SCHEDULE

DAYS  #1 – 5

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
9:00 am	Toward Contemplative Science: Further Issues and Models in the Scientific Investigation of Contemplative Practice 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Clifford Saron, PhD, Research Scientist, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain	Yogācāra Buddhism: Waking up from our Collective Objectivist Slumber 9:00 am - 12:00 pm William Waldron, PhD, Chair, Department of Religion, Middlebury College	The Importance of Keeping Differences in Sight in Buddhism's Dialogue with Science and Modernity 9:00 am - 11:15 am Linda Heuman, Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Religion, Brown University	Implicit Anthropologies and Epistemologies of Mindfulness 9:00 am - 12:00 pm David McMahan, PhD, Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall University	How Buddhist Theories of Imagination can Balance Bottom-up and "Brain-to-mind" Views... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Francisca Cho, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Theology, Georgetown University
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am			Lunch Break & Video Interviews 11:15 am - 1:15 pm
11:30 am
12:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm		Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
12:30 pm
1:00 pm			Integrating Buddhism and Neuroscience: Perspectives from a Contemplative Neuroscientist/Practitioner 1:15 pm - 3:30 pm Gaëlle Desbordes, PhD, Instructor (research faculty) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-Harvard-MIT Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
1:30 pm
2:00 pm	Contemplation in Contexts: Buddhist Meditation Across the Boundaries of the Humanities & Sciences 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm David Germano, PhD, Director, Center for Contemplative Sciences, University of Virginia	Different Levels of Engagement With Lived Experience in Contemplative Neuroscience 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Giovanna Colombetti, DPhil, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter		Neuroscience, Memory, Sleep, and Everything 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Ken Paller, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University	Inner Knowing and the Way of Humans — Contextualizing the Mind & Life Dialogues... 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Michael Sheehy, PhD, Director of Programs, Mind and Life Institute, Charlottesville, VA
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm			Break 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
4:00 pm			Neuroscience Insights from Hypnosis and Meditation 4:00 pm - 6:15 pm Amir Raz, Ph.D., ABPH, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and SMBD Jewish General Hospital
4:30 pm
5:00 pm	Break 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm	Break 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm	Graduate Student/Post-doc Get Together and Intros 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Reading Room, Lower Level
7:00 pm					Buddhist Practice & Scientific Research: Ways of Knowing in Dialogue 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Public Panel Discussion
7:30 pm		Poster Session 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
8:00 pm
8:30 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
9:00 am	Toward Contemplative Science: Further Issues and Models in the Scientific Investigation of Contemplative Practice 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Clifford Saron, PhD, Research Scientist, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
11:00 am			Lunch Break & Video Interviews 11:15 am - 1:15 pm
11:30 am
12:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm		Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
12:30 pm
1:00 pm
1:30 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
2:00 pm	Contemplation in Contexts: Buddhist Meditation Across the Boundaries of the Humanities & Sciences 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm David Germano, PhD, Director, Center for Contemplative Sciences, University of Virginia
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
3:30 pm			Break 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
5:00 pm	Break 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm	Break 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
6:30 pm	Graduate Student/Post-doc Get Together and Intros 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Reading Room, Lower Level
7:00 pm
7:30 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
9:00 am		Yogācāra Buddhism: Waking up from our Collective Objectivist Slumber 9:00 am - 12:00 pm William Waldron, PhD, Chair, Department of Religion, Middlebury College
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
2:00 pm		Different Levels of Engagement With Lived Experience in Contemplative Neuroscience 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Giovanna Colombetti, DPhil, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
7:30 pm		Poster Session 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
8:00 pm
8:30 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
9:00 am			The Importance of Keeping Differences in Sight in Buddhism's Dialogue with Science and Modernity 9:00 am - 11:15 am Linda Heuman, Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Religion, Brown University
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
1:00 pm			Integrating Buddhism and Neuroscience: Perspectives from a Contemplative Neuroscientist/Practitioner 1:15 pm - 3:30 pm Gaëlle Desbordes, PhD, Instructor (research faculty) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-Harvard-MIT Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
1:30 pm
2:00 pm
2:30 pm
3:00 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
4:00 pm			Neuroscience Insights from Hypnosis and Meditation 4:00 pm - 6:15 pm Amir Raz, Ph.D., ABPH, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and SMBD Jewish General Hospital
4:30 pm
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
9:00 am				Implicit Anthropologies and Epistemologies of Mindfulness 9:00 am - 12:00 pm David McMahan, PhD, Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall University
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
2:00 pm				Neuroscience, Memory, Sleep, and Everything 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Ken Paller, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
9:00 am					How Buddhist Theories of Imagination can Balance Bottom-up and "Brain-to-mind" Views... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Francisca Cho, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Theology, Georgetown University
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
2:00 pm					Inner Knowing and the Way of Humans — Contextualizing the Mind & Life Dialogues... 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Michael Sheehy, PhD, Director of Programs, Mind and Life Institute, Charlottesville, VA
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm

	Monday, July 17	Tuesday, July 18	Wednesday, July 19	Thursday, July 20	Friday, July 21
7:00 pm					Buddhist Practice & Scientific Research: Ways of Knowing in Dialogue 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Public Panel Discussion
7:30 pm
8:00 pm
8:30 pm

Monday, July 17

• Toward Contemplative Science: Further Issues and Models in the Scientific Investigation of Contemplative Practice

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Clifford Saron, PhD, Research Scientist, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain

• Lunch Break & Video Interviews

  12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

• Contemplation in Contexts: Buddhist Meditation Across the Boundaries of the Humanities & Sciences

  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  David Germano, PhD, Director, Center for Contemplative Sciences, University of Virginia

• Break

  5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• Graduate Student/Post-doc Get Together and Intros

  6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

  Reading Room, Lower Level

Tuesday, July 18

• Yogācāra Buddhism: Waking up from our Collective Objectivist Slumber

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  William Waldron, PhD, Chair, Department of Religion, Middlebury College

• Lunch Break & Video Interviews

  12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

• Different Levels of Engagement With Lived Experience in Contemplative Neuroscience

  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Giovanna Colombetti, DPhil, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter

• Break

  5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• Poster Session

  7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Wednesday, July 19

• The Importance of Keeping Differences in Sight in Buddhism's Dialogue with Science and Modernity

  9:00 am - 11:15 am

  Linda Heuman, Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Religion, Brown University

• Lunch Break & Video Interviews

  11:15 am - 1:15 pm

• Integrating Buddhism and Neuroscience: Perspectives from a Contemplative Neuroscientist/Practitioner

  1:15 pm - 3:30 pm

  Gaëlle Desbordes, PhD, Instructor (research faculty) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-Harvard-MIT Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

• Break

  3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

• Neuroscience Insights from Hypnosis and Meditation

  4:00 pm - 6:15 pm

  Amir Raz, Ph.D., ABPH, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and SMBD Jewish General Hospital

Thursday, July 20

• Implicit Anthropologies and Epistemologies of Mindfulness

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  David McMahan, PhD, Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall University

• Lunch Break & Video Interviews

  12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

• Neuroscience, Memory, Sleep, and Everything

  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Ken Paller, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University

Friday, July 21

• How Buddhist Theories of Imagination can Balance Bottom-up and "Brain-to-mind" Views...

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Francisca Cho, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Theology, Georgetown University

• Lunch Break & Video Interviews

  12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

• Inner Knowing and the Way of Humans — Contextualizing the Mind & Life Dialogues...

  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Michael Sheehy, PhD, Director of Programs, Mind and Life Institute, Charlottesville, VA

• Buddhist Practice & Scientific Research: Ways of Knowing in Dialogue

  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  Public Panel Discussion

DAYS  #6 – 10

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
9:00 am	Reconstructing and Deconstructing the Self: Neurophenomenological Perspective on Cognitive Mechanisms... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Cortland Dahl, PhD, Research Scientist, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin, Madison	What is it Like to Meditate? Methods and Issues for a Micro-phenomenological Description... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Claire Petitmengin, PhD, Professor, Institut Mines-Télécom; associate researcher, Archives Husserl, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris	Mindfulness and Mindlessness: The Phenomenology of Performance 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Shaun Gallagher, PhD, Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis	Trans-religious Perspectives on Compassion: Implications for Ethics and Virtue... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Andrew Dreitcer, PhD, Director of Spiritual Formation; Co-Director of the Center for Engaged Compassion; Associate Professor of Spirituality, Claremont School of Theology	The Implicit and Explicit Worldviews that Underlie the Contemporary Presentation of Buddhism 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Catherine Shaddix, PsyD, Instructor, Baywell Psychiatry Group
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am
12:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
12:30 pm
1:00 pm
1:30 pm
2:00 pm	Theoretical Views on the Nature of Spontaneous Thought 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Kalina Christoff, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia	Contemplative Life: an Anthropological Perspective 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Martijn van Beek, PhD, Associate Professor, Interacting Minds Centre & Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University	‘Neuralism’ and Contemplative Neuroscience 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Elena Antonova, PhD, Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London	Physical and Biological Perspectives on Expanded Views of Mind and Consciousness 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm David Presti, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley	Group Reflections – Content and Process 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm
5:00 pm		Break 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm			Celebration 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 pm
7:30 pm		Poster Session 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
8:00 pm
8:30 pm

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
9:00 am	Reconstructing and Deconstructing the Self: Neurophenomenological Perspective on Cognitive Mechanisms... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Cortland Dahl, PhD, Research Scientist, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin, Madison
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
12:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break & Video Interviews 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
12:30 pm
1:00 pm
1:30 pm

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
2:00 pm	Theoretical Views on the Nature of Spontaneous Thought 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Kalina Christoff, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
9:00 am		What is it Like to Meditate? Methods and Issues for a Micro-phenomenological Description... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Claire Petitmengin, PhD, Professor, Institut Mines-Télécom; associate researcher, Archives Husserl, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
2:00 pm		Contemplative Life: an Anthropological Perspective 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Martijn van Beek, PhD, Associate Professor, Interacting Minds Centre & Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
5:00 pm		Break 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 pm

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
7:30 pm		Poster Session 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
8:00 pm
8:30 pm

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
9:00 am			Mindfulness and Mindlessness: The Phenomenology of Performance 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Shaun Gallagher, PhD, Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
2:00 pm			‘Neuralism’ and Contemplative Neuroscience 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Elena Antonova, PhD, Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
9:00 am				Trans-religious Perspectives on Compassion: Implications for Ethics and Virtue... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Andrew Dreitcer, PhD, Director of Spiritual Formation; Co-Director of the Center for Engaged Compassion; Associate Professor of Spirituality, Claremont School of Theology
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
2:00 pm				Physical and Biological Perspectives on Expanded Views of Mind and Consciousness 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm David Presti, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
9:00 am					The Implicit and Explicit Worldviews that Underlie the Contemporary Presentation of Buddhism 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Catherine Shaddix, PsyD, Instructor, Baywell Psychiatry Group
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
2:00 pm					Group Reflections – Content and Process 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm

	Saturday, July 22	Sunday, July 23	Monday, July 24	Tuesday, July 25	Wednesday, July 26
5:00 pm					Celebration 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
5:30 pm

Saturday, July 22

• Reconstructing and Deconstructing the Self: Neurophenomenological Perspective on Cognitive Mechanisms...

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Cortland Dahl, PhD, Research Scientist, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Lunch Break & Video Interviews

  12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

• Theoretical Views on the Nature of Spontaneous Thought

  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Kalina Christoff, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia

Sunday, July 23

• What is it Like to Meditate? Methods and Issues for a Micro-phenomenological Description...

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Claire Petitmengin, PhD, Professor, Institut Mines-Télécom; associate researcher, Archives Husserl, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

• Lunch Break & Video Interviews

  12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

• Contemplative Life: an Anthropological Perspective

  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Martijn van Beek, PhD, Associate Professor, Interacting Minds Centre & Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University

• Break

  5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• Poster Session

  7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Monday, July 24

• Mindfulness and Mindlessness: The Phenomenology of Performance

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Shaun Gallagher, PhD, Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis

• Lunch Break & Video Interviews

  12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

• ‘Neuralism’ and Contemplative Neuroscience

  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  Elena Antonova, PhD, Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Tuesday, July 25

• Trans-religious Perspectives on Compassion: Implications for Ethics and Virtue...

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Andrew Dreitcer, PhD, Director of Spiritual Formation; Co-Director of the Center for Engaged Compassion; Associate Professor of Spirituality, Claremont School of Theology

• Lunch Break & Video Interviews

  12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

• Physical and Biological Perspectives on Expanded Views of Mind and Consciousness

  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

  David Presti, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley

Wednesday, July 26

• The Implicit and Explicit Worldviews that Underlie the Contemporary Presentation of Buddhism

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

  Catherine Shaddix, PsyD, Instructor, Baywell Psychiatry Group

• Lunch Break & Video Interviews

  12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

• Group Reflections – Content and Process

  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

• Celebration

  5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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