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SUMMARY:Steven Pinker: The Past\, Present and Future of Violence - Speaker
  to be confirmed
DTSTART:20140919T173000Z
DTEND:20140919T183000Z
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CONTACT:Livia Holm
DESCRIPTION:Renowned experimental psychologist\, cognitive scientist\, lin
 guist\, and popular science author Steven Pinker (Harvard University) will
  address the widely-held impression that we are living in extraordinarily 
 violent times\, when in fact rates of violence at all scales have been in 
 decline over the course of history. The lecture will discuss how human nat
 ure comprises faculties that encourage violence\, such as dominance and re
 venge\, but also faculties that inhibit it\, such as self-control\, empath
 y and reason. Pinker also speculates on how some of the historical process
 es that reduced violence in the past might help to further reduce violence
  in the future.\n \nThe Canadian-born US academic has been named Humanist 
 of the Year by the American Humanist Society and listed in Foreign Policy 
 Magazine's "The World's Top 100 Public Intellectuals" and Time's "The 100 
 Most Influential People in the World Today."\n\nThe lecture is the public 
 event of the WHO and University of Cambridge Global Violence Reduction Con
 ference 2014 and supported by the UBS Optimus Foundation.\n\n*Free admissi
 on*\n \nFor more information about the event\, please visit our Facebook p
 age:\nhttp://on.fb.me/1BY3cPx\n\nor the Violence Research Centre Website:\
 nhttp://www.vrc.crim.cam.ac.uk/conference/publiclecturehttp://www.vrc.crim
 .cam.ac.uk/conference\n
LOCATION:West Road Concert Hall
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