Understanding how we think and behave can provide critical insights for social entrepreneurs who rely on individual and group behaviour change for success. We will explore how aggression can spread from a one-on-one encounter to encompass entire groups, often resulting in warfare, genocide or violence against women or children. Join a neuroscientist, primatologist, psychiatrist and anthropologist, for a groundbreaking journey from the most basic research in mice and flies, to human psycho-social constructs, to real world strategies of entrepreneurs on the frontlines.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
14:00 - 15:45, Thursday, April 11, 2013 BSTLocation:
Lecture Theatre 4
Speakers
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SpeakerProfessor of Biology, Investigator, California Institute of TechnologyDavid 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…
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SpeakerHead of Department of Psychological Medicine, Kings College LondonSimon 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…
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SpeakerFounding Director IDSP - Pakistan, Institute for Development Studies and PracticesBorn 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…
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SpeakerProfessor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University-NewarkR. 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…
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SpeakerCEO, Community and Individual Development Association, Community and Individual Development Association City CampusDr Taddy Blecher is CEO/ co-founder of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute, a multi-award winning educational institution, in 11-locations across 3-countries. Dr Blecher co-founded the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson. He is Chairperson of the E3 initiative for the…
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SpeakerProfessor, University of MichiganJohn 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…