2008 Calendar
May
12
Perception and Imagination: Masters of Theatrical Illusion
Roundtable
Participants: Jules Fisher, Peter Maloney, Gregory Meeh, Mark Mitton (moderator), Charles Reynolds
7:00 PM, at the Center
13
Imagination and Mathematics: The Geometry of Thought
Course
Participants: Barry Mazur & Eva Brann
7:00 PM, at the Center
17
Wingdale Community Singers
Performance & Discussion
Participants: David Grubbs, Nina Katchadourian, Hannah Marcus, Rick Moody
2:30 PM, at the Center
27
Our Life in Poetry: William Butler Yeats
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & Eamon Grennan
7:00 PM, at the Center
31
Psychogeography: The Landscapes of Memory
Roundtable
Participants: André Aciman, Vito Acconci, Russell Epstein, Matthew von Unwerth
2:30 PM, at the Center
June
07
Susan Sontag: Public Intellectual, Polymath, Provocatrice
Roundtable
Participants: Robert Boyers, Roger Copeland, Phillip Lopate, James Miller
2:30 PM, at the Center
09
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress, and the Tangerine
Film Screening
Directed by Marion Cajori and Amei Walach
7:00 PM, at the Center
14
Emotion and Invention in Architecture
Roundtable
Participants: Donald Albrecht, David Howes, Sanjoy Mazumdar, Julio Salcedo (moderator), Jerome Winer
2:30 PM, at the Center
24
Our Life in Poetry: Post-War Polish Poets
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & Edward Hirsch
7:00 PM, at the Center
25
Living in the Musical Moment: Don Byron & Lewis Porter
Course
Participants: Don Byron & Lewis Porter
7:00 PM, at the Center
September
13
Mating in Captivity: Sexuality and Monogamy
Roundtable
Participants: Laura Kipnis, Pamela Paul, Esther Perel, Owen Renik
2:30 PM, at the Center
20
Sex and Love: The Biology of Romance
Roundtable
Participants: Michael Baum, Helen Fisher, Siri Gullestad, Michael Numan, Donald Pfaff (moderator)
2:30 PM, at the Center
27
Love Code: The Chemistry of Intimacy
Roundtable
Participants: Stephanie Brown, Sue Carter (moderator), Elaine Hatfield, Stephen Porges, Dolores Malaspina
2:30 PM, at the Center
October
04
The Body and its Image
Roundtable
Participants: Paul Campos, Sander Gilman (moderator) (other panelists TBA)
2:30 PM, at the Center
23
Our Life in Poetry: W.H. Auden
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & David Lehman
7:00 PM, at the Center
25
The Presumption of Rationality: Psychological Challenges to Legal Certainty
Roundtable
Participants: Peter Brooks, Anne Dailey (moderator), Carol Gilligan, Nomi Stolzenberg, Kenji Yoshino
2:30 PM, at the Center
November
01
True Crime: Inside the Mind of Mayhem
Roundtable
Participants: Spencer Eth (moderator) (other panelists TBA)
2:30 PM, at the Center
08
Caché
Film Screening & Roundtable
Participants: Roy Grundman, Brigitte Peucker (moderator), Brian Price, Garrett Stewart
2:30 PM, at the Center
15
Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible
Roundtable
Participants: Mary Bergstein, Abigail Gillman, Diane O'Donoghue (moderator), Andrew Stein Raftery
2:30 PM, at the Center
2009 Calendar
January
31
Fanatical Belief Systems
Roundtable
Participants: Peter Caws, Marc Galanter, John Horgan, Neil Kressel, Jerrold Post (moderator)
2:30 PM, at the Center