Events--Literature and the Mind

Upcoming events

DEFENDING THE UNIVERSITY TEACH-IN, OCT. 14, 2009, 2:30-MIDNIGHT CAMPBELL HALL

"HOW EDUCATION CHANGES THE BRAIN"

Aranye Fradenburg, Department of English, UCSB

Kay Young, Department of English, UCSB

Janis Caldwell, M.D., Department of English, UCSB
"The Medical Humanities"

A "LITERATURE AND THE MIND" BREAKOUT SESSION
7PM 2706 SOUTH HALL

LITERATURE AND THE MIND'S "TALKING CURES" SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCES
A PRESENTATION BY DR. FRANCIS STEEN, COMMUNICATIONS, UCLA, AND HIS COLLEAGUES:

"PARTICIPATORY KNOWLEDGE AND TRANSFORMATIVE UNDERSTANDING: BRIDGING SOME GAPS BETWEEN THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES"

Dr. Wendy Traynor (Social Psychology), David DeLiema (Psychological Studies in Education), and David Jeong (Communications)

Monday, October 19, 2009, 3:30-5pm, South Hall 2635

LITERATURE AND THE MIND AND THE INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES CENTER
PRESENT A "TALKING CURES" CONFERENCE

"SPEAK WHAT WE FEEL": AFFECTS, SYMBOLS, CHANGE

Dr. James Fosshage
New York University Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
"How Do We 'Know' What We Know? And Change What We 'Know'? Imagistic and Linguistic Symbolic Encoding and Processing"

Dr. Regina Pally
Clinical Psychiatry, UCLA
New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
"The Brain Processes Self and Other Using the Same Circuits: Implications for Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy"

Dr. Steven Smith
Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology
UCSB
"Brains, Blots and the Nature of Narrative"

Saturday, November 21, 2009, 1:00-5:00pm McCune Conference Room, IHC

"All psychic particles seem to enter into a common chaotic pool, made worse and overflowing by a malevolent curiosity and a saboteur with no good internal objects to sort things out." James Grotstein, 1977.

Edvard Munch's "Anxiety."

Symposium on Literature and the Emotions:

For 2009-11, the topic of the Symposium on Literature and the Emotions will be "Talking Cures." We are now planning events on symbol-affect connections (coding and processing, assessment, attachment activity); the behavior of specific affects (fear, shame, and disgust); the idea of plasticity. Please visit this section for further postings.

Past events

Spring 2009 Symposium

--"Why an Ourang-Outang? Thinking and Computing with Edgar Allan Poe," Sydney Levy, Department of French and Italian, UCSB.

--"Elaine Scarry's Dreaming by the Book," facilitated by Kay Young and Ken Hiltner, Department of English, UCSB. Colloquium co-sponsored by the Initiatives on Literature and the Mind, and Literature and the Environment, Department of English, UCSB.

Winter 2009 Symposium

--"Deborah Britzman's Novel Education," facilitated by Julie Carlson, Department of English, UCSB.

--"The Geist in the Machine: Taking Humanities Beyond Dualism," by Edward Slingerland, Asian Studies, UBC. Co-sponsored by the Department of Psychology, UCSB.

--"The Work of Marie Laure Ryan," co-facilitated by Marie Laure Ryan and H. Porter Abbot, Department of English, UCSB.

Fall 2008 Symposium

--"Neuroplasticity: Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself," facilitated by Aranye Fradenburg, Department of English, UCSB.

--"Speculations in Neurobiology and Literary Theory: The Brain and the Literary Text as 'Transducers,'" presented by Noelle Batt, American Studies, University of Paris 8.

--"Attention! Katherine Hayles and Barbara Stafford," facilitated by Rita Raley, Department of English, UCSB.

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