From neuroscience to historical consciousness: Yonsei University to hold special humanities lectures for young people and citizens

[Financial News] Yonsei University announced on the 11th that it will hold the 12th Fall Yonsei Humanities Camp for teenagers and members of the general public on the 21st at Widang Hall on its Sinchon Campus in Seoul.
The camp will feature lectures on a wide range of topics, including neuroscience, literature and history, making the humanities accessible and engaging for participants.
The event will begin with welcoming remarks by Joo Il-seon, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and congratulatory remarks by Park Un-gi, mayor of Seodaemun District. In the first session, Han Sang-hoon, a professor in Yonsei University's Department of Psychology, will explain principles of human judgment revealed by neuroscience in a lecture titled “Dopamine Gets a Bad Rap: The Mechanisms Behind Our Decision-Making Revealed by Neuroscience.”
In the second session, poet Kwak Hyo-hwan, former head of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, will discuss the narratives and historical consciousness of the northern regions that became the roots of our people, under the title “The North, the Cradle of Our People: Northern Poems and My Poetry.” In the final, third session, Lee Ki-hoon, a professor in Yonsei University's Department of History, will examine changes over time in student culture and its future possibilities in a lecture titled “Students and Student Movements—What Student Movements Have Left Us.”
The Yonsei Humanities Camp is the flagship humanities initiative of the Humanities and Arts Promotion Project Group, established with a donation from Park Eun-kwan, chairman of Simone. Launched in the winter of 2023 to promote Korean literature around the world and broaden the reach of the humanities, it has received a positive response and expanded to operate four times a year.
Anyone among young people and citizens who is interested in the humanities can take part in the event. Participants can register through the application link on the bulletin board of the Yonsei University Humanities and Arts Promotion Project Group website or via the QR code on the event poster.  

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