[Face-research-list] Invitation to collaborate on a Face Processing Symposium at the Joint ESCoP–CoPM 2026 Meeting, Hangzhou, China (Aug 31 - Sept 4, 2026)

Dear face researchers, I hope you are doing well. I am Haiyang Jin, a researcher working on face perception and cognition, currently based in Hangzhou, the host city of the upcoming Joint ESCoP–CoPM Meeting 2026 (31 August – 4 September 2026 in Hangzhou, China). This meeting is a joint conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) and the Cognitive Processes and Modelling Division of the Chinese Psychological Society — bringing together cognitive researchers from Europe, China, and beyond. Conference website: https://www.escop-copm-2026.com/ More about Hangzhou: https://www.escop-copm-2026.com/cd_hz As face processing is a vibrant and cross-disciplinary area spanning perception, attention, memory, social cognition, and neurocognition, I am interested in reaching out to see whether there are researchers who would be interested in participating in (or co-organizing) a symposium on face processing at the ESCoP–CoPM meeting. Possible aims of the symposia could include • Bringing together work on face perception, face recognition, social signals, neural mechanisms, and/or computational models of face processing, • Highlighting cross-cultural perspectives or methodological advances, • Providing a platform for European and Chinese researchers to meet and share research within this domain. If you are planning to attend ESCoP–CoPM 2026 and would be interested in contributing to a face processing–related symposium (as speaker, chair, or discussant), please reply to this email by early March. I would be happy to coordinate a short planning call or email thread to prepare a symposium proposal together for submission before the deadline. Of course, if you have specific themes within face processing that you would like to propose, that is also very welcome. Looking forward to hearing from you and hopefully seeing many of you in Hangzhou! Best regards, Haiyang ———————————————————— 金海洋 特聘副教授 心理学系 浙江理工大学 浙江省杭州市钱塘区2号大街928号 Haiyang Jin Ph.D. Associate Professor (Honored Hired) Department of Psychology Zhejiang Sci-Tech University 928 No. 2 Street, Qiantang District Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China E-mail: haiyang.jin@outlook.com<mailto:haiyang.jin@outlook.com> Phone: (+86) 17280159066 Website: https://haiyangjin.github.io/ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3290-3901 Github: https://github.com/HaiyangJin Please do not feel obligated to reply to my email outside your normal working hours.