History of Understanding of the Cerebral Cortex
1:30 Registration – Cofee
2:00 Welcome – Professor Zoltan Molnar (FENS History Committee Member) and
Mr Sebastian Vasquez Lopez (President of Cortex Club)
2:05 Professor Lorenzo Lorusso (President of FENS History Committee, Neurology
Dept, Mellino Mellini Hospital Trust, Brescia Italy) – Neuroscience discoveries by cinematography
2:30 Professor Colin Blakemore Professor of Neuroscience & Philosophy – Director of the
Centre for the Study of the Senses School of Advanced Study, University of London
3:00 Professor Marco Piccolino (Italian Institute of Neurosciences University of Ferrara, Italy) – Vision and the senses in the work of Galileo Galilei
3:30 Tea (Group photograph)
4:00 Dr Damion Young (Medical Sciences Division Learning Technologies (MSDLT),
University of Oxford) and Professor Zoltan Molnar (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford) – Historic digital repositories for the 21st Century, Developing the history.medsci.ox.ac.uk – site and using it in teaching.
4:30 Dr Tom Quick, (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)
Nerve physiology and science education in Britain, c.1850-1930.
5:00 Professor Gordon M Shepherd (Department of Neurobiology, Yale School of
Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA). Creating Modern Neuroscience: How Do We Compare
Today with the Revolutionary 1950s?
5:30 Professor Richard Brown (Department of Psychology & Neuroscience,
Dalhousie, University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) – Le Gros Clark versus Zuckerman:
what were their disagreements?
6:00 Concluding remarks Professor Silke Ackermann (Director, Museum of the History of
Science) and Professor Pietro Corsi (History Faculty, The University of Oxford)
6:15 Refreshments
Date: 12 May 2015, 13:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2015)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
Speakers: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Richard Brown (Dalhousie University), Professor Lorenzo Lorusso (Mellino Mellini Hospital Trust, Brescia Italy), Professor Colin Blakemore (Centre for the Study of the Senses School of Advanced Study, University of London), Professor Marco Piccolino (Italian Institute of Neurosciences University of Ferrara, Italy), Dr Damion Young (University of Oxford), Dr Tom Quick (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford), Professor Gordon M Shepherd (Department of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine), Silke Ackermann (Museum of the History of Science), Professor Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford)
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: zoltan.molnar@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
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Audience: Public
Editors: Andrew Haith, Anne Bowtell, Oliver Barnstedt