Richard Jackson PhD, Professor of Peace Studies at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand, will present a talk titled Pacifism as a discursive resistance to contemporary studies in International Relations.
The NSB Graduate Program will hold a colloquium titled A neural basis for sex differences in active vs. passive fear behavior. Rebecca Shansky of the Department of Psychology, Northeastern University will give the talk.
The colloquium is hosted by Beata Kaminska and takes place in 222 Morrill Science Center II from 4:00-5:00pm.
Matthew Lebowitz PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University, will present a talk entitled (Unintended) Consequences of Biomedical Explanations for Psychopathology.
Dr. Lebowitz conducts research on the ways in which attitudes and beliefs about health, particularly mental disorders, are affected by causal reasoning and related psychological processes.
Please join The Center for Research on Families as Daniel Lieberman PhD, Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences and Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, presents a lecture titled Is Exercise Medicine? An Evolutionary Medical Perspective. Dr. Lieberman will use the lens of evolution to consider the kinds of physical activity for which humans are adapted (or not) and their health implications.
Developmental Science will hold a colloquium featuring Dr. Joshua Hartshorne of Boston College. The title of Dr. Hartshorne’s talk will be A critical period for second language acquisition: A study of 700,000 English speakers.
The NSB Graduate Program will hold a colloquium titled Signaling networks that control synapse development and cognitive function. Michael Greenberg PhD of the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School will give the talk.
The colloquium is hosted by Eric Bittman and takes place in the Integrated Learning Center, Room N151 from 4:00-5:00pm.
Refreshments will be served from 3:45-4:00pm and reception at the UClub will be held after the talk.
Nate Kornell PhD, Associate Professor at Williams College, will present a talk titled Learning is from Mars, student perceptions of learning are from Venus
The NSB Graduate Program will hold a colloquium titled How emotional arousal transforms how we see, think and remember. Mara Mather of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology will give the talk.
The colloquium is hosted by Becky Ready and takes place in 222 Morrill Science Center II from 4:00-5:00pm.
