PSYCHOLOGYCLUB

GLBTQI: Genders and

Sexualities from A-Z

Presented by

Shara Sand, Psy.D.

Gender identity and sexual orientation are complex parts of everyone and are very important factors in self-expression. They also represent the many ways in which many people define their gender and/or sexual orientation.

Come to this talk, ask questions and take part in a discussion of these complicated identities. Bring what you know and don’t know. We like to learn something new every day and look forward to sharing knowledge.

Wednesday, May 6^th, 2009

Time: 2:00 PM– 4:00 PM

Room: E229

(Food and Beverages will be served)

Presented by

Dr. Richard Brown

Wednesday, April 29th

Time: 2:00 PM– 4:00 PM

Room: E229

(Food and Beverages will be served)

We have a vast range of conscious experience from the moment we wake up in the morning to the moment when we fall asleep at night; from the taste of our favorite food, to the appearance of our favorite art, to the highs of accomplishing our goals, to the excruciating agony of a broken bone, or loss of a loved one, to wondering what time it is, or thinking about what one has to do to name but a few. Our conscious experience can be by turns exhilarating or frightening or overpowering, or just plain dull. Yet though all of this is common place it is quite mysterious how to fit this phenomenon into the natural world. When I stub my toe and feel the intense pain is this some property of my brain? Or perhaps a non-physical aspect of me? Can our science of the mind (psychology/neuroscience) ever fully account for the nature of conscious experience? Or is there some aspect of consciousness that is forever out of the reach of even our best scientific theories? In this talk we will explore these and related issues, with a special emphasis on recent findings from cognitive science and their impact on philosophical theorizing about consciousness.

Presented by

Dr. Lois Holzman

Wednesday April 22

Time: 2:15 PM– 4:00 PM

At the Poolside Cafe

(Food and Beverages will be served)

Dr. Lois Holzman will talk about her latest book, Vygotsky at Work and Play, which addresses the importance of Vygotsky work as it relates to the human capacity to perform and its fundamentality to development. Director of the East Side Institute, Dr. Holzman is a noted Vygotskian scholar and author of eight books that advance postmodern and activity theoretic approaches to psychology and education. As a lecturer and trainer, she is in the thick of debates among critical, humanistic, socio-cultural and postmodern psychologists on how to transform psychology and education into radically humane and empowering practices. Students may be surprised to hear that the learning and development model that Dr. Holzman has pioneered was incubated right in their own backyards. It’s a model that has its roots in dozens of community-based programs such as those of the All Stars Project, whose outside of school, performance-based approach to promoting human development is a model for youth programs across the US and abroad.