Conference Schedule | Network for Neuro-Cultures

All events = Beckman Institute, Tower Room 2269

2:30 pm - Reception

2:45 pm - Opening Remarks (Amber Polk)

3:00 pm - Featured Speaker: Steven Rose (Open University), "Are You Your Brain?"

4:30 pm - Break; coffee provided

5:00 pm - Panel: “The Neurolinguistic: Discourse, Literature, and Language”

Jermaine Martinez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Towards ARadical Contextualizing of The B.R.A.I.N. Initiative: The Rhetorical Responses of William Styron’s Darkness Visible and Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind”
Andrew Kaplan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Samuel Beckett's Unnameable Critique of Damasio's Homeostatic Principle, or, Understanding Affect's Ontic-Ontological Difference”
Zhiying Qian and Susan M. Garnsey (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “A Chunk of Coffee: An Event-related Brain Potentials Study on the Processing of Mandarin Classifier-Noun Violation”

9:00 am - Breakfast--provided!

9:30 am - Roundtable: “Envisioning the BRAIN Initiative: A Multidisciplinary Response”

Jennifer Baldwin, Christine Hedlin, Brandon Jones, Amber Polk, and Rebecah Pulsifer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

11:00 am - Brea; coffee provided

11:30 am - Panel: “The Neurocybernetic: Artifacts and Metaphors of Cognition in the Biological Computer Laboratory”

Skot Wiedmann (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Replication and Reenactment: The Adaptive Reorganizing Automaton”
Jan Müggenburg (Leuphana University), “Building the 5-Dollar-Neuron: A Genealogy of the ‘Biological Computer’ as Research Program and Metaphor”
Jamie Hutchinson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Cybernetics of Cybernetics: A Neuro-book for the World Brain”

1:00 pm - Lunch; provided by the Neuroscience Program

2:30 pm - Panel: “The Neurosocial: Emotion, Ethics, and Epigenetics”

Sigrid Schmitz (University of Vienna), “‘Emotionalizing’ the Cerebral Subject in Neuroeconomics: Pros and Cons for a Neurocultural Debate”
Peter J. Whitehouse (Case Western Reserve University), “MIND: the Deneurofication of the World and the Mysteries of the Mind”
Natalie Turrin (Emory University), “I Got It From My Mama! Epigenetics, the Maternal Body, and the Developing Brain”

4:00 pm - Break; coffee provided

4:30 pm - Keynote Speaker