Download Neuro-Salon and Neuro-Humanities Entanglement Conference at Georgia Tech, April 2012 and more Study notes Humanities in PDF only on Docsity! +NEURO-SALON NEURO-HUMANITIES ENTANGLEMENT CONFERENCE APRIL 11 - 13, 2012 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE INFORMATION Both Events are free and open to the Public. No registration required. For information regarding the Neuro-Salon and the Neuro-Humantities Entanglement Conference, please check for updates on our link: www.coa. gatech.edu/event/georgia-tech-neuro-humanities-entanglement-conference- and-neuro-salon For additional inquiries, contact the Organizer, Dr. Barbara Maria Stafford: barbara.stafford@lcc.gatech.edu For questions about directions, contact Faraz Kamili: (404) 386-8811 CONFERENCE LOCATION Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) 85 Fifth Street NW Atlanta, GA 30332 Parking for the conference is Centergy Parking Deck ($2 per hour or $12 per day) CONFERENCE DINNER Chow Baby 1016 Howell Mill Rd, Suite A Atlanta, GA 30318 (transportation by hotel shuttle, taxi, or driving TOUR LOCATION Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (CABI) 831 Marietta Street Atlanta, GA 30318 (transportation to CABI provided by shuttle) HOTEL Georgia Tech Hampton Inn 244 North Avenue NW Atlanta, GA 30313 (404) 881-0881 SALON LOCATION East Architecture Building 245 Fourth Street NW Atlanta, GA 30332 Parking for the Salon is in the lower level of Peters Parking Deck (open after 5pm) at Fourth and Fowler Streets, one block from the East Architecture Building. Continuing the Salon tradition at Georgia Tech, this event highlights encounters among cognitive science, neuroscience, biological sciences, and engineering with the humanitities, social sciences, and the arts. Emerging research in the brain sciences has set into motion fundamental questions relating to social, political, aesthetic, and scientific discoveries. This is an exciting research moment because it opens the opportunity for crafting theoretical and practical convergences between major issues that have long bedeviled the Liberal Arts with those arising in the Neuro- sciences. For example: what does it take to persuade—to move people from one position to another, or to get them to care about an event that never before stirred their interest? The old rhetorical and sociological conundrum of how one spurs a critical mass of people to alter their vision of themselves as individuals is now entangled with neural circuitry, empathetic process- ing, and legal disputes over conscious actions. Cognition, in short, has been brought into the heart of everyday life. Such new and unusual types of cross-disciplinary engagement offer a bold opportunity to rethink our educational programs and institutions in light of major research initiatives held in common. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dr. Elizabeth Liebman Our generous patron and donor Alan Balfour Dean, College of Architecture George Johnston Chair, School of Architecture Faraz Kamili Georgia Institute of Technology Kenneth J. Knoespel McEver Professor of Engineering and Liberal Arts, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Marc Merlin The Atlanta Science Tavern John Peponis Associate Chair, School of Architecture Jacqueline Jones Royster Dean, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Denise Smith Associate Dean and Academic Director for Liberal Arts, SCAD Atlanta The Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture Emory University The Georgia Tech College of Architecture The Ivan Allen Institute for Advanced Studies Program designed by Lauren Langley GEORGIA TECH NEURO-SALON +NEURO-HUMANITIES ENTANGLEMENT CONFERENCE ~ Barbara Maria Stafford Distinguished Visiting Professor, H. Bruce McEver Program for Engineering and Liberal Arts, College of Architecture, College of Engineering Schools of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech
