Program
See also Program and Abstracts.
The conference venue is the Lecture hall of the Museum of Applied Arts, Husova 14, Brno (number 1 on the map).
Thursday, October 25
| 10:00 – 12:30 | Registration | 
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Conference opening | 
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Opening keynote lectureJesper Sørensen (University of Aarhus), “The Experimental  Study of Religion – or There and Back Again”
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | 
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Panel session IKonrad Talmont Kaminski (University of Finance & Management in  Warsaw), “Causal Opaqueness and the Ritualisation of Behaviour”
 Kristoffer L. Nielbo (University of Aarhus), “Modeling Ritualized  Behavior: A Dual Approach to Perception of Non-functional Event Structure”
 Ulrik Lyngs (University of Oxford), “Effort, Loss Aversion, and  Religious Behavior”
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| 17:00 – 17:30 | Coffee break | 
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Panel Session IIJonathan Jong (University of Oxford) and Jamin B. Halberstadt (University  of Otago), “On Fear of Death and Religious Belief: Experimental  Investigations of the Causal Connection”
 Gordon Ingram (Bath Spa University), “Shifts in Religious Belief  in Early Adolescence: Possibilities for a Neo-Piagetian Experimental Approach”
 Karolina Prochownik (Jagellonian University), “Experimental  Psychological Approaches in the Study of Moral Reasoning and Religious  Beliefs: Implications for Evolutionary Religious Studies”
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| 19:30 | Welcome reception at the Moravian gallery (Governor’s Palace), Moravské náměstí 1a | 
Friday, October 26
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Keynote lectureAndreas Roepstorff (University of Aarhus), “Going Experimental:  As Method, As Style and As Object of Study”
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break | 
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Panel session IIIDaniel J. Shaw (Masaryk University), “It’s Like Looking in a  Mirror”
 Justin E. Lane (Oxford University), “Methods, Madness, and  Multi-Agent AI”
 Marc Andersen (University of Aarhus), “Maximizing Expectations: A  New Experimental Approach to the Study of Religious and Spiritual Experiences”
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| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break | 
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Lecture of invited  speakerEmma Cohen (University of Oxford / Max Planck Institute), “Religion,  Synchrony and Cooperation: A Study with Brazilian Drummers”
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | 
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Panel session IVTravis Chilcott (Iowa State University), “Religious Culture, Religious  Practices, and Implicit Anthropomorphic Reasoning about Divine Agents: A  Quasi-Experimental Ethnographic Study on the Cognitive Effects of Gauḍīya  Vaiṣṇava Religious Practices”
 Martin Kanovský (Comenius University), “Cognition and Ethnography:  Integrating Experimental and Ethnographic Evidence”
 Jonathan Lanman (Queen’s University Belfast), “The Promise and  Peril of Experiments on Ritual”
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| 17:00 – 18:00 | Poster session | 
Saturday, October 27
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Keynote lecturePierre Liénard (University of Nevada), ”The Glorious Trinity: Cooperation, Commitment, and  the Collective“, (in  collaboration with M. Martinez and M. Moncrieff).
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break | 
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Panel session VEsther Eidinow (University of Nottingham) and Tom Harrison (University  of Liverpool), “Colliding Cultures: An Experimental Approach to the Study  of Ancient and Modern Religions”
 Eva Kundtová Klocová (Masaryk University), “Feeling the Kneeling:  The Power of Body”
 Michaela Porubanová-Norquist (Masaryk University), “What’s So  Special about the Minimally Counter-intuitive Concepts?”
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| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break | 
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Lecture of plenary  speakerDimitris Xygalatas (University of Aarhus/Masaryk University), “The  Experimental Study of Religion: Are we There Yet? And Now What?”
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| 14:30 – 15:00 | Coffee break | 
| 15:00 – 17:00 | “Summit” on  experimental paradigms by representatives of all the leading  centres/institutes: Professor Armin Geertz (University of Aarhus), Dr.  William W. McCorkle Jr. (LEVYNA), Professor Ted Slingerland (University of  British Columbia), Dr. Paulo Sousa (Queen’s University, Belfast), Professor  Harvey Whitehouse (University of Oxford), and Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas  (University of Aarhus / LEVYNA). Respondents will be professors E. Thomas  Lawson (Western Michigan University), Luther H. Martin (University of  Vermont) and Donald Wiebe (University of Toronto) |