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
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