Tuesday, May 31, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB, translator of Tides) Jorge Luis Castillo (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Professors Suzanne Jill Levine and Jorge Luis Castillo will present a bilingual reading of Tides, Levine’s translation...
Peter Leese (Institute of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen) Thursday, May 19, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB One of the earliest definitions of historical trauma studies is Mark Micale and Paul Lerner’s edited collection Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in...
Gabrielle Starr (English, New York University, author of Feeling Beauty) Friday, May 13, 2016 / 10:45 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk is the Keynote Address for the IHC Conference The Humanities, the Neurosciences, and the Brain. Gabrielle Starr is a scholar of eighteenth-century British literature...
Thursday-Friday, May 12-13, 2016 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference is free and open to the public. To register to attend, please complete this form. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the multiple accords, and discords, that characterize humanistic and neuroscientific approaches to the study of the brain. Gabrielle Starr, author...
Julie Carlson, English, UCSB: Moderator Cole Cohen, IHC, UCSB Aranye Fradenburg, English, UCSB Dominique Jullien, French and Italian, UCSB Mark Leffert, M.D., Santa Barbara Jonathan Schooler, Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB Ann Taves, Religious Studies, UCSB Tuesday, May 10, 2016 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel seeks to celebrate...
Alva Noë (Philosophy, UC Berkeley) Thursday, May 5, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is art? Why is it so important? What does it tell us about ourselves? These days it is tempting to look to neuroscience for answers to these questions....
Laura Otis (English, Emory University) Thursday, April 28, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Some emotions are hard to love: spite, self-pity, and hatred among them. Metaphors used to represent these obnoxious urges combine bodily experiences with cultural beliefs. In a tradition stretching from The...
Deborah Jenson (Romance Studies, Global Health, Duke University) Thursday, April 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From the Old Testament injunction “You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything” (Exodus 20:4) to Plato’s parable of the...
dir. Peter Landesman, 123 min. Q&A with Dr. David A. Hovda, Director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center Wednesday, April 13, 2016 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required. Visit this page for reservations: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. While conducting an autopsy on former NFL...
Jaak Panksepp (Professor and Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science, Washington State University ) Kay Young (English, UCSB) Thursday, April 7, 2016 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In his talk, "Addicted to Emotion: How Affective Neuroscience Sheds Light on the Brain Sources...
Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Philosophy, University of Paris XIII) Tuesday, April 5, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Belgian writer Jean-Philippe Toussaint recently displayed at the museum Le Louvre in Paris a machine for reading thoughts. It looked like a shower cabin, connected to a TV...
A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Annie Torsiglieri (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Saturday, March 12, 2016 / 7:30 PM Studio Theater, UCSB FREE When Amy learns that one of her young twins is autistic, she...
Bruce L. Miller (Memory and Aging Center, UC San Francisco) Thursday, March 3, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB While many physical and mental conditions decline with time, creativity is one characteristic that has been observed to improve, both in healthy elders and people with...
Laurel Beckman (Art, UCSB) Maya Gurantz (Visiting Lecturer, Art, UCSB) Thursday, February 25, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Inherent in video art is the uncanny ability to manifest and express the unseen and partially known. Nowhere is this more apparent than in...
John D. Dunne (Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Thursday, February 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the last two decades, some of the most influential scientific studies of meditation have examined practices derived from Buddhism, and the success of...
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Thursday, February 11, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Fradenburg will discuss the importance of expression and interpretation -- of embodied meaning-making -- in autopoietic activity generally, and will focus on the particular example of the sigh as a form of...
Gesa Kirsch (English, Bentley University, IHC Visiting Scholar) Thursday, February 4, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Gesa Kirsch will examine how the brain has been socially constructed as both metaphor and anatomy in medical history. Specifically, she investigates the ways...
Moderator: John Hajda (Associate Director, SAGE Center) Participants: Julie Carlson (English, UCSB) Scott Grafton (Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB) Kenneth Kosik (Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Thursday, January 28, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join UCSB faculty members in dialogue about their current...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 / 7:00 PM Panelists will include: Donna Beal (MPH, MCHES, Vice President of Program Services and Advocacy, Alzheimer's Association California Central Chapter) Patricia Cline Cohen (History, UCSB) Kenneth Kosik (Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Gwen Morse (Ph.D., R.N.) Moderator: Laury Oaks (Feminist Studies, UCSB) UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is...
Agustin Fuentes (Anthropology, Notre Dame) Thursday, January 21, 2106 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human evolutionary history is ongoing, human creativity is expanding, and human populations continue to grow. Getting a handle on “the human” in the Anthropocene is no easy matter. Inter, or even...
Seth Horowitz (The Listening Program) Thursday, January 14, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB We build the world from our senses. We see color and form, hear sound and vibration, feel temperature and texture, each sense taking a specific form of energy to...
Anjan Chatterjee (Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania) Thursday, November 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What can neuroscience possibly tell us about aesthetics and art? In this talk, Anjan Chatterjee will offer a framework from which a neuroscientist might deconstruct aesthetic experiences. Chatterjee will discuss findings...
Kenneth S. Kosik (The Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Thursday, November 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human interactions are finely calibrated and many of these interactions are prosocial, that is a social behavior that benefits other individuals or a larger group. The repertoire of...
Q&A with director Jeff Malmberg Wednesday, November 4, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required. Visit this page for reservations: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock Marwencol is a feature documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. A violent attack outside a Kingston, NY bar in...
Rebecca Seligman (Anthropology, Northwestern University) Thursday, October 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Increasing evidence suggests the importance of meaning in conditioning bodily experiences and outcomes. This talk will explore the relationship between meaning and the body, with particular focus on the neurobiological...
Ann Taves (Religious Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 15, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ecstasy, an experience that is widely discussed in the humanities and sought after in the general culture, illuminates many of the difficulties involved in linking research in the humanities...
Thursday, October 8, 2015 / 4:00 – 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for the IHC’s annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC’s programming series for this academic year: The Humanities and the Brain. Find out...