What’s Left? Personhood and Dementia

Date/Time
Thursday - Friday
30 Apr - 1 May 2015

Event Type
Conference


 

What is it to be a “person”?

What is “dementia”?

Can you lose your personhood because of dementia?

The neurosciences, behavioral sciences, and humanities have different ways to approach, if not definitively answer, these questions. Join us for the discussion!

Sponsored by the Program for the Medical Humanities.

Location: The film on Thursday evening (beginning at 7 PM) and the conference on Friday (beginning at 9 AM) are both in the Geballe Room of the Townsend Center (Stephens Hall on the UCB campus.)

This conference is full.  There is no more seating available. 

 

Schedule of events

 

Thursday April 30th

7.00 pm Film and Discussion:
Alive Inside with discussion led by Julene Johnson, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco

 

Friday May 1st

9.00 – 9.30 Welcome and Introductions
9.30 – 11.00 Panel 1: Music and Memory
Short concert and discussion with members of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Respondents: Julene Johnson, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Health & Aging &
Thomas Laqueur, Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Director, UC Berkeley Program for the Medical Humanities
11.00 – 11.15 Break
11.15 – 1.00 Panel 2: Religion and Philosophy
A Philosopher Looks at Personhood and Dementia
John Perry, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford
A Buddhist View
Robert Sharf, Chair, Center for Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Respondent: LaVera Crawley, Palliative Care Chaplain and Physician, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch Location: 470 Stephens Hall
2.00 – 3.30 Panel 3: Biomedical and Sociological Perspectives
The Biomedical View of Personhood and the Major Neurocognitive Disorder of Dementia
Andrew Kayser, Assistant Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
The Social View of Personhood and Dementia
Patrick Fox, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Institute for Health and Aging, and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
Respondents: Micheal Pope, Director, Alzheimer Services of the East Bay &
Guy Micco, Clinical Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley – University of California, San Francisco Joint Medical Program; Co-Director, UC Berkeley Program for the Medical Humanities; Former Director, University of California, Berkeley Resource Center on Aging
3.30 – 3.45 Coffee Break
3.45 – 5.15 Panel 4: Portraiture and Personhood
The Portrayal of Memory Loss in Literature
Marilyn McEntyre, Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities, University of California, Berkeley – University of California, San Francisco Joint Medical Program
The Self-Portraits of William Utermohlen
Johanna Shapiro, Director, Program in Medical Humanities and Arts in Family Medicine, and Professor of Family Medicine, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
5.15 Summary Statements & Discussion
Andreas Lazaris, Recent BA in Cognitive Science (Neuroscience Concentration) and Clinical Researcher/Study Coordinator at UCSF Memory and Aging Center &
Kathleen Powers, PhD Candidate in Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

 

This event is sponsored by CSTMS.
Additional sponsorship comes from:  Program for the Medical Humanities • Townsend Center for the Humanities
Townsend Center for the Humanities

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