Ramon y Cajal, where is his legacy?
Conference in English - Online registration required.
Professor Patricia Armati is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Sydney Brain Mind Centre, and is a leading world expert on the structure and disorders of peripheral nerves. Her work has been published in more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, many book chapters and is editor of 4 textbooks.
Instituto Cervantes Sydney is very honoured to hold the Conference "Ramon y Cajal, where is his legacy?", giving the opportunity to discover the wonderful and still very unknown legacy of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the “Father of “Neuroscience” and the activities undertaken for getting its recognition. Professor Armati has a passionate interest in the work of the famous Spanish Nobel Prize winner, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the “Father of “Neuroscience”. Cajal was the first to show the world the intricate and beautiful cellular structure of the brain allowing us to understand for the first time the almost unlimited potential of the human mind.
Expect the unexpected in this conference which Prof Armati will bring to the light a combination of Art and Science that make Cajal a particularly fascinating person in Spanish history who from the age of 8 was a talented painter. He was a wonderful artist, writer, philosopher and mentor as well as a neuroscientist. He saw the brain as a garden with 'the butterflies of the soul'.
The International Cajal Legacy Group has an active petition in change.org for support a dedicated museum for the UNESCO archives of Santiago Ramon y Cajal and the Spanish Neurohistological School. Please read and sign the petition here:
• https://www.change.org/p/international-cajal-legacy-group-a-dedicated-museum-for-the-unesco-recognised-cajal-legacy
