Tales from a MultiCultural Classroom, JAMK University Student Films – Just Got Better!

Teaching Resource Videos Made By Students

Steve Crawford and Ronan Browne have been working hard with the students of the JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland, supporting them in making meaningful cultural films that reflect various themes and their own views, and, experiences.

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The 129 videos are free to use and intended as teaching aids for your classroom.

Here is a link to the channel and an introduction by Steve Crawford.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6p0Wps-7OxNGSCmTTZrdVw

Collaboration Part 3 – 15 Collaborative Behaviours To Change Your Group’s Outcomes

Collaborate or Die #collaboration #virtual #cooperation #team #work #outcome #improvement #culture #diversity #people We are meant to play nicely, work as a team and respect each other. In Part 1, we expanded on 10 reasons why this often fails to … Continue reading

“A blank slate? Brain Science and Cultures” Florence, 4 – 6th April 2019

Roberto Ruffino reminds us that registration is now open for this important International conference taking place in Florence on 4th to 6th April 2019, Please visit the conference site;

PROGRAMME  – A BLANK SLATE?

NEUROSCIENZE E CULTURE / BRAIN SCIENCE AND CULTURES

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Florence Firenze, 4th-6th April 2019 

Thursday 4th April (3.00-6.00 pm) – Inaugural session

Palazzo Vecchio, Salone dei Cinquecento

Roberto Ruffino, Fondazione Intercultura                    Benvenuto/Welcome

Issues about the transfer of culture

Steven Pinker, Harvard University                                The Blank Slate  (video presentation)

Lamberto Maffei, Università di Pisa                            Guardare, vedere, immagini del tempo

Peter Richerson, University of California                     Not by Genes Alone: How Culture

Transformed Human Evolution

Martin Gessmann, Hochschule fur Gestaltung                         Mind Meets Brain: The True Impact of Neuroscience Offenbach am Main                                                     on Philosophy

Mai Nguyen Phuong Mai, Amsterdam University          There is no blank slate. The role of genes,

neurons, behaviour and geography in the

reshaping of cultures

Panel Discussion (9.00 pm)

Firenze, Hotel Mediterraneo, Centro Congressi

Milton Bennett IDRI Institute – Ying-yi Hong, Chinese University of Hong Kong:

A debate “Culture, Cognition, and Consciousness”

Friday 5th April (all day) – Parallel Workshops

Firenze, Hotel Mediterraneo, Centro Congressi

09.00 -11.00 – We are all human beings

Shalom H. Schwartz, University of Jerusalem              Universal values across cultures

Lilach Sagiv, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Richard Nisbett, University of Michigan                      Culture, genes and intelligence

Andrea Moro, Scuola Univ Sup. IUSS Pavia                Sintassi, cervello e lingue impossibili

Alberto Piazza, Università di Torino                            La conservazione della memoria genetica

Giuseppe Mantovani, Universià di Padova                  L’educazione interculturale al tempo dei sovranismi

con Simone Giusti                                                     Storia globale e traduzione nella scuola

Mark Pagel, University of Reading                               Origins of the Human Social Mind

Adriano Favole, Università di Torino                           Nature e Culture: l’irriducibile pluralità

Stefano Allovio, Università Statale di Milano              dell’umano

11.30 -13.30 – Cultures and the unconscious

Sudhir Kakar, Psychoanalyst, Goa                               Cultures and Psyche

Paolo Inghilleri, Università di Milano                          La cultura e i geni non si trasmettono da soli:

il ruolo della mente

Hannah Monyer, University of Heidelberg                   Brain Plasticity and Memory

Giacomo Rizzolatti, Università di Parma                       La doppia vita delle espressioni emozionali

Fausto Caruana, Università di Parma

Neil Levy, Macquarie University           Sydney              Neuro-ethics

Shinobu Kitayama, University of Michigan                    Interaction between culture and brain

Romano Madera, Universita di Milano Bicocca             Dalla pseudospeciazione al capro espiatorio

15.00 -17.00 – Cervello, coscienza, culture/Brain, consciousness and cultures

David Sloane Wilson, Binghamton University              Cultural evolution is a blank slate in the same way                                                                              as other evolutionary processes

Joseph Shaules, Juntedo University                            A Deep Culture Approach to Intercultural Learning:                                                                            Culture Cognition and the Intuitive Mind

Milena Santerini, Università Cattolica Milano             Educazione morale e neuroscienze

Franco Fabbro, Università di Udine                             Basi neuropsicologiche dell’esperienza religiosa

Marcello Massimini, Università di Milano                    Definire e misurare il valore dello stato di coscienza

Guido Barbujani, Università di Ferrara                                    L’invenzione delle razze

Saturday 6th April (morning) – Plenary session

Firenze, Hotel Mediterraneo, Centro Congressi

  • Video-summary of items from previous day’s                                                                           workshops
  • Dialogo su culture, cervello, geni e valori/ A dialogue                                                                        on cultures, brain, genes and values:
  • Ian Tattersall, NY Museum of Natural History
  • Susanna Mantovani, Università di Milano Bicocca
  • Francesco Cavalli Sforza, Università San Raffaele di Milano

12.00-13.00                                                                 Wrap up and Conclusions

  • Roberto Toscano, Presidente Fondazione Intercultura