Program Agenda
2025 NSF/JACOBS FOUNDATION WORKSHOP ON DECONSTRUCTING THE UNIVERSAL MIND
All times listed in EST.
All in-person sessions were held at The George Washington University on the third floor of the Media & Public Affairs (MPA) building (Room 309) located at 805 21st Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20052
| Thursday, June 12, 2025 | ||
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Introduction to the Workshop Moderators: Mike Frank (Stanford University), Cristine Legare (UT Austin) | |
| 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Big Team Science Approaches to Universality Speakers: Michele Gelfand (Stanford University), Nicholas Coles (University of Florida), Joe Henrich (Harvard University), Cristine Legare (UT Austin) | |
| 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Computational Approaches to Universality Speakers: Damian Blasi (Pompeu Fabra), Tom Griffiths (Princeton), Richard Futrell (UC Irvine), Jacob Foster (Indiana) | |
| 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Break | |
| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Neuroscientific Approaches to Universality Speakers: Sebastian Lipina (CEMEC), Julian Thayer (UC Irvine), Victoria Leong (Nanyang Technological University), Shinobu Kitayama (Michigan) | |
| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Approaches to Characterizing Variation Speakers: Geoff Saxe (UC Berkeley), Manvir Singh (UC Davis), Clark Barrett (UCLA), Cristina Moya (UC Davis) | |
| Friday, June 13, 2025 | ||
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Structured Introductions, Discussion, and Opening Remarks (*intro session will not be webcast) Moderators: Mike Frank (Stanford University), Cristine Legare (UT Austin) | |
| 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Universality and Variation in Executive Functioning Speakers: Phil Zelazo (Minnesota), Jelena Obradovic (Stanford), Matthew Jukes (RTI), Stephanie Carlson (Minnesota) | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Universality and Variation in Language Speakers: Marisa Casillas (Chicago), Asifa Majid (Oxford), Evan Kidd (ANU), Casey Lew Williams (Princeton) | |
| 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Universality and Variation in Social Learning Speakers: Felix Warneken (Michigan), Lucia Alcala (Cal State Fullerton), Iveta Silova (Arizona State University), Jen Lansford (Duke) | |
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Break | |
| 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | The Role of Open Science in Supporting Comparative Research Speakers: Karen Adolph (NYU), Alex Cristia (ENS), Mike Frank (Stanford), Cathie Tamis-Lemonda (NYU) | |