Berlin School of Mind and Brain: Archive Events

09 December 2009 – 11 December 2009

Berlin Brain Days 2009

Jörg Geiger (opening lecture), Elly Tanaka, Nancy Kanwisher, Wolfgang Kuschinsky, Thomas Möller, Gabor Tamas, Andreas Bartels, and 15 PhD talks

07 December 2009 – 12 December 2009

Women’s Travel Awards 2009

Deadline: 1 November 2009

26 November 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Mind-Brain Lecture: Stefan Kiebel (Leipzig)

“A hierarchy of time-scales and the brain”

Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, North Wing, Ground Floor, Room 144 , 10117 Berlin

25 November 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Neuroesthetics Talk Series: Semir Zeki (London)

“The forms of space” - A dialogue between Semir Zeki and Anton Burdakov

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, 2nd Floor, FESTSAAL, 10117 Berlin

19 November 2009 – 21 November 2009

Habitus in Habitat II. Other Sides of Cognition

International Conference, organized by Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin

12 November 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Distinguished Lecture Series: Melvyn A. Goodale (Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada)

“Acting without thinking: When do visually-guided actions escape conscious control?”
CHANGE OF VENUE!

Venue: Konrad Koch-Hörsaal, Campus Charité Mitte, 10117 Berlin (internal Campus address: Virchowweg 24),

05 November 2009, 18.30

Scientific Council Meeting

Not open to the public.

29 October 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Neuroesthetics Talk Series: Beatriz Calvo-Merino (London)

TALK CANCELLED!

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, Festsaal (2nd floor), 10117 Berlin

07 October 2009, 19.30

Pim van Lommel, Michael Pauen, Sabine Mehne

“Endloses Bewußtsein - Neue medizinische Fakten zur Nahtoderfahrung”

05 October 2009 – 09 October 2009

Teaching Week 1: Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology

Course not open to the public.

01 October 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Distinguished Lecture Series: Riitta Hari (Helsinki)

“The brain in time: MEG studies of human brain function”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, 2nd Floor, FESTSAAL, 10117 Berlin

28 September 2009 – 02 October 2009

Teaching Week 6: Cognitive Science

Course not open to the public.

17 September 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Distinguished Lecture Series: Hans Breiter (Boston)

“Laws of human preference: Implications for free will”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, 2nd Floor, FESTSAAL, 10117 Berlin

14 September 2009 – 18 September 2009

Teaching Week 5: Computational Neuroscience and Statistics

Course not open to the public.

23 July 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Mind-Brain Lecture: Burkhard Pleger (Leipzig)

“The human somatosensory system - plasticity and cognition”

Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin

16 July 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Distinguished Lecture Series: John O’Doherty (Dublin & Caltech)

“Model-based neuroimaging and its application to reward-learning and decision making”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, 2nd Floor, FESTSAAL, 10117 Berlin

16 July 2009

MisAttribution: Agency in Thought and Action

Workshop with Shaun Gallagher & Suzanne Anker

15 July 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Neuroesthetics Talk Series: Ruggero Pierantoni (Genoa)

“The question of scale. A neglected aspect of images: just
how big is too big”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, North Wing, 2nd Floor, FESTSAAL, 10117 Berlin

09 July 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Mind-Brain Lecture: Nicholas Shackel (Cardiff/Oxford)

“The neuroscience of moral judgement”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, North Wing, 2nd Floor, FESTSAAL, 10117 Berlin

09 July 2009 – 12 July 2009

Habitus in Habitat I. Emotion and Motion

International Conference, organized by Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin

02 July 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Distinguished Lecture Series: Luc Steels (Brussels)

“Robots, language evolution, and hints for understanding the brain”

Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, 2nd floor,, Festsaal, 10117 Berlin

29 June 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Distinguished Lecture Series: Daniel L. Schacter (Harvard)

“Constructive memory: Remembering the past to imagine the future”

Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, 2nd floor, Festsaal, 10117 Berlin

25 June 2009, 18.30

Mind–Brain Lecture: Bogdan Draganski (Leipzig)

“Wiring cortex and subcortical structure - The role of basal ganglia”

Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, 2nd floor, Festsaal, 10117 Berlin

11 June 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Distinguished Lecture Series: David Rosenthal (New York)

“The poverty of consciousness”

Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, 2nd floor, Festsaal, 10117 Berlin

05 June 2009 – 08 June 2009

13th Annual Meeting of the ASSC

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Venue: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

20 May 2009, 18.30

Neuroesthetics Talk Series: David Freedberg (Columbia)

“The Body in Motion: Art, Anthropology and Neuroscience”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Haus 1, 2nd floor, Festsaal, 10117 Berlin

18 May 2009, 18.30

Poster Presentations Doctoral Candidates

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, FESTSAAL, Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin

14 May 2009, 18.30

Distinguished Lecture Series: Bruno Averbeck (London)

“Prefrontal neural mechanisms of action selection”

Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, FESTSAAL, 10117 Berlin

07 May 2009, 18.30

Mind-Brain Lecture: Katharina v. Kriegstein (Leipzig)

“Human auditory communication - from sensory thalamus to prosopagnosia”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, FESTSAAL, Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin

06 May 2009, 18.30 – 20.00

Neuroesthetics Talk Series: Michelangelo Pistoletto

Italian painter, action and object artist, art theorist

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, 2nd floor, Festsaal, 10117 Berlin

16 April 2009, 18.30

Mind-Brain Lecture: Mikhail I. Rabinovich (San Diego)

“The main principles of brain dynamics”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, FESTSAAL, 10117 Berlin

02 April 2009, 18.30

Distinguished Lecture Series: Michael J. Morgan (London)

“Monocular and binocular processing of texture in V1”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, FESTSAAL, 10117 Berlin

23 March 2009 – 17 March 2009

Teaching Week 4: Basic Philosophical Concepts and Philosophy of Mind

16 March 2009 – 10 March 2009

Teaching Week 2: Neuroimaging

12 March 2009, 19.30

Vortrag mit Podiumsgespräch: John-Dylan Haynes & Michael Pauen (Berlin)

“Gedankenlesen – verwirklichen die Neurowissenschaften einen Menschheitstraum?”

Venue: URANIA, An der Urania 17, 10787 Berlin (Schöneberg), www.urania.de

09 March 2009, 09.00 – 19.00

Student Interviews 2009

Not open to the public! (Admissions' Committee and Scientific Council members only).

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Ground Floor, Room 144, 10117 Berlin

02 March 2009 – 04 March 2009

Teaching Week 3: Cognitive Neuroscience

26 February 2009, 18.30

Distinguished Lecture Series: John Duncan (Cambridge)

“Mental programs and the frontal lobe”

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, 2nd floor, Festsaal, 10117 Berlin,

17 February 2009, 18.30

Distinguished Lecture Series: Allan Hobson (Harvard)

“Dream Consciousness”

Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, 2nd floor, Festsaal / Ballroom, 10117 Berlin

14 February 2009, 10.00 – 15 February 2009, 16.00

Special Seminar on Consciousness: Allan Hobson (Harvard)

“The Brain Basis of Conscious States”

Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, seminar room 220, 10117 Berlin

29 January 2009, 16.00 – 21.30

Interdisciplinary Mind-Brain Meeting