To achieve its mission, the Philoctetes Center holds roundtable discussions with experts from various fields (neuroscience, psychology, mathematics, psychoanalysis, humanities, art, philosophy and theology).
These discussions are recorded and transcribed and the records are edited and archived on our website.
All Programs
May 10, 2008
Film Screening
Directed by Scott Hicks
May 03, 2008
Course
Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Geetha Ramanathan Bennett, Min Xiao-Fen
April 29, 2008
Roundtable
Participants: Michael Braziller, Monica de la Torre, Cate Marvin, Brenda Shaughnessy
April 26, 2008
Roundtable
Participants: Maurice Charney, Geoffrey Hartmann, Zvi Lothane (moderator), Paul Schwaber, Meredith Anne Skura
April 24, 2008
Roundtable
Participants: Cristina Alberini, Bevil Conway, David Freedberg, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte (moderator), Douglas Nickel, Robert Polidori
April 15, 2008
Course
Participants: Stephanie Chase, Martin Nass, Philip Setzer
April 12, 2008
Roundtable
Participants: Harold Blum (moderator), Joan Branham, Lois Braverman, Kathryn Harrison, Victoria Pedrick
April 09, 2008
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & Andrew Motion
April 05, 2008
Course
Participants: Vic Juris, Karttikeya, Lewis Porter, Badal Roy
March 15, 2008
Roundtable
Participants: Paul Bloom, Margaret Browning, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Paul Harris (moderator), Alan Leslie
March 15, 2008
Film Screening
Directed by Hal Ashby
March 14, 2008
Roundtable
Participants: Michael Braziller (moderator), Mary Stewart Hammond, Helen Handley Houghton, Ann Hoyt, Tree Swenson
March 11, 2008
Course
Participants: Stephanie Chase & Stewart Pollens
March 09, 2008
Demonstration & Discussion
Participants: Piet Hut & Karen Sobel Lojeski
March 01, 2008
Roundtable
Participants: Ted Cohen, Paul Fry (moderator), Susan Stewart, Frederick Turner, Rosanna Warren
February 29, 2008
Film Screening & Roundtable
Participants: Harvey Roy Greenberg, George Makari, Brigitte Peucker (moderator), Dana Polan, Daphne Merkin
February 24, 2008
Film Screening
Directed by Tom Piper and Ed Howard
February 23, 2008
Roundtable
Participants: Selina Chen-Kiang, James Manley, Carol Portlock, Carol Prives (moderator), Hermann Steller, Eileen White
February 09, 2008
Film Screening
Directed by Katharina Otto-Bernstein
January 29, 2008
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, A. Van Jordan, Patrick Rosal
January 19, 2008
Roundtable
Participants: Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern, Sue Carter, Frances Champagne, Susan Coates, Donald Pfaff (moderator), Daniel Schechter
January 14, 2008
Course
Participants: Stephanie Chase & Eric Barnhill
January 12, 2008
Roundtable
Participants: Deborah Coen (moderator), Sheila Jasanoff, Anthony Leiserowitz, Stephanie LeMenager, Ben Orlove
January 08, 2008
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & Alice Quinn
December 15, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Esther Dyson, David Kirkpatrick (moderator), Jaron Lanier, Bernie Meyerson, Ken Perlin
December 08, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Bryan Doerries, Jonathan Jacobs, Lyuba Konopasek (moderator), Robert Michels, Louis Pangaro
December 08, 2007
Play Reading
Participants: Bryan Doerries, Jesse Eisenberg, Adam Ludwig, John Schmerling, Michael Stuhlbarg
December 04, 2007
Roundtable
Panelists: Richard Bulliet, Seamus Dunn, John Harbeson, Susan Lazar, Avishai Margalit, Dan Rather (moderator)
December 01, 2007
Film Screening
Directed by Marion Cajori
November 30, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Anne Cattaneo, Mark Lamos, Donna Jo Napoli, Roger Rahtz, Maria Tatar, Jack Zipes (moderator)
November 27, 2007
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & Marie Ponsot
November 20, 2007
Course
Participants: Stephanie Chase & Edward Applebaum
November 18, 2007
Film Screening
Directed by Jessica Yu
November 16, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Greg Calbi, Sophia Grojsman, Mark Mitton (moderator), Nils Noren, Philip Pearlstein, Frank Wilson
November 12, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Cristina Alberini, Francois Ansermet, Pierre Magistretti, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Donald Pfaff, Daniel Schechter
November 10, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Deirdre Bair, Bruno Clément, Maryse Condé, William Hirst, Edward Nersessian, Lois Oppenheim (moderator)
November 06, 2007
Film Screening
Directed by Larry Fessenden
November 03, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Sukanya Chakrabarti, Piet Hut (moderator), Jan-Markus Schwindt, Margaret Turnbull, Edwin L. Turner
October 30, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Michael Braziller, Karen Chase, Madge McKeithen, Alicia Ostriker
October 27, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Eric Bentley, Robert Brustein, Roger Copeland (moderator), Stanley Kauffmann
October 25, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Alice Flaherty, Alan Jacobs, Jonathan Lethem, Francis Levy, Lois Oppenheim (moderator), Pedro Reyes
October 20, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Justin Fox (moderator), Bernard Madoff, Ailsa Roell, Robert A. Schwartz, Muriel Seibert, Josh Stampfli
October 13, 2007
Performance & Discussion
Participants: Jane Ira Bloom & Lewis Porter
October 06, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: John Antrobus, Eric Klinger, Malia Mason, Ethel Person, Jerome Singer (moderator)
September 29, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Richard Armstrong (moderator), Diane O'Donoghue, George Prochnik, Peter Rudnytsky, Joel Whitebook
September 15, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Jennifer Gabrys, William Kupinse (moderator), Robin Nagle, Elizabeth Royte, Susan Strasser
September 08, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Noel Carroll, Roger Copeland (moderator), Mary Fleischer, Lynn Garafola, Yvonne Rainer
August 02, 2007
Summer Film Series
Directed by Andrew Jarecki
July 26, 2007
Summer Film Series
Directed by Hovde/Maysles/Maysles/Meyer
July 19, 2007
Summer Film Series
Directed by Ross McElwee
June 27, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Robert Fagen, Joanna Gewertz Harris, Steve Paxton, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (moderator), Daniel N. Stern
June 26, 2007
Workshop
Leader: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
June 11, 2007
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & Eamon Grennan
June 05, 2007
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & Carol Muske-Dukes
June 02, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Charles Brenner, Norman Doidge, Walter Freeman, Arnold Modell, Bradley Peterson, David Pincus (moderator)
May 31, 2007
Film Screening & Roundtable
Participants: Glen Gabbard, Adrienne Harris, Dan Klores, Eric R. Marcus, Daphne Merkin, Michael Miller
May 23, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Leah Dilworth (moderator), Eric Edelman, Steven Heller, Dorothy Globus, Bill Scanga, Tyler Volk
May 22, 2007
Course
Participants: Michel Braziller & Louise Glück
April 28, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Akeel Bilgrami (moderator), Lorraine Daston, Gerald Edelman, John Forrester, Lawrence Friedman, Anne Harrington, Joel Snyder
April 27, 2007
Lecture
Speakers: Anne Harrington and John Forrester
April 26, 2007
Lecture
Speakers: Lorraine Daston and Gerald Edelman
April 25, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Blair Brown, Vittorio Gallese, Joe Grifasi, Robert Landy, Adam Ludwig (moderator), Tom Vasiliades
April 23, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Suzanne Anker, Francis Baudry, David Freedberg, Vittorio Gallese, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Barbara Maria Stafford
April 14, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Stephen J. Dick, James Ferris (moderator), Debra Fischer, Dave Itzkoff, Avi Loeb, David Marusek
April 09, 2007
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & Alice Quinn
April 07, 2007
Film Screening
Directed by Mary Jordan
March 19, 2007
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & Edward Hirsch
March 17, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Alberto Bisin, William Brown, Paul Glimcher, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Elizabeth Phelps
March 10, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Claude Chemtob, Marylene Cloitre, Spencer Eth (moderator), Leonard Shengold, Rachel Yehuda
March 03, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Martin Bergmann, Siri Hustvedt, Jaak Panksepp, David Pincus (moderator), Reverend Thandeka
February 22, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Donald Carveth, Marcia Cavell (moderator), Michael Eigen, Jay Greenberg, Michael Lewis
February 17, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Piet Hut, Janna Levin, Charles Liu, Dimitri Nanopoulos (moderator), Tu Weiming
February 08, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Adrienne Baxter Bell, Anne Cattaneo (moderator), Peter Gay, Robert Pippin, John Rockwell, Edwin Schlossberg
February 03, 2007
Film Screening
Directed by Oren Rudavsky
January 27, 2007
Roundtable
Participants: Gianfranco Basti, Ned Block, Richard Haier, Joseph LeDoux, Patrick McGrath, Craig Piers (moderator)
January 23, 2007
Course
Participants: Michael Braziller & Eamon Grennan
January 13, 2007
Film Screening and Roundtable
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
December 04, 2006
Film Screening
Directed by Marie Nyrerod
December 02, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Richard Armstrong, Mary Bergstein, Mark Edmundson, Ethan Kleinberg, Robert Paul (moderator)
November 30, 2006
Film Screening
Directed by Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz
November 18, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Edith Ackermann, Paul Bloom, Ruth Fischer, Marcel Kinsbourne, Dorothy Singer, Marjorie Taylor (moderator)
November 11, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Shukri Abed, Giorgio Freddi, Peter Loewenberg (moderator), Vamik Volkan, Isser Woloch
October 26, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Edward Casey, Francisca Cho, Harry Eyres (moderator), Robert Michels, Mark Norell, Christopher Peacocke
October 07, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Akeel Bilgrami (moderator), Annaik Feve, Rebecca Goldstein, Siri Hustvedt, Jaak Panksepp, Joel Whitebook
September 30, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Jorge L. Ahumada, Akeel Bilgrami (moderator), Arnold M. Cooper, Garrett Deckel, Peter D. Kramer, Bernard Reginster
September 29, 2006
Film Screening
Directed by Freida Lee Mock
September 16, 2006
Film Screening
Directed by Roger Copeland
September 09, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Murat F. Aycin, Hani Mahmassani, David J. Pine, Alan Pollack (moderator), Roger P. Roess, Michael Schreckenberg
July 27, 2006
Chamber Film Screening
Directed by Jacques Demy
June 22, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Charles Randall Dean, Glenn Horowitz, Francis Levy (moderator), Michael Stone-Richards, Peter Subkowski
June 09, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Daria Colombo (moderator), Peter B. Neubauer, Steven T. Levy, Paul E. Stepansky, Donnel B. Stern, Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros
May 18, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Michael Braziller (moderator), Timothy Donnelly, Anne-Marie Levine, David Pollens, Alice Quinn, David Shapiro
May 06, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Cathy Caruth, Mark Edmundson, Paul Fry (moderator), Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly, Meredith Anne Skura
April 22, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Jason Brown, Marcia Cavell, Marcel Kinsbourne, Dimitri Nanopoulos, Right Reverend Catherine S. Roskam, Roy Herndon Smith
April 09, 2006
Film Screening
Directed by Francois Kohler
March 20, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Sander Abend, Jacqueline Amati Mehler, Alain de Mijolla, Claudio Eisirik, Charles Hanly, and Edward Nersessian (moderator)
February 18, 2006
Film Screening
Directed by Rupert Murray
February 17, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Jay Greenberg, William Grossman, Peter Loewenberg, Robert Michels, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Jerome Winer
January 14, 2006
Lecture
Nicholas Fox Weber
January 14, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Paul Harris (moderator), Arietta Slade, Miriam Steele, Marjorie Taylor, Dennie Palmer Wolf
January 14, 2006
Lecture
Oliver Turnbull
January 13, 2006
Roundtable
Participants: Marcia Cavell, Harry Eyres, Rocco Landesman, Rick Moody, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Ned Rorem, C.K. Williams
December 18, 2005
Film Screening
Directed by Elisabeth Marton
December 15, 2005
Roundtable
Participants: Christian de Duve, James P. Ferris, Colin McGinn, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Mark Norell, Robert Pollack
December 12, 2005
Lecture
Dr. Christian de Duve
December 02, 2005
Roundtable
Participants: Leon Balter, Roger Copeland, Grace Glueck, Geoffrey Hartman, Deborah Jowitt, Lois Oppenheim (moderator),William Wolf
November 11, 2005
Roundtable
Participants: Patricia Hampl, Anne Golomb Hoffman (moderator), Arthur Phillips, Matthew von Unwerth
October 16, 2005
Roundtable
Participants: Joan Acocella, Toni Bentley, Gary Chryst, Roger Copeland (moderator), David Gordon, David R. White
October 14, 2005
Film Screening
Written and Directed by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine
September 22, 2005
Film Screening
A film by Ira Sachs
June 29, 2005
Roundtable
Participants: Pat Adams, Charles Altieri, David Joselit, Marcel Kinsbourne, David A. Silbersweig, Laurie J. Wilson
May 07, 2005
Informal Meeting
Participants: Edith Ackermann, Hallie Cohen, Paul Harris, Mary Luallen, Edward Nersessian, Theodore Shapiro, Elena Sisto
May 04, 2005
Roundtable
Participants: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, Mary Ann Caws, Hallie Cohen, John Paoletti, Harriet Shorr
April 15, 2005
Film Screening
Written and Directed by Pola Rapaport
March 11, 2005
Film Screening
Written and Directed by Nathaniel Kahn
February 16, 2005
Roundtable
Participants: Paul Harris, David Kirkpatrick, Daniel Salzman, Jeffrey Satinover, William Grossman, Francis Levy, Mary Luallen, Edward Nersessian, Theodore Shapiro
February 01, 2005
Film Screening
Directed by Bjorn Runge
December 08, 2004
Film Screening
Directed by Jessica Yu
November 17, 2004
Roundtable
Participants: Edith Ackermann, Elie Bienenstock, Hallie Cohen, Daniel Gardener, William Grossman, Francis Levy, Mary Luallen, Edward Nersessian, Roger Schank
February 22, 2004
Informal Meeting
Participants: Joan Acocella, Daniel Alder, Hallie Cohen, Marcel Kinsbourne, Frances Levy, Barry Mazur, Gretchen Mazur, Edward Nersessian, Mary Luallen, Elaine Pagels, Laila Robbins, Lissa Weinstein
February 12, 2004
Informal Meeting
Participants: Daniel Alder, Hallie Cohen, Marcel Kinsbourne, Francis Levy, Barry Mazur, Getchen Mazur, Edward Nersessian, Mary Luallen, Elaine Pagels, Laila Robbins, Lissa Weinstein
December 16, 2003
Informal Meeting
Participants: Francis Levy, Edward Nersessian, Mary Luallen, Jason Brown, Hallie Cohen, Paul Fry, Quincy Long, Katherine Olivetti, Bradley Peterson, Steven Byrns
June 24, 2003
Informal Meeting
Participants: Joan Acocella, Bruce Adolphe, Laurie Anderson, Antonio Damasio, Jack Gorman, Francis Levy, Sharon Olds, Edward Nersessian