Panel 1: 9:15-10:15. The Many-storied Self: Why are poetry and fiction and mathematics moving?
Peggy Battin, Philosophy
Gale Dick, Physics
Peter Trapa, Mathematics
Karen Brennan, English
Dumke Room, Marriott Library

Panel 2: 9:15-10:15. The Goodness Switch: What happens to ethics if behavior is all in our brains?
Chrisoula Andreou, Philosophy
Jon Seger, Biology
Crystal Parikh, English
Armand Antommaria, Pediatrics
Parlor A in the Union Building

Panel 3: 10:30-11:30. Did Shakespeare already get all of this gray matter?
Anne Decker, Theatre
Brooke Hopkins, English
Aden Ross, Guerrilla humanist
Richard Price, Physics
Dumke Room, Marriott Library

Panel 4: 10:30-11:30. Where Freud meets modern neuroscience:
Is Freud dead everywhere but in the English Department?
Lisa Aspinwall, Psychology
Dr. Richard Chapman, Pain Research Center
Matt Potolsky, English
Parlor A in the Union Building

11:30-12:30, Lunch on your own

1:00 p.m.
Panel: Emotion/Feeling and Consciousness

Broadcast live on NPR's Science Friday, Antonio Damasio, Jorie Graham, Thomas Metzinger, moderated by Ira Flatow, Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library

2:30-4:30 p.m.
* Hands-on demonstrations

Interplay demo (INSCC Auditorium)

7:00-8:15 p.m.
Keynote: Emotion, Feeling, and Identity: the Brain View
Antonio Damasio, Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library

Saturday, Oct. 11

9:30 a.m.
Keynote: Being No One - Consciousness and the First-Person Perspective
Thomas Metzinger, Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library

10:30 a.m.
Closing Roundtable: Wrapping our Brains Around It All
Thomas Metzinger, Jorie Graham, Antonio Damasio, Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library


*Shuttles will be provided for off-site demos.

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