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CMBC Co-Sponsor | Social Empathy Lab

Social Empathy Lab convenes in the CMBC Conference Room. University Event Topic: Seminars & Workshops. Other. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. Series: Social Empathy Lab. Building/Room: Psychology Building. Speaker/Presenter: Chikako Ozawa-de Silva Co-Director, Social Empathy Lab Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology Graduate Faculty, Anthropology / Sociology / Religion Brendan Ozawa-de Silva Associate Teaching Professor, The Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics ​​​​​​​. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. Contact Email: bozawad@emory.edu. Friday, September 19, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. PAIS 464.

CMBC LECTURE | Gil Weinberg "Embodied Creative Machines"

Embodied Creative MachinesHuman creativity is directly linked to embodied interaction with the physical environment. At the Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech, we explore how embodiment effects and enhances both human and artificial creativity. The talk will present a wide range of robotic projects developed at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology over the last 20 years, from robotic musicians that compose, improvise, and interact with humans in a variety of musical genres, through robotic dancers that respond to human movement, to prosthetic robotic arms that enable amputees to play musical instruments. Gil Weinberg is a professor and the founding director of Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where he leads the Robotic Musicianship group. His research focuses on developing artificial creativity and musical expression for robots and augmented humans. Among his projects are a marimba playing robotic musician called Shimon that uses machine learning for Jazz improvisation, and a prosthetic… University Event Topic: Lectures & Meetings. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. Series: CMBC Lectures. Building/Room: Atwood Chemistry Center. Speaker/Presenter: Gil Weinberg Professor, School of Music and Founding Director of the Center for Music Technology | Georgia Institute of Technology. Event Open To: Emory Community. Cost: Free. Thursday, September 25, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Atwood 360.

CMBC READING GROUP "Humankind: A Hopeful History" by Rutger Bregman

If you are interested in reading and discussing this book with some archaeologists, historians, and others, please join our CMBC Reading Group! We will be meeting on Fridays 9/12, 9/25, 10/24, 11/21 from 3P-4:15P  Please email dwstout@emory.edu to register. The CMBC is excited to provide support for faculty wishing to organize a research, reading, and/or interest group on a given topic. To seek funding for a future interest group, visit our website.. . University Event Topic: Faculty. Special Event. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Dietrich Stout. Series: CMBC Reading Group. Building/Room: Psychology Building. Speaker/Presenter: Dietrich Stout / organizer CMBC Director Chair and Professor, Department of Anthropology. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Dietrich Stout. Contact Email: dwstout@emory.edu. Friday, September 26, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. PAIS 464.

CMBC Co-Sponsor | Social Empathy Lab

Social Empathy Lab convenes in the CMBC Conference Room. University Event Topic: Seminars & Workshops. Other. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. Series: Social Empathy Lab. Building/Room: Psychology Building. Speaker/Presenter: Chikako Ozawa-de Silva Co-Director, Social Empathy Lab Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology Graduate Faculty, Anthropology / Sociology / Religion Brendan Ozawa-de Silva Associate Teaching Professor, The Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics ​​​​​​​. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. Contact Email: bozawad@emory.edu. Friday, October 3, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. PAIS 464.

CMBC Co-Sponsor | Social Empathy Lab

Social Empathy Lab convenes in the CMBC Conference Room. University Event Topic: Seminars & Workshops. Other. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. Series: Social Empathy Lab. Building/Room: Psychology Building. Speaker/Presenter: Chikako Ozawa-de Silva Co-Director, Social Empathy Lab Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology Graduate Faculty, Anthropology / Sociology / Religion Brendan Ozawa-de Silva Associate Teaching Professor, The Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics ​​​​​​​. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. Contact Email: bozawad@emory.edu. Friday, October 17, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. PAIS 464.

CMBC LUNCH | N Apurva Ratan Murty and Jared Medina "To Predict or To Explain"

To Predict or To Explain, RSVP requiredWhat is even the point of our science? Is it to build models that predict what brains and minds will do even if we don’t fully understand how, or is it to explain the inner workings of the mind and brain, even if our models fall short of accurate predictions or practical mental health benefits. In this debate-styled meeting, Jared Medina will argue for explanation as the soul of science. Without causal, interpretable, mechanistic accounts, we’re just playing with high-tech models and curve-fitting. For him the goal of our science is about generating understanding in human interpretable terms. On the opposing side, Apurva Ratan Murty will champion prediction as the only reliable test of scientific understanding. If your theory can’t predict new data, it has limited value. Models that generalize, however messy or uninterpretable, are the real engines of discovery and measure of progress. This brings us to the core of the conflict. Is prediction sufficient for… University Event Topic: Lectures & Meetings. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. Series: CMBC Lunch. Speaker/Presenter: N Apurva Ratan Murty Assistant Professor, Psychology | Georgia Institute of Technology Jared Medina Associate Professor, Psychology | Emory University. Event Open To: Emory Community. Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://forms.gle/czKbeQJzrSBsLr1bA. Contact Name: Tamara Beck. Contact Email: tamara.beck@emory.edu. Thursday, October 23, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. PAIS 464.

CMBC READING GROUP "Humankind: A Hopeful History" by Rutger Bregman

If you are interested in reading and discussing this book with some archaeologists, historians, and others, please join our CMBC Reading Group! We will be meeting on Fridays 9/12, 9/25, 10/24, 11/21 from 3P-4:15P  Please email dwstout@emory.edu to register. The CMBC is excited to provide support for faculty wishing to organize a research, reading, and/or interest group on a given topic. To seek funding for a future interest group, visit our website.. . University Event Topic: Faculty. Special Event. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Dietrich Stout. Series: CMBC Reading Group. Building/Room: Psychology Building. Speaker/Presenter: Dietrich Stout / organizer CMBC Director Chair and Professor, Department of Anthropology. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Dietrich Stout. Contact Email: dwstout@emory.edu. Friday, October 24, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. PAIS 464.

CMBC LECTURE | David Sloan Wilson "Mind, Brain and Culture from a Generalized Darwinian Perspective"

Mind, Brain and Culture from a Generalized Darwinian Perspective Generalized Darwinism refers to any process combining the three ingredients of variation, selection, and replication (VSR). It is both old and new: Old, because all the insights associated with Darwinism during its first few decades were in ignorance of the proximate mechanisms of VSR. New, because with the advent of Mendelian genetics, the entire study of evolution became focused on genes, to the exclusion of other VSR processes. A return to generalized Darwinism didn’t commence until the closing decades of the 20th century and is now in full swing, with profound implications for our understanding of mind, brain, and culture. University Event Topic: Lectures & Meetings. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. Series: CMBC Lectures. Speaker/Presenter: David Sloan Wilson Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology / Biological Sciences Binghamton University | State University of New York David Sloan Wilson Online Archive, Prosocial World. Event Open To: Emory Community. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Tamara Beck. Contact Email: tamara.beck@emory.edu. Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. 1462 Clifton Road Building, Room 230 (NOTE: corrected address).

CMBC LECTURE | Deepu Murty "Understanding, Remembering, and Communicating Threatening Events"

Understanding, Remembering, and Communicating Threatening EventsThreat alters how we represent information. Under threat, individuals tend to prioritize central details at the expense of surrounding contextual information—a shift that reflects and drives changes in medial temporal lobe (MTL) and cortical network dynamics. This talk will explore how threat reshapes the neural architecture supporting event comprehension, which has downstream consequences on how this information is stored in long-term memory. Moreover, we will show how these shifts in brain networks change how threatening experiences are communicated to others. By examining the interplay between emotion, memory, and social dynamics, we highlight mechanisms through which threat can distort shared understanding and social transmission of information. These findings have broad implications for domains ranging from eyewitness testimony to psychotherapy, which both rely on the accurate communication of threatening events. Lunch reception afterwards… University Event Topic: Lectures & Meetings. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture / Frontiers in Neuroscience. Series: CMBC Lectures / Frontiers in Neuroscience. Building/Room: Whitehead Bldg. Speaker/Presenter: Deepu Murty Associate Professor, Chair of the Committee for an Inclusive Community Psychology | University of Oregon. Event Open To: Emory Community. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Tamara Beck. Contact Email: tamara.beck@emory.edu. Friday, October 31, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. Whitehead Auditorium.

CMBC Co-Sponsor | Social Empathy Lab

Social Empathy Lab convenes in the CMBC Conference Room. University Event Topic: Seminars & Workshops. Other. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. Series: Social Empathy Lab. Building/Room: Psychology Building. Speaker/Presenter: Chikako Ozawa-de Silva Co-Director, Social Empathy Lab Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology Graduate Faculty, Anthropology / Sociology / Religion Brendan Ozawa-de Silva Associate Teaching Professor, The Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics ​​​​​​​. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. Contact Email: bozawad@emory.edu. Friday, October 31, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. PAIS 464.

CMBC Co-Sponsor | Social Empathy Lab

Social Empathy Lab convenes in the CMBC Conference Room. University Event Topic: Seminars & Workshops. Other. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. Series: Social Empathy Lab. Building/Room: Psychology Building. Speaker/Presenter: Chikako Ozawa-de Silva Co-Director, Social Empathy Lab Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology Graduate Faculty, Anthropology / Sociology / Religion Brendan Ozawa-de Silva Associate Teaching Professor, The Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics ​​​​​​​. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. Contact Email: bozawad@emory.edu. Friday, November 14, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. PAIS 464.

CMBC READING GROUP "Humankind: A Hopeful History" by Rutger Bregman

If you are interested in reading and discussing this book with some archaeologists, historians, and others, please join our CMBC Reading Group! We will be meeting on Fridays 9/12, 9/25, 10/24, 11/21 from 3P-4:15P  Please email dwstout@emory.edu to register. The CMBC is excited to provide support for faculty wishing to organize a research, reading, and/or interest group on a given topic. To seek funding for a future interest group, visit our website.. . University Event Topic: Faculty. Special Event. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Dietrich Stout. Series: CMBC Reading Group. Building/Room: Psychology Building. Speaker/Presenter: Dietrich Stout / organizer CMBC Director Chair and Professor, Department of Anthropology. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Dietrich Stout. Contact Email: dwstout@emory.edu. Friday, November 21, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM. PAIS 464.

CMBC Co-Sponsor | Social Empathy Lab

Social Empathy Lab convenes in the CMBC Conference Room. University Event Topic: Seminars & Workshops. Other. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Meeting Organizer/Sponsor: Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. Series: Social Empathy Lab. Building/Room: Psychology Building. Speaker/Presenter: Chikako Ozawa-de Silva Co-Director, Social Empathy Lab Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology Graduate Faculty, Anthropology / Sociology / Religion Brendan Ozawa-de Silva Associate Teaching Professor, The Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics ​​​​​​​. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. Contact Email: bozawad@emory.edu. Friday, December 5, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. PAIS 464.