[BIC-announce] FW: [NEURO] May 25 Migrating Minds and Methods - Trajectories of the Neurosciences in North-America after 1933

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
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Subject: [NEURO] May 25 Migrating Minds and Methods - Trajectories of the Neurosciences in North-America after 1933

Public Outreach Event  May 25, 2007
Migrating Minds and Methods - Trajectories of the Neurosciences in North-America after 1933
Organizers: Dr. Frank W. Stahnisch & Dr. Cornelius Borck (Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University)

Program   Friday, May 25
An Evening with the Public to Share Accounts from the Local Context Ballroom, 2nd Floor, Thomson House, 3650 McTavish Everyone Welcome - No Registration Required

Welcome
16:00-16:30
David R. Colman (Director, Montreal Neurological Institute) Frank W. Stahnisch & Cornelius Borck (SSOM)

Discussion Panel
16:30  Maurice Dongier (Psychiatry, McGill) & Theodore L. Sourkes (AMI): The Department of Psychiatry, McGill University

17:00  William H. Feindel (MNI): The Montreal Neurological Institute and Immigrating Neuroscientists

17:30  Fred Andermann (MNI): From Kakanien to Canada: On the Advantage to Starting out Young
      
18:00   General discussion: Moderator: Rolando Del Maestro, MNI & Discussant: Cornelius Borck
    
Reception: Ballroom/Lounge, 2nd Floor, Thomson House

The purpose of this evening is to share with the public the scholarship on and the memories of the exodus of the many doctors and medical scientists from Hitler's Europe to North-America. As with all the waves of immigration that have peopled Canada and the United States, the intellectual influx has affected both the migrants and their host countries in innumerable ways. This is particularly true of the neurologists and psychiatrists who were forced to leave Central Europe after 1933 and who have since distinctly altered the landscape of medical science and public mental health services.

Regarding the special case of the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), internationally renowned since the time of the famous brain surgeon Wilder Penfield, it will be shown how the microcosm of modern neuroscience was shaken up through the integration of a remarkable group of neuroscientist émigrés (neurologists, psychiatrists, neuropathologists, and clinical psychologists) who brought with them particular professional skills. Like other outstanding scientific and social institutions of the neurosciences and psychiatry in Canada and the U.S., their internal and local histories cannot be understood without taking into account the fates of the individuals and the impact of forced migration.

In a tour d'horizon, senior faculty members will share their memories of interacting with scientist émigrés with the audience as well as an interdisciplinary group of migration scholars, elucidating one of the most fascinating and tragic events in the recent history of medicine and science. This evening is open to the public and marks the beginning of an international three-day Scientific Roundtable of experts from Canada, the U.S., Germany, Austria, and Australia at McGill University. To register for the Scientific Roundtable, please contact Dr. Stahnisch (frank.stahnisch at mail.mcgill.ca) or Dr. Borck (cornelius.borck at mcgill.ca).