March heralds the beginning of spring: a time of awakening and growth. Therefore, it is only right that this year's entry into the milder season is also marked by brain activation. Brain Week 2017 will open questions about contemporary personal and social crises under the title Crisis New World. The event will take place between 13 and 17 March 2017 in the ZRC Atrium and the Slovenian Cinematheque. In addition to lectures, workshops for adults and children, and a round table, the event will be rounded off by an accompanying program that will also exercise the right cerebral hemisphere through film art. Entry is free.
The start of 2017 is working quite well dystopian; according to the media, we are threatened by migrants, the disintegration of the EU, Trump, global warming, terrorists, tycoons, experts and a whole series of similar problems. Social crises are mirrored in the lives of individuals, who daily deal with new worries, anxiety, depression and new-age addictions - to the Internet, pornography, social networks, video games. But the question is whether it is crisis necessarily something bad. The crisis presents broken balance, which points to the need for change. Through evolution, crises have shaped the human species, through history they have shaped our culture, politics and economy, throughout an individual's life, crises shape his identity. So they are crises are a normal and necessary part of life? Is a future without crises possible? Would you even want that?
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This year's Brain Week will take place between March 13 and 17. Address Crisis new world will raise questions as a common thread, whether the modern situation is something new, special, apocalyptic. Is it really such a crisis as everyone is shouting? Perhaps with responses such as fear and stress, we are deepening the crisis? You are welcome, yes third week in March rededicate the brain – to the system that sometimes it causes crises, but sometimes it allows us to deal with them. You can see more about the program at this link.
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