PhD submitted!
Yesterday, the deed was one: I finally submitted my PhD! The manuscript is titled ‘Practicing the Plastic Brain: valuing popular neuroscience across the lifespan’. I have worked on it for six years and one month, and I’m quite happy with…
Upcoming talk at Worlding the Brain conference (Amsterdam)
After months and months of writing, I finally can go outside and play again! Next week, I’ll present at the wonderful Worlding the Brain conference, at the University of Amsterdam. Great interdisciplinary program, including art, tech & much more. Check…
Wiebe Bijker’s Valedictory Lecture and Liber Amoricum
Yesterday, our colleague Wiebe Bijker gave his valedictory lecture, titled ‘Constructing Worlds: Reflections on science, technology and democracy”. Wiebe is not only one of the founding fathers of Science Technology and Society studies (STS), he’s also one our faculty’s most…
Sluit je aan bij We Are Public Brabant!
We Are Public is een nieuw initiatief om cultuur te ontdekken en financieren. Voor €15 per maand ben je lid, investeer je mee en kun je de beste voorstellingen, concerten, films en exposities bezoeken. Zo hopen we kunst en cultuur…
STRP Biënnale 2017
Deze week start STRP Biënnale 2017 in het Klokgebouw te Eindhoven. STRP is een spannend en toegankelijk technologisch kunstfestival, met performances, expo, DJ’s, workshops en conferenties. Het thema van STRP dit jaar is ‘Senses & Sensors’, en “verkent de high…
Conference: Participatory Practices in Arts and Heritage
Together with Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) and Jan van Eyck Academie, our research centre at Zuyd organized an exciting conference on participation in the arts. This week, March 17th & 18th, there are plenty…
New publication: “Being a Good External Prefrontal Lobe: parenting teenage brains”
In 2015 I presented at the conference ‘The Human Sciences After the Decade of the Brain’, at the University of Mainz. The conference has resulted in an edited volume by Elisabeth Hildt and Jon Leeflang, which has just been published…
Open call: Drawing Instruments Or: how to calibrate an artist?
symposium – exhibition Maastricht, Herdenkingsplein 12, March 16 & 17, 2017 In this first yearly symposium of the Lectoraat AOK, we will approach the artist as a research instrument. Sidestepping the fandamental debate about whether art can be research, we…
Lecture at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
A few months ago, I received a kind invitation by colleague Jonna Brenninkmeijer – check out her wonderful book Neurotechnologies of the Self! – to give a lecture about my upcoming dissertation to her Psychology master-students at the RUG. So…
