WHEN : 15 September · 6:30 – 7:30pm
WHERE : Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)Stanley Place, Brisbane, Australia
During ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams’, the entertaining evening discussion program GoMA Talks explores the mind, imagination and art from a range of perspectives. How is the mind’s capacity evolving? What contributions do philosophy, science, art and literature make to new ideas and innovations?
View live webcast of GoMA Talks and tweet your comments, feedback and questions to the panel using hash tag #GoMAtalks.
Admission… to GoMA Talks is free and no bookings are required. Refreshments are available for purchase from 5.30pm on GoMA Talks nights.
Dr Kate Evans (host) has worked in radio, television, book publishing and universities, and spent many years in archives and manuscript collections immersing herself in traces of the past. She holds a Masters degree in Public History and a Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural History.
Nick Allen is a clinical psychologist and a Professor at Orygen Youth Health Research Centre and Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Allen leads a large team of investigators in the area of clinical depression, focusing on the emergence of depression during adolescence. His research uses neuroimaging and psychophysiology to understand how emotion, attention, and social cognition are affected by depressed states and vulnerability to depression.
Professor Wayne Hall is a National Health and Medical Research Australia Fellow and Deputy Director of Policy at the Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane. He was previously Director of The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Sydney, and with a career spanning over 20 years, Hall is among the most highly cited social science researchers in the world.
Professor Neil Levy is Deputy Director (Research) of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics at the University of Oxford, UK, and Head of Neuroethics at the Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne.Levy’s work explores free will and moral responsibility, and empirical approaches to ethics.
Dr Sue Woolfe is an award winning author whose novel The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady: A Writer Looks at creativity and Neuroscience (University of Western Australia Press, 2007) takes readers on a very personal search exploring the new discoveries in neuroscience that reveal what it is that we do with our minds in making stories – and what we could do to tell stories that are more adventurously and uniquely our own.
