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Sex and Sincerity | by Sigrid Nunez – The New York Review of Books

Cleanness

by Garth Greenwell

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 223 pp., $26.00

by Garth Greenwell

Picador, 194 pp., $17.00 (paper)

by Garth Greenwell

Miami University Press, 96 pp. $15.00 (paper)

When, in 1993, the editor in chief of Literary Review, Auberon Waugh, together with the critic Rhoda Koenig established the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award, their declared goal was to expose what they saw as the deplorable ubiquity of crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it. Extracts by the shortlisted and winning novelists in the many years since might well leave a reader thinking there really is nothing harder to write about than fucking. (Without a doubt they will leave the reader rolling on the floor.) Back in the days before most MFA students had become too fearful of being called out for politically problematic content to include sex scenes in the fiction they submit to workshop, a teacher knew what three pitfalls to expect: either the description would be too clinical or it would be too coy or it would be too smutty. Bad sex writing happens even to seriously good writers (John Updike, famed for his bravura powers of description and the meticulous elegance of his style, was also the winner of a Bad Sex in Fiction Lifetime Achievement Award), giving strength to the idea that describing this particular human behavior, however important a part of life it may be, is so fraught, so likely to break the spell every novelist strives to cast and maintain over the course of a book, that the best thing might indeed be just to avoid it.

Jonathan Franzen, in an essay on books about sex, described the unpleasant feeling he experiences as a reader at the signs of a looming sex scene:

Often the sentences begin to lengthen Joyceanly. My own anxiety rises sympathetically with the authors, and soon enough the fragile bubble of the imaginative world is pricked by the hard exigencies of naming body parts and movementsthe sameness of it all.

The sameness of it all: one of the hallmarks of pornography. When the sex is persuasively rendered, his complaint went on, it tends to read autobiographically. True, and, if not off-putting to everyone, this surely risks making many other readers besides Franzen cringe. But the greatest challenge, the one that even the most gifted writers almost never transcend, remains the limits of our erotic vocabulary, now and forever hopelessly contaminated through its previous use by writers whose aim is simply to turn the reader on. Having thus hit the nail on the head, Franzen himself went on to be shortlisted for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for a passage in his fourth novel, Freedom.

So what happens when someone sets out to write fiction that is 100 percent pornographic and 100 percent high art? According to Garth Greenwell, that was one of his goals in writing Cleanness, a collection of stories so connected they can be read as a novel (he himself has called the book a lieder cycle) and which includes several graphic descriptions of sex, some loving and tender, some brutally S&M, and all tending to read autobiographically. (Like his fictional unnamed first-person narrator, Greenwell is gay, was raised in a southern Republican state, and has lived and taught in Bulgaria. A recent profile in The New York Times suggested that, despite these parallels, readers who assume Greenwell is writing about himself are mistaken. However, when I asked him if it would be appropriate for me to include his work in a course I taught on autobiographical fiction, and if I had his approval to do so, he said yes.)

Greenwell, who before turning to fiction wrote poetry and who has also been a dedicated student of music, published his first book in 2011. Mitko, which won the Miami University Novella Prize, is set in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where the books narrator, a young American writer, lives alone and works as a teacher in an American high school. Beneath a government building in a public bathroom frequented by men seeking anonymous sex, he pays for the services of a young hustlerMitkothus initiating what will become an increasingly intense and complicated affair. Handsome and alluring, Mitko turns out to have other charms as well, displaying at times an appealingly childlike side, affectionate and marked by the kind of innocence that is owing not merely to his youth but to the severely restricted life that has been available to him. Without money, without education, and, like so many of his countrymen, without prospects for decent employment, Mitko is basically homeless.

Unsurprisingly, he has a dark side too. A heavy drinker, habitually dishonest, he can also be coldly manipulative, bullying, and worse. The narrators attraction to Mitko does not blind him to the considerable risk their relationship involves. To keep seeing him means to live constantly on edge (not that the element of danger, like the risks the narrator is aware anyone runs by cruising, doesnt also feed his excitement). For narrator and reader alike, there is the gut-clenching knowledge that this story cannot possibly end well.

The narrators complex sexual and emotional entanglement with Mitko, his awareness of Mitkos bleak future, his own guilt over the inequality that exists between them, the shame he feels for his desire for Mitko and the tormenting hunger that draws him to the toilets where they first found each otherall this is examined with insight, delicacy, and skill. Here, in this short but rich debut, Greenwells talent is already plain. He writes beautiful sentences. There is no superfluous or perfunctory language, and no matter how turbulent or overwrought the content of what he is describing, the prose is always scrupulously controlled. A walk in a park one early spring day inspires feelings of freedom and elation, of being struck somehow stupidly good for a moment at the extravagant beauty of the world, and thoughts about lines from Whitman, whose poetry he has been teaching,

lines in which the whole world stands sharpened to an erotic point, aimed at the poet lain bare before it. They had always mildly embarrassed meand yet it was these lines that came to me on the path in Blagoevgrad watching seeds come down like snow, that determined and defined and enriched that moment, language as always interposing itself between ourselves and what we see. What were they, these seeds, if not the winds soft-tickling genitals, the worlds procreant urge; and finally it felt plausible to me, his desire to be bare before that urge, his madness, as he says, to be in contact with it.

To paraphrase Isaac Babel, a writers story is finished not when no sentence can be added but when none can be taken away. This occurred to me when I read Mitko, for me a satisfyingly complete work, needing nothing added or taken away. The author, however, had other ideas. He turned Mitko into the first section of a new book, to which he added a second and a third part. The result, What Belongs to You, is a superb novel, wholly deserving the wide praise it received when it was published in 2016. The expansion gave Greenwell a chance to provide, in part two, material about the narrators earlier life, specifically his coming of age in a broken family, before taking up the thread of the Mitko story again and bringing it to its poignant and fated conclusion in part three.

From recollections prompted by the news from home that his dangerously ill, possibly dying father wishes to see him, we learn about the narrators relationship with that chronically adulterous, psychotically homophobic man, from whom he has long been estranged, and about a generational family history of violence and cruelty. There is also a description of his first romantic encounter with another boy, an experience that begins in pleasure only to descend into pained bewilderment before culminating in an especially twisted and heartbreaking betrayal. But however painful, this episode is nothing in comparison with what he suffers at the hands of his father and stepmother, an account of parental abuse and rejection so harrowing that, years after I first read it, the memory can still chill me.

All the same preoccupations found in What Belongs to Youlove, desire, abandonment, humiliation, betrayal, self-disgust, disease, shamereappear in Cleanness, which, if not exactly a sequel, is, Greenwell has acknowledged, part of the same literary project. Some of the stories have been published before, and I have to say that the ones I read at the time they appeared left me somewhat disappointed to see how similar the new work was to the old (according to what Ive read about the book, I am not the only one to have had such a response). But reading the collectionor lieder cycleas a whole offers a much different and deeper experience and has dispelled what qualms I might have had, even if I did not find Cleanness as a novel quite the equal of What Belongs to You.

Once again in the ardent, brooding consciousness of Greenwells narratorthe same unnamed American writer leading the same life as the protagonist of Mitko and What Belongs to You: teaching high school in Sofia, cruising the same parks and bathrooms, yearning for the love that will save him from cruisingthe reader is treated to his unfailingly intelligent observations, his acute ability to describe what he sees and thinks and feels. At the heart of these stories lies a desire for radical, even ruthless self-disclosure (the whole bent of my nature is toward confession, confesses the narrator), and the degree of intimate detail, both physical and emotional, may at times shock readers and leave some repulsed. (Again, the thing about writing pornographically, above all when the writer appears to be talking about himself, is that there is as much chance of turning readers off as there is of turning them on.) His only demand was to be fucked bare, we are told about a sexual partner the narrator hooks up with through an Internet chat room, and for the narrator, you could say, this book is the literary equivalent of just that. In any case, his willingness to go to extremes in his self-exposure and self-flagellation can make it seem as though he has not only stripped himself naked for our scrutiny but flayed a layer of skin.

Like What Belongs to You, Cleanness is divided into three parts. Each contains three stories. Only the second part is given a title, Loving R., and here we find Greenwells attempt to fulfill another of his goals for the composition of this book, which was to write about happiness, or, as he has said in an interview, to give some joy to his characters who elsewhere are made to suffer so much. R. the beloved is a young Portuguese man who has come to Bulgaria as part of a program for European college students and with whom the narrator has a two-year affair. In the middle story, The Frog King, the men go on vacation to Italy, where, among other joys, there is the freedom of behaving openly like the loving couple they are.

For all his moving and wholly convincing depictions of giddy new romance and blissful, near-religious lovemaking in Loving R., the mens happiness does not last. I had accepted that passionate feeling faded, all my earlier experience had confirmed it, when love that seemed certain simply dissolved, on one side or both, for no particular reason, leaving little trace, says the narrator. But what I felt for R. was different. As readers we are made to believe in that difference, but, in spite of it, what happens in the end is what always happens. I love you, I said, we love each other, it should be enough, though even as I said this I knew it was unfair. When, in our complicated relationships, is love ever enough?

In a story called Gospodar, the sex the narrator hasendures might be a better wordwith a sadistic older man with whom he has chatted online is of a whole other kind. Set in the cheap, ugly apartment of this man, whom the narrator is meeting for the first time, it is one long, excruciatingly detailed S&M scene. Sentences lengthen Joyceanly, body parts and movements are named, but the spell does not break:

He returned his hand to my head and gripped me firmly again, still not moving, having grown very still; even his cock had softened just slightly, it was large but more giving in my mouth. And then he repeated the word I didnt know but that I thought meant steady and suddenly my mouth was filled with warmth, bright and bitter, his urine, which I took as I had taken everything else, it was a kind of pride in me to take it. Kuchko [bitch], he said as I drank, speaking softly and soothingly, addressing me again, mnogo si dobra, youre very good, and he said this a second time and a third before he was done.

As the second story in the collection, Gospodar introduces the reader early to one of Greenwells deepest concerns: the struggle between a persons craving for painful, dehumanizing sex and the mortification, self-loathing, and self-despair that are its inescapable consequences.

As a counterpart to Gospodar there is The Little Saint. Symmetrically placed as the second-to-last story in the book, it too consists of one long explicit sex scene between strangers, but this time its the narrator who takes the punishers role, in obedience to the other mans request to be made to suffer, to be fucked bare, to be nothing but a hole.

The middle of The Little Saint was the only time reading Greenwell that I ever got bored. Many years ago I worked for a (mercifully brief) time as a proofreader for a publisher of pornographyoh, excuse me, eroticaand The Little Saint carried me back. Able to predict more or less accurately what would be said and what would be done next (and hadnt I just read Gospodar?), I could not help wishingunfairly and even absurdly, I admitthat the narrator were doing something else.

A friend of mine once told a story about a boy he knew as a child who, having learned exactly what was involved when two people engaged in sexual intercourse, asked, How do they keep from laughing? At the beginning of Gospodar, the narrator mentions two moments when he might have laughed, the first being when the Bulgarian announces how he must be addressedas Gospodar, which, in English (master, lord), strikes the narrator as somewhat ridiculousand again when the man opens the door to his apartment naked except for a series of leather straps that crossed his chest, serving no particular function. In The Little Saint, the narrator describes the words he uses with his partner as the language of porn thats so ridiculous unless youre lit up with a longing that makes it the most beautiful language in the world, full of meaning, profound.

A mere reader, though, might find it, if not necessarily ridiculous, just the usual coarse, limited, banal language of porn. If the reader is a woman, she is likely to find confirmation of what makes so many of her gender wary of men and sex: the violence. The recklessness. The whoring. The addiction to risk. The difficulty drawing the line between consensual sex and assault, and how, when one man wants another man to feel totally humiliated and debased, to feel like the worst thing, like dirt, like less than dirt, like nothing but a hole, he calls that man she.

Ah, the sameness of it all.

Theres no fathoming pleasure, the narrator tells us, the forms it takes or their sources, nothing we can imagine is beyond it; however far beyond the pale of our own desires, for someone it is the intensest desire, the key to the latch of the self. I wouldnt argue against such well-said wisdom. What Ive always been highly unsure of, though, is just how much a persons sex life defines who that person is, and how much it can really tell usor even the person themselvesabout the rest of their being. I will never be convinced, as some people apparently are, that we are most ourselves when we are in bed (indeed, it seems to me that the number of people for whom this might be true must be quite small), or that all that much can be known about a person from the way they perform, or fail to perform, the sexual act, or by their individual erotic tastes. Maybe this is partly because I have never noticed bigif anychanges in the personalities and behavior of people I know during the times when I happened to be aware they were having lots of sex and the times when I was aware they were having little or none. Nor have I seen significant differences, in other areas of their lives, between people I know who are wildly promiscuous and those who are celibate.

For Greenwell, the kinds of sexual encounters he writes about, in which sadomasochism plays an essential part, offer strong possibilities for self-discovery and self-understanding, for liberation and even salvation. His narrator, raised to believe that his desires make him worthless, foula faggot, according to his father, which remained his word for me when for all his efforts I found myself as I amyearns for that moment of sexual union that will leave him scrubbed of shame. And not in vain: writing about his first time in bed with R., he describes how all the familiar shame and anxiety and fear that is almost all he has ever known of sex simply vanished at the sight of R.s smile, which poured a kind of cleanness over everything we did.

None of this would work so well were Greenwell not entirely sincere. (Something I observed when I was working for the erotica publisher: most of the writing about gay men contained an element of sincerity, which was not true of the rest.) There is no irony in Greenwells writing, andfor me, regrettablyno comic touch. But one of the things I most admire is the quality of intense earnestness that marks every page. Laying himself bare, putting himself so mercilessly on the line, subjects the protagonist to the risk of appearing self-absorbed, shameful, exhibitionistic, and, of course, ridiculous. But that risk is surely part of the point: it is what makes writing like this worth doing.

Resemblances to W.G. Sebald, not just in the prose style and the tendency toward meditative reflection but in a corresponding brooding temperament, have not gone unremarked by readers of Greenwell, but I was reminded too of the enchanting, cadenced prose of V.S. Naipaul and in particular of his autofictional novel, The Enigma of Arrival. A kinship with Virginia Woolf has also been suggested, though Greenwell doesnt revel in language the way Woolf does; he has nothing of her playfulness, and compared with her dense, luxuriantly poetic style, his own lyricism seems almost spare. Something said by Elizabeth Hardwick, however, about reading Woolfs The WavesI was immensely moved by this novel when I read it recently and yet I cannot think of anything to say about it except that it is wonderful. You can merely say over and over that it is very good, very beautiful, that when you were reading it you were happycaptures my own similar experience reading Greenwell.

Some of the most affecting and beautiful scenes in his books have nothing to do with sexual identity or gay desire but involve exquisite observations about others whose vulnerability has touched the narrators heart. What Belongs to You includes a chapter describing his encounter with a charming Bulgarian boy who happens to be traveling in the same train compartment. Reflecting on his fascination with this child, the narrator says, I felt I was watching Mitko as a boy, before he had become what he was now. This in turn prompts the mournful observation that any future I could imagine for him gave me something to grieve. For if it is far too easy to imagine for the boy a life as bleak as Mitkosat least if he remains in dying Bulgaria, where there is no future, my students tell me again and again, and only criminals surviveto imagine him escaping into a better world with happier prospects gives rise to the thought, unbearable to me, of what Mitko might have been.

Elsewhere in the novel, while riding a crowded bus, the narrator experiences mounting concern for the fate of a trapped housefly in danger of being crushed: It was ridiculous to care so much, I knew, it was just a fly, why should it matter; but it did matter, for after all, he asks himself, why should it be a question of scale? Among the inhabitants of Sofia are many sad, neglected street dogs, and in the marvelous story that closes Cleanness, An Evening Outa story as surprising in where it takes us as the pornographic stories are predictablethe narrator, unsettled by his own behavior while out drinking earlier with some former students, shares a moment of tender communion and mutual comfort with a scruffy old female stray to whom he offers shelter for the night. Each of these scenes is radiant with kindness, and, for me, reading them was like a balm. Compassion, that supreme quality in a fiction writer, is a main source of Greenwells power.

What kind of fiction will do for us now? In a time of unending global crises and rising despair, of climate grief and democracy grief, of Trumpschmerz and pandemic attack, a time when the overwhelming fear seems to be setting in: there where the future should be, in place of enlightened progress lie chaos and darknesswhat stories do we want to write, and what do we want to read? Karl Ove Knausgaard, another writer obsessed with shame and bent on radical confession, has described reaching a point when the only kinds of literature that seemed to be meaningful were those that just consisted of a voice, the voice of your own personality, a life, a face, a gaze you could meet. What is a work of art if not the gaze of another person? I was happy reading Greenwell. The carefully constructed sentences, the authenticity of the voice, the clarity and deep humaneness of the gazeall this had a soothing and uplifting effect on me, the usual effect of good literature. Coming to the end of Cleanness, I was already thinking about Greenwells next book, knowing that I would read anything he wrote. But when I looked up, Donald Trump was still the president of the United States.

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Human Behavior

Tuning in to philosophy, humanities during the pandemic | Stanford News – Stanford University News

With the coronavirus pandemic upending every aspect of our lives, it can feel like so much is out of our control. But instead of feeling helpless about what is unraveling all around us, Stanford professor Joshua Landy wants us to focus on what can be managed in these challenging times: our reaction.

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Philosophy Talk co-founder John Perry and current host Joshua Landy reflect on how philosophy is part of daily human discussion and interaction.

Our response to it thats something thats under our control, said Landy, the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and professor of comparative literature in the School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S). From the books we choose to read to the movies we decide to watch, Landy said there are two directions to go: One is to plunge yourself deeper into misery and make yourself even more afraid, and the other is, well, not escapism exactly, but the kind of writing that keeps your mind alive, alert and active.

Landy, who co-hosts the popular radio program Philosophy Talk, which is reaching its 500th episode, hopes that the shows upcoming programs will help listeners find new ways to experience the crisis through the power of storytelling. Landy and philosopher Ray Briggs who joined the show as co-host this year have spoken with various Stanford humanities faculty about how music, drama and literature can provide comfort, connection and a sense of community during this challenging period.

Philosophy Talk is broadcast on KZSU 90.1 FM every Friday from 12:15 to 1 p.m. To find out what station carries the show in your area, visit this list. The current episode is also available to stream on the Philosophy Talk website. Stanford affiliates can access past episodes of Philosophy Talk through Stanford University Libraries.

For example, in their interview with Michaela Bronstein, an assistant professor of English, Bronstein discussed the idea that the more stories one reads, listens to or watches, the more expansive one is in their thinking.

Youre not locked into just one idea of what this has to be, Landy explained. Here we are in the middle of a story and we dont quite know how its going to turn out. Theres a variety of different possible endings.

These discussions, titled Comforting Conversations will broadcast in two parts beginning in the weeks of May 17 and May 24. The first episode will feature Bronstein, fellow English professor Ato Quayson and philosopher R. Lanier Anderson. Part two includes designer and musicologist Ge Wang, French and Italian scholar Laura Wittman, philosopher Antonia Peacocke and Harry Elam, vice president for the arts.

I hope that people will find some inspiration and a sense that were all in this together, even if were physically apart, said Landy.

In addition to Comforting Conversations, Philosophy Talk is also dedicating an upcoming episode to some of the moral dilemmas that are unique to the coronavirus pandemic. Philosophers have long engaged with the ethics of human behavior, and Landy hopes the discipline may help its audience as they navigate new norms of social distancing.

Landy and Briggs asked listeners to send the quandaries they have encountered as they navigate their new lives while sheltering-in-place and living in lockdown. One listener wondered how they should handle a roommate who is putting their health at risk by refusing to follow social distancing guidelines; another wanted to know whether it is ethical to order non-essential items online an act that could put low-wage workers in danger.

These are not easy questions to answer, said Landy. But they are questions many of us are confronting on a daily basis.

I think one of the things that the show tries to do is essentially to remind people that youre doing philosophy all the time, whether youre aware of it or not, he said.

Philosophy Talks 500th episode will be celebrated in early June with the programs annual summer reading show.

Philosophy Talk, the program that questions everything, except your intelligence, first aired in 2004 co-hosted by Stanford philosophers John Perry and the late Ken Taylor. Perry had been kicking around the idea of a philosophers version of Car Talk, the comical NPR syndicated show about automobiles and automotive repair, for several years before finding the Click to his Clack with Taylor.

Philosophy professors John Perry and Ken Taylor were the founding co-hosts of Philosophy Talk, which first aired in 2004. (Image credit: L.A. Cicero)

Now, admittedly, the Car Talk hosts are funnier than us, but philosophy is more interesting than automatic transmission. So, between the two, we thought we would do OK, said Perry, the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor, Emeritus.

It was only a matter of time (and yes, they have a lot to say on that subject, too) before Perry and Taylors lively banter gained a cult following of listeners who tuned in to their weekly, down-to-earth discussions on out-of-this-world ideas like extraterrestrial life, magical thinking and quantum physics and faith, and their debates about everyday life and sometimes even nothing at all.

Over the years, weve done a pretty good job of showing people that its fun to think about What do you mean? How do you know? and So what? said Perry.

Each episode features a guest a fellow philosopher, another scholar or public intellectual to challenge long-held beliefs and assumptions.

I think its very easy for people to get used to the way things have been in their lifetime and to assume thats just the way they have to be, said Landy, who joined the show as co-host when Perry retired in 2017. But philosophers come in and ask, Why? Why does it have to be that way? What evidence do you have for thinking thats the way it should be? How could we do things differently?

As Perry and Landy reflect on Philosophy Talks past 500 episodes, they acknowledge that the show would not be where it is today without Taylor, who died unexpectedly in December 2019.

He was something special. He was a force of nature, a polymath, a fountain of wisdom on any subject, Landy said. Were trying to continue the legacy of this show that John and Ken created, and theyre big shoes to fill but were doing our best to grow our feet.

In thinking about what the next 500 episodes will bring, Landy said he looks forward to being surprised by what the next generations of scholars and thinkers will offer.

New generations bring new attitudes, Landy said. Theyre intrinsically unpredictable and thats a great thing, because otherwise wed be locked into whatever we are in currently. So Im looking forward to being surprised.

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Espace pour la vie and the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity are organizing a virtual event to reflect and prompt action on the…

MONTRAL, May 21, 2020 /CNW Telbec/ -On World Environment Day, June 5, 2020, for which Montreal is the North American host city, Espace pour la vie and the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are organizing a virtual event to reflect on and imagine the future of our planet (our cities, our spaces) as well as the cohabitation between species on Earth, humans included. With this event, Espace pour la vie reinforces its commitment toward protecting biodiversity and takes its mission outside its walls with the ultimate goal of urging citizens to take action. Espace pour la vie also wants to play an even greater role in environmental projects that concern our society.

For this exceptional virtual meeting called Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity, the CBD and Espace pour la vie are honoured to bring together four committed scientists on a unique panel: Anne-Sophie Gousse-Lessard, a researcher in social and environmental psychology; humanitarian author Matthieu Ricard; Stanley T. Asah, researcher in conservation psychology; and environmental activist Vandana Shiva.

A relevant and essential reflection on what it means to "live together"This event urges us to take a step back, in the present context, to explore ways to tap into the human potential to preserve biodiversity and get closer to nature in order to guide our future actions. Participants from various backgrounds (scientists, artists, educators, citizens, activists and Aboriginals) from Quebec, Canada and abroad will reflect on the subject of the environment. What is our collective relationship to nature? To biodiversity? What should be the focus of our collective attention? What types of projects should we pursue?

An event open to the general public via social networksThe general public will be able to watch the live panel discussion as privileged witnesses of the reflection. Espace pour la vie will broadcast the panel discussion on Facebook Live.

Friday, June 510:30 am to 11:15 am - Panel discussion on Facebook Live*

*The entire 3-hour event will be available on our Web site after the event.For more information or to watch the panel discussion:https://espacepourlavie.ca/en/unlocking-human-potential-for-biodiversity

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Quotes"In the exceptional situation we are currently experiencing, our humble goal, with this event, is to take a step forward, all together, by opening a productive dialogue with multiple speakers in order to imagine, build and inspire a future based on solidarity and benevolence," said Charles-Mathieu Brunelle, Director of Espace pour la vie.

"The City of Montreal is very proud to host World Environment Day in North America. Cities have a major role to play in the ecological transition, whether in terms of mobility, greening, the reduction of greenhouse gases, or education. This virtual event will promote joint efforts to find solutions to make cities more resilient to climate change," said Laurence Lavigne Lalonde, responsible for ecological transition and resilience, Espace pour la vie, and urban agriculture within the Executive Committee of the City of Montreal.

"It is urgent that we all act to build a way of life in harmony with nature, which is the basis for a resilient and sustainable global economy. This event will be an opportunity for us to work together and put forward the solutions that are found in nature," said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity."

Panelist BiosAnne-Sophie Gousse-LessardAnne-Sophie completed a PhD in social and environmental psychology and held a postdoctoral fellowship on adaptation to climate change. She is now an associate professor at the Institut des sciences de l'environnement (ISE) at UQAM and a research fellow at the Centre de recherche en ducation et formation relative l'environnement et l'cocitoyennet (Centr'ERE). She also holds the chair on the ecological transition at UQAM and is a research officer with the Rseau inondations intersectoriel du Qubec (RIISQ). Her research interests include the motivational processes, levers and barriers related to behaviour changes (individual and collective) and eco-citizenship. She is particularly interested in sustainable mobility (via the Chantier auto-solo), eco-anxiety and activism from a social transformation standpoint. Anne-Sophie Gousse-Lessard is a lecturer, a speaker and she writes blogs for the Unpointcinq media. She is also involved in the board of directors of the Rseau des femmes en environnement.

MatthieuRicard A Buddhist monk, author, photographer, scientist and initiator of humanitarian projects in Asia, Matthieu Ricard also has a PhD in cell genetics. During a trip to India in 1967, Matthieu Ricard met Tibetan spiritual masters. After settling in the Himalayas in 1972 following his thesis in cell genetics at the Pasteur Institute, he became a monk in 1979 and went on to serve as a French interpreter for the Dalai Lama in 1989. He has given numerous conferences, including a dozen at the World Economic Forum in Davos and at the United Nations. A prolific author, Matthieu Ricard participates actively, as a scientist and Buddhist monk, in scientific research in neuroscience on the effects of meditation on the brain. He has co-published several scientific papers on this subject. As a photographer, he has published a dozen albums and donates all of his rights to the humanitarian association Karuna-Shechen, which he founded. In 2019, this organization helped more than 380,000 people in Tibet in the areas of education, health and social services.

Stanley T. AsahStanley Asah is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington specializing in Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management with a focus on Conservation Psychology. He studies the ways to orient human behavior, organizational behavior, and political behavior toward sustainability and conservation outcomes. His interests in the human dimensions of conservation include topics such as: how to connect peopleespecially childrento the outdoors; effective strategies for motivating pro-environmental behaviors; social responses to environmental hazards such as wildland fire; the social impacts and social acceptability of renewable energy systems; how people benefit from ecosystems and how those benefits could serve as motivators of environmental stewardship behaviors. He is also interested in how to use the psychological sciences, including social marketing and persuasive communication, to initiate, direct and sustain pro-environmental behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency.

Vandana Shiva Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar and an environmental activist who has dedicated nearly five decades of her life to the protection of biodiversity. Shiva completed and received a PhD in the foundations of quantum theory at the University of Western Ontario. Her scientific research and work in biodiversity conservation with local communities, especially women, has allowed her to evolve a paradigm of oneness and non-separability, which she refers to as the "biodiversity of the mind". Her work has shown how, through the conservation of biodiversity, humans can produce more food, better health, reduce hunger, disease and poverty. Currently based in Delhi where she established the Earth University and a biodiversity conservation farm, she has authored more than twenty books, is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the global solidarity movement referred to as the Earth Democracy movement. She received numerous awards for her service to the Earth, the protection of biodiversity and people's rights.

A project of Space for Life's Laboratory of PossibilitiesUnlocking Human Potential for Biodiversityis a project initiated by the Laboratory of Possibilities, an open innovation exchange space created by Espace pour la vie in 2020 that rallies stakeholders from all walks of life to devise creative solutions related to biodiversity, sustainable development and climate change. The Laboratory of Possibilities will have the power to fast-track innovative projects created for the benefit of the planet in concert with citizens, experts, employees, agencies and organizations, urging people to take action.

Espace pour la vieEspace pour la vie is made up of four attractions on the same site: the Biodme, the Insectarium, the Botanical Garden and the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium. These four prestigious municipal institutions form Canada's largest natural science museum complex. Together, they are launching a daring, creative urban movement, encouraging all of us to rethink the connection between humankind and nature and cultivate a new way of living.

Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological DiversityOpened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and entering into force in December 1993, the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of the components of biodiversity and the equitable sharing of the benefits derived from the use of genetic resources. With 196 Parties, the Convention has near universal participation among countries. The Convention seeks to address all threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services, including threats from climate change, through scientific assessments, the development of tools, incentives and processes, the transfer of technologies and good practices and the full and active involvement of relevant stakeholders including indigenous and local communities, youth, NGOs, women and the business community. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is a supplementary agreement to the Convention that seeks to protect biological diversity from the potential risks posed by living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology. To date, 163 Parties and the European Union have ratified the Cartagena Protocol. The Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena Protocol are based in Montreal. For more information, go to http://www.cbd.int.

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Unlocking the Neuroscience of How Experiencing Traumatic Stress Leads to Aggression – SciTechDaily

By Society for NeuroscienceMay 18, 2020

Strengthened amygdala pathways increase aggression, may be targets for PTSD treatment.

Traumatic stress can cause aggression by strengthening two brain pathways involved in emotion, according to research recently published inJNeurosci. Targeting those pathways via deep brain stimulation may stymie aggression associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.

The consequences of traumatic stress linger long after the stress ends. People suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder often display heightened aggression, caused by unknown changes in the amygdala. An almond-shaped structure nestled deep inside the brain, the amygdala plays an essential role in emotion, social behaviors, and aggression.

Attacking another animal or experiencing traumatic stress strengthens amygdala pathways and leads to aggressive behavior. Credit: Nordman et al., JNeurosci 2020

Nordman et al. examined how different amygdala circuits changed in male mice after traumatic stress. Two connections strengthened, resulting in more attacks on other mice: the circuitry connecting the amygdala to the ventromedial hypothalamus and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. The former modulates the frequency of attacks, while the latter controls the length of attacks. The research team then used low frequencies of light to stop the pathways from strengthening, preventing an increase in aggressive behavior. Deep brain stimulation may elicit the same effect in humans.

Reference: Potentiation of Divergent Medial Amygdala Pathways Drives Experience-Dependent Aggression Escalation by Jacob Nordman, Xiaoyu Ma, Qinhua Gu, Michael Potegal, He Li, Alexxai V. Kravitz and Zheng Li, 18 May 2020, JNeurosci.DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0370-20.2020

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Neurobiologist Finds Potent Pain-Suppression Center in the Brain – Duke Today

A Duke University research team has found a small area of the brain in mice that can profoundly control the animals sense of pain.

Somewhat unexpectedly, this brain center turns pain off, not on. Its also located in an area where few people would have thought to look for an anti-pain center, the amygdala, which is often considered the home of negative emotions and responses, like the fight or flight response and general anxiety.

People do believe there is a central place to relieve pain, thats why placebos work, said senior author Fan Wang, the Morris N. Broad Distinguished Professor of neurobiology in the School of Medicine. The question is where in the brain is the center that can turn off pain.

Most of the previous studies have focused on which regions are turned ON by pain, Wang said. But there are so many regions processing pain, youd have to turn them all off to stop pain. Whereas this one center can turn off the pain by itself.

The work is a follow-up to earlier research in Wangs lab looking at neurons that are activated, rather than suppressed, by general anesthetics. In a 2019 study, they found that general anesthesia promotes slow-wave sleep by activating the supraoptic nucleus of the brain. But sleep and pain are separate, an important clue that led to the new finding, which appears online May 18 in Nature Neuroscience.

The researchers found that general anesthesia also activates a specific subset of inhibitory neurons in the central amygdala, which they have called the CeAga neurons (CeA stands for central amygdala; ga indicates activation by general anesthesia). Mice have a relatively larger central amygdala than humans, but Wang said she had no reason to think we have a different system for controlling pain.

Using technologies that Wangs lab has pioneered to track the paths of activated neurons in mice, the team found the CeAga was connected to many different areas of the brain, which was a surprise, Wang said.

By giving mice a mild pain stimulus, the researchers could map all of the pain-activated brain regions. They discovered that at least 16 brain centers known to process the sensory or emotional aspects of pain were receiving inhibitory input from the CeAga.

Pain is a complicated brain response, Wang said. It involves sensory discrimination, emotion, and autonomic (involuntary nervous system) responses. Treating pain by dampening all of these brain processes in many areas is very difficult to achieve. But activating a key node that naturally sends inhibitory signals to these pain-processing regions would be more robust.

Using a technology called optogenetics, which uses light to activate a small population of cells in the brain, the researchers found they could turn off the self-caring behaviors a mouse exhibits when it feels uncomfortable by activating the CeAga neurons. Paw-licking or face-wiping behaviors were completely abolished the moment the light was switched on to activate the anti-pain center.

Its so drastic, Wang said. They just instantaneously stop licking and rubbing.

When the scientists dampened the activity of these CeAga neurons, the mice responded as if a temporary insult had become intense or painful again. They also found that low-dose ketamine, an anesthetic drug that allows sensation but blocks pain, activated the CeAga center and wouldnt work without it.

Now the researchers are going to look for drugs that can activate only these cells to suppress pain as potential future pain killers, Wang said.

The other thing were trying to do is to (transcriptome) sequence the hell out of these cells, she said. The researchers are hoping to find the gene for a rare or unique cell surface receptor among these specialized cells that would enable a very specific drug to activate these neurons and relieve pain.

This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (DP1MH103908, R01 DE029342, R01 NS109947, R01 DE027454), the Holland-Trice Scholar Award, the W.M. Keck Foundation, and a predoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

CITATION: General Anesthetics Activate a Potent Central Pain-Suppression Circuit in The Amygdala, Thuy Hua, Bin Chen, Dongye Lu, Katsuyasu Sakurai, Shengli Zhao, Bao-Xia Han, Jiwoo Kim, Luping Yin, Yong Chen, Jinghao Lu, Fan Wang. Nature Neuroscience, May 18, 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41593-020-0632-8

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The Brain Can "Update" Memories With Incorrect Information – Technology Networks

A new study shows that the brain can update or edit poorly-formed memories with the wrong information, potentially causing confusion, anxiety disorders like PTSD and, in extreme cases, false memories.

The research, published in Current Biology, is one of the first comprehensive characterisations of poorly-formed memories and may offer a framework for science to explore different therapeutic approaches to fear, memory and anxiety disorders. It may also have implications for accuracy of some witness testimony.

Senior author Professor Bryce Vissel, from the UTS Centre for Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine, said his team used novel behavioural, molecular and computational techniques to investigate memories that have not been well-formed, and how the brain deals with them.

He explained, "For memories to be useful, they have to have been well-formed during an event - that is, they have to accurately reflect what actually happened.

"However, in the real world many memories are likely to be inaccurate - especially in situations where the experience was brief, sudden or highly emotional, as can often occur during trauma. Inaccurate memories can also occur when the memory is poorly encoded, potentially as a result of subtle differences in how each person processes memory or because of disease like Alzheimer's or dementia."

Lead author Dr Raphael Zinn said, "Our findings are exciting because they show that memory updating mechanisms that become activated after recall can refine and improve memories.

"Surprisingly, we found that the same process can, in some circumstances, lead to incorrect updating of the memory. We also identify one molecular mechanism, called reconsolidation, which could be mediating this process.

"This suggests we might be able to target such updating mechanisms therapeutically to treat memory and anxiety disorders where memory formation is poor."

The 6-year study shows that the same mechanism that updates poor memories can also severely distort them if it occurs in the wrong situation.

Professor Vissel said these findings could be useful for understanding memory fallibility in everyday life; fear and memory disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); and situations where accurate recall is critical, like witness testimony in courtrooms.

"While these findings come from studies in mice, this research is likely to apply across many animals with developed brains, including other mammals and humans. They might also tie in with dementias, where the main memory-related problem is an apparent inability to form accurate new memories.

"Why is memory fallible? Our study suggests that when an individual forms a poor memory, the brain reactivates the memory in a similar situation and then updates it. Sometimes a poorly formed memory can be wrongly reactivated in a similar, but irrelevant, situation. The brain may then update the memory from that irrelevant situation, causing the memory to become incorrect - rather than creating a new and entirely different memory of the new situation."

Reference: Zinn, R., Leake, J., Krasne, F. B., Corbit, L. H., Fanselow, M. S., & Vissel, B. (2020). Maladaptive Properties of Context-Impoverished Memories. Current Biology, S0960982220305546.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.040

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ProMIS Neurosciences and BC Neuroimmunology expand collaboration to develop and commercialize proprietary diagnostic assays – GlobeNewswire

TORONTO and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ProMIS Neurosciences, Inc. (TSX: PMN) (OTCQB: ARFXF), a company with unique, core technology to predict novel targets on the molecular surface of complex proteins, announced today that, in addition to its ongoing program to develop a high-throughput and accurate test for detection of antibodies to the causative agent of COVID-19, it has expanded its collaboration with BC Neuroimmunology (BCNI) to include development of highly sensitive and specific assays to support accurate screening and diagnosis of Alzheimers disease (AD).

Both BCNI and ProMIS Neurosciences have years of experience utilizing surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technology, and believe that recent, significant advances in throughput and stability are likely to make SPR a broadly used and cost-effective diagnostic platform. SPR is expected to offer greater accuracy, flexibility and adaptability compared to ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), the prevailing standard.

The current COVID-19 pandemic has created a need for the rapid expansion of accurate serology testing for the presence of antibodies to the virus causing COVID-19. It is widely acknowledged that such a test for COVID-19 immunity is essential to understanding patterns of immunity in the community and supporting an effective surveillance program. As recently announced, the collaboration between ProMIS and BCNI is making significant progress towards the development of an SPR-based antibody assay, aiming to achieve 100% sensitivity and 99.9% specificity for the virus causing COVID-19.

The expanded collaboration between BCNI and ProMIS is designed to address the anticipated launches of disease-modifying treatments in the Alzheimers/dementia area, which will necessitate the broad availability of appropriate and accurate diagnostic assays. SPR will be used in this context to develop sensitive blood-based AD diagnostic tests quickly and cost-effectively.

Dr. Hans Frykman, Chief Executive Officer of BCNI and a globally recognized neuro-immunologist stated: We firmly believe that SPR will displace tests based on ELISA, a decades-old technology, due to its superior accuracy and flexibility. At BCNI, we are developing high-throughput SPR tests in conjunction with ProMIS whose unique peptide antigens are anticipated to be a critical component for development and commercialization of top-quality assays targeting infectious disease, such as COVID-19, and neurodegenerative disease, such as Alzheimers.

Commenting on the expanded collaboration with BCNI, Eugene Williams, ProMIS executive chairman, stated: It has been very clear to us since the launch of ProMIS that diagnostics represent an important application of our unique technology platform. We have announced significant progress on development of an SPR-based antibody test for COVID-19 and believe high quality assays in this space are necessary to help safely get the economy back on track. In the field of neuroscience, the anticipated launch of aducanumab and BAN2401 for treatment of Alzheimers disease will create a dramatic increase in demand for dementia screening and diagnostics. We intend to help address this very important unmet need by capitalizing on our existing portfolio of antibodies and antigens and applying these existing assets to BCNIs outstanding expertise in the development of high performance diagnostic tests.

About ProMIS Neurosciences

ProMIS Neurosciences, Inc. is a development stage biotechnology company whose unique core technology is the ability to rationally predict the site and shape (conformation) of novel targets known as Disease Specific Epitopes on the molecular surface of proteins. In the infectious disease setting, these disease-specific epitopes represent peptide antigens that can be used as an essential component to create accurate and sensitive serological assays to detect the presence of antibodies that arise in response to a specific infection, such as COVID-19. These peptide antigens can also be used to create potential therapeutic antibodies to treat active infection, as well as serve as the basis for development of vaccines. ProMIS is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ProMIS is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol PMN, and on the OTCQB Venture Market under the symbol ARFXF.

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Study Reveals Link between Diversity in Daily Experiences and Sense of Well-Being | Neuroscience, Psychology – Sci-News.com

New and diverse daily experiences are linked to enhanced happiness, according to a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Heller et al reveal a previously unknown connection between our daily physical environments and sense of well-being. Image credit: Frank MoreLight.

Our results suggest that people feel happier when they have more variety in their daily routines: when they go to novel places and have a wider array of experiences, said New York Universitys Dr. Catherine Hartley, lead co-author of the study.

The opposite is also likely true: positive feelings may drive people to seek out these rewarding experiences more frequently.

In the study, Dr. Hartley and colleagues investigated the following question: is diversity in humans daily experiences associated with more positive emotional states?

To do so, the researchers conducted GPS tracking of participants in New York and Miami for three to four months, asking subjects by text message to report about their positive and negative emotional state during this period.

The results showed that on days when people had more variability in their physical location visiting more locations in a day and spending proportionately equitable time across these locations they reported feeling more positive: happy, excited, strong, relaxed, and/or attentive.

The scientists then sought to determine if this link between exploration and positive emotion had a connection to brain activity.

To do this, about half of the subjects returned to a laboratory and underwent MRI scans.

The MRI results showed that people for whom this effect was the strongest those whose exposure to diverse experiences was more strongly associated with positive feeling (affect) exhibited greater correlation between brain activity in the hippocampus and the striatum.

These are brain regions that are associated, respectively, with the processing of novelty and reward beneficial or subjectively positive experiences.

These results suggest a reciprocal link between the novel and diverse experiences we have during our daily exploration of our physical environments and our subjective sense of well-being, Dr. Hartley said.

Collectively, these findings show the beneficial consequences of environmental enrichment across species, demonstrating a connection between real-world exposure to fresh and varied experiences and increases in positive emotions, said lead co-author Dr. Aaron Heller, a researcher at the University of Miami.

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A.S. Heller et al. Association between real-world experiential diversity and positive affect relates to hippocampal-striatal functional connectivity. Nat Neurosci, published online May 18, 2020; doi: 10.1038/s41593-020-0636-4

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Student Research Awards Named by Center for Research on Families – UMass News and Media Relations

The Center for Research on Families (CRF) has announced the recipients of this year's Student Research Awards.

CRF is committed to supporting students engaged in family research, with student researchers addressing family challenges such as malnutrition in older adults, womens health in remote regions of the world, health effects of breastfeeding, socioemotional development of the multiracial children, how brain structures affect memory and how young childrens ability to understand language influences brain development.

The awards program recognizes outstanding student research on issues related to families.

Dissertation Award Recipients:

Bi-sek Hsaiao, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, nutrition

Sarah McCormick, College of Natural Sciences, psychological and brain science

Merika Sanders, College of Natural Sciences, psychological and brain science

Methodology Scholarship Recipient:

Christina Rowley, College of Natural Sciences, clinical psychology

Travel Award Recipients:

Youngjoon Bae, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, sociology

Melise Edwards, College of Natural Sciences, neuroscience and behavior

Olivia Laramie, School of Behavioral Sciences, public policy

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Neuroscience Market Necessity And Demand 2020 to 2026 – Galus Australis

The global Neuroscience Market research report thoroughly explains each and every aspect related to the Neuroscience Market, which facilitates the reports reader to study and evaluate the upcoming market trend and execute the analytical data to promote the business. The growth trend forecasted on account of thorough examination offers in-depth information regarding the global Neuroscience Market. A pathway of development is offered by the market to the several connected networks of businesses under it, which include different firms, industries, organizations, vendors, distributors, and local manufacturers too. All the key Neuroscience Market players compete with each other by offering better products and services at a reasonable price in order to grab significant share at the regional and global level market.

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