November 30 2009
Behavior, Evolution, and Culture: Catherine Reed
Catherine Reed
Claremont-McKenna College Department of Psychology
"The Role of Specialized Body Processing for Embodied Social Perception"
Haines Hall 352, 12:00-1:30
Social psychologists have embraced the tenants of embodied cognition to explain how we understand the emotions of others. They claim that the reinstantiation of previous sensorimotor experience during emotional and social information processing is an essential process for understanding others’ emotions (e.g., Neidenthal, Barsalou, Winkielman, Krauth-Gruber, & Ric, 2005). In this talk I suggest that current models of embodied emotion are missing the necessary body-processing mechanisms from which the simulations of emotional experience operate. Further, if one cannot create the basic correspondences between another person’s body and one’s own then one cannot engage in the appropriate simulation process which can lead to social-emotional deficits such as those observed in autism spectrum disorders.
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December 3 2009
Center for Society and Genetics: TBA
TBA
2125 Rolfe Hall, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
January 20 2010
IoE Oppenheim Lecture Series: Dr. Beate Ritz and Dr. John Balmes
"The Geography of Air Pollution and Health: Proximity to Pollution Sources and Health Impacts"
A joint Oppenheim Lecture by:
Beate Ritz, MD, Ph.D.,
Professor and Vice Chair, UCLA Department of Epidemiology
and
John Balmes, MD,
Professor of Medicine, U.C. San Francisco
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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January 28 2010
Center for Society and Genetics: Wylie Burke
Wylie Burke
University of Washington
"TBA"
2125 Rolfe Hall, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
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February 18 2010
Center for Society and Genetics: Chris Kuzawa
Chris Kuzawa
Northwestern University
"TBA"
2125 Rolfe Hall, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Chris Kuzawa is a biological anthropologist with training in epidemiology, Kuzawa’s research focuses on the role that the intrauterine and early postnatal environments have on development, adult health, and life history. The premise of this research is that what a mother eats during pregnancy, her access to adequate prenatal care, or her stress level, may permanently alter offspring biology in a fashion that influences risk for the most common causes of adult morbidity and mortality, including hypertension, diabetes, and heart attacks. This is a novel example of what is known as “developmental plasticity,” or the sensitivity of the developing body to the environment experienced during early stages of development. Kuzawa’s research on this topic is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and The Wenner Gren Foundation.
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March 4 2010
Center for Society and Genetics: TBA
"TBA"
2125 Rolfe Hall, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
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March 31 2010
IoE Oppenheim Lecture Series: Dr. Daniel M. Kammen
"Innovation for a Clean Economy"
Daniel M. Kammen, Ph.D.
Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy,
UC Berkeley
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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November 2 2010
IoE/Luskin Lunch Research Seminar: Diana Huffaker
The next IoE/Luskin Lunch Research Seminar will take place on Monday, November 2, at 12:00 Noon in the Large Conference Room at La Kretz Hall.
Our next speaker is Professor Diana Huffaker, Associate Professor here at UCLA in the California NanoSystems Institute and Electrical Engineering. The title of her talk is "Nanotechnology for Solar Harvesting."
Thanks to the generous support from the Luskin Center, lunch will be provided.