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This is a past event that happened on October 15, 2022 at 10:00am EST.
How we discover codes, bearers of meaning, and how we reconstruct that meaning in archeology & paleoanthropology, in psychoanalysis, and in neuroscience research on memory.
Participants:
György Buzsáki
Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, New York University
György Buzsáki identified a hierarchical organization of brain oscillations and proposed how these rhythms support a ‘brain syntax’, a physiological basis of cognitive operations. His work changed how we think about information encoding in the healthy and diseased brain, such as epilepsy and psychiatric diseases. His most influential work is known as the two-stage model... read more! »Michael Novacek
Curator & Professor of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History
Michael J. Novacek is a Curator and Professor of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History and Senior Advisor to the Museum’s President. From 1994 to 2021 he served as the Museum’s Senior Vice President and Provost of Science Awarded a doctoral degree at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Novacek’s studies concern patterns... read more! »Karen B. Stern
Professor of History, Brooklyn College of the City, University of New York
Karen B. Stern is Professor of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Her research is deeply interdisciplinary. She studied Classics with honors at Dartmouth College, earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University, and has excavated and conducted field research in different areas of the Mediterranean, including... read more! »David Sulzer
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Pharmacology, Columbia University & New York State Psychiatric Institute
Dave Sulzer is a professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Pharmacology, and at the School of the Arts at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. He received a PhD in biology from Columbia University. His lab has published over 250 studies on synaptic function, particularly of the basal ganglia and dopamine systems, and neuroimmunology, in... read more! »Marc Van De Mieroop
Professor, History, Columbia University
Marc Van De Mieroop is a historian of the ancient Near East and Egypt from the beginning of writing to the age of Alexander of Macedon. Besides teaching at Columbia University, he has taught at the University of Oxford and at Yale University. He directs Columbia’s Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. He has published numerous... read more! »