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Creativity and Improvisation in Thought, Practice, and Mind: an Interdisicplinary Conference

Conference Information

Location: CPACS 132

Days: April 10 -11, 2020

Time: Registration 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m., Conference 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. both days

Sponsors: Philosophy Department, Psychology Department

Contact: Kevin Ryan at UNOCreativityConf2020@gmail.com

Event Summary: Many human cognitive capacities and processes may be deployed creatively, from unique choices made for oneself up through novel cultural shifts. Similarly, large swaths of our daily lives are taken up with performing spontaneous, on-the-fly, and unplanned activities that are, in a word, improvised. Charting out the nature of both creativity and improvisation, taken individually or together, remains an open and pressing issue. In this conference, we will delve into various philosophical, theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary issues that are related to creativity and improvisation.

Keynote Speakers: James Kaufman (University of Connecticut, Educational Psychology); Roni Reiter-Palmon (University of Nebraska at Omaha, Psychology); Dustin Stokes (University of Utah, Philosophy)