The Insidious Work of Emotion Metaphors

Culture, Mind & Brain Seminar Series

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.

Presented by Laura Otis, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of English (and MacArthur Fellow), Emory University

For more information, please e-mail suparna.choudhury [at] mcgill.ca (subject: The%20Insidious%20Work%20of%20Emotion%20Metaphors, body: Please%20provide%20more%20information%20on%20the%20April%2025th%20presentation%20by%20Dr%20Laura%20Otis.) (Dr. Suparna Choudhury).