[CS] Fwd: REGISTER NOW! Emotion Conference at UCLA, March 30-April 1, 2007

[Joanna Morris]

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> From: Mamie Wong <mamie at thefpr.org>
> Date: 2 October 2006 6:24:15 PM
> To: "2007 FPR-UCLA: Cognitive Neuro S3" <mamie at thefpr.org>
> Subject: REGISTER NOW! Emotion Conference at UCLA, March 30-April  
> 1, 2007
>
>                             REGISTER NOW!
>         FPR-UCLA Third Interdisciplinary Conference
>                  Seven Dimensions of Emotion:
>    Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives
>                                          on
>     Fear, Disgust, Love, Grief, Anger, Empathy, and Hope
>                           March 30 - April 1, 2007
>                                 Friday - Sunday
>               at University of California, Los Angeles
>             http://www.thefpr.org/conference2007/
>
> This conference highlights the latest developments in emotion  
> research and
> scholarship across the fields of neurobiology, psychology, history,
> philosophy, and anthropology. The program will focus on seven  
> emotions -
> fear, disgust, love, grief, anger, empathy, and hope - that are deeply
> embedded in human biology, social life, and cultural environments. In
> keeping with the FPR's mission, we will highlight in particular the  
> areas of
> tension and points of interface between neurobiological and  
> anthropological
> perspectives, or more simply, emotion from the perspective of the  
> brain
> versus the perspective of culture. This conference should be of  
> interest to
> both neuroscientists interested in what anthropology says about the
> influence and importance of culture to emotion theory, and to
> anthropologists interested in the neurobiological foundations of  
> emotions
> and emotional processes. In addition, clinicians interested in
> multidisciplinary explorations of emotion and psychopathology will  
> gain much
> from this conference.
>
> OBJECTIVES
> *Present current research on emotions across academic disciplines
> *Engage a uniquely diverse group of leading neuroscientists,  
> clinicians, and
> social science researchers to discuss and debate implications of  
> recent
> advances
> *Address cross-cutting questions
> *Identify fertile areas for future collaborative research  
> opportunities
>
> QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
> *How do some of the well-investigated neurophysiological processes
> underlying such emotions as fear, anger, and love interact with  
> cultural
> context and meaning?
> *How do the neural mechanisms underlying imitation and empathy  
> interact with
> cultural interpretations and conventions, and what are the  
> implications for
> clinicians treating patients with disorders of emotion and  
> personality?
> *How might behaviors involving extreme anger be differentially  
> categorized
> as pathological versus normative across cultural contexts?
> *How do local culture, historical events, and politics complicate
> neurobiologically grounded emotions such as hope and despair?
>
>

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