The Emotional Brain: The Science and Anthropology of Aggression
Speakers
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Professor of Biology, Investigator, California Institute of Technology
David J. Anderson, PhD, is Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology at Caltech and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His laboratory studies the neural circuitry of emotional behaviours in both mice and fruit flies. Dr. Anderson received his AB at Harvard and PhD at Rockefeller University where he trained with Nobelist Günter Blobel. Following postdoctoral studies at Columbia University with Nobelist Richard Axel, Dr. Anderson joined the Caltech faculty in 1986. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
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Head of Department of Psychological Medicine, Kings College London
Simon Wessely is Professor and Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine and Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He has a Doctorate in Epidemiology and has over 600 original publications, with an emphasis on the boundaries of medicine and psychiatry, unexplained symptoms and syndromes, population reactions to adversity and epidemiology. He has co-authored books on chronic fatigue syndrome, randomised controlled trials and a history of military psychiatry.
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Born in 1949 , raised in a refugee settlement in Karachi, completed high school and married off. Had 3 children at 21 , completed Masters in social work, first community assignment construction of pit toilets in the homes of 5000 poor families living in squatter’s community. The sanitation project helped create national policy , Completed PhD “ Sanitation to development “ from university of technology LOUGHBOROUGH UK .
Created methodologies of creating partnerships with the communities in Balochistan, established 2200 rural girls primary schools, enrolling more than 200,000 girls. Establish INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AND PRACTICE 7000 graduates, created Leadership training for Community Midwives 400 women empowered as Community midwives,
Organic agriculture with 300 small and landless farmers. Environment friendly campus for University of Community Development.
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Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark
R. Brian Ferguson is a cultural/historical anthropologist who has studied war for three decades. His publications analyse war among tribal peoples, ancient states, in the early archaeological record, recent identity-linked conflicts, and counterinsurgency. His goal has been to develop a unified theoretical approach that applies across contexts. Two other interests are the origins of organised crime and the development of policing in New York City. He directs the graduate programme in Peace and Conflict Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
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Dr Taddy Blecher is CEO of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute and the Imvula Empowerment Trust, CEO of the Community and Individual Development Association, and Chairperson of the SA National Government team on Entrepreneurship, Education, & Employability.
He is a pioneer of the free tertiary education movement in South Africa, helping to create six free access institutions of higher learning as well as co-founding the Branson School of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson. As a result, over 21,000 unemployed South Africans have been educated, found employment, and moved from unemployment into the middle-class.
As a qualified actuary and management consultant, Dr Blecher is passionate about the approach of Consciousness-Based Education, a system of education developing the full potential of every student. This has led the Maharishi Institute to winning multiple prizes including the first prize in a global competition for the most innovative education initiative in the world
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Professor, University of Michigan
John Mitani is the James N. Spuhler Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is a primate behavioural ecologist who investigates the behaviour of our closest living relatives, the apes. During the past 34 years, he has conducted fieldwork on the behaviour of all five kinds of apes: gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees. His current research involves studies of an extremely large community of wild chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda.
