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On June 6, 2026, Simon During offered a suggestive mapping of a "humanities world" in his 2025 work "Humanities Theory," describing it as a "conglomeration of practices, interests, comportments, personae, offices, moods, purposes, and values" across various settings, disciplines, and institutions. Previously, on May 31, the 13th Symposium on Behavioral Neurology and the 2nd Symposium on Cognition and Behavior gathered experts for keynote lectures and interdisciplinary case discussions, exploring white matter (dys)connections, autism, and apathy, and including a "Young Minds" session for emerging researchers. Earlier, on May 28, a lecture titled "False Prophets and Climate Cults. How Climate Change Becomes Religiously Meaningful to Grassroots Conservatives in the US" was presented, which discussed the religious significance of climate change among grassroots conservatives. On May 27, discussions centered on "The Greening of Religion and Spirituality," exploring beliefs, practices, and organizations amidst environmental change, with scholarship suggesting religion's crucial role in sustainability transitions given its influence on global populations. This followed Professor Peter Dubsky's remarks on May 26 at the ESMO Breast Cancer 2026 congress, where he discussed abstracts on AI-driven multimodal strategies for improving risk stratification in early breast cancer, noting digital pathology as an "extremely busy field of research" with recent high-impact publications.
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