Mind & Life Institute
Past Conferences
Mind and Life Dialogues
- 2010: Contemplative Science: The Scientific Study of the Effect of the Contemplative Practice on Human Biology and Behaviour, co-sponsored by the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus
- 2010: Latest Findings in Contemplative Neuroscience, co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
- 2010: Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems: A Dialogue at the Interface of Economics, Neuroscience and Contemplative Sciences, co-sponsored by the University of Zurich
- 2009: Educating World Citizens for the 21st Century: Educators, Scientists and Contemplatives Dialogue on Cultivating a Healthy Mind, Brain and Heart, co-sponsored by Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Stanford University School of Education, Pennsylvania State University College of Education, University of Virginia Curry School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, the American Psychological Association and the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning
- 2009: Attention, Memory, and the Mind
- 2009: Latest Findings in Contemplative Neuroscience
- 2008: Investigating the Mind-Body Connection: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation, hosted by Mayo Clinic
- 2007: Mindfulness, Compassion and the Treatment of Depression, co-sponsored by Emory University
- 2007: The Universe in a Single Atom
- 2006: Public Talk with HH Dalai Lama in Denver
- 2005: Investigating the Mind: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation, co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins Medical University and Georgetown Medical Center
- 2004: Neuroplasticity: The Neuronal Substrates of Learning and Transformation
- 2003: Investigating the Mind: Exchanges between Buddhism and Biobehavioral Science on How the Mind Works, co-sponsored by the McGovern Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2002: The Nature of Matter, The Nature of Life
- 2001: Transformations of Mind, Brain and Emotion at the University of Wisconsin
- 2000: Destructive Emotions
- 1998: Epistemological Questions in Quantum Physics and Eastern Contemplative Sciences at Innsbruck University
- 1997: The New Physics and Cosmology
- 1995: Altruism, Ethics, and Compassion
- 1992: Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying
- 1990: Emotions and Health
- 1989: Dialogues between Buddhism and the Neurosciences
