From Vienna to New York: Memory of a Life in Two Worlds
Annenberg School for Communication
Room 110
3620 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Please note: Due to Dr. Kandel’s immense popularity, a higher than expected number of people have registered for this program than the room can accommodate. We have made arrangements for an overflow room adjacent to the lecture hall, where a livestream of the event will be broadcast. If you are not able to find seating in either location, please know that we will also be videotaping the lecture and will make the recording available on YouTube within the next few weeks. Also, please note that owing to the lecture hall's availability, doors will open at 5:15pm.
The University of Pennsylvania Jewish Studies Program and The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies present the 2018 Silvers Visiting Scholar
Nobel Prize-winner and 2018 Silvers Visiting Scholar Eric Kandel explores his career in brain science and its connection to art through the lens of his autobiography, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science Mind, where he reflects on how his experience as a young Jewish boy in Vienna 1938 has shaped his life as a scientist and a thinker. In his recent book, Reductionism in Art and Brain Science—Bridging the Two Cultures, he finds common ground between neuroscience and humanistic questions.
Featuring
Eric Kandel
Eric Kandel is an Austrian-American medical doctor and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.
Kandel is a Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was also the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which is now the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. He currently serves on the Scientific Council of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Kandel's popularized account chronicling his life and research, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.
Cosponsors
This lecture is made possible by the generosity of Dr. Garry Rayant and Dr. Kathy Fields-Rayant.
This lecture is also cosponsored by the Center for Neuroscience & Society, the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, the Department of the History of Art, the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, MindCORE (Mind Center for Outreach, Research, and Education), the Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, and the Visual Studies Program.
