Workshops

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Each semester, the Center will fund several inter-disciplinary workshops that each addresses a research area relavant to mind, brain, and culture from multiple explanatory perspectives. Typically, a workshop will be cross-listed as a graduate seminar in at least two departments in Emory College and/or units of the University. Workshops from two different programs within the same department are also possible, as long as they clearly reflect different explanatory perspectives. Typically, a workshop will have a minimum of two instructors, each from different departments, units, or programs. Because the Center is funded by Emory College, at least one instructor must be a faculty member in the College. All instructors will co-teach the workshop together, that is, they will typically all be present at most workshop meetings, so that discussion benefits from different perspectives. Ideally, all instructors will receive full course credit for teaching a workshop, but this depends on policies within specific departments, units, and programs. We assume that the faculty teaching workshops will often count them as a topical graduate seminar that they would normally teach.

Typically, a graduate seminar will be a 4 credit course that meets once a week for 2.75 hours. Activities during seminar meetings may often include the following:

• covering background material relevant to the research area
• discussing relevant articles
• preparing for a meeting with an external researcher invited by the workshop
• meeting with an external researcher for discussion of their articles, related articles, etc.

We also expect that visiting researchers will meet individually with workshop participants outside the workshop, including both faculty and students. We stress that it is essential for visitors to meet with students, so that students develop professional connections with external researchers working in their areas of interest. We also encourage students to handle the travel arrangements for visitors, and to play central roles in their local transportation, meals, social events, etc.

Each visitor will typically present a public lecture. Some of these will be part of the Center's Colloquium Series. Not all lectures will be part of the Series if there are too many in a given semester. Lectures not included in the Series will presumably contribute to other speaker series, such as the colloquia series of individual departments, or the talk series of individual programs.