Max Kade Center Hosts Week of Lectures

The Max Kade Center will host a weeklong series of academic lectures and events, April 10-13, as two neuroscientists from Austria visit the campus.

Directed by Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, associate professor and head of foreign languages and literature, Lafayette’s Max Kade Center for German Studies was established through a $65,000 grant from the Max Kade Foundation. It is based in Pardee Hall room 429. Each year the center invites German speaking scholars to Lafayette to speak on a variety of topics.

Halina Baran, director of the Neurochemical Laboratory, Karl Landsteiner Institute for Pain Treatment and Neurorehabilitation, LKM Amstetten-Mauer, Austria, and Berthold Kepplinger, director of Department of Neuroscience, Ostarrichiklinikum & Neuropsychiatric Hospital Mauer-Amstetten, Austria, will be this semester’s Max Kade distinguished visitors.

For more information, contact Lamb-Faffelberger at lambfafm@lafayette.edu, or Wendy Hill, Rappolt Professor in Neuroscience, at hillw@lafayette.edu.

There will be four lectures throughout the week. The neuroscientists will also take time to visit a number of classrooms and discuss possible internships in Austria with faculty as well.

Lecture schedule:

• April 10 at 12 p.m. in Oechsle Hall, Baran will discuss “Biochemical and Pharmacological Insight Into Epilepsy Research: Neurodegeneration and Neuroprotection.”
• April 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Kirby Hall, Kepplinger will lecture on “Health Care Crisis? How Does Germany & Austria Deal With It?”
• April 12 at 12 p.m. in Oechsle Hall, Baran will talk about “Kynurenine Metabolism and Neurodegeneration.”
• April13 at 12 p.m. in Oechsle Hall, Kepplinger will discuss “Kynurenine Metabolism – Clinical Significance in Ageing and Neurodegenerative Disorders.”