Mindful Researchers offer an online space for community members and newcomers to share their work – academic research, non-academic ventures, projects, ideas, interests, practices, and questions – in an authentic, reflective, and participatory setting.
🔎 The Mindful Presentations provide a space for community members and newcomers to share their work, projects, ideas, interests, practices and questions.
🫂 They go beyond conventional presentation formats, inviting deeper reflection that departs from the “typical academic discourse” of our home disciplines. Check our website page for a more detailed description of the Mindful Presentations’ idea, structure and community agreements. Through this format, we aim to support one another – joyfully, calmly, wildly, rigorously – as we experiment, deepen our work, and branch off into new directions, embracing the uncertainty that this process involves.
🎤 If you would like to contribute to the next gatherings, please send us a short description of your proposed idea and presentation (around 20 minutes)!
Upcoming dates: 5th October, 30th November 2025, 28th April 2026, 23rd June 2026
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Mindful Presentations: “Is Latin America Cognitively Special?” with Juan C. González
Please save the date for our first Mindful Presentation after the summer break!
Monday, 5th October 2026 at 5:00 pm CEST
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This gathering will be facilitated by our Inner Circle members Rocío and Vani, and it will feature a presentation by Juan C. González.
🗓️ Monday, 5th October 2026
⏰9:00 – 10:30 am Mexico City / 5:00 – 6:30 pm CEST / 8:30 – 10:00 pm IST
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Is Latin America cognitively special?
In this session, Juan will offer a picture of Latin American research in Cognitive Science, taking Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina as representative cases. He will analyse some commonalities and differences that those countries have regarding culture, socioeconomic classes, educational systems, techno-industrial development, societal demands and political organisation. Together, these dimensions warrant the idea that there is such a thing as a Latin American mind(set) and that studying it demands sensitivity to context. In this sense, Latin America would indeed be cognitively special and, as such, it could and should develop its own cognitive research programs.