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| Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 |
| The Science of Making Friends |
| Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. she is also the Founder and Director of the UCLA PEERS Clinic and the Director of The Help Group, UCLA Autism Research Alliance. Dr. Laugeson will discuss her latest book, The Science of Making Friends. Based on her research and work at UCLA, Dr. Laugeson's book teaches skills to socially challenged teens and young adults to help them make friends. |
7:00 PM Fowler Museum, UCLA see map
Admission is free but reservations are required. |
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or RSVP to 424-214-3851 or patty@friendsofsemelinstitute.org
Parking available in Lot 4 see map |
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| Thursday, October 17, 2013 |
The Getty Center/ The Friends of the Semel Institute Co-Hosted Open Mind Lecture
Art and Neuroscience : Possibilities for the Future |
David Freedberg, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and Director of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, will discuss how an understanding of new developments in cognitive neuroscience helps us better understand viewers' responses to works of art.
He will give examples of motor responses to both paintings and sculptures, and set out the ways in which emotional and bodily involvement with visual representations underlie all pleasure and esthetic engagement with them. |
7:00 PM Harold M. Williams Auditorium at the Getty Center Los Angeles see map
Admission is free but reservations are required. |
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or RSVP at 424-214-3851 or patty@friendsofsemelinstitute.org
Parking available at the Getty Center for $10 |
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| Tuesday, December 3, 2013 |
Open Mind Lecture
Predicting Violence vs. Protecting People |
| Park Dietz, MD, PhD, MPH, is a forensic psychiatrist who has consulted or testified in many of the highest profile US criminal cases including Jeffrey Dahmer, The Unabomber, the Beltway sniper attacks, and Jared Lee Loughner. Dr. Dietz came to national prominence in 1982 during his five days of testimony as the prosecution’s expert witness in the trial of John Hinckley, Jr., for his attempted assassination of President Reagan on March 30, 1981. Dr. Dietz will talk about predicting violence vs. protecting people. |
7:00 PM Grand Horizon Room at Covel Commons see map
Admission is free but reservations are required. |
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or RSVP to 424-214-3851 or patty@friendsofsemelinstitute.org
Parking available in lot PSV see map |
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| Tuesday, February 4, 2014 |
Open Mind Lecture
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity |
| Andrew Solomon, winner of the National Book Award for his best selling book Noonday Demons, will discuss his latest critically acclaimed book Far From the Tree Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. An activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the arts, Solomon’s book Far From the Tree has been described by critics as a book of extraordinary ambition. Solomon sets out to understand how parents raise children who are radically different from them, children whose “vertical” identity, traits passed from parent to child, is overshadowed by extraordinary “horizontal” traits such as deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, disability, genius, children of rape, crime and transgenderism. |
7:00 PM Northwest Campus Auditorium see map
Admission is free but reservations are required. |
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or RSVP to 424-214-3851 or patty@friendsofsemelinstitute.org
Parking available in lot PSV see map |
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| Tuesday, March 4, 2014 |
Open Mind Lecture
Addiction |
| David Sheff is the author of Clean, a myth-shattering look at drug abuse. He is also the author of the New York Times best-seller, memoir Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction. Based on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it. Sheff, a journalist, has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Wired, Fortune, and National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” |
7:00 PM Northwest Campus Auditorium see map
Admission is free but reservations are required. |
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or RSVP to 424-214-3851 or patty@friendsofsemelinstitute.org
Parking available in lot PSV see map |
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