Monks in laboratories
Saturday 14th October 2006 from 15h30 to 17h00
Salle 1 / Auditorium
Monks in laboratories
- Directed by
- Delphine Morel
- Produced by
- ADR productions
Documentary, France, 2006, 52 min
Buddhists have been stydiing the mind, without any tool, for 2,500 years. They have developed techniques of meditation to sustain attention and transform the emotions. Scientists are now facing issues as ancient as those pratices, ignored for a long time. What are emotions? What is mind?
Petula and the scholars pixels
- Directed by
- Harold Vasselin
- Produced by
- Taxidermie production
Documentary, France, 2006, 2 min
Petula, a small white mouse, snoop around in the laboratory under the noses of researchers, she ventured into their images.
Debate with :
- Jonathan Cohen, neuro-cognition, Princeton University
- Clifford Saron, neuro-science, University of Davis, California
- Paul Ekman, expert in the science of emotions
- Erika Rosenberg, researcher in the science of emotions and facial recognition specialist
- Margaret Kemeny
- Richard Davidson, director of the Neuroscience Laboratory of affect, University of Wisconsin
- Antoine Lutz, neuro-science, University of Wisconsin