Cerebral Frictions: 4S 2022 Call for Abstracts

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Megh Marathe
Tue, Apr 5, 2022 5:43 PM

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting to our open panel titled Cerebral Frictions at
the upcoming 4S/ESOCITE joint meeting in Cholula, Mexico in December 2022.

Panel 15: Cerebral Frictions

*Convenors: *
denielle a elliott, York University
Tara Mahfoud, University of Essex
Megh Marathe, University of California, Irvine and Michigan State
University

Provocation:

The neurosciences have led to profound changes in how the mind and the self
are studied and understood. An underlying assumption guiding
neuroscientific investigation is that a better understanding of the brain
can lead to insights into what makes us human and that these insights can
lead to changes and improvements in how brain-related conditions are
diagnosed and treated. Social scientists and humanities scholars have
engaged with the turn towards the ‘neuro’ in mental health and psychiatry
since the 1990s ‘Decade of the Brain’, arguing that a focus on the brain
alone is not adequate to understand the experiences of mental health and to
understand the effects that environments and adversity can have in shaping
mental life. However, neurology has comparably received very little
attention.

‘Cerebral frictions’ denotes the material and epistemological boundaries
and tensions that arise with neuro-centric conceptions of personhood and
illness. We understand frictions to be positive and productive – it is
often through frictional encounters within and across disciplines and
settings that new knowledge and understanding can be brought about. This
panel invites contributions that attend to, but are not limited to, the
following questions: How are the boundaries between neurology and
psychiatry delineated and contested? How are the whole-body experiences
associated with neurological conditions experienced? How are they medically
interpreted and measured in laboratory settings? What is changed, left out
or gained in the move towards computational approaches to studying mind and
brain?

Keywords: neurology, psychiatry, personhood, illness
Contact us at dae@yorku.ca, tara.mahfoud@essex.ac.uk, or marathem@msu.edu
in case of questions.

Megh

--
Megh Marathe, PhD
Pronouns: they/them https://www.mypronouns.org/they-them
President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Irvine
www.marathem.com

Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting to our open panel titled Cerebral Frictions at the upcoming 4S/ESOCITE joint meeting in Cholula, Mexico in December 2022. *Panel 15: Cerebral Frictions* *Convenors: * denielle a elliott, York University Tara Mahfoud, University of Essex Megh Marathe, University of California, Irvine and Michigan State University *Provocation:* The neurosciences have led to profound changes in how the mind and the self are studied and understood. An underlying assumption guiding neuroscientific investigation is that a better understanding of the brain can lead to insights into what makes us human and that these insights can lead to changes and improvements in how brain-related conditions are diagnosed and treated. Social scientists and humanities scholars have engaged with the turn towards the ‘neuro’ in mental health and psychiatry since the 1990s ‘Decade of the Brain’, arguing that a focus on the brain alone is not adequate to understand the experiences of mental health and to understand the effects that environments and adversity can have in shaping mental life. However, neurology has comparably received very little attention. ‘Cerebral frictions’ denotes the material and epistemological boundaries and tensions that arise with neuro-centric conceptions of personhood and illness. We understand frictions to be positive and productive – it is often through frictional encounters within and across disciplines and settings that new knowledge and understanding can be brought about. This panel invites contributions that attend to, but are not limited to, the following questions: How are the boundaries between neurology and psychiatry delineated and contested? How are the whole-body experiences associated with neurological conditions experienced? How are they medically interpreted and measured in laboratory settings? What is changed, left out or gained in the move towards computational approaches to studying mind and brain? *Keywords*: neurology, psychiatry, personhood, illness Contact us at dae@yorku.ca, tara.mahfoud@essex.ac.uk, or marathem@msu.edu in case of questions. Megh -- Megh Marathe, PhD Pronouns: they/them <https://www.mypronouns.org/they-them> President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Irvine www.marathem.com