Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
Eye Brain and Vision: A Symposium to Honor the Life and Science of David Hubel Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School
Morning Session (9:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.) Opening remarks by Torsten N. Wiesel, M.D. The Rockefeller University Carla Shatz, Ph.D. Bio-X, Stanford University David Ferster, Ph.D. Northwestern University Charles D. Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D. The Rockefeller University A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D. The Rockefeller University
Changing Brains: Conflict Resolution, Cooperation, and Well-Being
Free. Register on event webpage at http://www.mos.org/public-events/changing-brains. Advance registration begins at 9:00 am, Wednesday, April 16 (Monday, April 14 for Museum members).
Speakers
Richard J. Davidson, PhD, William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, founder and chair, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, director, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and...
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA
Conversations in Mind/Brain/Behavior
Mind/Brain/Behavior Faculty Monday, April 21 - 4-6 p.m., Yenching Auditorium (2 Divinity Avenue) Conversations in Mind/Brain/Behavior Moderated by Harvard philosophers Farid Masrour and Susanna Siegel. This will be a series of short conversations sharing perspectives on mind, brain, and behavior. Number: Susan Carey (Psychology, Harvard) and Eric Mandelbaum (Philosophy, CUNY) Imagination: Robert Stickgold (Harvard, BIDMC) and Fiona Macpherson (Philosophy, Glasgow) Animal minds: ...
Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
NOTE: Dates given are accurate, but times are to be determined.
Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
Conference on the Cognitive Penetrability of Perception:Psychology and Ethics Organisers: Zoe Jenkin (CUNY Graduate Center) and Susanna Siegel (Harvard University)
Speakers will be Reginald Adams (Pennsylvania State University), Anna Bergqvist (Manchester Metropolitan University), Ned Block (New York University), Anya Farennikova (Australian National University), Jakob Hohwy (Monash University), Paul Katsafanas (Boston University), Gary Lupyan (University of...
Kirstein Living Room, Beth Israel Deaconess Medcical Center, Boston
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) The Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation Fellowship in Clinical Neurosciences Lecture Series
Challenges in Becoming a Scientist Entrepreneur Mark Chalek, Chief of Business Ventures and Director of Technology Ventures Office, BIDMC Seward Rutkove MD, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Chief of Division of Neuromuscular Diseases, BIDMC
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School, 7 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior
Conversation: Brainwashed? What Neuroscience Can - and Can't - Tell Us about Ourselves
reception with refreshments at 6 p.m., program at 7 p.m.
free and open to the public, please RSVP at event webpage http://clbb.mgh.harvard.edu/brainwashed/
Panelists
WBUR’s Meghna Chakrabarti, moderator
Scott Lilienfeld, Emory psychologist and co-author of the book Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
Harvard psychologists and CLBB...
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Conference: Who Decides? Gender, Medicine, and the Public’s Health
Gender, culture, economics, politics, and power affect health-care decisions by providers, patients, and communities in the United States and around the world. This conference will explore the choices behind medical research funding and practice, health-care delivery, and policy making.
Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler will open the conference on Thursday evening. She will give a presentation based on her book In the Body of the...