Brains in the Making: Emerging Models, Methods, and Modes of Working Workshop, Durham University, 19-20 March 2015 DRAFT PROGAMME NB This workshop is by registration only. Places have now been allocated. DAY 1 19 March 2015 12-1 Lunch 1.00-1.10 Introductory comments: Dr Felicity Callard, Dr Angela Woods, Dr Read more…
Call for Participants for ‘Brains in the Making’, Durham University (19th and 20th March 2015) Brains in the Making: emerging models, methods, and modes of working Workshop 19th March 12:00 to 20th March 2015, 17:00, Holgate Conference Centre, Grey College, DH1 3LG Organisers: Dr Felicity Callard, Dr Angela Woods (Centre Read more…
Thursday–Friday, February 6–7, 2014 The Default Mode Network in Aesthetics and Creativity: Neuroscience Symposium The Italian Academy, Columbia University Free and open to the public. Space is limited; please reserve seats Keynote speech by Marcus Raichle (Washington U. School of Medicine). With Randy Buckner (Harvard), Felicity Callard (Durham U.), Maurizio Corbetta (Washington U. School of Medicine), Rex Jung (U. of New Read more…
Next week, I shall be taking forward the ‘Experimental Entanglements’ work that Des Fitzgerald and I (along with colleagues Simone Kühn and Ulla Schmid) developed in the context of our Berlin workshop (at which many Durham CMH members and affiliates participated). I shall be joining colleagues from McGill University and Read more…
Industriousness and Daydreaming: Cognitive Neuroscience’s Revaluation of Rest Dr Felicity Callard Senior Lecturer in Social Science for Medical Humanities, Durham University Friday 2nd of November, 3:30pm East Quadrangle Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow Wine Reception to follow Abstract: How might human geography respond to the epistemological and ontological challenges posed Read more…
Please click here for all updated information regarding this conference (including, now, full abstracts from all speakers), and here for the previous blog post about this event. Many of the Centre for Medical Humanities team (core members and affiliates) will be participating in this workshop. The Twitter hashtag to follow Read more…
The workshop on “Experimental Entanglements in Cognitive Neuroscience” was announced on this blog last month. Des Fitzgerald (Sociology, LSE), the co-convenor of the workshop, has now created a website for the workshop: Experimental Entanglements. The programme has just been finalized, and we shall continue adding additional materials in the next few Read more…
The CMH blog post “Medical humanities and cognitive neuroscience: trandisciplinary openings and endeavours” explored how several people at/associated with the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham (CMH) are interested in grappling with how the medical humanities as a domain can productively engage not only with the interpretation of science that is being pursued Read more…
Bodily Voices Tuesday 24 April 2012, 6.30-7.30 pm The Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Have you ever formed an image of someone you’ve heard on the radio, and then been surprised when you saw what they actually looked like? Why do we notice other people’s accents, Read more…
Cognitive Futures in the Humanities: A One-Day Symposium funded by the AHRC Saturday 28 April 2012 Sutherland Building (Great Hall) Northumbria University, Newcastle How have the arts and humanities responded to the cognitive science revolution? How far have we evolved new knowledge and models in areas such as literary, aesthetic Read more…