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• 25 mai 2013

  Lisbon

  Jornadas - Linguagem

  Music, poetry and the brain

  It is indisputable that, with his operas, Wagner introduced profound new insights relating music, language (poetry) and emotion. It is widely consensual that with his dramas, Wagner intended to explore human mind and behaviour with the power of music. In fact, never before was music so systematically used as a tool for describing and interpreting facts, events, beliefs, desires, intentions, memories and emotions. In the last decades, there has been much advance in the understanding of the cerebral basis of music and its relationships with brain mechanisms of language, cognition and emotion. In short, music has also been shown to be a powerful pathway to understand human mind and behaviour...

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• 30 oct 2012

  Lisbon

  Chamada de trabalhos - Antropologia

  Anthropology, Culture and Cognition. Freud, a century after Totem and Taboo

  Although hardly avoiding intense criticism by anthropologists such as Boas and Malinowski, Freud’s theories did, however, have a profound impact upon anthropology, receiving an enthusiastic reception among Culture and Personality theorists during the middle decades of the 20th century. Leading anthropologists of this trend relied on Freud’s contributions to develop approaches based on the relationship between culture and personality, expanding their views on the importance of culture in personality formation, on the constitution of culture patterns and on the formulation of national character. One hundred years after the publication of Totem and Taboo (1913), this two-day seminar seeks to address the influence of Freud’s legacy in contemporary anthropological thought. It also aims to explore the new interface between the two disciplines, namely through the recent work produced on kinship and on the cognitive approaches to the study of religion.

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• 22 jui 2011

  Lisbon

  Bolsa de estudo, prémios e ofertas de emprego - Pensamento

  Bolsas Universidade de Lisboa / Fundação Amadeu Dias (2011/2012)

  Bolsas Universidade de Lisboa / Fundação Amadeu Dias 2011/2012. Esta iniciativa visa possibilitar o desenvolvimento de pequenos estudos ou projectos de investigação científica ou tecnológica em articulação, ou não, com o tecido empresarial. Nesta edição serão atribuídas 25 bolsas no valor de 1.900 euros cada.

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