FALL 2026 Programming Announcement is on the way!
University Event Topic: Lectures & Meetings. Ongoing Event. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Speaker/Presenter: While we are loading up our new events you can check out our 2025-2026 programming review video here!
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Saturday, August 15, 2026.
CMBC LECTURE | Robert Wilson
LECTURE TITLE AND ABSTRACT forthcoming.
University Event Topic: Lectures & Meetings. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Series: CMBC Lectures. Speaker/Presenter: Robert "Bob" Wilson
Associate Professor, School of Psychology | College of Sciences | Georgia Institute of Technology. Event Open To: Emory Community. Cost: Free.
Thursday, September 17, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
CMBC LECTURE | Marion Thain "Attention Studies: Configuring a New 'Interdisciplinary Discipline'"
Attention Studies: Configuring a New 'Interdisciplinary Discipline' (location to be confirmed - check back closer to event)
Distraction is experienced as one of the key challenges of our time. Digital distractions have been blamed for everything up to and including the destruction of democracy. How can universities rise to the challenge of providing a research base for exploring the concept of attention? Every discipline studies attention in some form or another. Psychology, neurobiology and psychiatry study systems of attention within the brain and the person. Social science, and humanities disciplines study the politics, sociologies and cultural workings of attention. The arts explore how different art forms manipulate attention differently and for different ends. All of these disciplines use radically different methodologies in their exploration of attention and all explore different facets of the same attention system. So, what happens if we try to bring all of this together to articulate a new…
University Event Topic: Lectures & Meetings. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Series: CMBC Lectures. Speaker/Presenter: Marion Thain
Director of Edinburgh Futures Institute
Professor, Culture and Technology | University of Edinburgh. Event Open To: Emory Community. Cost: Free.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
CMBC LECTURE | Melissa Perrault
LECTURE TITLE AND ABSTRACT forthcoming.
University Event Topic: Lectures & Meetings. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Series: CMBC Lectures | Frontiers in Neuroscience. Speaker/Presenter: Melissa Perrault
Professor, Ontario Veterinary College, Department of Biological Sciences | University of Guelph. Event Open To: Emory Community. Cost: Free.
Friday, October 30, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
CMBC LECTURE | Talia Dan-Cohen
LECTURE TITLE AND ABSTRACT forthcoming.
University Event Topic: Lectures & Meetings. School: Emory College. Department / Organization: Center for Mind Brain and Culture. Series: CMBC Lectures. Speaker/Presenter: Talia Dan-Cohen
Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology
Associate Director of the Center for the Humanities
Department of Anthropology | Washington University in St. Louis. Event Open To: Emory Community. Cost: Free.
Friday, November 6, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.