The Department of Political Science and the Department of Cognitive Science cordially
invite you to the Departmental Colloquium
The Devoted Actor: A Framework for Understanding Intractable Conflict and Existential
Decision Making
presented by
Scott Atran
University of Michigan
Date: October 24, 2013 – 5.30 p.m.
Venue: CEU, Nádor u. 9, Auditorium.
Scott Atran is presidential scholar in sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal
Justice of the City University of New York, visiting Professor of Psychology and Public
Policy at the University of Michigan, and Research Director in Anthropology at the
National Center for Scientific Research in France. He has repeatedly briefed Congress and
national and homeland security staff at the White House on his field research with
terrorist groups around the world.
His wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach to social, psychological and cultural issues,
along with the unusual breadth and depth of his personal experience in both the Arab and
Israeli Middle East, provides Atran’s analysis of the roots of suicide terrorism a rare
blend of intellectual and practical force.
Atran's books include Talking to the Enemy, the Cognitive Foundations of Natural
History: Towards an Anthropology of Science, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape
of Religion, and The Native Mind: Cognition and Culture in Human Knowledge of Nature
(co-authored with Douglas Medin and forthcoming from Oxford University Press). In addition
to his work on the roots of terrorism, Atran conducts on-going research in Guatemala,
Mexico, and the U.S. on universal and culture-specific aspects of biological
categorization and environmental reasoning and decision making funded by France’s Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique, and by the U.S. National Science Foundation and
National Institutes of Health.
We're looking forward to see you there!
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