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NEIL GREENBERG
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
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2022 – Creativity Sunday Sanctuary Sermon. Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN. The sanctuary is the bastion of creativity. November 13.
2021 – Art & Organism: Canonical Content Meets Personal Meaning. in: Proceedings of the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, Jerusalem, Israel (virtual conference)
2020 – Personal and Shared Meaning in the Phenomenologically-informed Classroom. 12th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg VA [LINK]
2018 – A Natural History of Embodied Cognition : Problems of Consciousness. June 22. Gene Hise Philosophical Society / ORICL and 8th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech. [LINK]
This presentation outlines the biological foundations of human behavior as manifest in the emerging field of “embodied cognition.” Framed by “existential phenomenology,” we will look at two human experiences that stand out: “transformative learning” and its immediate context, “the teachable moment.” .
2017 – The Art and Science of Teaching – The DEEP Dialectic. February 16. 9th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech.
In recent years, looking beneath the surfaces of art and science as cultural constructs as well as adaptive human behavioral patterns has established that the best expressions of intention and motivation in any human activity, not least teaching, involves their necessary interactivity. The emerging appreciation of phenomenology in the classroom as well as the growing interdisciplinary disposition of researchers and scholars has enabled powerful new teaching tools that had been formerly hidden in plain sight. In our practice session, we will explore how the power of these aspects of consciousness are represented in the intentionality and expression of individual committed teachers.
2016 – The Teachable Moment – session on classroom practice. February 10. 8th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech.
Session on Practice. The “Teachable Moment” represents the convergence of developmental, ecological, evolutionary, and physiological phenomena with the lived experience of the student. Specific phenomenological teaching methods can be a powerful way for instructors to influence this process. (view paper)
2015 – Levels of Organization and Consciousness. October 05, University of Tennessee, Graduate Class in Art. Art and Architecture Building.
Different “levels” of consciousness are deployed for different adaptive needs. For example, the relative contributions of specific cognitive functions to a state of consciousness such as creative “flow” is unique in its recruitment of “intuitive” functions.
2015 – Biomorphic Art and Architecture – Design with Nature.
April 14, 2015 Ijams Nature Center. Science Café (a project of WGBH Science Unit in association with Sigma Xi.)
“Scientific, cultural, and spiritual connections between McHarg’s landmark work in architecture will be linked with the work of other visionaries: The talk will be richly illustrated from (1) Ernst Haeckel’s “Art Forms of Nature” (1899-1904) and its encouragement of an aesthetic, holistic vision of art and science based on his seminal research on oceanic microorganisms, and (2) the architecture of Antoni Gaudí, whose world-heritage architecture was deeply informed by and continually expresses his love and study of nature (spiritually manifest in his huge Sagrada Familia (basilica) in Barcelona (1883-contiunuing today).”
2015 – Teaching Conservatives, Liberals, and Libertarians – conversation session. 7th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech February 05.
This presentation is a component of the “Ethology in the Classroom” project.
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2015 – Patterns in Transformative Pedagogy: Ethological Perspective. February 04, 7th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech
TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING describes the student experience of a paradigm shift from merely knowing course content to realizing its relevance in their personal and professional lives. Instructors can facilitate this process with phenomenolkogical methods that enable students to find connections between personal lived experience and course content. This study will provide clues about how phenomenologically-informed pedagogy works to enhance student experience. Poster PDF
2014 – Mystics, Mysteries, and the Limits of Scientific Understanding. Presentation for East Tennessee chapter of The American Chemical Society. Slideshow November 25, University of Tennessee, 472 Buehler Hall
2014 – Educational Neuroscience: Progress report on the application of neuroscience theory to the practice of educators.
June 11, College of Education, Bailey
2013 – Science and Spirituality.
March 23 Everett Senior Center, Maryville, Tennessee
For the Foothills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
2014 – A Transformational Twist on Learner -Centered Teaching: Experience and Existential Phenomenology.
February 05, 6th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech
Component of “Listening to Experiences” project.
2013 – Nirvana in the Brain; Pathology and Spirituality
December 08, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
2013 – Day of the Dead and a Celebration of Life.
November 03, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
A Worship Service presentation by Small Group Ministry #13
2013 – Fingerprints of God: The Search for a Science of Spirituality. October 15, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN As part of a series of 8 discussions/lectures
2013 – Educational Neuroscience: Progress report on the application of neuroscience theory to the practice of educators. College of Education, Bailey Education Complex, Knoxville, TN Seminar for LS 671: Advanced Learning Theory
2012 – What are Dreams? November 27, Ijams Nature Center Visitor Center Discussion based on NOVA documentary “What are Dreams?” Presented by STKF Science Cafe. Science Cafe is a project of WGBH Science Unit in association with Sigma Xi.
2012 – Neuroscience and Spirituality: God in the Brain.
October 15, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2012 – Neuroscience and Religion: the Emerging Dialogue.
September 02, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
The presentation also serves as an introduction to a prospective Adult RE Course.
2012 – Bearden HS Science Club, March 28
2011 – The Deep Biology of Intuition in Cognitive Education,
July 13, Biannual meeting of International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, Boston, MA
2011 – Is God in the Brain? – Part 2: Implications for Mind-Spirit Dualism.
May 01. Second Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, TN
Part of series “Faith, Science, and the Future”
2011 – To be “One with Everything”
March 11, Roane State Community College
ORICL Philosophical Society meeting. Part of two lecture series. The poet, Wendell Berry, observed that “All creatures…dance…to music so humble and vast that no ear hears it except in fragments.” Can such fragments be “reassembled?” Why should we want to?
2011 -Reality Testing: from “Neural Cascade to Consciousness”
March 09, Austin Peay Department of Psychology
Behavioral Brown Bag Seminar
2011 – Is God in the Brain? – Part 2
February 13, 2011 Second Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, TN
Part of series “Faith, Science, and the Future”
2010 – Is God in the Brain? – Part 1
Date: October 19, Second Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, TN
Guest classroom presentation for “Psychology of Religion”
2010 – Songlines,
April 11, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
The poet, Wendell Berry, observed that “All creatures…dance…to music so humble and vast that no ear hears it except in fragments.”
2010 – A New Age of Revelation: The Spiritual Depths of Science,
March 16, Seniors for Creative Learning (SCL), Knoxville, TN
Science is the greatest engine of spiritual development we know. St Thomas would agree.
2010 – Modes of Reality-Testing in the Brain and Cognitive Education,
Feb 5, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, North American Regional Conference, San Diego, California
2009 – God in the Brain
September 22, 2009
Guess classroom presentation for “Psychology of Religion”
2009 – The Natural History of Truth: The Neurobiology of Belief,
July 20, MetaNexus Institute annual conference, Phoenix, AZ
As part of “Cosmos, Nature, Culture: A Transdisciplinary Conference”
2009 – A New Age of Revelation
May 10, St.Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Farragut, TN
2009 – The Natural History of Intuition
Date: May 03, 2009 St.Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Farragut, TN
2009 – The War Between Truth and Reality.
March 12, Seniors for Creative Learning, Knoxville, TN
Where does one find the “truth?” In the course of the talk I will outline the biological significance of the truth and the needs that it serves. We will consider instinct and intuition and contrast three “species” of knowing: agnosia, gnosia, and hypergnosia.
2009 – The War Between Reality and Truth,
March 1, The Rationalists of East Tennessee, meeting at Pellissippi State Technical Community College
This presentation explores the idea of “truth” as something that humans need but can never possess. Our perception of truth involves the outcome of two vital biological processes which impart more-or-less confidence in our belief about some reality. In the course of the talk I will outline the scaffolding and successive approximations that pass for truth — the neurobiological events that underlie these efforts, the forces that effect their integrated functions, and what happens when they become dysfunctional.
2009 – Mystics, Mysteries, and the Limits of Scientific Understanding.
February 04, 2009 Roane State Community College
A lecture series of 10 presentations for ORICL. Last 8 sessions to be presented collaboratively by members of the University Studies Interdisciplinary Colloquy on Spirituality and Critical Inquiry.
2008 – Natural History of Narrative
November 24, 2008. Black Cultural Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
As part of the interdisciplinary symposium “Academic Evolution and Hybridization: The Sciences and the Arts,” presented by the Interdisciplinary Colloquy on History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. PRESENTATION DRAFTS and NOTES
2008 –The Neuropsychology of Belief
Date: October 15, 2008 Austin Peay Department of Psychology, Behavioral Brown Bag Seminar
2008 – Can Spirituality be Defined?
October 08, UT University Center
University Studies Interdisciplinary Colloquy on Spirituality and Critical Inquiry
2008 –Neuropsychology of Social Stress: From Social Agnosia to Subclinical Stress
June 10, UT Medical Center, Knoxville, TN Graduate School of Medicine, Grand Rounds.
the neurobehavioral bases for “diagnostic intuition” compared to “evidence-based medicine”
2008 – Freedom
Date: April 27, 2008
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2008 – The War That Wasn’t: Science and Religion in 19th Century America
Date: April 06, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2008 – Science and Spirituality: An Essential Tension
Date: April 02, 2008 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Roane State Community College
A series of four lectures
2008 – Science and Spirituality.
February 17, 2008. Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2008 – The Beasts in Our Brain.
January 14, College of Education
2007 – The Natural History of Intuition
Date: October 25, 2007 Knoxville Public Library, Murphy Branch Time: 4:00 PM
Evolutionary and cultural background to our relationship with ancestors or contemporary species that resemble ancestors. The status of “The Triune Brain” concept of Paul D. Maclean.
2008 – The Beasts in Our Brain: Making a Virtue of Necessity
October 07, Art Gallery of Knoxville, presentation to accompany opening of show of the work of Beauvais Lyons
A psychodynamic approach to why we consider hybrids of humans and animal ancestors that have traits, scraps of which are recognized in ourselves. Evolutionary and cultural background “The Triune Brain” concept of Paul D. Maclean.
2007 – From Unintentional Modeling to Intentional Mediation: An Ethological View of Teaching
July 02, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, XI Biennial International Conference, Knoxville, TN
2007 – Truth and the Brain: Confidence in Beliefs
May 21, Knoxville Area Psychological Association, Cherokee Facility
2007 – The Evolutionary Biology of Religion
May 01, for the Sertoma Club of Knoxville, Greenhills Grill
2007 – The Evolutionary Biology of Religion
Date: April 20, 2007 Time: 12:00 PM Greenhills Grill Sertoma Club
2007 – The Evolutionary Biology of Belief
Date: April 20, 2007 Oak Ridge Philosophical Society Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Roane State Community College
2007 – The Natural History of Creativity
Date: March 09, 2007 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Roane State Community College Oak Ridge Philosophical Society
2007 – Proteus: Ernst Haeckel’s Holistic vision: Reconciling Irreconcilables in Science and Art.
March 02, Presentation for the “Documentaries in the UT Library Program,” Lindsay Young Auditorium, University of Tennessee
2007 – Free Spirits and Spiritual Slaves
Date: January 07, 2007 Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2006 – Revelation and the Revealed
Date: September 24, 2006 Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2006 – The Infinite Mind: The Science of Winning
September 13, 2006, Radio conversation with Howard Bloom, WUOT/PBS Radio Series
2006 – Mystery Demystified: The Existential Tension Between Science and Spirituality
Date: May 07, 2006 Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM Tennessee valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2006 – The Natural History of Intuition, IONS – One Heart Vision Medical Education Symposium,Institute of Noetic Sciences and Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA
March 21, major presentation for continuing medical education series at Bastyr University SLIDES
2006 – The Centaur and the Self
Date: March 13, 2006 Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM College of Architecture and Design, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2006 – The Biological Background to Intuition
Date: January 19, 2006 Time: 3:30 PM University of Tennessee College of Nursing
2006 – The Grand Illusions: Perception, Rationality, and Free Will
Date: January 15, 2006 Time: 10:00 AM Forum fot Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2005 – The Natural History of Miracles and Myths
Date: November 13, 2005 Time: 12:00 PM Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2005 – Truth and the Brain: How the Brain Serves Our “Needs to Know”
Date: October 07, 2005 Time: 11:00 AM Roane State Community College Oak Ridge Philosophical Society
2005 – Living in Fragments and the God of the Gaps
Date: August 28, 2005 Time: 9:45 AM Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
2005 – Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?! The Natural History of the Self
Date: May 26, 2005 Time: 12:20 PM Silver Spoon Restaurant, Farragut, TN Optimist Club of West Knoxville (OCWK)
2005 – The Intuitive Self
Date: April 10, 2005 Time: 9:45 AM Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2004 – Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?! The Natural History of the Self
Date: March 24, presentation to Oak Ridge Forum on Religion and Science, Grace Covenant Church, Oak Ridge, TN
2005 – Qi, Art, Science, and the Brain
Date: February 27, 2005 Time: 9:30 AM Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2005 – Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?! The Biology of the Self
Date: February 20, 2005 Time: 9:30 – 10:30 AM St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Maryville, TN
2005 – The Birth and Troubled First Years of Sociobiology
Date: February 02, 2005, presentation to the E.O. Wilson Study Group, University of Tennessee Library
2005 – The UT Environmental Semester
Date: January 20, 2005, University Studies Centripetal: History and comprehensive overview of the development of the University-wide University Studies project Time: 12:00 PM University Center Executive Dining Room
2005 – Deep Ecology: The Real Agenda
Date: January 19, College Scholars Seminar Time: 4:40 PM Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN
2004 – The Brain and the Artistic Impulse: The Evolution of Extracorporeality Part 2
Date: November 14, 2004 Time: 9:30 AM Tennessee Valley unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2004 – Truth in the Brain: the Neurobiology of Belief
November 01, Major presentation for “Consciousness Reframed,” The 2004: Sixth International Research Conference, Beijing, China “Truth in the Brain: the Neurobiology of Belief” — Consciousness Reframed 2004: Sixth International Research Conference, Beijing, November 2004 [The Planetary Collegium]October 4, 2004.
2004 – The Biology of Beauty
Date: October 04, 2004 Gardener’s Forum
2004 – Science and Religion: Sibling Rivalry and Reconciliation
Date: September 16, 2004
This presentation was given to the Knoxville Ministerial Association.
2004 – The Brain and the Artistic Impulse: The Evolution of Extracorporeality Part 1
Date: August 29, forum presented to Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN.
2004 – Checking In
Date: March 28, 2004, Sanctuary Service at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN Sermon given by Small Group Ministry #13
2004 – Truth and the Brain: The Natural History of Belief
Date: March 28, 2004 Time: 9:30 AM, Forum presentation to Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2003 – Truth, Reality, and the Brain, part 2
Date: December 14, 2003, Forum (part 2) presented for Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2003 – Truth, Reality, and the Brain, part 1
Date: November 09, 2003, Forum (part 1) presented for Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2003 – Science and Religion: Sibling Rivalry and Reconciliation
September 29, Annual Lecture in “Community Conversations” series at Maryville College, Maryville, TN
2003 – Truth, Reality, and the Brain
Date: September 14, 2003
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2003 – Alternate Paths to Epiphany
Date: September 14, 2003 Time: 9:30 AM Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2003 – The Natural History of Mystical Experience: Ecstasy, Epiphany, and Addiction
Date: January 26, 2003 Time: 9:30 AM Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2002 – Deep Ethics: Neuroethics and the Natural History of Compassion
Date: November 07, 2002 Animals and Human Welfare
2002 – Creativity and Play
Date: November 05, 2002 Presentation for Honors Seminar
2002 – Ethological Analysis of Teaching
Date: October 17, 2002 Educational Psychology Graduate Seminar
2002 – God in the Brain
Date: April 07, 2002 Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2002 – Brain Evolution and Behavior
Date: April 02, 2002 Evolutionary Psychology Seminar
God in the Brain
Date: March 03, 2002 Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2001 – The Natural History of Self and Selflessness
Date: November 04, 2001 Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2001 – The New Neurobiology and Concepts of the Self
Date: November 02, 2001 University Studies Colloquy on Evolution and Culture
2001 – Ethics of Human Animal Interactions
Date: September 04, 2001 Time: 11:10 AM UT College of Nursing, Knoxville, TN
2001 – Science and Religion: Sibling Rivalry and Reconciliation
Date: August 09, 2001
2001 – Science and Religion: Sibling Rivalry and Reconciliation
July 22,
2001 – Truth and Beauty
July 01, Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
2001 – Animals and Human Welfare
June 01, 2001
2000 – Causes and Consequences of the Stress Response
January 03, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois
2000 – Found Guilty: Narrative, Morality, and Self-Consciousness
August 23, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales College, Newport
Portion of a panel presentation by the University Studies Interdisciplinary Collloquy on Narrative at the international conference “Consciousness Reframed 2000”
2000 – The Natural History of Creativity
Date: July 11, 2000 ORICL
2000 – Poetry: The Language of the Soul?
Date: June 25, 2000 Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, Tennessee
1999 – The Beast at Play and the Neuroethology of Creativity
Date: September 17, 1999 Knoxville, TN
Conference on Imaginative Play and the Brain, University Studies program in collaboration with the International Play Association
1999 – Mind and body: Cognitive Neurobiology of Creativity
Date: June 21, 1999 Calgary, Canada Seventh International Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Education
1999 – The Wounded Healer
Date: June 11, 1999 Conference on “Creative Genus and Madness,” Radford University, Virginia
Continuing Professional Education meeting for behavioral health professionals [LINK]
1999 – Consilience
Date: April 25, 1999 Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, Tennessee
1999 – Narrative Correspondences and the Organ of Coherence.
February 04, National conference on “Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain,” Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Portion of a panel presentation by the University Studies Interdisciplinary Colloquy on Narrative [LINK]
1999 – Against the Grain: The Natural History of an Interdisciplinary Faculty Development Program.
January 21, Seventh American Association for Higher Education Conference on Faculty Roles and Rewards, San Diego, CA
1998 – The Physiological Ethology of Creativity.
July 08, 10th Annual Conference, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of California, Davis
1999 – Mindless Power and the Powerless Mind.
April 16, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Annual meeting of the Society for Values in Higher Education: Stewardship and Opportunism: The Moral Roots of Accountability
1998 – Mind of Centaur.
University Studies Interdisciplinary Centripetal, Annual Update on Centaur Scholarship. University Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN April 1
1998 – Dreams R Us.
January 11, 1998, Westside Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville, TN
Teaching, Learning.
April 20, West High School, Knoxville TN
Annual Retreat in Townsend, TN