April 7 2016

14:00-14:15
Introduction by the organizers
(Tara Mahfoud, Sam McLean, Jan Slaby & Philipp Haueis)

14:15-15:15
Bridging the Gap between System and Cell: the Role of 7T MRI in Human Neuroscience
Robert Turner, MPI Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig

15:15-16:15
Vitalism, Neuroscience, and the Problem of Translation
Nikolas Rose, King’s College London

16:30-18:30
Your Brain on a Plate: Towards a History of 3D Models of the Brain
Marius Kwint, University of Portsmouth

Models of What Exactly? Tales from the Workbenches of Contemporary
Imaging Neuroscience
Johannes Bruder, Academy of Art and Design FHNW

Epistemic Virtues of Visualization: The Living Brain Revisited
Cornelius Borck, University of Lübeck

April 8 2016

09:00 - 11:00
Models, Machines, and Mental Labour: Information Processing, 1950-1980
Max Stadler, ETH Zurich

What is Vital to Model? Negotiating Tops and Bottoms in the European
Union’s Human Brain Project
Tara Mahfoud, King’s College London

Knowledge by Large-Scale Neural Simulations
Maria Serban, University of Copenhagen

11:30-13:30
Living with Indiscernible Matter: Modelling Drug Memories
Sam McLean, King’s College London

Connectomes as Constitutively Epistemic Objects
Philipp Haueis, Berlin School of Mind and Brain
Jan Slaby, Free University of Berlin

Drugged and Dreaming Brains: Two Opaque Models to Explore the
Neurobiological Basis of Mental Phenomena
Nicolas Langlitz, New School for Social Research

14:30 - 16:30
Slicing the Brain to Study Mental Illness: Reflecting with Alois Alzheimer
on the Normal and the Pathological Brain
Lara Keuck, Humboldt University Berlin

Animal Models, Economic Decision-Making, and the Length of the
(Primate) Work Day
Gail Davies, University of Exeter

Marketing the Model: Patents and Mouse Strains in Alzheimer’s Research
Bronwyn Parry, King’s College London