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Save the Date (Dec 9): CMB Seminar with Brian Anderson, MD MSc

Dec. 3, 2025 – Next week, Culture, Mind, and Brain, a Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Research Cluster, will host Brian Anderson MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA. The event will be held virtually at 5:30pm on December 9. Anderson’s talk is entitled “Freedom & Control: Psychedelics, Biomedicine, and Regulatory Policies in 2025.” To receive the link, email namyers@smu.edu.

The Culture, Mind, and Brain Research Cluster is convened by Neely Myers (SMU Anthropology), Anthony Petrosino (SMU Teaching & Learning), and Adam Brenner (UT Southwestern Psychiatry).

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Save the Date (Nov 6): CPES Seminar with Koji Hirata

Oct. 30, 2025 – Next week, the Comparative Political Economy and Society (CPES) Seminar Series, a Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Research Cluster, will host Koji Hirata, Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. The event, which includes lunch, will be held at 12pm on November 6 in the Tower Boardroom, Carr Collins Hall. Hirata’s talk is entitled “From Grain Exporter to Importer: The Great Leap Famine and China’s Turn to the Capitalist World, 1960-1965.”

The Comparative Political Economy and Society Research Cluster is convened by Kelly McKowen (SMU Anthropology), Macabe Keliher (SMU History), Roshan Pandian (SMU Sociology), and Hsinchao Wu (SMU Sociology).

 

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Save the Date (Oct 14): CMB Seminar with Michael Birnbaum, MD

Oct. 7, 2025 – Next week, Culture, Mind, and Brain, a Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Research Cluster, will host Michael Birnbaum, MD., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University. The event will be held virtually at 8am on October 14. Birnbaum’s talk is entitled “Social Media, the Internet, and Early Psychosis Intervention.” To receive the link, email namyers@smu.edu.

The Culture, Mind, and Brain Research Cluster is convened by Neely Myers (SMU Anthropology), Anthony Petrosino (SMU Teaching & Learning), and Adam Brenner (UT Southwestern Psychiatry).

 

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Save the Date (October 7): Social Lives of Infrastructure Kickoff Event

Oct. 2, 2025 – Next week, Social Lives of Infrastructure, an Anthropology-affiliated Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Research Cluster, will host its kickoff event (including lunch). The event will be held at 2pm on October 7 in the DCII Lounge in Ford Hall.

The Social Lives of Infrastructure Research Cluster is convened by Nia Parson (SMU Anthropology), Aanmona Priyadarshini (SMU Anthropology), Owen Hanley Lynch (SMU Corporate Communication and Public Affairs), and Barbara E. Minsker (SMU Civil and Environmental Engineering).

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Save the Date (Oct 2): CPES Seminar with Stacie Kent

Sep. 24, 2025 – Next week, the Comparative Political Economy and Society (CPES) Seminar Series, a Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Research Cluster, will host Stacie Kent, Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at Boston College. The event, which includes lunch, will be held at 12pm on October 2 in the DCII Lobby. Kent’s talk is entitled “Global Capital and Qing Governance in the Treaty Port Era.”

The Comparative Political Economy and Society Research Cluster is convened by Kelly McKowen (SMU Anthropology), Macabe Keliher (SMU History), Roshan Pandian (SMU Sociology), and Hsinchao Wu (SMU Sociology).