Culture, Mind & Brain is a new seminar series, hosted by the Culture, Mind & Brain Program of the Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry and the Healthy Brains Healthy Lives Initiative. The goal is for students and researchers of neuroscience, psychiatry, anthropology and other areas related to mental health to discuss bodies of research and work in progress (experimental and theoretical) that relate to neuroscience and society, and mind, brain and culture. We will discuss topics such as how to design multidisciplinary methodologies that integrate social, ethical and cultural contexts into experimental studies of brain structure, function and development; we will analyze the potentials and limits of brain data for health and social policy; and critically assess translations of brain data into popular science pieces.
For more information, please e-mail samuel.veissiere [at] mcgill.ca (Professor Samuel Veissière).
TITLE: Against New Healthism: The Rise of Tojisha Movement and the Debates around the Prevention of Dementia in Japan
PRESENTER: Junko Kitanaka, PhD
DATE: March 16, 2023
TIME: 3:00 - 5:00pm EST
HYBRID EVENT
In-person location: Ludmer 138
Registration required for remote attendance
2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| March 16 | Junko Kitanaka, PhD | Against new healthism: the rise of Tojisha movement and the debates around the prevention of dementia in Japan |
| February 16 | Ivan Kroupin, PhD | From rich(er) to lean(er) systems: towards a formal theory of cultural-cognitive variation across history and geography |
2022
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| April 14 | Peter Sterling, PhD | What is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design |
| March 10 | Roy Richard Grinker, PhD | Nobody´s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness |
| March 3 | Kathryn Tabb, PhD | Psychiatry and the Epistemology and Ethics of Precision |
| February 10 | Somogy Varga, PhD & Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen, PhD | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Recalcitrant Emotion: Relocating the Seat of Irrationality |
| January 20 | Marga Vicedo, PhD | Experience as expertise: Clara Park’s call for valuing a mother’s knowledge in understanding autism |
2021
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| November 11 | Igor Grossmann, PhD | Folk epistemology of (ir)rationality |
| March 18 | Tara Mahfoud, PhD | Visions of unification and integration: Building brains and communities in the European Human Brain Project |
| March 11 | Samuel Veissière, PhD | Internet Sociality |
| January 21 | Daniel D. Hutto, BA, MPhil, DPhil | Enculturated Minds and Brains: Questioning a Familiar Philosophical Picture |
| January 7 | Dietrich Stout, PhD | Culture, Mind, and Brain in Human Evolution: An Extended Evolutionary Perspective on Paleolithic Toolmaking as Embodied Practice |
2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| November 5 | Georg Northoff, MD, PhD | Cultural similarity and differences between selves and brains: a novel approach |
| October 29 | Shinobu Kitayama, PhD | Mutual Constitution of Culture and the Mind: Insights from Cultural Neuroscience |
| October 1 | Carol M. Worthman, PhD | Being There: Human Ecology, Diversity, and the Vicissitudes of Empathy |
| September 24 | Laurence Kirmayer, MD | Co-constructing Culture, Mind, and Brain |
| January 23 | Kenneth J. Zucker, PhD, CPsych | Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: Some Contemporary Research and Clinical Issues |
2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| November 28 | Suze Berkhout, MD, PhD, FRCPC | Grappling with Cure/Harm: Feminist STS, Critical Disability Studies Meets Placebo and Nocebo Studies |
| November 7 | David Dupuis, PhD | The Socialization of Hallucinations: Cultural Priors, Social Interactions and Contextual Factors in the use of Ayahuasca |
| April 25 | Laura Otis, PhD | The Insidious Work of Emotion Metaphors |
| March 28 | Jacqueline Sullivan, PhD | Coordinating Scientific Perspectives in Experimental Contexts: Lessons from Translational Cognitive Neuroscience and the RDOC Project |
| March 14 | Dietrich Stout, PhD | Human Evolutionary Neuroscience: Life in the Technological Niche |
| February 28 | Rob Boddice, MA, PhD, FRHistS | Biocultural History and the Turn to Experience |
| January 31 | Bican Polat, Ph.D. | Cerebralizing Attachment: How Have Parent-Child Relationships Come to be Explained as Brain Facts? |
2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| December 6 | Elizabeth Pienkos, Psy.D. | Existential Orientations and Schizophrenia: Personhood, Pathology, and Culture |
| October 25 | Dr. Jesse Proudfoot | Traumatic Landscapes: Two Geographies of Addiction |
| August 9 | Professor Maria Kozhevnikov | The Effect of Vajrayana Buddhism on Enhancing Human Cognition |
| May 4 | Professor Fernando Vidal | Phenomenology of the Locked-in Syndrome |
| March 15 | Dr. Ana Gómez-Carrillo | Operationalizing Multi-level Loops in Affective Disorders |
| February 15 | Professor Samuel Veissière & Moriah Stendel | Hypernatural Monitoring: A Social Rehearsal Account of Smartphone Addiction |
| February 8 | Michael Lifshitz | Suggestion as a mechanism in contemplative practice |
| January 25 | Jay Olson, PhD Candidate | Placebo machines, the culture of neuroscience, and the power of suggestion |
| January 11 | Maxwell Ramstead & Vincent Laliberté | How Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Neurosciences? |