Day 1 – June 8:

13.30-13.50
Welcome (Jo Shaw, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Edinburgh)

13.50-14.00
Welcome and Introduction (Tineke Broer and Susanne Schregel)

Brain Research and Neurological Potentialities in the 20th Century

14.00-14.45: Vincent Pidoux (STS/Psychology, Lausanne)
“Gain Complete Possession of your Brain”: The Vittoz Method as an Everyday Therapy of the Will and an Art of Living (1906–1925)

14.45-15.30: Anna Kathryn Schoefert (History, London)
“From Animal to Human Brains” (1963) and Back Again: Everyday Discourses of Instincts in the mid-Twentieth Century Brain

Scientists and “Superbrains”: Contested Figures of Open Minds

16.00-16.45: Susanne Schregel (History, Edinburgh/Cologne)
„The Intelligent and … the Rest“. Intelligence, Classification and (Un)doing Difference(s) In British Mensa (1946–1985)

16.45-17.30: Jamie Cohen-Cole (History, Berlin/Washington)
The Science of Children

Day 2 – June 9:

Modes of Thought and of Producing Knowledge

09.00-09.45: Breegje van Eekelen (History, Rotterdam)
Mind the Machine: Creative Ideation at Work in America (1938–1968)

09.45-10.30: Kim Ole Henneke and Christian Lassen (Literature/Cultural Studies, Oldenburg)
Beyond Deduction: Anticipation and Representation in Neo-Victorian Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes

Brain Optimisation and Cognitive Enhancement in the 21st Century

11.00-11.45: Torsten Heinemann (Sociology, Berkeley/Hamburg)
“Optimise Your Brain!” – Neuroscience’s Quest for a Better World

11.45-12.30: Brian Bloomfield and Karen Dale (Sociology/STS/Organisation Studies, Lancaster)
Imaginaries of Cognitive Enhancement

The Morality of Neuroscience

14.00-14.45: Ties van de Werff (Philosophy, Maastricht)
Living Well with your Brain: Moral Repertoires of a Plastic Brain

15.00-15.45: Steven and Hilary Rose (Neuroscience/Sociology, London)
Can Neuroscience Change our Minds?

15.45-16.15: Closing Discussion