Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience

July 19-30, 2010

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 1st Summer Institute in Cultural
Neuroscience. If you are interested in pursuing issues related to
social and cultural psychology with neuromeasures or issues on
the brain within sociocultural context, you may find the
institute quite useful. Graduate students can earn credits for
their own institutions.

If you have any questions please feel free to write to me at
kitayama@umich.edu For information on the newly founded Center
for Culture, Mind, and the Brain at the U of Michigan, visit:

http://culturalneur oscience. isr.umich. edu/

Best regards,
Shinobu Kitayama

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Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience

http://culturalneuroscience.isr.umich.edu/home.htm

July 19-30, 2010

Center for Culture, Mind, and the Brain
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Co-Directors:
Shinobu Kitayama (kitayama@umich. edu)
Carolyn Yoon (yoonc@umich. edu)

Application Deadline:  March 1, 2010

We invite you to apply to attend the first Summer Institute in
Cultural Neuroscience at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
SICN is an annual two-week program that provides graduate
students as well as faculty with an overview of core topics and
recent research developments related to cultural neuroscience in
order to prepare them to start their own empirical
investigations. Attendees will have an opportunity to develop
their own research ideas in cultural neuroscience through
interactions with peers and faculty members.

SICN lectures on culture, brain, or both will be delivered by
world-renowned scholars. Each scholar will discuss his or her
work and place it in a broader scholarly context. Lectures will
be followed by small group discussions.

The topics to be covered include:

Cultural psychology
Culture, self, and brain
Culture, cognition, and brain
Neuroeconomics and culture
Decision Neuroscience and culture
Co-evolution of culture and genes
Stereotyping, racial bias, and brain processes
New approaches to culture and personality

Faculty lecturers include:

Joan Chiao, Northwestern University
William Cunningham, Ohio State University
Richard Gonzalez, University of Michigan
Shihui Han, Peking University
Shinobu Kitayama, University of Michigan
Brian Knutson, Stanford University
Israel Liberzon, University of Michigan
Hazel Markus, Stanford University
Randolph Nesse, University of Michigan
Richard Nisbett, University of Michigan
Daphna Oyserman, University of Michigan
Denise Park, University of Texas at Dallas
Jeanne Tsai, Stanford University
Carolyn Yoon, University of Michigan

Complete applications are due by midnight on March 1.  You will
be notified of the status of your application by March 31, and
will have until April 30 for early registration, and June 15 for
regular registration.

Participation fees are $1,200 for graduate students or
post-docs, and $1,900 for faculty.  Discounted rates for early
registration (by April 30) are $1,000 for graduate students or
post-docs, and $1,700 for faculty.

Participants are responsible for their own travel and
accommodation costs. We do not offer any scholarships or
financial assistance.

For application forms and information, visit:

http://culturalneur oscience. isr.umich. edu/home. htm

or contact Natalie Dushane at:

Center for Culture, Mind, and the Brain
University of Michigan
426 Thompson Street, 5241 ISR
Ann Arbor, MI  48106-1248
(734) 764-4112
Email: nadushan@isr.umich.edu