Welcome to our calendar of events
Where you can find information on upcoming events taking place over the year. Search by organiser, venue, special interest or location and download directly to Outlook. Watch our quick video for an overview of how to get the most from our calendar.
Have an event you would like to share? Contact us and we will do our best to host this for you.
- This event has passed.
Society and neuroscience: The contemporary mind
5th October 2021 @ 8:45 am - 5:00 pm
£30 – £150Join a starred multidisciplinary group of speakers to hear and debate about new developments and understandings in the fields of neuroscience, social science and psychiatry, and their interrelations.
Learning objectives
- To facilitate dialogue between social scientists, including sociologists and mental health professionals, including psychiatrists
- To use the emerging field of social neuroscience as a medium through which to bring the diverse disciplines together
- To enhance mental health professionals’ understanding of the concept and substance of “social” as understood in the social sciences
- To enhance social scientists’ understanding of biological contributions to social relations, including relevant psychiatric issues
Meeting topics
- The “social” in social science: Larry Ray (Kent)
- The ‘social’ in social neuroscience – critique and ways forward: Nikolas Rose (KCL)
- The New Social Psychiatry? The Lancet Commission Report on Global Mental Health and Sustainability: Kam Bhui (Queen Mary University of London)
- The Malaise of Contemporary Societies: Alain Ehrenberg (CERMES 3, CNRS, Paris)
- Conceptions of the social world in cognitive neuroscience. Antonia Hamilton (UCL)