11/15/2005

Lectures, Seminars, and other Events - Hampshire College - Amherst, MA: " NOV. 28, 6:30 p.m. MOVIE. The CBD Program will host: 'Island of Lost Souls,' at Hampshire College East Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall. Movie and pizza and 6:30. Discussion of this 1933 version, starring Charles Laughton, provokiing questions about genetic engineering and ethics, will follow the movie. DEC. 5, 5:30 p.m. PUBLIC LECTURE. The CBD Program will host: 'How the Imagined Shapes the Real' by Jerome S. Bruner, at Hampshire College, Main Lecture Hall. Jerome Bruner received his doctorate in psychology at Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and is presently University Professor at New York University School of Law, His interests have always centered on how human beings construct their realities -- how they acquire, retain, and transform knowledge about the world in a way that makes it possible for them to get on with their own lives and to get on as well with others in their culture. Bruner has received many honors, and was the winner of the coveted Balzan Prize in 1987. Professor Bruner played a leading role in the Cognitive Revolution of the 1960s, the movement that brought psychology back to the study of mind. "

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