In late October my department (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago) hosted a talk by Laurence Kirmayer of McGill University. I’m pleased to present the full video of the lecture here. The talk, titled “Revisioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health,” is a broad and synthetic overview of Dr. Kirmayer’s thinking on psychiatry and mental …
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The Culture, Mind and Brain Conference and Tanya Luhrmann on “Hearing Voices in Accra and Chennai”
This past Friday and Saturday the Foundation for Psychocultural Research held its Fifth interdisciplinary conference on Culture, Mind and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications. I’m sad to have missed it, as it was clearly a very exciting event, bringing together key researchers from neuroscience, biocultural anthropology, cultural psychology, behavioral biology and other disciplines to discuss — in very concrete …
The Neuroanthropology of Embodiment, Absorption, and Dissociation
Got Absorption? Towards a Neuroanthropology of Play and Ritual
Cross-posted with Neuroanthropology.
On Thursday, Nov. 17th at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Montreal, Canada, I attended a double panel of neuroanthropologists hosted by the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Organized by Christopher Dana Lynn (University of Alabama) and Jeffrey G. Snodgrass (Colorado State University), the panel was entitled …
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Mind (AToM): Selves
This article is part of the series: Theorizing theory of mind
Last month a small, international gathering of twenty-seven anthropologists and psychologists took place at the Stanford Humanities Center, organized by Stanford anthropology professor Tanya Luhrmann and Culture and Mind postdoctoral fellows Julia Cassaniti, and Jocelyn Marrow, with financial support from the Robert Lemelson Foundation. (See end of post for full list of participants.
The session on “selves” in …
Talking Brains: Problems and Perspectives of the Neurosciences
The lectures from yet another conference on neuroscience/culture are available online. The conference “Talking Brains: Problems and Perspectives of the Neurosciences,” took place on December 3 and 4, 2010 at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Below I reproduce the titles and abstracts of the talks, along with links to the audio recordings. To hear the talks, press the …
A Critical Neuroscience manifesto
Over the past year I’ve posted a few times (here and here) about the Critical Neuroscience project. Now three of the people behind the effort (Suparna Choudhury, Saskia Kathi Nagel and Jan Slaby) have published a programmatic statement in BioSocieties: “Critical Neuroscience: Linking Neuroscience and Society through Critical Practice.”
Here’s their abstract:
We outline the framework
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