Hearts and Minds
Looking at human emotions
8th - 9th October 2005
The Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
School of Oriental and African Studies
10 Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H OXG
Registration from 9:00 - 9:45 am Saturday
Saturday sessions 9:45 - 17:30
Sunday sessions 10:00 - 17:30
Do we control our emotions - or do they control us?
How do emotional triggers govern our behaviour in a supposedly rational age?
Do our emotions make us human, or keep us animal?
Hearts and Minds is another in a series of seminars investigating the often unrecognised psychological patterns that are a part of all of our lives. Once more, we shall be seeking insights and answers from a variety of experts, who will approach the subject from widely differing fields. Among other things, our speakers will explore how easy it is to manipulate our moods, and what positive role emotions play in our lives.
The Speakers and their Subjects
(in anticipated order of speaking)
Saturday, October 8th
Registration from 9:00 am
Sessions from 9:45 to 17:30
Do other animal species have human-like emotions?
Professor Keith Kendrick
The social brain and emotion in others
Dr. Narender Ramnani
Brain development during adolescence: Do teenagers understand us?
Dr. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
The science of love
Dr. Glenn Wilson
Sunday, October 9th
Sessions from 10:00 to 17:30
Music, pleasure and the brain
Dr. Harry Witchel
Running towards gunfire: Do foreign correspondents seek fear?
Matt McAllester
Magic: the desire to believe and the desire to debunk
Dr. Peter Lamont
Them and us and The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson
Booking
The cost of the seminar is £70.00 per head.
To make a booking, email the office of The Institute For Cultural Research, ; give your mailing address and ask for a booking form.
Or ring 020-8452-0960.