Graduate Student Seminars
An important aspect of building an interdisciplinary student community is to promote a common understanding of how different groups approach the question of mind, brain and behavior. What is the intellectual framework that evolutionary scientists use to study behavior? What kind of questions can we presently ask about the mind within linguistics or psychology? What tools or strategies are used by neurophysiologists to identify the mechanisms of brain function? To this end, the Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative is currently holding biweekly seminars that provide a common forum for graduate students from different departments at Harvard University. Each session features a brief presentation led by a graduate student from one of the main participating programs within MBB, focusing on one of the following views of mind, brain and behavior.
Seminars are generally held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursdays in William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St. in Cambridge. Dinner and refreshments are served before each presentation. All graduate students are welcome to attend. For a list of past seminars, click here.
MBB 2009-2010 Graduate Student Seminar Series
- October 8th, 2009
"What in the World Is Weakness of Will?"
Josh May - Department of Philosophy (UCSB)
- November 17th, 2009
"The History of Violence"
Professor Steven Pinker - Department of Psychology(FAS)
Co-sponsored by the Student Association for Law and the Mind Sciences
- April 1st, 2010
"Moral Cognition and the Law"
Professor Joshua Greene - Department of Psychology
Co-sponsored by the Student Association for Law and the Mind Sciences
- April 1st, 2010
"Emotion and its usefulness for human and computational agents"
Dimitrios Antos - Department of Computer Science (FAS)