Prof. Ramesh Mishra, Head Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences at University of Hyderabad has been invited to a series of lectures at prominent German Universities. He will be an invited speaker at the summer colloquium for Psycholinguistics at the prestigious Humboldt University in Berlin on June 4th this year, to speak on diversity, cognition and bilingualism. He has been invited by Prof. Pia Knoeferle, the Director, Central Laboratory, Faculty of Language, Literature, and the Humanities and the Vice-dean for Research, Faculty of Language, Literature, and the Humanities, Humboldt University. He will also give an invited lecture at the Hamburg University on a social cognitive model of bilingualism on June 10th.
Prof. Mishra will give an invited lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig on July 3rd. The three-day workshop (July 1st – 3rd) on Linguistic and Cognitive Science Meet Diversity – Challenging Theories through comparison of Languages, Cultures and Species, is bringing together select group of international scholars to address issues related to diversity and cognition. These invited lectures will foster international cooperation and potential student mobility including joint grant writing in the broad areas of Cognitive Science.
Prof. Mishra’s latest book Cognitive Science: New Developments and Future Directions, published by Routledge (2022) emphasizes the emerging domains and novel themes in cognitive science such as AI, social cognition, gender, morality and religion. Prof. Mishra is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science (Springer) and has published widely in the area of cognitive science and allied fields. He is also a fellow of the Psychonomic society, USA.