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Dear Colleague,
You are invited to participate in a national multidisciplinary seminar on Human Cognitive Enhancement: Expectations, Ethics and Identity. For full details, please see attached memo.
This is the third meeting in an ESRC funded seminar series on Neuroscience, Identity and Society, jointly organised between the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society (IGBiS, University of Nottingham) and the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society (BIOS, LSE). It aims to bring together social scientists, psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, philosophers, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and scholars from a range of other disciplines to discuss the meaning and implications of new technologies than enhance cognition and alter mood.
Speakers:
Professor Barbara Sahakian (University of Cambridge)
Dr Ilina Singh (Methodology Institute and BIOS Centre, LSE)
Dr Scott Vrecko (BIOS Centre, LSE)
The meeting with be introduced by Professor Nikolas Rose (BIOS Centre, LSE)
Date: 11.30-17.00, Tuesday 20th June 2006
Venue: Conference Room (R505) of the ESRC Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), 5th Floor, Library Building, London School of Economics
Booking details: Numbers will be strictly limited to ensure plenty of opportunity for participation, so please book early. Previous seminars have been heavily oversubscribed. To request a booking form, or any further information, please contact: [log in to unmask], or visit the series website at: www.neuroscienceandsociety.org
I hope you will be able to attend and I look forward to seeing you in London.
Yours sincerely
Paul Martin
Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society
University of Nottingham
www.neuroscienceandsociety.org
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