SCREENING/DISCUSSION
THURSDAY / FEBRUARY 15 / 6:30 pm
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, Auditorium
Cajal and Contemporary Neuroscience
This screening features Santiago Ramón y Cajal—Las mariposas del alma (Butterflies of the Soul), directed by Ana Martínez for Televisión Española, 2006, 59 min. (with English subtitles); and Bluebrain Year 7, brief excerpts from an ongoing project directed by Noah Hutton, which follows neuroscience research around the world, including Henry Markram’s ambitious Blue Brain Project in Switzerland. With commentary by Noah Hutton and Benjamin Ehrlich, author of a forthcoming biography of Cajal.
Co-sponsors: NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and Grey Art Gallery.
Free of charge, seating is limited, and subject to change. Photo ID required for entrance to NYU buildings.
Offered in conjunction with The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, exhibition on view at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, January 9-March 31, 2018.