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Developmental Origins of Brain Circuit Architecture and Psychiatric Disorders (Day 1)

Developmental Origins of Brain Circuit Architecture and Psychiatric Disorders (Day 1)

Air date: Thursday, November 29, 2018, 8:30:00 AM

Category: Conferences

Runtime: 07:43:30

Description: Developmental neurobiology is a critical ingredient for understanding the structure and function of the human brain. Classical anatomists recognized that the brain’s component architecture is most accurately seen through the lens of neurodevelopment. This principle has been further applied to understand the brain’s internal connections, capacity for learning, and functional maturation. By drawing together researchers from different fields, this symposium aims to generate healthy discussion and debate on how advances in neurodevelopment have shaped and will continue to shape, our understanding of brain architecture and function, both in health and in psychiatric disorders.

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Author: National Institute of Mental Health, NIH

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2017 AM: Executive Session: Beyond the African Burial Ground:

Cont. Anthropological and trans-disciplinary innovations in theory, methods, and technologies

The New York African Burial Ground Project that studied an 18th century African cemetery in downtown Manhattan always recognized its positioning within complex currents of a critical social history of scholarship and anthropological practice. Established in 1992, the Project synthesized mutual values of memorialization and research in a program empowered by New York’s “descendant community” seeking to disable white supremacy in anthropological constructions of African American memory. The result was an unparalleled, ethnically integrated, interdisciplinary research team led by African Americans. Together, descendant communities and the Project team realized ancestral reclamation and reburial, erection of a US National Monument and a Visitor Center, which continue to tell the stories of “enslaved Africans” in New York.
This Session considers the ongoing theoretical, methodological, and interpretive implications of ethical public engagement in anthropology, first prominently represented by the Project. Publicly engaged research designs and language, including “descendant communities,” continue to resonate in American archaeology, and beyond. We discuss scholarship and continued engagement on the once unique question, “what are the African cultural origins of African Americans and why do they matter?” How are emerging technologies and methods employed to answer these questions? What processes are shared by archaeological projects in the African Diaspora and by anthropologists engaging descendant communities? How do publicly engaged and activist anthropologies articulate with contemporary social movements? What does the African Burial Ground have to do with it? Beyond a retrospective, we focus on processes and products reflecting the current moment in the politics of the past, and theoretical and methodological implications for the future of anthropology.

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