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Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Inaugural lectures

The limitations of neoclassical economics in international development education

Education for international development as a field of study has been mostly dominated by neoclassical economics and the human capital theory since the early seventies. What is more, during the last decade neoclassical economics has become the unique and hegemonic paradigm to inform policy making in education in developing countries.

Friday 2 March 2012, 16:00 - 17:00

Lectures and debates

CSCA debate: Language and cognition - Two distinct skills?

CSCA debate - Various UvA researchers debate the relation between language and cognition.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:00 - 17:30

CSCA lecture: Signed and spoken language asymmetries in a polyglot-savant

CSCA lecture - Prof. dr. Ianthi Tsimpli, Professor in Psycholinguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Tuesday 20 March 2012, 16:00 - 17:00

CSCA Lecture: Defining the cellular mechanisms of fear learning

CSCA Lecture - Prof. dr. Steven Kushner, Professor of Neurobiological Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 16:00 - 17:00

CSCA Lecture: Conflict-control in the human brain

CSCA Lecture - Dr Tobias Egner, Duke University, USA

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00 - 17:00

Frijda lecture: Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory

Frijda lecture - Prof. dr. Kevin LaBar, Duke University, USA

Thursday 28 June 2012, 20:30 - 21:30

Conferences and symposia

Amsterdam Brain Connectivity Conference

What are the strengths and limitations of different functional connectivity methods? Our speakers will analyze the same dataset using different techniques and present their results to answer this question.

Thursday 19 April, 9:00 - Friday, 20 April 2012, 18:00

Medical Anthropology at Home Conference VII

The 7th biennial conference of the Medical Anthropology at Home (MAAH) network, gathering medical anthropologists working in their own societies, will be hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

Friday 22 June, 16:00 - Sunday, 24 June 2012, 14:00

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Recently published: MindOpen 8

MindOpen number 8 - autumn 2011. Digizine on Psychology.

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Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences