Center for the Humanities | Univ. of Wisconsin - MadisonCenter for the Humanities | Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
Thursday, October 1 (Microbial Sciences: Ebling Auditorium)
7:00 pm: Peter Lloyd Jones and Jenny E. Sabin (Sabin+Jones LabStudio), “Code, Context and Perception”
Reception to follow the lecture
Friday, October 2 (Pyle Center: 313)
8:30-9:00: Registration and Refreshments
9:00-9:15: Sara Guyer, Introduction
9:15-10:45: Toward a New Science of Feeling
Richard J. Davidson, “Compassion as a Skill: Neuroplasticity and Meditation"
Jennifer Michael Hecht, “Meaning and Moral Thrills Among the Godless”
Moderated by Lewis Leavitt
10:45-11:00: Break
11:00-12:30: Beyond the Genetic Self
Ian Hacking, "What Will be Left of You When Your Genome Can Be Read for $1000?"
Seth David Pollak, “The Emergence of Human Emotion, or How Experience Unzips your Genes”
Moderated by Richard Keller
12:30-1:30: Lunch (Venues available in the Memorial Union or along State Street)
1:30-3:00: The Ethics and Rhetoric of Regenerative Science
Dietram Scheufele, “’Human’ Science? How Lay Audiences Make Sense of Emerging Science and Technologies”
Stuart J. Youngner, “Is Creating Chimeras and Hybrids a Bad Thing?”
Moderated by Daniel Kleinman
3:00-3:15: Break
3:15-5:00: “Biohumanities: Contemplating the Essence of the Human Through Biomimicry”
David J. Beebe and Linda F. Hogle
Moderated by Katrina T. Forest
7:30-9:00 Evelyn Fox Keller, “Human Nature, Human Nurture, and the Mirage of a Space between the Two” (Chazen L160, Elvehjem Building)
Saturday, October 3 (Pyle Center: 313)
8:30-9:00 Coffee and Refreshments
9:00-10:45 The Future of Genomes: From Literature to Epigenetics
Jay Clayton, "Crimes of the Genome: Contemporary Literature and the Gene for Violence"
John M. Denu, "Epigenetics and the Packaging of DNA"
Moderated by Tejumola Olaniyan
11:00-12:45 “From Neural Mechanisms of Mirroring to the Intellectual Reception of ‘Mirror Neurons’”
Deborah Jenson and Marco Iacoboni
Moderated by Michael Witmore
