The Encultured Brain: Why Neuroanthropology? Why Now?
Why Neuroanthropology? Why Now? By Greg Downey and Daniel Lende Neuroanthropology places the brain and nervous system at the center of discussions about human nature, recognizing that much of what...
View ArticleConferences: Biocultural Psychiatry and Social Determinants of Mental Health
Two great conferences coming next year. The first is the Foundation for Psychocultural Research‘s 4th major interdisciplinary conference, Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder:...
View ArticleConference: Mind and Its Potential
A great conference coming up on the 2nd and 3rd of December 2009 in Sydney, Australia: Mind and Its Potential. The Dalai Lama, Paul Ekman and Martin Seligman are the really big names, and then people...
View ArticleTaking Anthropology Online: AAA Workshop
The annual American Anthropological Association meeting will take place in Philadelphia from December 2nd – Dec 6th. I will put on a workshop entitled “Taking Anthropology Online: Strategies for...
View ArticleThoughts on conference organizing
There have been a couple of interesting posts I’ve run across in my attempts to find out what happened at the 2009 AAA conference (see especially Lorenz’s run-down at antropologi.info). These...
View ArticleGraduate Student Pecha Kucha Session @ New Orleans
Denice Szafran, a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Buffalo, is putting together a Pecha Kucha session for the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in New Orleans....
View ArticleAAA Session on Impulsivity: Call for Submissions
Hal Odden and I are putting together a session on impulsivity at this year’s American Anthropological Association meeting being held in New Orleans. If you are interested in being a participant, please...
View ArticleGreat Expectations: Plasticity of the Brain Conference
Back in February, the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University in Copenhagen hosted a fantastic looking conference, “Great Expectations: The Plasticity of the Brain and Neurosciences at the...
View ArticleProceedings from ASCS 09 Conference online
The Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, held in Sydney last year, are now online for anyone to access. Thanks to the editors, Wayne Christensen,...
View ArticleConference: Human Nature and Early Experience
A pioneering symposium Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the “Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness” is coming October 10th through 12th at the University of Notre Dame. It is becoming...
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