

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Galea

Affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Birmingham

Keywords: Psychology

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Dr Galea is broadly interested in motor control. This ranges from the neural correlates of motor learning to stroke rehabilitation. At present, he is particularly interested in how reward/punishment influences our actions and can be used to alter the speed at which our motor system learns or retains new movements.

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Robert Gerwarth

Affiliation: University College Dublin, IE

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Robert Gerwarth is Professor of Modern History at UCD and Director of the Centre for War Studies. He also serves as Vice-Principal for Global Engagement in the College of Arts and Humanities. After studying history and political science in Berlin, he completed his DPhil and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford University. Prof. Gerwarth has also held research fellowships or visiting professorships at Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Sciences Po Paris. In 2013-14 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at the Herder Institute in Marburg and a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

For his work on political violence in the twentieth century, he has received major research grants from the European Research Council (ERC), the Guggenheim Foundation, the Irish Research Council (IRC), and the Gerda-Henkel Foundation. He is an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy and the Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Professor Gerwarth is the author of The Bismarck Myth (Oxford UP, 2005) and a biography of Reinhard Heydrich (Yale UP, 2011). His third monograph, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End will be published by Penguin (UK) and FSG (US) in the autumn of 2016. He has authored several articles in leading international journals such as Past & Present, The Journal of Modern History, Geschichte & Gesellschaft, and Vingtième Siècle. He has also published ten edited collections, including, most recently, War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War (Oxford UP 2012, with John Horne) and Empires at War, 1911-23 (Oxford UP, 2014, with Erez Manela). His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

Professor Gerwarth serves on the board of the Journal of Modern European History and the German History Society and Contemporary European History. He is also the general editor of an OUP book series, The Greater War, which marks the centenary of the First World War.

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Gregory

Affiliation: Lancaster University, UK

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I am a geographer by training who, after doing an MSc in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) at the University of Edinburgh, got a one-year contract at Queen Mary, University of London working to create a GIS of some nineteenth century administrative data. Somehow this evolved into the Great Britain Historical GIS (GBHGIS), a major database that comprises the majority of statistical data from sources such as the census and vital registration data for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was also the subject of my PhD. Since leaving London I worked at the University of Portsmouth and then as the Associate Director of Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at the Queens University, Belfast. In September 2006 I moved to Lancaster where I work in Digital Humanities.

I have twice been network co-chair of the Social Science History Association’s Historical Geography network and served on their Executive Committee. I also founded and am network co-chair of the European Social Science History Association’s Spatial and Digital History network. As shown below I have published widely on historical GIS including four books, one published by CUP, and articles in journals including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Annals of the Assoc. of American Geographers, Progress in Human Geography, and the British Medical Journal. I am Speciality Section editor of the Digital History section of the newly launched journal Frontiers in Digital Humanities and have served on the editorial boards of journals including: Social Science History, Historical Methods and Transactions in GIS.

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Keysers

Affiliation: Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, NL

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Knafo

Affiliation: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL

Keywords: Social Psychology; Personality: Development, change, nature & nurture; Values in adolescence; The development of prosocial behavior, empathy and altruism; Field work: Social development; Research seminar: Social development B; Advanced studies in social development & developmental psychology

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Development of pro-social behavior and empathy in the context of genetics and the family environment, the interaction between parenting and temperament, and the development of values in the contexts of culture and the family.

Posted on December 17, 2016

Kohlmann

Affiliation: University of Freiburg, SH

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