The Center for Science in Society

Graduate Idea Forum

Readings:
McNeill: EBP in an Age of Relativism.
Gilgun: Four Pillars EBP
Kent, Hayward: When Averages Hide Individual Differences

Exploring Mental Health
"The Role of Individuals"

Pre-discussion readings:
A New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry (1998)
Biology and the Future of Psychoanalysis: A New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry (1999)

February 2, Friday
12:15-12:45pm, Dalton 300

*Note room change!*

Open to Faculty only

First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Peter Brodfeuhrer (Biology)
"Leeches, Motor Patterns, and Spinal Networks"

March 2, Friday
12:15-12:45pm, Ely Room, Wyndham

Open to Faculty only

First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series: Dr. Melissa S. Murphy (Anthropology)
"Violence and Inca resistance to Spanish Conquest
A view from human skeletal remains"

Exploring Mental Health
"Meaning-making, Logotherapy and Mental Health"

Pre-discussion readings:
Time, human being and mental health care: an introduction to Gilles Deleuze
The Use of Psychotherapy with Dying Patients: An Exploratory Study
Logotherapy as an Adjunctive Treatment for Chronic Combat-related PTSD: A Meaning-based Intervention
Purpose-in-Life as a Function of Ego Resiliency, Dogmatism and Biographical Variables

April 6, Friday
12:15-12:45pm, Ely Room, Wyndham

Open to Faculty only

First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series:
Dr. Karen Stephenson (Hepburn Fellow Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center)

"Networks - Decoding Culture"

April 12, Thursday
9-11am, GSSWSR, Kingsbury Room/110

Graduate Idea Forum

Readings:
Paul Farmer: Pathologies of Power (1st chapter)

Philips Visitor Physics & Astronomy
Eric Mazur (Departments of Physics & Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University)

Science Pedagogy Colloquium:
"Confessions of a Converted Lecturer"

Elementary Science Education: A Working Group

Reading: "Darwin's God"

May 4, Friday
12:15-12:45pm, Ely Room, Wyndham

Open to Faculty only

First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series:
Prof. Karen Greif (Biology)

"Research in an Age of Bioterrorism"

May 15, Tuesday
9-10:30am, GSSWSR, Kingsbury Room/110

Graduate Idea Forum

Readings:
Sen, Amartya (2000). Will there be any hope for the poor? Time. May 22. pp 94-95.
Sen, Amartya (1985). Well-Being, Agency and Freedom: The Dewey Lectures 1984. The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 82, No. 4. (Apr., 1985), pp. 169-221.
Sen, Amartya (1993). The Economics of Life and Death. Scientific American, 268(5), 40. Retrieved Thursday, April 12, 2007 from the Scientific American Archive Online database.

Graduate Idea Forum

Readings:
Jonathan Lear. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

Graduate Idea Forum

Readings:
Eric Kandel. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind

Schedule TBD

Exploring Mental Health

First Friday of the month

Open to Faculty only

First Friday Faculty Club Lunch Series