FPR-UCLA 2012 Conference on Culture, Mind, and Brain

5th FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference

Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications

October 19–20, 2012


UCLA

Website:   http://www.thefpr.org/conference2012/index.php      


Description

Many lines of research on culture, mind, and brain can no longer be neatly separated. Some questions run together, thanks to our growing understanding of the genome, the biological roots of human sociality, and the mutual constitution of cultures and selves, as well as the complex interactions between the physical, cultural, and social environments underlying health and illness.

The aim of this 2-day conference is to highlight emerging concepts, methodologies and applications in the study of culture, mind, and brain, with particular attention to: (1) cutting-edge neuroscience research that is successfully incorporating culture and the social world; (2) the context in which methods are used as well as the tacit assumptions that shape research questions; and (3) the kinds and quality of collaborations that can advance interdisciplinary research training.

The conference is designed to appeal to a wide academic audience of biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and those in related fields interested in learning about cutting-edge interdisciplinary research at the intersection of culture, mind, and brain.

Confirmed Speakers and Discussants
•    Carlos D. Bustamante <http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Carlos_Bustamante>  PhD, Department of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine
•    John Cacioppo <http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/index.shtml>  PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago
•    John Capitanio <http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Capitanio>  PhD, Department of Psychology, UC Davis
•    Edith Chen <http://www.psych.ubc.ca/faculty/profile/index.psy?fullname=Chen,%20Edith&amp;area=Health&amp;designation=core&amp;keyword>  PhD, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
•    Joan Chiao <http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/people/faculty/faculty_individual_pages/chiao.htm>  PhD, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
•    Steve Cole <http://people.healthsciences.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=45359>  PhD, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, UCLA
•    Mirella Dapretto <http://people.healthsciences.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=46838>  PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
•    Greg Downey <http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_anthropology/staff/academic_staff-greg_downey>  PhD, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University
•    Clarence Gravlee <http://www.gravlee.org/>  PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida
•    Steven J. Heine <http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~heine/>  PhD, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
•    Douglas Hollan <http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=340>  PhD, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
•    Marco Iacoboni <http://iacoboni.bmap.ucla.edu/>  MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
•    Mary Helen Immordino-Yang <http://rossier.usc.edu/faculty/mary_helen_immordinoyang.html>  EdD, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
•    Heejung Kim <http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/kim/>  PhD, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UCSB
•    Laurence J. Kirmayer <http://www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth/people/canada/kirmayer/>  MD, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University
•    Shinobu Kitayama <http://sitemaker.umich.edu/shinobu.kitayama/home>  PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
•    Brandon Kohrt <http://www.gwupsychiatry.org/training_residents.html>  MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University Medical Center
•    Robert Lemelson <http://www.thefpr.org/about/founders.php>  PhD, Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
•    Daniel Lende <http://anthropology.usf.edu/faculty/dlende>  PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida
•    Tanya Luhrmann <https://stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/105>  PhD, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University 
•    Georg Northoff  <http://www.imhr.ca/research/northofflab/Staff_.cfm> MD, PhD, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research
•    John Novembre  <http://www.eeb.ucla.edu/Faculty/Novembre/> PhD, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
•    Denise Park <http://vitallongevity.utdallas.edu/people/center-faculty/park-fac.html>  PhD, Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas (Dallas)
•    Beate Ritz <http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/faculty/britz/ritz.html>  MD, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA
•    Carol Ryff <http://glial.psych.wisc.edu/index.php/psychsplashfacstaff/120>  PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
•    Stephen Suomi <http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/staff/bio.cfm?nih_id=0010152932>  PhD, Section on Comparative Behavioral Genetics, NICHD
•    Carol Worthman <http://www.anthropology.emory.edu/CHB/index.html>  PhD, Department of Anthropology, Emory University

Registration for our conference will open soon. Current registration information can be found here:
http://www.thefpr.org/conference2012/registration.php

We hope to see you this October 19-20, 2012.