Summer School (ISSAS)

Program 2022

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Thursday, 7 July 2022

15h30 - 16h30 Registration (Château check in from 15h30)
16h30 - 17h00 Welcome words
17h00 - 18h00 Students' blitz presentations
18h00 - 18h30 Apéritif
18h30 - 20h00 Dinner

Friday, 8 July 2022

09h00 - 10h30 Hayley DORFMAN (Harvard University), The role of inferred beliefs in modulating feedback learning
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 - 12h30

Stefano PALMINTERI (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale & École Normale Supérieure), Range dependent valuation: From happiness ratings to reinforcement learning

12h30 -14h00 Lunch
14h00 - 15h30 Wolfram SCHULTZ (Cambridge University), Neuronal signals for multi-component rewards
15h30 - 16h00 Coffee break
16h00 - 18h30 Workshop: Eva Pool (University of Geneva): Computational modeling of decision making and affective learning [beginner] Workshop: Mael Lebreton (University of Geneva): Computational modeling of decision making and affective learning [intermediate]
18h30 - 20h00 Dinner

Saturday, 9 July 2022

09h00 - 10h30 Antti KAUPPINEN (University of Helsinski), Happiness, Emotion and Well-being
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 - 12h30 Carmelo VAZQUEZ (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), The discreet charm of positive emotions in the clinical field: From basic research to interventions
12h30 - 14h00 Lunch
14h00 - 16h00 Workshop: Thibaud GRUBER (University of Geneva): Animal emotions: ethics and well-being perspectives

Workshop: Guido BONDOLFI (Univeristy of Geneva): The use of meditation of mindfulness in medicine/psychiatry

16h00 - 16h30 Coffee break
16h30 - 18h30 Group work
18h30 - 20h00 Dinner

Sunday, 10 July 2022

09h00 - 10h30 Dacher KELTNER (University of California, Berkeley), Emotional Well-Being: Advances From Basic and Intervention Science
10h30 - 12h30 Group work
12h30 - 13h30 Lunch
13h30 Bus: social afternoon: Montreux Jazz festival, workshop
18h00 - 19h00 First return bus to the Château
19h00 - 20h00 Dinner at the Château
22h30 - 23h30 Second return bus to the Château

Monday, 11 July 2022

09h00 - 10h30 Patricia LOCKWOOD (University of Birmingham), Prosocial motivation, learning and preferences: age-related changes and neural mechanisms
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 - 12h30 Giorgia SILANI (University of Vienna), Understanding social motivation: A (neuro)pharmacological and clinical account
12h30 - 14h00 Lunch
14h00 - 15h30 Anita TUSCHE (Queen's University, Canada), Understanding others: how social cognition shapes social behavior and social functioning
15h30 - 16h00 Coffee break
16h00 - 18h30 Workshop: Fabienne PICARD (Geneva University Hospitals), Bliss as a product of cortical dysfunction Workshop: Sandra PENIC (University of Geneva), Coping with political trauma: Social identity as cure and curse
18h30 - 20h00 Dinner

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

09h00 - 10h30 Michael BISHOP (Florida State University), If you know well-being when you see it, what's the point of a theory?
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 - 13h00 Group work
13h00 - 14h00 Lunch
14h00 - 15h30 Meike BARTELS (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Causes of individual differences in wellbeing - TALK ONLINE
15h30 - 16h00 Coffee break
16h00 - 18h00 Workshop: Markus KNEER (University of Zürich): Experimental philosophy of happiness Workshop: Julien DEONNA (University of Geneva) & Fabrice TERONI (University of Geneva): The Values of Emotions
18h30 - 20h00 Dinner

Wednesday, 13 July 2022

09h00 - 10h30 Florian COVA (University of Geneva), TTBA
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 - 12h30 Patty VAN CAPPELLEN (Duke University), Building well-being: The role of positive emotions, spirituality, and religion
12h30 - 14h00 Lunch
14h00 - 15h30 Group work
15h30 - 16h00 Coffee break
16h00 - 18h30 Group work
18h30 - 20h00 Dinner

Thursday, 14 July 2022

09h00 - 10h30 Group work presentations: group 1, group 2, group 3
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 - 12h00 Group work presentations: group 4, group 5
12h00 - 14h00 Lunch
14h00 - 14h30 Jury deliberation
14h30 - 15h30 Feedback and best project award
15h30 - 16h00 Coffee break
16h00 - 17h00 Well-being wrap-up discussion
17h00 - 18h30 Apéritif
18h30 - 20h00 Closing dinner

Friday, 15 July 2022

09h00 10h30 Departure - Check-out by 10:30