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March 2021
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel A. van der Kolk M.D. is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post traumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment. Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer reviewed scientific articles on…
Find out more »Trauma and Truth: A Law and Neuroscience Perspective on Episodic Memory, Credibility and Asylum Law
Dr. Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD is a Professor of Law, McKnight Presidential Fellow, and faculty member in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota, where he directs the Shen Neurolaw Lab, whose Lab motto is, “Every story is a brain story.” In fall 2020 he is a Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, teaching Criminal Law. He is also Executive Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior,…
Find out more »April 2021
“The Spanish Civil War’s Persistent Images: On the Migration of Two Icons of Anticlericalism”
The CLA Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop on Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Art and Science Announces a Public Lecture Dr. Vicente Sánchez-Biosca is a Professor of Communication and Visual Culture at the University of Valencia (Spain) and was Chair Holder of the King Juan Carlos Center of NYU in 2013. A visiting scholar at the University of Montreal (1992-1996), Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle) (2010-2015), among others, he leads two major research projects on perpetrators and perpetration of…
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