Invited talks

…starting from the most recent ones…

  • Šķilters, J. (2020). Linking relational and absolute: Constraints in spatial cognition. Whitehead Lecture in Cognition, Computation and Culture. Goldsmiths’ Departments of Computing and Psychology, London UK. January 22, 2020.
  • Šķilters, J. (2019). Colors, senses, and emotions. (Krāsas, maņas un emocijas). Invited keynote at Gastroenterology Support Foundation of Latvia Yearly event.  Radisson Blu Rīdzene Hotel, Rīga, 12.12.2019
  • Šķilters, J. (2019). Complexity of Reading within Cognitive Science. Keynote at the International Symposium Dimensions of Reading, Hannover, co-organized by Volkswagen Foundation, Stiftung Lesen, Universities Erlangen-Nurnberg and Mainz, 5-8.11.2019
  • Šķilters, J. (2019). Space: From Geometry to Functional Dependencies. Keynote talk in the Conference: Space And Time: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Vilnius, September 26-28, 2019.
  • Šķilters, J. (2019). A functionally and geometrically extended topological formalism for representing natural language semantics. Brain & Cognition, Perceptual Dynamics Laboratory,  Psychology Department, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, September 30, 2019
  • Šķilters, J. (2019). Towards a Relational Eigenplace. Department Colloquium Talk, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, May 30, 2019
  • Šķilters, J. (2019). Geometric and functional constraints in spatial language. Talk at Super Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Oslo, Norway, Febrauary 22, 2019.
  • Šķilters, J. (2018). Representing space in Region Connection Calculus. Formal qualitative representation of Latvian spatial relations. Keynote talk at The 15th international summer school Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Quinta Decima, Salos, Lithuania, July 29 – August 4, 2018.
  • Skilters, J. (2018). Reading as a Process of Visual Perception and Language Processing. Keynote talk at BOBCATSSS -2018 (Annual International Symposium in Library and Information Science), January 24-26, Riga, Latvia, University of Latvia, National Library of Latvia. 
  • Skilters, J. (2017). Events as core structures of human cognition. Seminar by NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence ‘Public and Private Storytelling: The Future of Strategic Communications’, Bellevue Park Hotel Riga, December 6, 2017, Riga, Latvia.
  • Šķilters, J. (2015) Opportunities and challenges for spatial research methodology development in cognitive sciences. IBM Latvija & Alumniportal Deutschland event: Big Data – What are the Implications on Research, Science and our Societies? 17.06.2015.
  • Šķilters, J. (2015) A model of functional dependencies in spatial cognition. A talk delivered at Linguistik Kolloquium, Bielefeld University, Germany, 15.04.2015.
  • Šķilters, J. (2015). From senses to perception (No sajūtām un uztveri.) A keynote at the annual conference of Latvian Association for Advertising, 1.10.2015.
  • Šķilters, J. (2015) Critical thinking or why is it not rational to discuss with fundamentalists and fanatics? (Kritiskā domāšana jeb kāpēc diskutēt ar fundamentālistiem un fanātiķiem nav racionāli?) Keynote at the 10th annual conference of internal audotors (The Institute of Internal Auditors), 8. 10.2015.
  • Šķilters, J. (2014). Functional dependencies in large-scale spatial cognition. Talk at Cognitive Science Program (Cognitive Lunch), Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, January 22, 2014.
  • Šķilters, J. (2013). Redzes uzmanība kā struktūrveidošana vizuālajā, telpiskajā un valodas apstrādē. (Visual attention as structure generation in visual, spatial,l and language processing.) Closing conference of the ERAF an UL project ‘Screening of Visual Deficits and Development of Diagnostics in School Children”, UL Department of Physics and Mathematics, Department of Optometry and Vision Science, December 19. 2013. (invited talk)
  • Šķilters, J. (2013). Spatial cognition as a blend of geometrical, functional and reference frame knowledge. Talk at PhLing (Northwestern Philosophy and Linguistics Workgroup), Philosophy Department, Northwestern University, December 6, 2013.
  • Šķilters, J. (2013). Impact of socio-functional knowledge on large-scale spatial cognition. Talk at the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC), U.S. National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center. Northwestern University, November 26, 2013.
  • Šķilters, J. (2012). How Socio-Distributed Cognition Impacts Spatial Cognition. Invited talk and workshop at the Catholic University Leuven, Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning, 20.11.2012.
  • Skilters, J. (2011) Gestalt theory and the roots of non‐representational semantics. Invited talk at the 16. LIPP-Symposium “Perceptive Linguistics”, LMU Munich, November 25-26, 2011.
  • Skilters, J. (2011) Gestalt theory and the roots of non‐representational semantics. Invited talk at the 16. LIPP-Symposium “Perceptive Linguistics”, LMU Munich, November 25-26, 2011.
  • Šķilters, J.(2010). Corpus and national identity. CLARIN-EU Symposium, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, UL, 26.02.2010.
  • Šķilters, J. (2010). Applications of Cognitive Sciences in Geography. Invited talks in UL, Ph.D School for geography students.
  • Šķilters, J. (2009). Background Knowledge in Resolution of Semantic Indefiniteness. Invited Talk at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Latvia, Mai, 2009.
  • Skilters, J. (2009). Perceptual Semantics and Embodiment/ Embededness interaction. Invited talks at the University of Sassari, Italy, 2009, 16-20.11