You are invited to participate in a national multidisciplinary seminar on ‘Governing risky individuals: Disordered personalities in a neurobiological era’. This is the fifth meeting in an ESRC funded seminar series on Neuroscience, Identity and Society, jointly organised between the Institute for Science and Society (ISS, formerly IGBiS, University of Nottingham) and the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society (BIOS, LSE). It aims to bring together social scientists, psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, philosophers, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and scholars from a range of other disciplines to discuss the implications of recent work in the neurosciences for the management of personality disorders associated with antisocial and criminal behaviour. Further details of the seminar will be available soon.

Date: Thursday 17th May 2007
Time: 11.00 – 17.00, followed by a reception
Venue: CARR Seminar Room, London School of Economics.

Speakers:
> Professor Nigel Eastman (Forensic Psychiatry, St George’s Hospital Medical School)
> Martyn Pickersgill (ISS, University of Nottingham)
> Dr Essi Viding (Psychology, UCL, and Institute of Psychiatry, KCL)

The meeting will be introduced and chaired by Professor Nikolas Rose (Sociology, LSE).

Organisers: Dr Paul Martin and Professor Robert Dingwall (ISS, University of Nottingham) and Professor Nikolas Rose and Dr Ilina Singh (Sociology and BIOS Centre, LSE).

Registration required:

Yes

Free:

No