Past News and Events
September 13-14, 2003
"Investigating the Mind: Exchanges between Buddhism and the Biobehavioral Sciences on How the Mind Works"
September 11, 2003
MBB Junior Symposium
"Schizophrenia, Dreams, and Alien Encounters"
June 22-27, 2003
"Connecting the Mind, Brain, and Education:
Exploring New Connections and Promising Possibilities in the Fields of Cognative Science and Educational Practice"
For university faculty associated with teacher education programs or cognitive developmental psychology. The program will bring together university-level educators to assess and integrate the latest research in neuroscience, cognitive science, and educational practice. Through lectures and discussions, presenters will share their research and explore the powerful connections among the three disciplines.
April 29, 2003
"History, Politics, and Evolution in the Life of Stephen Jay Gould
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The Department of the History of Science in conjunction with the Department of Organisimic and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Comparative Zoology present a special colloquia. Speakers: Garland Allen, Richard K. Bambach, and Richard Lewontin. Chaired by Everett Mendelsohn. For further information please call 617-495-3741.
April 26, 2003
HSMBB-MBB Thesis Symposium
The Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior and MBB are co-sponsoring the 2003 MBB Thesis Symposium on the afternoon of Saturday, April 26. The symposium is designed to:
- Allow seniors to show off the culmination of several semesters of hard work and to have them share their research with a community of scientists and future scientists;
- Allow non-seniors to get a better sense of the way the thesis writing process works and to allow them to develop questions from looking at posters or attending presentations which may lead to thesis ideas;
- Provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussing basic issues in Mind, Brain, and Behavior;
- Encourage Mind, Brain, and Behavior students to socialize with each other and with the faculty.
April 14, 2003
MBB Plenary Event
"The Seven Sins of Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective - A Lecture and Conversation with Dan Schacter"
The MBB Graduate Fellowship is interested in bringing together graduate students who share interests in mind, brain, and behavior. This year's lecture series will include Dan Schacter speaking about his research on memory. The lecture will be held at the MBB Offices, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 42 Church St., Cambridge, MA (entrance between Border Café and Fire and Ice restaurants). April 8, 2003
Radcliffe Institute: Lectures in the Social Sciences
"'The Origin of Knowledge' by Susan E. Carey"
As far back as ancient Greece, philosophers and scientists have debated the origins of human conceptual representations, focusing on two ultimate sources: evolution and culture. The capacity to represent some concepts, such as "object" and "number," arose through natural selection. Others, such as "kayak," "battery," and "quark" are cultural constructions. The problem for cognitive science is to provide an account of the origin and development of concepts in any particular domain of knowledge. Using the case study of the human capacity for numerical reasoning, Susan Carey will illustrate the methods that allow us to characterize innate representational resources and the processes through which human beings transcend innate knowledge.
April 4, 2003
"A Lecture and Conversation with Peter Kramer"
The Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior Graduate Fellowship invites you to a lecture and conversation with Peter Kramer, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 4-6 pm. The MBB Graduate Fellowship is interested in bringing together graduate students who share interests in mind, brain, and behavior. This year's lecture series will include Peter Kramer (author of Listening to Prozac) doing a reading from his latest novel, Spectacular Happiness, and discussing his most recent work on depression. Peter D. Kramer, whom The New York Times has called "possibly the best-known psychiatrist in America," is the author of Should You Leave?, Listening to Prozac, and Moments of Engagement. He has written for The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Washington Post Book Review, The Washington Post, the (London) Times, the (London) Times Literary Supplement and U.S. News & World Report, among other publications. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University.- Prof. Noam Chomskey, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
February 21, 2003
MBB Graduate Plenary Event
"A Lecture and Conversation with Stephen Kosslyn"
- Prof. Stephen Kosslyn, Department of Psychology, HU
The MBB Graduate Fellowship is interested in bringing together graduate students who share interests in mind, brain, and behavior. This year's lecture series will include Professor Kosslyn discussing his work in mental imagery. This event will be followed by a reception and the opportunity to learn more about the MBB graduate fellowship, and other MBB activities.
- Prof. Charles V. Willie, Harvard Graduate School of Education
This lecture focused on grassroots community organizing and how it supports individuals and groups seeking dignity and respect. We will examine and discuss the Monztgomery Boycott, the lessons learned from that experience, and how those lessons can be implemented in contemporary society.
November 13, 2002
"Integrating Mind, Body and Society: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Health"
November 1, 2002
"Expert Testimony and Justice Gone Astray: Trauma, Memory, & Child Sexual Abuse"
A One-day Conference at Boston Univerisy for Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Attorneys, and Law Enforcement Personnel. November 1, 2002 This conference will address the issues involved in differentiating between true and false allegations of sexual abuse and offer suggestions for incorporating knowledge into clinical practice. It will examine the factors which affect the reliability of both children's and adults' testimony. Participants will learn about the history of false memory syndrome, the science of memory, the role that rumor and hysteria often play in the genesis of false beliefs, and ways to improve practice by incorporating what is known through empirical research about memory and trauma. For more details, please see the conference website.October 29 & November 5, 14, & 21, 2002
"Ray Jackendoff on Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution"
September 12, 2002
MBB Junior Symposium
"Evolution of Mind and Brain"
- Prof. Kay Redfield Jamison, John Hopkins Univeristy School of Medicine
The Mind/Brain/Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series is proud to present "Moods and the Imagination," a 3-day series by Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The series is February 19, 20, & 21, 2002 at 5:00pm at 2 Divinity Avenue, Room 118, Cambridge2001
MBB Forum Series
"Five Themes at Interface of Brain and Education"
September 10-11, 2001
MBB Junior Symposium
"Pathologies of Mind"
- Twitch and Shout (Film Viewing and Discussion with Producer Laurel Chiten)
- Molecules and Circuits of Emotions: Searching for the Roots of Individual Differences (Lecture by Huda Akil, University of Michigan)
- The Significance of Human Temperament (Lecture by Jerome Kagan, Harvard University)
September 13-14, 2000
MBB Junior Symposium
"Moving Frontiers"
