Duke Students

Duke NeuroHumanities in Paris

Students show their plastic models of the brain during a lesson in human brain anatomy

The Duke Neurohumanities in Paris global education program brings a vertically integrated, internationallearning community into sustained dialogue to advance knowledge and theorizations at the crossroads of neuroscience and the humanities.

The program is taught with a collaborative modular team of faculty, including Professors Deborah Jenson, Leonard White, Marianne Wardle, and Elizabeth Johnson. The program will unfold in the context of exploring the common ground in systems of knowledge derived from our contemporary understanding of brain organization and function and historical and emerging discourses in the humanities. Themes to be emphasized include the meaning of movement, embodied cognition, visual perception, and the use of color, texture and form in the visual arts. Our methods will include studies of neuroscience, literary readings, performative human movement, and visual art. Faculty will invite a selection of guest scholars who will assist in forging ties between Duke faculty and students and the local Parisian interdisciplinary neuroscience and humanities community.

Papers of the Duke NeuroHumanities Students 2015

Katherine Berko, Living in Two Mimetic Worlds - An Instant Message Conversation Between Socrates and Tito

Alison Chan, Exploring the scientific basis of mimesis - I move, therefore I am

Laura Herman, The Intersection of Science and Art - Mind Reading and Face Reading

Sam Yin, Movement and Perception