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SUMMARY:Q&A Session on "Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a 90-minute Q&A session with Boban Dedovic\, Marcel Kuijsten\, Brian McVeigh\, Bill Rowe and Jan Sleutels. We will do our best to answer all of your questions on Julian Jaynes’s theory as well as on our latest book\, Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind.  \nHave questions about Jaynes’s theory? Do you still have lingering questions after reading Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind? This is your opportunity to have them answered directly by the interviewees themselves. \nThis online event will be held on Saturday\, November 5th\, 2022 at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern/8pm GMT. \nFree and open to the public (RSVP required).  \nJJS members can RSVP directly (see RSVP section below\, must be logged in).  Non-members can RSVP by sending us an Event RSVP message. \nUpdate: In order to make sure that there is time for everyone’s questions\, we are now at capacity and no longer accepting RSVPs. Thank you everyone for your interest! \nA Google Meet invitation with a link to join the event will be sent to all RSVPs. \nBuy Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind – on sale now. \nNo webcam or microphone? No problem — you can type your questions in the chat. If you are unable to attend\, you can still participate by sending us your question in advance and watching a video of the session later. \n  \nPanel Bios \nBoban Dedović is an interdisciplinary Croatian-American technologist and researcher. An interview on his research into mental language in Homeric literature appears in the new book\, Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind\, titled “The Evolution of Mental Language in the Iliad and the Odyssey.” His master’s thesis from the University of Chicago is on the evolution of mental language in the ancient Egyptian The Story of Sinuhe. \nMarcel Kuijsten is Founder and Executive Director of the Julian Jaynes Society\, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. He is editor of four books on Jaynes’s theory: Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind\, Gods\, Voices\, and the Bicameral Mind\, The Julian Jaynes Collection\, and Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness. \nBrian J. McVeigh is an anthropologist\, mental health counselor\, and scholar of Jaynesian theory. His Ph.D. is from Princeton University\, where he knew Julian Jaynes. He has published numerous books and articles on Jaynes’s theory\, and has several interviews in the new book\, Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind\, including “Evidence for Bicameral Mentality in the Bible.” \nBill Rowe retired from U.C. Santa Cruz where he worked as a research associate for the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. His four part article\, “Retrospective: Julian Jaynes and The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” was published in the American Journal of Psychology. Updated and revised portions appear as three chapters in Gods\, Voices\, and the Bicameral Mind. His interview in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind is titled “The Development of Consciousness in Children.” \nJan Sleutels is Professor of Philosophy at Leiden University. His teaching and research interests include metaphysics\, philosophy of mind\, and media philosophy. He has spoken on Jaynes’s theory at several conferences\, and his interview in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind is titled “Julian Jaynes and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind.”
URL:https://www.julianjaynes.org/event/qa-on-conversations-on-consciousness/
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SUMMARY:The Psychology of Ancient Egypt with Brian J. McVeigh
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a 90-minute interview and Q&A session with Brian J. McVeigh on his latest book\, The Psychology of Ancient Egypt: Reconstructing A Lost Mentality.  \nWe will be delving into many aspects of ancient Egypt that are relevant to Julian Jaynes’s theory. \nThis online event will be held on Thursday\, November 16th\, 2023 at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern.  \nThe hour-long interview will be followed by a 30 minute question and answer session with the event participants. \nFree and open to the public (RSVP required).  \nJJS members can RSVP directly (see RSVP section below\, must be logged in).  Non-members can RSVP by sending us an Event RSVP message. \nA Google Meet invitation with a link to join the event will be sent to all RSVPs. \nRead The Psychology of Ancient Egypt: Reconstructing A Lost Mentality – on sale now. \nNo webcam or microphone? No problem — you can type your questions in the chat. If you are unable to attend\, you can still participate by sending us your question in advance and watching a video of the session later. \n  \nBrian J. McVeigh is an anthropologist\, mental health counselor\, and scholar of Jaynesian theory. His Ph.D. is from Princeton University\, where he knew Julian Jaynes. He has published numerous books and articles on Jaynes’s theory.
URL:https://www.julianjaynes.org/event/the-psychology-of-ancient-egypt/
CATEGORIES:JJS Interview Series
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SUMMARY:Implications of Julian Jaynes’s Consciousness Theory for the Origins of Musical Expression
DESCRIPTION:Watch Steven Wingate\, Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at South Dakota State University\, present “Implications of Julian Jaynes’s Consciousness Theory for the Origins of Musical Expression” at this year’s Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson\, Arizona on Wednesday\, April 24th\, 2024.  \nHis talk will be presented during the 5pm-7pm concurrent session “Social Implications for Understanding Consciousness” in Salon F. \nFor those attending the conference\, we also recommend the lecture by Tanya Luhrmann\, Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University\, during the plenary session\, “Consciousness in Religion and Altered States.” This will also be held on Wednesday April 24\, from 2pm to 4:10pm. \n(Read Tanya Luhrmann’s wide-ranging interview on Julian Jaynes’s theory in our latest book\, Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind.) \nLearn more about the conference here: https://consciousness.arizona.edu/ \n(Please note that this event is not associated with the Julian Jaynes Society.)
URL:https://www.julianjaynes.org/event/implications-of-julian-jayness-consciousness-theory-for-the-origins-of-musical-expression/
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:The Bicameral Mind at 50
DESCRIPTION:An in-person and online (by Zoom) free event at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Delmenhorst\, Germany \nMonday\, May 11\, 2026 \n9:00 a.m. to noon Eastern Time (North America) \n3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Central European Time (Germany) \nThis year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Julian Jaynes’s 1976 bestseller The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Jaynes proposed that prior to about 1\,200 years ago\, humans lacked introspective consciousness\, with the left cerebral hemisphere during times of stress interpreting thoughts from the right hemisphere as compulsory commands from the gods. Other related topics and authors will also be discussed. \nThe event will consist of a panel discussion with science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer\, Brian J. McVeigh\, and others. \nZoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87511842427?pwd=Lcb8scq87EOmYiPxhCGOOPlMwK3o9y.1 \n(Please note: This is not a JJS event and is open to all. RSVPs are not required for this event.)
URL:https://www.julianjaynes.org/event/the-bicameral-mind-at-50/
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