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Culture, Mind & Brain Seminar Series

Culture, Mind &Brainis a new seminar series, hosted by the Culture, Mind & Brain Program of theDivision of Social &Transcultural Psychiatryand theHealthy Brains Healthy Lives Initiative.The goal is for students and researchers of neuroscience, psychiatry, anthropology and other areasrelated to mental health to discuss bodies of research and workin progress(experimental and theoretical)that relate to neuroscience and society, and mind,brainand culture. We will discuss topics such as how to design multidisciplinarymethodologies that integrate social, ethical and cultural contexts into experimental studies ofbrain structure, function and development; we willanalyze the potentials and limits of brain data for health and social policy; and critically assess translations of brain data into popular science pieces.

For more information, please e-mail samuel.veissiere [at] mcgill.ca (Professor Samuel Veissière).

TITLE: "Real-Time Social Cognition: Divergent Mentalizing and Preserved Mirroring in Children with Autism

PRESENTER:Veronika Dudarev, Ph.D.

DATE:November 7, 2024

TIME:3:00- 5:00pm EST

HYBRID EVENT
In-person location: Ludmer 138
required for remote attendance

TITLE: "Life Beyond the Blind Spot”

PRESENTER: Evan Thompson, Ph.D.

DATE:October 31 , 2024

TIME: 3:00 - 5:00pm EST

HYBRID EVENT
In-Person Room 138, Ludmer Building
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2024

Date Speaker Title
November 7 Veronika Dudarev, Ph.D. Real-Time Social Cognition: Divergent Mentalizing and Preserved Mirroring in Children with Autism
October 31 Evan Thompson, Ph.D. Life Beyond the Blind Spot
February 15 Nicolas Langlitz, M.D., Ph.D. Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life
January 18 Ira Helderman, Ph.D., L.P.C TheDSM, MeditationSickness, andother“ReligiousorSpiritualProblems”

2023

Date Speaker Title
March 16 Junko Kitanaka, PhD Against new healthism: the rise of Tojisha movement and the debates around the prevention of dementia in Japan
February 16 Ivan Kroupin, PhD From rich(er) to lean(er) systems: towards a formal theory of cultural-cognitive variation across history and geography

2022

Date Speaker Title
April 14 Peter Sterling, PhD
March 10 Roy Richard Grinker, PhD
March 3 Kathryn Tabb, PhD
February 10 Somogy Varga, PhD &Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen, PhD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Recalcitrant Emotion: Relocating the Seat of Irrationality
January 20 Marga Vicedo, PhD

2021

Date Speaker Title
November 11 Igor Grossmann, PhD Folk epistemology of (ir)rationality
March 18 Tara Mahfoud, PhD
March 11 Samuel Veissière, PhD
January 21 Daniel D. Hutto, BA, MPhil, DPhil
January 7 Dietrich Stout, PhD

2020

Date Speaker Title
November 5 Georg Northoff, MD, PhD
October 29 Shinobu Kitayama, PhD
October 1 Carol M. Worthman, PhD
September 24 Laurence Kirmayer, MD
January 23 Kenneth J. Zucker, PhD, CPsych Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: Some Contemporary Research and Clinical Issues

2019

Date Speaker Title
November 28 Suze Berkhout, MD, PhD, FRCPC Grappling with Cure/Harm: Feminist STS, Critical Disability Studies Meets Placebo and Nocebo Studies
November 7 David Dupuis, PhD The Socialization of Hallucinations: Cultural Priors, Social Interactions and Contextual Factors in the use of Ayahuasca
April 25 Laura Otis, PhD The Insidious Work of Emotion Metaphors
March 28 Jacqueline Sullivan, PhD Coordinating Scientific Perspectives in Experimental Contexts: Lessons from Translational Cognitive Neuroscience and the RDOC Project
March 14 Dietrich Stout, PhD Human Evolutionary Neuroscience: Life in the Technological Niche
February 28 Rob Boddice, MA, PhD, FRHistS Biocultural History and the Turn to Experience
January 31 Bican Polat, Ph.D. Cerebralizing Attachment: How Have Parent-Child Relationships Come to be Explained as Brain Facts?

2018

Date Speaker Title
December 6 Elizabeth Pienkos, Psy.D. Existential Orientations and Schizophrenia: Personhood, Pathology, and Culture
October 25 Dr. Jesse Proudfoot Traumatic Landscapes: Two Geographies of Addiction
August 9 Professor Maria Kozhevnikov The Effect of Vajrayana Buddhism on Enhancing Human Cognition
May 4 Professor Fernando Vidal Phenomenology of the Locked-in Syndrome
March 15 Dr. Ana Gómez-Carrillo Operationalizing Multi-level Loops in Affective Disorders
February 15 Professor Samuel Veissière & Moriah Stendel Hypernatural Monitoring: A Social Rehearsal Account of Smartphone Addiction
February 8 Michael Lifshitz Suggestion as a mechanism in contemplative practice
January 25 Jay Olson, PhD Candidate Placebo machines, the culture of neuroscience, and the power of suggestion
January 11 Maxwell Ramstead & Vincent Laliberté How Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Neurosciences?
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