Latest Past Events

Psychology Colloquium: The Ritual Animal: How rituals made our world… and how they could save it

Professor Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford  Abstract: Rituals provide a way of defining the boundaries of social groups and binding their members together. In this talk, Harvey Whitehouse attempts to unravel the psychology behind these processes, to explain how ritual behaviour evolved and how different modes of ritual performance have shaped global history over many […]

Psychology Colloquium: Laureate talks by Prof Olivier Piguet & A/Prof Damian Birney (School of Psychology – University of Sydney)

Please join us for a special two-part colloquium, with Laureate talks by two grant winners in our School:Prof Olivier Piguet Human hippocampus subregions organisation and associative memory processes. This proposal will investigate the hippocampus, a highly inter-connected structure containing many subregions. Although considered the memory centre of the brain, we still do not know the […]