How have people thought about mental illness in different cultures, and are there positive aspects associated with it, thinking historically and scientifically? Should we think of mental illness as categorically different or as deviations from the normal healthy state? What measures other than pharmaceutical medicines can be helpful for maintaining positive mental health? Join us as we take a deep dive into the biological, historical and psychological aspects of mental illness.

A panel featuring: Prof. Anne Harrington (History of Science),
Prof....

Speaker: David S. Jones

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Brendan J. Meade, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Daniel Gilbert, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, and Scott Kuindersma, Assistant Professor of Engineering & Computer Science, will talk about natural disasters, how to predict them, why we aren't properly concerned about risks of this...

Title: "Audile Scarification: Notes on the Normalization of Hearing Damage"

Jonathan Sterne,
Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University

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Title: "Ghost Fathers and Adultery by Doctor: The Medical and Legal Origins of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, 1920-1978"