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