Nominate Texts for the Honors Exam
Hi everybody. Let’s start a conversation about the reading list for the Honors exam. Post titles and authors for three texts you would like to see on the ...
Month: September 2016
Terrance Hayes, “How to Draw an Invisible Man” (2015)
And then when Ralph Ellison’s corpse burst open, I discovered his body had been hoarding all these years a luscious slush, a sludge of arterial words, the raw a...
Kaitlyn Greenidge Reading–October 18
Hi everybody. We’ll read Kaitlyn Greenidge’s novel We Love You, Charlie Freeman next week. Then on October 18, we’ll attend Greenidge’s ...
Study Abroad: January
Winter 2017 Study Abroad Information Session. 12:15-1:30 pm, Kiely 270. Want to study abroad this January (2017) and earn credit at the same time? Join us durin...
Obama and Ellison
Check out this still from a new film about the early life of Barack Obama. He’s featured here reading Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.
Stanislas Dehaene on Consciousness, Reading, Numbers, and the Brain
Dehaene explains the “global neuronal workspace” theory about fourteen minutes into the interview.
Damasio’s and Dehaene’s Key Terms
Antonio Damasio’s and Stanislas Dehaene’s theories of consciousness and the self are complicated and can get bewildering on a first reading. The good news...
BJ Casey on the Adolescent Brain at QC (September 23)
ANNOUNCEMENT: Keynote Address Dr. BJ Casey Professor of Psychology at Yale University, New Haven, CT Adjunct Professor at The Rockefeller University and Weill C...
Eleanor Longden
Some of your blog posts–and Hustvedt’s discussion of hearing voices–reminded me of the Hearing Voices Network, part of a movement to destigmat...