Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce the following keynote speakers*:

 

Dr. Bryan Kolb is currently a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, where he has been since 1976.  He received his PhD from Pennsylvania State University and did postdoctoral work at the U of Western Ontario and the Montreal Neurological Institute. His recent work has focused on the development of the prefrontal cortex and how neurons of the cerebral cortex change in response to various developmental factors including hormones, experience, stress, drugs, neurotrophins, and injury, and how these changes are related to behaviour. Bryan Kolb has published 5 books, including two textbooks with Ian Whishaw (Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, Sixth Edition; Introduction to Brain and Behavior, Third Edition), and over 300 articles and chapters.  Kolb is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Killam Fellow of the Canada Council. He is currently a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research program in the Experience-Based Brain Development program. 

 

 

 

Dr. David Wright holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University. He graduated from McGill University in Montreal and the University of Oxford in England, where he began to specialize in the history of medicine as a Wellcome Trust Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Oxford) and Wellcome Trust Award holder (Nottingham).  He is the author and co-editor of seven books and more than two dozen peer reviewed articles and chapters on the history of mental health and psychiatry, including his latest work, Down Syndrome: A History (Oxford University Press, 2011).

 

 

 

 

Dr. Elizabeth Lunbeck is the Nelson Tyrone, Jr Professor of History; Chair, Department of History and Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University.  She is a historian of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the United States and Europe, with allied interests in women and gender, intellectual and cultural history, and the twentieth-century United States.  She is the author of The Psychiatric Persuasion:  Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America (Princeton 1994, 1996), which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize,the Morris D. Forkosch Prize, and the History of Women in Science Prize, and with Bennett Simon Family Romance, Family Secrets (Yale 2003). At present she is editing Histories of Scientific Observation, with Lorraine Daston (Chicago, 2010), and completing two books that examine the consolidation of narcissism as a clinical category and as cultural critique: On Freud's Narcissism and The Americanization of Narcissism. She will be speaking at the Banff Workshop.

 

 

Dr. Andrew T. Scull, will give the joint Cheiron-ISHN conference keynote.  Dr. Scull received his B.A. from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Princeton prior to coming to University of California, San Diego. His books include Museums of Madness; Decarceration; Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen; Durkheim and the Law (with Steven Lukes); Social Control and the State (with Stanley Cohen); Social Order/Mental Disorder; The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900; and Masters of Bedlam. 

 

 

 

Dr. Frank W. Stahnisch, presents the 16th Annual ISHN Presidential Lecture.  Dr. Stahnisch is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Community Health Sciences and the Department of History at the University of Calgary. He is the current President of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences. Before joining the UofC, he worked at the Institute for History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Mainz, the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, and in the Neurosciences at the Charité Medical School in Berlin.  He also held visiting professorships at the Dept. of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, and at the Dept. III of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. 

 

 *Dr. David Hubel had been scheduled as keynote speaker.  We are sorry to report that Dr. Hubel has had to cancel his participation in the conference due to health reasons.  He sends his regrets.