This roundtable will examine children’s drawings and narratives to explore development, representation, and the universal and culture-specific dimensions of inner experience.

This roundtable will explore how the internet and data sharing are reshaping privacy, identity, and the relationship between individuals and institutions, including the role of secrecy and transparency in personal freedom.

This symposium will explore Aby Warburg’s ideas on memory, images, affect, creativity, and the dynamic unconscious, connecting his work to contemporary perspectives in art history, philosophy, and neuroscience.

Part 2: Mnemosyne: Memory & Unconscious This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image – its elliptical and metaphoric... read more! »

Part 3: Additional questions/comments regarding both Sunday roundtables and wrap-up This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image... read more! »

This symposium will explore Aby Warburg’s ideas on memory, images, affect, and the dynamic unconscious, and their relevance to neuroplasticity, neuroesthetics, and interdisciplinary approaches to art and history through a series of roundtables and presentations.

Part 2: An Eccentric Science This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image – its elliptical and metaphoric... read more! »

Part 3: Classical & Renaissance Art This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image – its elliptical and... read more! »

This event will feature The Amygdaloids, a band of scientists and musicians, performing songs about the mind, brain, and behavior, each introduced with brief scientific context by Joseph LeDoux.

This roundtable will examine whether selflessness is an illusion or a genuine human capacity, exploring the evolutionary and psychological roots of empathy, altruism, and the relationship between self-interest and care for others.