Neuro Science  
Retreats
Critical Neuroscience Summer Retreat
July 26-28, 2009, Jugendbildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein, Werneuchen/Werftpfuhl - three days with internal talks, discussion, brainstorming and grant drafting.

Past Events
FPR-UCLA-McGill Public Conference on Critical Neuroscience
Janaury 30th 2009
UCLA, Los Angeles

FPR-UCLA-McGill Workshop. Challenging Reductionism in Psychiatry and Social Neuroscience
January 28th - 29th 2009
UCLA, Los Angeles

McGill Critical Neuroscience Kick-Off Workshop
July 15th - 16th 2008 McGill University, Montreal

Talks
  • Group event on “Critical Neuroscience & the cultural brain.” EuroScience Open Forum, Torino, Italy, July 2010

  • Suparna Choudhury, "Critical Neuroscience: neuroscience, society and critical practice." Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Biophysics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 7th 2009

  • Jan Slaby, "Critical Neuroscience - First Steps" invited lecture in the colloquium of the Institute for Cognitive Science Osnabrück, Germany, December 9th 2009

  • Suparna Choudhury, "What should we do with the teenage brain? Mental capital, cortical plasticity and the adolescent." Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2nd 2009

  • Max Stadler, "Circuit Morphology: Interwar Medical Physics and the Excitable Cell." History of Science Society [HSS] Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, November 2009

  • Max Stadler "... like giving a Nobel Prize for Literature to people who have advanced knowledge of typewriters," *Free University Berlin (BMBF Forschungsverbund 'Embodied Information'),* Workshop "Neuron, Electron, Psychon", November 2009

  • Jan Slaby, Section Presentation: "Phenomenology and the Project of a Critical Neuroscience", International Conference of the German Society for Phenomenological Inquiry; Würzburg, Germany, September 30th - October 3rd 2009

  • Jan Slaby, "Was ist Kritische Neurowissenschaft?", Colloquium of Prof. Dr. Axel Honneth, University of Frankfurt, Germany, July 2nd, 2009

  • Daniel S. Margulies "Mirroring Systems and Emotional Contagion - Re-mapping the brain within a social habitat", Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany, July 2009

  • Max Stadler, "Banal and Model-Minded: Cambridge men, the radio war, and more men,1939-1952." XXIII ICHST, Budapest, Hungary, July 2009

  • Moritz Merten, "The adolescent brain in context", Henrietta Barnett School, London

  • Jan Slaby, "Zur Idee einer kritischen Neurowissenschaft" Vortrag im Rahmen der "Gießener Abendgespräche" auf Einladung von Prof. Markus Knauff, Universität Gießen, Germany, May 27th 2009

  • Suparna Choudhury, "Cultural constructions of the brain" Cross-Cultural Psychology Department, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, March 2009

  • Suparna Choudhury & Jan Slaby, "Linking neuroscience and society through critical practice." UCLA-FPR-McGill Workshop, UCLA, USA, January 28th 2009

  • Max Stadler, "Rethinking the Historiography of the Neurosciences: The Case of Interwar Biophysics," Institute of Cognitive Science, Univ. of Osnabrueck, July 2008

  • Suparna Choudhury & Jan Slaby, "Critical Neuroscience: idea and applications." Critical Neuroscience kick-off Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, July 15th 2008

  • Suparna Choudhury, "Towards a Critical Neuroscience." Why Bioethics? Conference, Kings College, Cambridge, UK, July 2007


WORKSHOP:
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Critical Neuroscience - Alternatives to Neurocentrism in Philosophy and Psychiatry
Philipps-University Marburg, April 22-24, 2010
Please contact Jan Slaby for information.


BLOCK SEMINAR:

Critical Neuroscience
Advanced interdisciplinary block course for MA and PhD students within the Cognitive Science Program of the University of Osnabrück, Germany taught by Suparna Choudhury, Jan Slaby and Max Stadler.
University of Osnabrück, February 19-20 and April 9-10, 2010


REGULAR MEETINGS:

The core group meets regularly to discuss articles, experiments and ideas in Berlin. Guests are welcome - please contact Suparna Choudhury or Jan Slaby.

See also past events.