{"id":1484,"date":"2013-05-24T19:47:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depaulwrd.wordpress.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2017-11-06T18:50:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:50:31","slug":"skolnik-to-speak-on-spirituality-and-neuroscience-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/skolnik-to-speak-on-spirituality-and-neuroscience-in-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Skolnik to Speak on Spirituality and Neuroscience in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depaulwrd.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/christine-skolnik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1489\" src=\"http:\/\/depaulwrd.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/christine-skolnik.jpg\" alt=\"Christine Skolnik\" width=\"200\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/christine-skolnik.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/christine-skolnik-132x150.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Christine M. Skolnik of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric &amp; Discourse at DePaul University has been invited to speak on a panel about spirituality and neuroscience at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainconference.com\/en\/index.php?page_id=54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neuroplasticity and Cognitive Modifiability conference<\/a> in Jerusalem, June 2-5, 2013, sponsored by the Feuerstein Institute. Dr. Skolnik will speak on a panel titled &#8220;Materialism v. Spiritualism on Brain Plasticity&#8221; with experts on spirituality and neuroscience from Israel.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Skolnik has been conducting research in neuroscience and rhetoric for over fifteen years, delivering papers at various academic conferences in the U. S. and publishing her work in technical-writing and critical-thinking related publications. Her manuscript <i>Rhetoric and the Plastic Brain<\/i> is currently under revision, but available in draft form on <a href=\"http:\/\/depaul.academia.edu\/ChristineSkolnik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">academia.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Skolnik has a PhD in English, with a focus on rhetoric, from Penn State. She has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric and technical writing for 20 years. She is also a certified spiritual director and recently completed a second MA, in Urban Sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Christine M. Skolnik of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric &amp; Discourse at DePaul University has been invited to speak on a panel about spirituality and neuroscience at the Neuroplasticity and Cognitive Modifiability conference in Jerusalem, June 2-5, 2013, sponsored by the Feuerstein Institute. Dr. Skolnik will speak on a panel titled &#8220;Materialism v. Spiritualism on Brain Plasticity&#8221; with experts on spirituality and neuroscience from Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,472],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","category-undergraduate","tag-rhetoric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrdblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}