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Events: April 2025
Coffee with an Expert – Tax Consultations
The Copernican Integration Center invites the foreign academic community to a tax consultation with Anna Golębiewska from the Financial Law Firm in Toruń.
The meeting is open to employees, PHD students and students who want to know how to fill tax statement.
The duty will be held on April 1st, 11 am to 2 pm in Copernican Integration Centre, Olszewskiego 16 street.
Applications are accepted at koi@umk.pl until March 31.
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Scientific Wednesday at Psychologists: understanding togetherness
"Understand togetherness: Exploring evolutionary and developmental origins of human ultra-cooperative sociality through comparative primate research" - is the topic of the next "Scientific Wednesday at Psychologists", which will be held on April 2. The lecture will be given by Raphaela Heesen of the University of Zurich.
"Scientific Wednesdays at Psychologists" is a series of short lectures held at the Institute of Psychology every Wednesday at 2 p.m. in room 105. Admission is free.
Lecture abstract: Human cooperation is essential to our evolutionary success and key to understanding our species’ biology and psychology. But how did the underlying mechanisms evolve, and when do they emerge during development? These questions have primarily been explored through decades of comparative laboratory research, which typically involved paradigms in which human experimenters engaged human children and chimpanzees, one of our closest living relatives, in cooperative tasks. However, this traditional paradigm is now being critically reevaluated: recent insights, including from my own work, highlight the importance of observations of naturalistic social interactions and spontaneous communication between peers across primate species like chimpanzees and bonobos.
Through the integration of such observations with controlled – yet more species-friendly - experimental paradigms and novel technologies like infra-red thermography, eye-tracking, and posture tracking, this emerging body of evidence challenges established interpretations and reveals a more nuanced view of human uniqueness. Specifically, my research stresses the remarkable emotional, interactive, and communicative abilities of other apes in collaborative contexts. This prompts a rethinking of the evolutionary trajectory of our cooperative skills and communication-for-cooperation, highlighting how much remains to be uncovered about the biological and evolutionary underpinnings of human hyper-cooperative sociality.
Cups of Talks: springtime talks
The NCU Copernican Integration Centre invites everyone to the spring meeting of the "Cups of Talks" series. The event, held in English, will take place on April 24 at 4:30 pm.
The meeting will focus on spring rituals, traditions, and ways to refresh both body and mind. The event has a casual atmosphere and is mainly for meeting new people and practising conversations in English - all surrounded by nature, on deck chairs in front of the Copernican Integration Center building. Does spring mean new beginnings for you? A time to celebrate life? Or simply an excuse to enjoy more fresh air and sunshine? Let’s talk about it all at Cups of Talks!
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