Our faculty spans the humanities, arts, and neurosciences--including the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
Our Graduate Students:
• Acquire the vocabulary and ethos to hold productive conversations across disciplines;
• Understand neuroscience from an experimental/design perspective
• Become more self-reflexive about their own research methodologies, theoretical approaches and claims
• Learn how to build a transdisciplinary research agenda that is legible to both their home discipline and to the neurosciences
• Learn how to write successful collaborative grants and articles
ABOUT US
Our Program
The Network for Neuro-Cultures is a graduate training program. We are funded by an INTERSECT grant from the Graduate College at the University of Illinois.
Our mission is to create a transdisciplinary graduate training program that conceives of humanists as integral partners in the emergent neurodisciplines (e.g. neuroaesthetics, neuropolitics, neurotheology). The Network for Neuro-Cultures seeks to intervene in ongoing research with the application of humanist, theoretical, and creative approaches to fundamentally reconceptualize the neurodisciplines.
Our collaborations:
- explore the co-constitution of knowledge between and within academic disciplines
- redefine the neurodisciplines as shared endeavors
- create reflexive, inclusive neuroscholarship