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SUMMARY:The Brain’s Crescendo; How Music Training Impacts Child Development
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Assal Habibi\, Assoc. Professor of Psychology\, University of Southern California \nThis speaker will be presenting in person. \nThe Brain’s Crescendo; How Music Training Impacts Child Development  \nAbstract: In an ongoing multi-year longitudinal study\, we have been investigating the effects of a group-based music training program on development of children\, beginning at age 6\, using behavioral\, neuroimaging and electrophysiological measures. The target group of children have been participating in the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (YOLA) program. This music program is based on the Venezuelan system of musical training known as El-Sistema and offers free music instruction 6–7 hours weekly to children from underprivileged and under-resourced areas of Los Angeles. The children in the music program have been compared with two groups of children\, one involved in a community-based sports program and another not enrolled in any systematic afterschool training. At the onset\, we established that there were no pre-existing differences among the groups.  Over the course of 5 years\, we have observed that children in the music group had better performance than comparison groups in musically relevant auditory skills (pitch and rhythm discrimination) and showed an accelerated maturity of auditory processing as measured by cortical auditory evoked potentials. We also observed that children in the music group showed a different rate of cortical thickness maturation between the right and left posterior superior temporal gyrus and higher fractional anisotropy in the corpus callosum\, specifically in the crossing pathways connecting superior frontal\, sensory\, and motor segments. For nonmusical skills\, children with music training\, compared with children without music training\, showed stronger neural activation during a cognitive inhibition task in brain regions involved in response inhibition and decision making (bilateral pre-SMA/SMA\, ACC\, IFG). Finally\, we observed that parents of children involved in music training\, after four years\, rated their children higher on the emotional stability personality trait and lower on aggression and on hyperactivity compared to children not involved in music activities despite no differences in these measures before children’s entry into the program. Considering a general reduction in art education specifically in the communities that there is limited access to art exposure in general\, and specifically to music education\, the findings from this study is providing compelling answers to the ongoing discussion about music’s role in the education curriculum. \nZoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92826436236?pwd=SytQNTNPSWdwaDNlTm05d2srdXNHUT09 \nMeeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/the-brains-crescendo-how-music-training-impacts-child-development/
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SUMMARY:Growing up in a dynamic social world: early-life effects on behavior and neuroendocrine function
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Tessa Solomon-Lane\, Asst. Professor of Biology\, Keck Science Dept.\, Claremont McKenna\, Pitzer & Scripps Colleges \nMore info: https://tessasolomonlane.com/ \nThis speaker will be presenting in person. \nGrowing up in a dynamic social world: early-life effects on behavior and neuroendocrine function  \n Abstract: Why\, and how\, do individuals behave the way they do? Social behavior has long captivated researchers from diverse fields. Social behavior is common to a remarkably wide range of species\, its expression is complex and patterned\, and it has deeply conserved effects on evolutionary fitness and health. Similarly\, the neuroendocrine signaling pathways that regulate social behavior are also evolutionarily ancient. Early-life experiences are a powerful source of individual variation in adult behavior\, yet fundamental questions remain about the development of social behavior and its underlying mechanisms. In my lab\, we use the highly social Burton’s Mouthbrooder cichlid fish (Astatotilapia burtoni)\, a model system in social neuroscience\, to investigate the social\, behavioral\, and neuroendocrine mechanisms regulating the development of social behavior. This species is known for the mixed-sex\, hierarchical communities formed by adults\, in which individuals express social behaviors common across vertebrates\, such as aggression\, affiliation\, courtship\, parenting\, and cooperation. As is the case in primates\, juveniles are social from the earliest life history stage. I will present the results of a series of experiments that demonstrate that juveniles form nuanced\, complex social relationships\, and how early-life social environments sculpt social behavior\, nonapeptide signaling\, and neuroendocrine stress axis function. I will discuss how this work expands our understanding of behavioral development and the origins of individual variation in adult phenotypes\, from fish to humans \nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94813693836?pwd=ZWx5Tnl5UStac0RSZUZCSlFyMTl2UT09 \nZoom Meeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/growing-up-in-a-dynamic-social-world-early-life-effects-on-behavior-and-neuroendocrine-function/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221017T120000
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SUMMARY:Laughter and Smiles: Towards understanding the Complexity and Phylogenetic Continuity of Positive Communication in Hominids
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Marina Davila-Ross\, Reader in Comparative Psychology\, University of Portsmouth \nThis talk will be presented via Zoom. \nLaughter and Smiles: Towards understanding the Complexity and Phylogenetic Continuity of Positive Communication in Hominids \nAbstract: Laughter and smiles are arguably the strongest behavioural indicators of positive emotional states in humans and they also represent pervasive tools of social communication\, help to develop and maintain social relationships\, and affect individuals‘ health and wellbeing. It\, thus\, may not come to a surprise that these important behaviours are deeply rooted in human biology. More specifically\, empirical research on hominids suggests that laughter and smiles are evolutionarily continuous\, going back to at least the past 13 million years. As a result\, an in-depth evaluation of laughter and smiles in great apes may provide a better understanding of why humans\, a highly social-cognitive species\, behave the way they do. This talk attempts to reconstruct the evolution of laughter and smiles in great apes and humans by assessing form and function of these expressions in their natural social interactions. Comparative and phylogenetic approaches are applied that include acoustic analyses\, FACS (Facial Action Coding System) specifically designed to study great apes\, and the coding of bodily actions. \nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94813693836?pwd=ZWx5Tnl5UStac0RSZUZCSlFyMTl2UT09 \nZoom Meeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/laughter-and-smiles-towards-understanding-the-complexity-and-phylogenetic-continuity-of-positive-communication-in-hominids/
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SUMMARY:Aspects of competition and cooperation in the genus Pan
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Martin Surbeck\, Asst. Professor\, Dept. of Human Evolutionary Biology\, Harvard University \nThis talk will be presented via Zoom. \nAspects of competition and cooperation in the genus Pan. \nAbstract: I will talk about aspects of competition and cooperation in our closest living relatives\, bonobos and chimpanzees. Firstly\, I will explore how differences in female sexuality and male mate competition potentially contribute to observed species differences. There will be a specific focus on the role of mothers during mate competition in male philopatric species and I will speculate about potential implications for life histories. Secondly\, I will explore aspects of between group competition in bonobos and discuss the implications of the new findings for the emergence of cooperative relationships between groups. \nZoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92826436236?pwd=SytQNTNPSWdwaDNlTm05d2srdXNHUT09 \nMeeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/aspects-of-competition-and-cooperation-in-the-genus-pan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220926T120000
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Data Lifecycles for Indigenous Futures
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Keolu Fox\, Asst. Professor\, Dept. of Anthropology\, UCSD \nThis speaker will be presenting in person. \nIndigenous Data Lifecycles for Indigenous Futures \nAbstract: According to The Economist\, in 2018 oil was the most-traded commodity in the world. But in 2019\, the demand for oil had been surpassed by the demand for data\, including digital sequence information (DSI) of genetic resources. Despite increasing enthusiasm for historically marginalized communities’ participation in biomedical research and a recognition of the potential for next-generation precision medicine\, concerns around control and access of data derived from these populations remain. This lecture will highlight the emergence of new tools to enable equitable Indigenous data futures. Specifically it will explore key paths forward that are not only rooted in Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS)\, but circular economic systems\, and place-based innovation. It will also highlight the potential for vertical integration and control of stacks of technology\, including dynamic consent\, data trusts\, digital ledger systems\, and cloud computation to empower Indigenous communities for generations to come. \nZoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94813693836?pwd=ZWx5Tnl5UStac0RSZUZCSlFyMTl2UT09 \nZoom Meeting ID: 928 2643 6236 \nPasscode: BEC
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/indigenous-data-lifecycles-for-indigenous-futures/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T140000
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SUMMARY:Lemelson Honors Conference 2022
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP for this event at https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUud–vqTorHtanUW_i8dQZKYVqc6ioN7nW \nLemelson Honors Conference – May 27 2022 – Program and Flyer
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/lemelson-honors-conference-2022/
LOCATION:Haines 352
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SUMMARY:A Book Celebration With Dr. Robert Lemelson
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Anthropology cordially invites you to come celebrate Robert Lemelson’s newest book: Widening the Frame with Visual Psychological Anthropology: Perspectives on Trauma\, Gendered Violence\, and Stigma in Indonesia. \nWednesday\, May 11\, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Haines 352\nAs this will be an in-person event\, please send your RSVPs to kroyce@anthro.ucla.edu by the end of the day on May 6.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/a-book-celebration-with-dr-robert-lemelson/
LOCATION:Haines 352
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T150000
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CREATED:20211025T190844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T191259Z
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SUMMARY:IAC Fall Forum
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) annual Fall Forum\, featuring the 2021–22 IAC visiting researchers and scholars\, graduate and predoctoral fellows\, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. Featured speakers will be interviewed by faculty experts\, followed by a Q&A. \nFall Forum Registration link: https://uclaea.zoom.us/webinar/register/5816343257350/WN_k2pSc104RciBB2KmU1jaJw \nClick here to view the IAC Fall Forum 2021 flyer
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/iac-fall-forum/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T100000
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SUMMARY:2021 Lemelson Anthropological Undergraduate Honors Conference
DESCRIPTION:RSVP: https://forms.gle/R4ftwUtz5fsALfuJA \nStudent Scholars profiles\, project titles\, and videos (coming soon): https://lemelson.anthro.ucla.edu/student-scholars/
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/2021-lemelson-anthropological-undergraduate-honors-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210526T140000
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SUMMARY:Politics of Black Transnational Solidarity in North Africa and the Middle East: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Part 5 of the Race\, Racism\, Policing and State Violence series \nNoura Erakat\, Rutgers University\nDarryl Li\, University of Chicago\nJemima Pierre\, UCLA
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/politics-of-black-transnational-solidarity-in-north-africa-and-the-middle-east-a-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Spring Symposium: Centering the Black Legacies in Anthropological and Academic Creativity
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URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/spring-symposium-centering-the-black-legacies-in-anthropological-and-academic-creativity/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210515
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SUMMARY:Legacies of Political Detention and the Burmese Democracy Movement
DESCRIPTION:This panel is part of a series of teach-ins on the Burmese Democracy Movement\, organized with the goal of disseminating knowledge about violence perpetrated against political activist communities in Burma. This event was sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies\, UC Berkeley and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA. It was co-sponsored by UCLA’s Department of Anthropology. \nThe recording of the panel can be viewed on the UC Berkeley CSEAS YouTube channel. \nPanelists:\nAndrew M. Jefferson (Senior Researcher\, Danish Institute Against Torture)\nTomas Martin\, (Senior Researcher\, Danish Institute Against Torture)\nLiv Gaborit (Postdoctoral Researcher\, Department of Sociology\, Lund University)\nNay Tin Myint (former political prisoner; Chairman\, National League for Democracy Supporting Organization in the U.S.) \nModerator: Seinenu Thein Lemelson (Lecturer in Anthropology\, UCLA)\nTranslator: Kenneth Wong (Lecturer in Burmese\, South & Southeast Asian Studies\, UC Berkeley) \nThe panel begins with testimony from Nay Tin Myint\, former political prisoner and Chairman\, National League for Democracy Supporting Organization (NLDOS) in the U.S. This discussion continues with observations on political detention in Burma by three researchers involved in the Legacies of Detention project at DIGNITY – The Danish Institute Against Torture. DIGNITY has been conducting a project in Burmese prisons for the past several years. The panel also reflects on the issue of political detention and how it is connected now with the current Civil Disobedience Movement in the country. \nFor more information:\nDIGNITY\, https://www.dignity.dk/en/\nLegacies of Detention project\, https://legacies-of-detention.org/
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/legacies-of-political-detention-and-the-burmese-democracy-movement/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210513T121500
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SUMMARY:BEC - Kim TallBear - Indigenous STS\, Governance\, and Decolonization
DESCRIPTION:BEC is pleased to co-sponsor the following event with The American Indian Studies Center\, the Institute for Society and Genetics\, and the Culture\, Power\, and Social Change Group. \nNote special day and time and Zoom link: Thursday\, May 13\, 12:15 to 1:45 PST – https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97160150930 \n\n\n\nKim TallBear\nCanada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples\, Technoscience & Environment\nPierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow\nFaculty of Native Studies\, University of Alberta\nLike traditional Science and Technology Studies\, the new field of Indigenous STS studies the cultures\, politics\, and histories of non-Indigenous science and technology efforts. In addition\, it studies Indigenous-led science and technology\, including knowledges classified as “traditional.” Indigenous STS refuses the purported divide between scientific and Indigenous knowledges\, yet it does not conflate knowledge traditions. It understands them as potentially sharing methods while deriving in practice from different worldviews. Indigenous STS—comprised of mostly Indigenous thinkers trained and working in a variety of disciplines and applied fields—also focuses on science and technology knowledge production for social change (since technoscience has long been integral to colonialism). Indigenous STS works with scientists and those in technology fields to change fields from within. Some Indigenous STS scholars are practicing scientists. After discussing Indigenous STS foundations and goals\, this talk showcases the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING)\, a training program founded in 2011 in the US. SING has since expanded to Aotearoa/New Zealand\, Canada\, and Australia in conjunction with Indigenous STS efforts to support global Indigenous governance via science and technology. \nCo-sponsored by BEC\, The American Indian Studies Center\, the Institute for Society and Genetics\, and the Culture\, Power\, and Social Change Group \n  \nUnless otherwise noted\, all talks will be posted and publicly viewable on our UCLABEC channel on YouTube. \nSponsors of the BEC Speaker Series are listed at https://bec.ucla.edu/support/
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/bec-kim-tallbear-indigenous-sts-governance-and-decolonization/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T160000
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SUMMARY:Bathumi Ayul Abwol Dak - Policing and State Violence: Scholars in Conversation with Activists and Artists
DESCRIPTION:Part 4 of the Race\, Racism\, Policing and State Violence series \nBathumi Ayul Abwol Dak\, Research Coordinator\, Diversity for Strategic Studies.\nEditor in Chief\, Wajuma News\nTeatro do Oprimado (Theatre of the Oppressed) \n \nChaired by Zachary Modesire and Abdullah Puckett
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/bathumi-ayul-abwol-dak-policing-and-state-violence-scholars-in-conversation-with-activists-and-artists/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210405T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210405T165000
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SUMMARY:MMAC - Anna I. Corwin - Celebrating the upcoming publication of Embracing Age: How Cathplic Nuns Become Models of Aging Well
DESCRIPTION:Anna I. Corwin is a linguistic and psychological anthropologist. She received her PhD from UCLA and is an assistant professor of anthropology at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research and teaching interests span the fields of linguistic anthropology\, psychological anthropology\, the anthropology of religion\, aging\, and well-being. Corwin is a recipient of fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for her research on aging and well-being.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/mmac-anna-i-corwin-celebrating-the-upcoming-publication-of-embracing-age-how-cathplic-nuns-become-models-of-aging-well/
ORGANIZER;CN="Mind%2C Medicine%2C and Culture":MAILTO:nalamattina@g.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210308T150000
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CREATED:20210305T215840Z
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SUMMARY:MMAC - Yael Assor - ‘Objectivity’ as a Bureaucratic Virtue
DESCRIPTION:Mind\, Medicine\, and Culture is pleased to welcome back one of our own recent graduates\, Dr. Yael Assor. Her presentation and the reading draw on her doctoral research with a group of Israeli medical bureaucrats and is entitled “‘Objectivity’ as a Bureaucratic Virtue.” The abstract for her presentation is on the attached/embedded flyer. \n**(Please follow link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/vD8ewv98SwmCbJF7A)**\n***If you are already on the permanent Zoom RSVP list please do not RSVP again.\nAccess to the reading will be provided for those who have RSVPed. \nAcross bureaucratic contexts\, “objectivity” is a dominant conception of appropriate conduct. But what does it mean for bureaucrats to work “objectively”? Yael Assor will present her doctoral research\, in which she examined this question through fieldwork with a group of Israeli medical bureaucrats.  Focusing on four central meanings these bureaucrats gave to working objectively\, Assor traced how these meanings oriented their everyday work and considered its effects on policy decisions and dynamics of power between Israeli bureaucracy and its subjects.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/mmac-yael-assor-objectivity-as-a-bureaucratic-virtue/
ORGANIZER;CN="Mind%2C Medicine%2C and Culture":MAILTO:nalamattina@g.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210301T133000
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SUMMARY:BEC - Manvir Singh – The nature and origins of religious super-attractors
DESCRIPTION:Manvir Singh\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse \nHuman societies reliably develop “cultural super-attractors”\, or complex practices and beliefs that exhibit striking similarities. In this talk\, I will present research on the nature and origins of three religious super-attractors: shamanism\, religious self-denial\, and beliefs in supernatural punishment. These cultural practices appeared in the vast majority of human societies\, predated doctrinal religions\, and persist even when doctrinal religious authorities try to quash them. Drawing variously on cultural evolutionary theory\, cross-cultural comparative projects\, and studies conducted among the Mentawai people of Indonesia\, I will characterize these practices\, present hypotheses for why they recur\, and test those hypotheses against anthropological data. The findings of these projects suggest that religious super-attractors develop as people selectively retain cultural practices evaluated as best satisfying subjective goals.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/bec-manvir-singh-the-nature-and-origins-of-religious-super-attractors/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T170000
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SUMMARY:A Book Celebration with Diane C. Perlov - Driving the Samburu Bride: Fieldwork among Cattle Keepers in Kenya 
DESCRIPTION: A BOOK CELEBRATION!  \nThe Department of Anthropology cordially invites you to come celebrate  \na new book by Dr. Diane C. Perlov\, VP of Exhibits at the California Science Center \nUCLA MA Anthropology ’79\, UCLA PhD Anthropology ’87 \nDriving the Samburu Bride  \nFieldwork among Cattle Keepers in Kenya \n  \n Through Zoom \nRegister by February 22\, 2021 https://preview.tinyurl.com/PerlovTalk   
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/a-book-celebration-with-diane-c-perlov-driving-the-samburu-bride-fieldwork-among-cattle-keepers-in-kenya/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T150000
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SUMMARY:MMAC - Robert Lemelson - Person-Centered Interviewing and Visual Psychological Anthropology: Complexities and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:MMAC will not meet on 15 February in observance of Presidents’ Day.\n\n \n**(Please follow link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/vD8ewv98SwmCbJF7A)**\n \n***If you are already on the permanent Zoom RSVP list please do not RSVP again.\n\n\nDear All\,\n\nMind\, Medicine\, and Culture (MMAC) is pleased to be hosting Robert Lemelson. His presentation is entitled: “Person-Centered Interviewing and Visual Psychological Anthropology: Complexities and Challenges” (abstract is on the attached/embedded flyer). The chapter we will be reading and discussing is from a soon-to-be published book by Robert Lemelson and Annie Tucker\, Widening the Frame: Visual Psychological Anthropology on Trauma\, Gender-Based Violence\, and Stigma (Palgrave Macmillan\, forthcoming 2021).\n \nWhile a reading of the chapter “Visual Anthropology in the Field” will be enhanced by watching one\, two or all three of the films discussed\, the films are optional as the conversation at MMAC will revolve around the chapter and the presentation. For those who wish to view the films\, they are available on youtube:\n \nStanding on the Edge of a Thorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFmm0QT28Sc&t=1s\nBitter Honey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maPF9jVWuQM&t=2s\n40 Years of Silence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLT6G8FD3E4&bpctr=1612726008\n \nPlease note that the third film has been edited to conform with youtube policies. Some images of violence have been removed from the original.\n \nAccess to the reading will be provided for those who have RSVPed.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/mmac-robert-lemelson-person-centered-interviewing-and-visual-psychological-anthropology-complexities-and-challenges/
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SUMMARY:BEC - Paul Smaldino – The evolution of covert signaling in diverse societies
DESCRIPTION:Paul Smaldino\, Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences\, University of California\, Merced \nIdentity signals are common components of communication transmissions that inform receivers of the signaler’s membership (or non-membership) in a subset of individuals. Signals can be overt\, broadcast to all possible receivers\, or covert\, encrypted so that only similar receivers are likely to perceive their identity-relevant meaning. I’ll present an instrumental theory of identity signaling as a mechanism for social assortment\, formalized with both analytical and agent-based models. Covert signaling is favored when signalers are generous toward strangers\, when costs of being discovered as dissimilar are high\, and when the ability to assort only with preferred partners is restricted. Covert signaling should be more common among members of “invisible” minorities\, who are less likely to encounter similar individuals by chance. I’ll also discuss empirical projects underway to test and extend this theoretical framework using online political communication. This work has implications for theories of signaling and cooperation\, social identity\, pragmatics\, politics\, and the maintenance of diversity. \nThe BEC Speaker Series hosts presentations by renowned scholars from across the social\, behavioral\, and biological sciences whose work sheds light on human evolution\, including issues of cultural transmission\, behavioral ecology\, affect\, cognition\, and health.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/bec-paul-smaldino-the-evolution-of-covert-signaling-in-diverse-societies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210208T150000
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SUMMARY:MMAC - Elizabeth Fein - Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community
DESCRIPTION:MMAC is pleased to be hosting Elizabeth Fein to discuss her book Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community (NYU Press\, 2020)\, a two year\, multi-sited ethnographic study of how young people on the autism spectrum negotiate the meanings of their contested condition in their everyday lives\, in places where they live\, learn\, work\, play\, and love.\n\nWhat do autism spectrum diagnoses do? How do they aggregate people around particular sets of tendencies and proclivities\, and what are the consequences of that process? What happens when diagnoses such as Asperger’s Syndrome expand the terrain of neurodevelopmental disorder into new areas\, then constrict back into familiar\, medicalized forms? How do patterns of cognitive\, social\, interpretive\, affective\, and sensory difference shape our shared social worlds? And how do the demands of those worlds shape the set of developmental outcomes which we have come to call “autism”.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/mmac-elizabeth-fein-living-on-the-spectrum-autism-and-youth-in-community/
ORGANIZER;CN="Mind%2C Medicine%2C and Culture":MAILTO:nalamattina@g.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:BEC - Dorsa Amir – The development of decision-making across diverse cultural contexts
DESCRIPTION:Dorsa Amir\, Boston College Department of Psychology \nThe human behavioral repertoire is uniquely diverse\, with an unmatched flexibility that has allowed our species to flourish in every ecology on the planet. Despite its importance\, the roots of this behavioral diversity — and how it manifests across development and contexts — remain largely unexplored. I argue that a full account of human behavior requires a cross-cultural\, developmental approach that systematically examines how environmental variability shapes behavioral processes. In this talk\, I use the development of decision-making across diverse contexts as a window into the relationship between the socioecological environment and behavior. First\, I present the results of a cross-cultural investigation of risk and time preferences among children in India\, Argentina\, the United States\, and the Ecuadorian Amazon\, suggesting that market integration and related socioecological shifts lead to the development of more risk-seeking and future-oriented preferences. Second\, I present the early results of a five-culture investigation into the ontogeny of social preferences — namely\, trustworthiness\, forgiveness\, and fairness. Taken together\, these studies help elucidate the developmental origins of behavioral diversity across cultural contexts\, and underscore the utility of interdisciplinary research for explaining human behavior. \nThe BEC Speaker Series hosts presentations by renowned scholars from across the social\, behavioral\, and biological sciences whose work sheds light on human evolution\, including issues of cultural transmission\, behavioral ecology\, affect\, cognition\, and health.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/bec-dorsa-amir-the-development-of-decision-making-across-diverse-cultural-contexts/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T120000
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SUMMARY:BEC - Michael Tomasello – Becoming human: A theory of ontogeny
DESCRIPTION:Michael Tomasello\, Duke University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology \nHumans are biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Humans have unique motivations and cognitive skills for sharing emotions\, experience\, and collaborative actions (shared intentionality). These motivations and skills first emerge in human ontogeny at around one year of age\, as infants begin to participate with other persons in various kinds of collaborative and joint attentional activities\, including linguistic communication. Our nearest primate relatives understand important aspects of intentional action – especially in competitive situations – but they do not seem to have the motivations and cognitive skills necessary to engage in activities involving collaboration\, shared intentionality\, and\, in general\, things cultural. \nThe BEC Speaker Series hosts presentations by renowned scholars from across the social\, behavioral\, and biological sciences whose work sheds light on human evolution\, including issues of cultural transmission\, behavioral ecology\, affect\, cognition\, and health.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/bec-michael-tomasello-becoming-human-a-theory-of-ontogeny/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T100000
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SUMMARY:From Ethnography to Ethno-Graphic: Representing the Work of the Police
DESCRIPTION:Black Lives Matter: Global Perspectives Webinar Series with Dider Fassin \nOrganizers: UCLA International Institute; UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies; Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy\n\nCo-sponsors: Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities (Semel Institute)\, David Geffen School of Medicine; Global Health Program\, David Geffen School of Medicine; UCLA Department of Anthropology \n\n  \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER\n** After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Zoom webinar. Please note\, you will only be able to join the webinar at the specified time and date. \nDuring the 15 months between the death of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore and subsequent unrest in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005\, and the deaths of the adolescents Moushin and Laramy and subsequent uprising in another Paris suburb\, Villiers-le-Bel\, in 2007\, Dider Fassin conducted research on police work in poor neighborhoods on the outskirts of Paris. His research focused on the everyday life of the dreaded anti-crime squads\, ordinary racial discrimination and the banality of violence. \nThis research was initially translated into a book (“Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing\,” Polity\, 2013)\, as can be expected from an ethnography\, and more recently\, into comics that comprise an ethno-graphic (“La force de l’ordre. Une enquête ethno-graphique\,” Seuil/Delcourt\, 2020). \nFassin’s lecture will reflect on the variations in representation of this research as it related to the chosen form\, and on their echoes in the public sphere as events involving police abuses unfold. \nDidier Fassin\, James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton University\, and Annual Chair in Public Health\, Collège de France\, is an anthropologist and a sociologist who has conducted fieldwork in Senegal\, Ecuador\, South Africa and France. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health\, he dedicated his early research to medical anthropology\, focusing on the AIDS epidemic and health inequalities. He later developed the field of critical moral anthropology\, which explores the historical\, social\, and political signification of moral forms involved in everyday judgment and action\, as well as in the making of national policies and international relations. \nFassin has also carried out an ethnography of the state\, through a study of urban policing and the prison system. His recent work is on the theory of punishment\, the politics of life and the public presence of the social sciences\, which he presented for the Tanner Lectures\, the Adorno Lectures  and at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences\, respectively. A recipient of the Nomis Distinguished Scientist Award\, he is currently involved in a global program on crises\, examining in particular the cases of migrants and refugees. For his course at the Collège de France\, he explores contemporary stakes in public health\, with special reference to the coronavirus pandemic. \nHe regularly contributes to newspapers such as Le Monde and magazines such as the London Review of Books. His recent books include “Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present” (2011)\, “Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing” (2013)\, “At the Heart of the State: The Moral World of Institutions” (2015)\, “Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition” (2016)\, “The Will to Punish” (2018)\, “Life: A Critical User’s Manual” (2018)\, and “Death of a Traveller: A Counter Investigation” (forthcoming 2021). \nDISCUSSANTS\nAslı Ü. Bâli is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and Faculty Director of the UCLA Law Promise Institute for Human Rights. Her principal scholarly interests lie in two areas: public international law—including human rights law and the law of the international security order—and comparative constitutional law\, with a focus on the Middle East. \nAomar Boum is Associate Professor at UCLA Department of Anthropology. He is a socio-cultural anthropologist with a historical bent concerned with the social and cultural representation of and political discourse about religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East and North Africa.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/from-ethnography-to-ethno-graphic-representing-the-work-of-the-police/
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SUMMARY:MMAC - Roy Richard Grinker - Nobody’s Normal
DESCRIPTION:Mind\, Medicine\, and Culture (MMAC) is pleased to be hosting Roy Richard Grinker to discuss his upcoming book Nobody’s Normal. In preparation we will read his recent article in Current Anthropology “Autism\, “Stigma\,” Disability: A Shifting Historical Terrain” (2020). \nIn this presentation on his new book Nobody’s Normal (W.W. Norton; release date Jan. 26\, 2021)\, Roy R. Grinker argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history\, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness\, that we learn from within our communities\, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today\, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. \nGrinker infuses his work with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry\, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud\, his own daughter’s experience with autism\, and culminating in his own research on neurodiversity. \n**(Please follow link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/vD8ewv98SwmCbJF7A)** \n***If you are already on the permanent Zoom RSVP list please do not RSVP again.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/mmac-roy-richard-grinker-nobodys-normal/
ORGANIZER;CN="Mind%2C Medicine%2C and Culture":MAILTO:nalamattina@g.ucla.edu
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