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Beyond The Mind-Body Problem: New Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness

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    Mind Body Symposium

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    Nour Foundation NGO Section of U.N. DESA Université de Montréal

    Program of Events

    Beyond the Mind-Body Problem:
    New Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness
    September 11, 2008

    9:30
    		  
    Registration
    10:00
    		  

    Opening Remarks
    Dr. Hanifa D. Mezoui, Chief, NGO Section, United Nations Department of Economic & Social Affairs
    10:15
    		  

    Keynote - Unraveling the Mystery of the Self:
    From Descartes to The Human Consciousness Project
    Dr. Sam Parnia, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton; Fellow, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical Center: Founder and Director, The Human Consciousness Project

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    10:45
    		  
    12:15
    		  
    Lunch
    2:15
    		  

    Keynote - Why God Doesn’t Use Biostatistics:
    Science and the Study of the Mind, the Body, and Spirituality
    Dr. Andrew B. Newberg, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Psychiatry, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Director, University of Pennsylvania Center for Spirituality and the Mind

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    2:45
    		  
    4:15
    		  
    4:45
    		  
    Closing Remarks
    Dr. Ebrahim Elahi, Associate Clinical Professor, Ophthalmic and Oculofacial Surgery, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Director, Fifth Avenue Eye Associates
     
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    Nour Foundation

    Founded in 1985, the Nour Foundation is a public charitable and nongovernmental organization in special consultative status to the United Nations. The Foundation explores universal principles and values underlying various disciplines through an integrative approach that seeks to cultivate greater understanding, tolerance, and unity among human beings.

    NGO Section of U.N. DESA

    The NGO Section of the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs contributes to the creation of interface structures between the UN and private organizations at all levels.

    Université de Montréal

    Founded in 1878, the Université de Montréal today has 13 faculties and together with its two affiliated schools, HEC Montréal and École Polytechnique, constitutes the largest center of higher education and research in Québec.