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HomeUpcoming Events and SeminarsRSSS Public Lecture - Professor Nikolas Rose
RSSS Public Lecture - Professor Nikolas Rose

The Urban Brain. Living in the neurosocial city.

Professor Nikolas Rose

In this talk Professor Rose will argue that we should rethink the experience of living in the city in the light of recent developments in the sciences of life. We now know a great deal about the corporeal and cerebral impacts of the varieties of forms of life that we call ‘urban’. He argues that social scientists need to work with researchers in the life sciences to understand how urban experience, and urban adversity ‘gets under the skin’ and shapes the bodies and brains of urban citizens and denizens.

Professor Rose will discuss the idea of ‘the neurosocial city,’ that he developed with Des Fitzgerald. This concept aims to grasp the ways that the forms of life in the conglomerations we call cities are simultaneously lived and transacted through the living bodies and brains of ‘each and of all’ – the individuals and the multitudes who inhabit urban space.

 

Date & time

  • Wed 15 Mar 2017, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location

The Finkel Lecture Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research (Building 131), ANU

Speakers

  • Professor Nikolas Rose