The Emotional Brain: The Science and Anthropology of Aggression
Speakers
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Professor of Biology, Investigator, California Institute of Technology
David J. Anderson, PhD, is Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology at Caltech and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His laboratory studies the neural circuitry of emotional behaviours in both mice and fruit flies. Dr. Anderson received his AB at Harvard and PhD at Rockefeller University where he trained with Nobelist Günter Blobel. Following postdoctoral studies at Columbia University with Nobelist Richard Axel, Dr. Anderson joined the Caltech faculty in 1986. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
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Head of Department of Psychological Medicine, Kings College London
Simon Wessely is Professor and Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine and Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He has a Doctorate in Epidemiology and has over 600 original publications, with an emphasis on the boundaries of medicine and psychiatry, unexplained symptoms and syndromes, population reactions to adversity and epidemiology. He has co-authored books on chronic fatigue syndrome, randomised controlled trials and a history of military psychiatry.
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Born 1949 Karachi Pakistan , raised in refugee settlement, PHD University of Technology Loughborough England. 1978 - 87 with UNICEF created models and policies in sanitation, community education and development, primary health care , 87 to present in Balochistan , public private partnerships promoting girls education, established 2200 girls schools , Established Institute for Development Studies and Practices- Pakistan, 9000 young graduated, 400 Community Midwifes, 30,000 flood victims reached with shelter, food , rehabilitation of livelihood, 335 poor farmers with 2000 acres agriculture land rehabed. 200, women cattle’s , 100 homes constructed. University of community development as a non formal education in community development is established, 1000 community based individuals enrolled. courses are developed on last two decades of community education practices . The impact has reached more then 200,000 people . Majority being women, girls. 400 women entrepreneurs in Maternal care.
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Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark
R. Brian Ferguson is a cultural/historical anthropologist who has studied war for three decades. His publications analyse war among tribal peoples, ancient states, in the early archaeological record, recent identity-linked conflicts, and counterinsurgency. His goal has been to develop a unified theoretical approach that applies across contexts. Two other interests are the origins of organised crime and the development of policing in New York City. He directs the graduate programme in Peace and Conflict Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
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CEO of Community and Individual Development Association, and co-founder of the Maharishi Invincibility Institute https://maharishiinstitute.org/ , a multi-award winning educational institution, Imvula Empowerment Fund and the Invincible Group. Co-founded the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship with Sir Richard Branson.
Chairperson and the creator of the E3 initiative (Entrepreneurship, Employability, Education) https://www.ecubed-dbe.org/ , for the national Department of Basic Education in South Africa. This national system change initiative will embed 21’st century skills for employment and entrepreneurship, along with other relevant skills for over 12 million learners in the South African school system by 2030.
Co-founder of Tendrel, now merged with Catalyst 2030. Tendrel is a global organization for social impact leaders to support their peers.
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Professor, University of Michigan
John Mitani is the James N. Spuhler Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is a primate behavioural ecologist who investigates the behaviour of our closest living relatives, the apes. During the past 34 years, he has conducted fieldwork on the behaviour of all five kinds of apes: gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees. His current research involves studies of an extremely large community of wild chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda.
