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…

Game on Granny? Some notes on gaming the ageing brain

Tomorrow is World Alzheimer’s Day. Normally this day would pass me by without notice. This year is different. Not because I experienced Alzheimer in my family lately – my grandma, who did suffer from dementia, died a long time ago….

Talk at 4S Conference in Barcelona: Ethics by neurological means

In a few days, the yearly gathering of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) will take place – this time in Barcelona. I’m part of the track ‘STS and Normativity: analyzing and enacting values’, scheduled to present at…

New publication: Can we "remedy" neurohype? And should we?

For the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, I wrote (together with colleague Jenny Slatman and my promotor Tsjalling Swierstra) an open peer commentary. We respond to the article of Grubbs (2016): The Arts and Sciences of Reading: Humanities in The…

Interview on my 'academic hero' by Observant

The paper of our University Observant asked me about my academic hero. While I shamefully came to the conclusion that for years I haven’t had a real hero, there is a scholar who inspired me in unexpected ways. You can…

Talk at The University of Edinburgh, June 8/9th

I’m thrilled to be part of the symposium Minds and brains in everyday life: Embedding and negotiating scientific concepts in popular discourses, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh (UK).   From the website: “This…

The Future is Now: new jobs

As my PhD project is slooowly coming to an end, it’s time for some change. Recently, I joined the research centre Autonomy and the Public Sphere in the Arts, at the Arts Faculty Maastricht, part of Zuyd University of Applied…