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Course
Imagination and Mathematics: The Geometry of Thought
May 13, 2008
7:00 PM, at the Center

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Wingdale Community Singers
May 17, 2008
2:30 PM, at the Center

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Our Life in Poetry: William Butler Yeats
May 27, 2008
7:00 PM, at the Center

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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

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Film Screening

Directed by Scott Hicks


May 03, 2008

Cross-Cultural Improvisation

Course

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Geetha Ramanathan Bennett, Min Xiao-Fen


April 29, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: Artifice and Persona

Roundtable

Participants: Michael Braziller, Monica de la Torre, Cate Marvin, Brenda Shaughnessy


April 26, 2008

Literature and Psychoanalysis: Reciprocal Insights

Roundtable

Participants: Maurice Charney, Geoffrey Hartmann, Zvi Lothane (moderator), Paul Schwaber, Meredith Anne Skura


April 24, 2008

The Psycho-Neurology of the Photographic Arts

Roundtable

Participants: Cristina Alberini, Bevil Conway, David Freedberg, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte (moderator), Douglas Nickel, Robert Polidori


April 15, 2008

Music and Imagination: Finding Consensus in the Emerson String Quartet

Course

Participants: Stephanie Chase, Martin Nass, Philip Setzer


April 12, 2008

Opening Pandora's Box: From Ancient Sacrifice to Family Secrets

Roundtable

Participants: Harold Blum (moderator), Joan Branham, Lois Braverman, Kathryn Harrison, Victoria Pedrick


April 09, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: Motion on Larkin

Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Andrew Motion


April 05, 2008

Living in the Musical Moment: Dharma Jazz

Course

Participants: Vic Juris, Karttikeya, Lewis Porter, Badal Roy


March 15, 2008

The Mirror and the Lamp

Roundtable

Participants: Paul Bloom, Margaret Browning, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Paul Harris (moderator), Alan Leslie


March 15, 2008

Being There

Film Screening

Directed by Hal Ashby


March 14, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: Music and Poetry

Roundtable

Participants: Michael Braziller (moderator), Mary Stewart Hammond, Helen Handley Houghton, Ann Hoyt, Tree Swenson


March 11, 2008

Music and Imagination: Five Centuries of Violin Making

Course

Participants: Stephanie Chase & Stewart Pollens


March 09, 2008

Real Research in Virtual Worlds

Demonstration & Discussion

Participants: Piet Hut & Karen Sobel Lojeski


March 01, 2008

The Motive for Metaphor

Roundtable

Participants: Ted Cohen, Paul Fry (moderator), Susan Stewart, Frederick Turner, Rosanna Warren


February 29, 2008

Secrets of a Soul: A History of Psychoanalysis and Cinema

Film Screening & Roundtable

Participants: Harvey Roy Greenberg, George Makari, Brigitte Peucker (moderator), Dana Polan, Daphne Merkin


February 24, 2008

Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments

Film Screening

Directed by Tom Piper and Ed Howard


February 23, 2008

Cell Biology and Cancer: Genes, Mutation, and Cell Death

Roundtable

Participants: Selina Chen-Kiang, James Manley, Carol Portlock, Carol Prives (moderator), Hermann Steller, Eileen White


February 09, 2008

Absolute Wilson

Film Screening

Directed by Katharina Otto-Bernstein


January 29, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: New Poets/New Poetics

Course

Participants: Michael Braziller, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, A. Van Jordan, Patrick Rosal


January 19, 2008

The Development of Temperament During the First Three Years of Human Life

Roundtable

Participants: Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern, Sue Carter, Frances Champagne, Susan Coates, Donald Pfaff (moderator), Daniel Schechter


January 14, 2008

Music and Imagination: The Rhythmic Brain

Course

Participants: Stephanie Chase & Eric Barnhill


January 12, 2008

Weather and Imagination

Roundtable

Participants: Deborah Coen (moderator), Sheila Jasanoff, Anthony Leiserowitz, Stephanie LeMenager, Ben Orlove


January 08, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: Emily Dickinson

Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Alice Quinn


December 15, 2007

The Future of Technology

Roundtable

Participants: Esther Dyson, David Kirkpatrick (moderator), Jaron Lanier, Bernie Meyerson, Ken Perlin


December 08, 2007

Doctor/Patient Relationships

Roundtable

Participants: Bryan Doerries, Jonathan Jacobs, Lyuba Konopasek (moderator), Robert Michels, Louis Pangaro


December 08, 2007

Sophocles' Philoctetes

Play Reading

Participants: Bryan Doerries, Jesse Eisenberg, Adam Ludwig, John Schmerling, Michael Stuhlbarg


December 04, 2007

Divided Society/Divided Self

Roundtable

Panelists: Richard Bulliet, Seamus Dunn, John Harbeson, Susan Lazar, Avishai Margalit, Dan Rather (moderator)


December 01, 2007

Chuck Close

Film Screening

Directed by Marion Cajori


November 30, 2007

Transformations: How Fairy Tales Cast Their Spell

Roundtable

Participants: Anne Cattaneo, Mark Lamos, Donna Jo Napoli, Roger Rahtz, Maria Tatar, Jack Zipes (moderator)


November 27, 2007

Our Life in Poetry: John Donne

Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Marie Ponsot


November 20, 2007

Music and Imagination: Beyond the Haunting Melody

Course

Participants: Stephanie Chase & Edward Applebaum


November 18, 2007

Protagonist

Film Screening

Directed by Jessica Yu


November 16, 2007

Perception and Imagination: Masters of the Senses

Roundtable

Participants: Greg Calbi, Sophia Grojsman, Mark Mitton (moderator), Nils Noren, Philip Pearlstein, Frank Wilson


November 12, 2007

The Biology of Freedom

Roundtable

Participants: Cristina Alberini, Francois Ansermet, Pierre Magistretti, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Donald Pfaff, Daniel Schechter


November 10, 2007

Distortions of Memory

Roundtable

Participants: Deirdre Bair, Bruno Clément, Maryse Condé, William Hirst, Edward Nersessian, Lois Oppenheim (moderator)


November 06, 2007

The Last Winter

Film Screening

Directed by Larry Fessenden


November 03, 2007

The Role of the Subject in Science

Roundtable

Participants: Sukanya Chakrabarti, Piet Hut (moderator), Jan-Markus Schwindt, Margaret Turnbull, Edwin L. Turner


October 30, 2007

A Sense of One's Self: Poetry in the Therapeutic Context

Roundtable

Participants: Michael Braziller, Karen Chase, Madge McKeithen, Alicia Ostriker


October 27, 2007

The Critic as Thinker: How Eric Bentley, Robert Brustein, and Stanley Kauffmann Re-imagined American Theater Criticism

Roundtable

Participants: Eric Bentley, Robert Brustein, Roger Copeland (moderator), Stanley Kauffmann


October 25, 2007

Hypergraphia and Hypographia: Two 'Diseases' of the Written Word

Roundtable

Participants: Alice Flaherty, Alan Jacobs, Jonathan Lethem, Francis Levy, Lois Oppenheim (moderator), Pedro Reyes


October 20, 2007

The Future of the Stock Market

Roundtable

Participants: Justin Fox (moderator), Bernard Madoff, Ailsa Roell, Robert A. Schwartz, Muriel Seibert, Josh Stampfli


October 13, 2007

Creativity in Jazz Improvisation

Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom & Lewis Porter


October 06, 2007

Daydreaming, Night-Dreaming, and Stimulus-Independent Thought

Roundtable

Participants: John Antrobus, Eric Klinger, Malia Mason, Ethel Person, Jerome Singer (moderator)


September 29, 2007

Freud and the Historical Imagination

Roundtable

Participants: Richard Armstrong (moderator), Diane O'Donoghue, George Prochnik, Peter Rudnytsky, Joel Whitebook


September 15, 2007

Modernity and Waste

Roundtable

Participants: Jennifer Gabrys, William Kupinse (moderator), Robin Nagle, Elizabeth Royte, Susan Strasser


September 08, 2007

Approaches to Collaboration: Choreographers and Visual Artists

Roundtable

Participants: Noel Carroll, Roger Copeland (moderator), Mary Fleischer, Lynn Garafola, Yvonne Rainer


August 02, 2007

Capturing the Friedmans

Summer Film Series

Directed by Andrew Jarecki


July 26, 2007

Grey Gardens

Summer Film Series

Directed by Hovde/Maysles/Maysles/Meyer


July 19, 2007

Sherman's March

Summer Film Series

Directed by Ross McElwee


June 27, 2007

Dance, Movement, and Bodies: Forays into the Nonlinguistic and the Challenge of Languaging Experience: Evening II

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Fagen, Joanna Gewertz Harris, Steve Paxton, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (moderator), Daniel N. Stern


June 26, 2007

Dance, Movement, and Bodies: Forays into the Nonlinguistic and the Challenge of Languaging Experience: Evening I

Workshop

Leader: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone


June 11, 2007

Our Life in Six Lyrical Poems: William Butler Yeats

Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Eamon Grennan


June 05, 2007

Our Life in Six Lyrical Poems: Sylvia Plath

Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Carol Muske-Dukes


June 02, 2007

Perspectives on Transference

Roundtable

Participants: Charles Brenner, Norman Doidge, Walter Freeman, Arnold Modell, Bradley Peterson, David Pincus (moderator)


May 31, 2007

Crazy Love

Film Screening & Roundtable

Participants: Glen Gabbard, Adrienne Harris, Dan Klores, Eric R. Marcus, Daphne Merkin, Michael Miller


May 23, 2007

The Mind of the Collector

Roundtable

Participants: Leah Dilworth (moderator), Eric Edelman, Steven Heller, Dorothy Globus, Bill Scanga, Tyler Volk


May 22, 2007

Our Life in Six Lyrical Poems: George Oppen

Course

Participants: Michel Braziller & Louise Glück


April 28, 2007

The Origins of Norms: The Place of Value in a World of Nature - Roundtable

Roundtable

Participants: Akeel Bilgrami (moderator), Lorraine Daston, Gerald Edelman, John Forrester, Lawrence Friedman, Anne Harrington, Joel Snyder


April 27, 2007

The Origins of Norms: The Place of Value in a World of Nature - Evening II

Lecture

Speakers: Anne Harrington and John Forrester


April 26, 2007

The Origins of Norms: The Place of Value in a World of Nature - Evening I

Lecture

Speakers: Lorraine Daston and Gerald Edelman


April 25, 2007

Acting and Mirror Neurons

Roundtable

Participants: Blair Brown, Vittorio Gallese, Joe Grifasi, Robert Landy, Adam Ludwig (moderator), Tom Vasiliades


April 23, 2007

Eye of the Beholder

Roundtable

Participants: Suzanne Anker, Francis Baudry, David Freedberg, Vittorio Gallese, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Barbara Maria Stafford


April 14, 2007

Extraterrestrial Life

Roundtable

Participants: Stephen J. Dick, James Ferris (moderator), Debra Fischer, Dave Itzkoff, Avi Loeb, David Marusek


April 09, 2007

Our Life in Six Lyrical Poems: Elizabeth Bishop

Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Alice Quinn


April 07, 2007

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Film Screening

Directed by Mary Jordan


March 19, 2007

Our Life in Six Lyrical Poems: Robert Frost

Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Edward Hirsch


March 17, 2007

Neuroeconomics: The Secret Life of Homo Economicus

Roundtable

Participants: Alberto Bisin, William Brown, Paul Glimcher, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Elizabeth Phelps


March 10, 2007

Psychic Trauma: Brain, Mind, Community

Roundtable

Participants: Claude Chemtob, Marylene Cloitre, Spencer Eth (moderator), Leonard Shengold, Rachel Yehuda


March 03, 2007

Mind, Brain & Spirituality: Toward a Biology of the Soul

Roundtable

Participants: Martin Bergmann, Siri Hustvedt, Jaak Panksepp, David Pincus (moderator), Reverend Thandeka


February 22, 2007

What is Guilt?

Roundtable

Participants: Donald Carveth, Marcia Cavell (moderator), Michael Eigen, Jay Greenberg, Michael Lewis


February 17, 2007

Modern Cosmology

Roundtable

Participants: Piet Hut, Janna Levin, Charles Liu, Dimitri Nanopoulos (moderator), Tu Weiming


February 08, 2007

Imagining Utopia

Roundtable

Participants: Adrienne Baxter Bell, Anne Cattaneo (moderator), Peter Gay, Robert Pippin, John Rockwell, Edwin Schlossberg


February 03, 2007

The Treatment

Film Screening

Directed by Oren Rudavsky


January 27, 2007

Mystery of the Mind

Roundtable

Participants: Gianfranco Basti, Ned Block, Richard Haier, Joseph LeDoux, Patrick McGrath, Craig Piers (moderator)


January 23, 2007

Our Life in Six Lyrical Poems: Thomas Hardy

Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Eamon Grennan


January 13, 2007

In a Year with 13 Moons

Film Screening and Roundtable

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder


December 04, 2006

Bergman Island

Film Screening

Directed by Marie Nyrerod


December 02, 2006

The Origins of Freud's Imagination

Roundtable

Participants: Richard Armstrong, Mary Bergstein, Mark Edmundson, Ethan Kleinberg, Robert Paul (moderator)


November 30, 2006

Kiki Smith: Squatting the Palace

Film Screening

Directed by Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz


November 18, 2006

Imaginary Companions

Roundtable

Participants: Edith Ackermann, Paul Bloom, Ruth Fischer, Marcel Kinsbourne, Dorothy Singer, Marjorie Taylor (moderator)


November 11, 2006

The Psychology of the Modern Nation-State

Roundtable

Participants: Shukri Abed, Giorgio Freddi, Peter Loewenberg (moderator), Vamik Volkan, Isser Woloch


October 26, 2006

The Limits of Explanation

Roundtable

Participants: Edward Casey, Francisca Cho, Harry Eyres (moderator), Robert Michels, Mark Norell, Christopher Peacocke


October 07, 2006

Free Will

Roundtable

Participants: Akeel Bilgrami (moderator), Annaik Feve, Rebecca Goldstein, Siri Hustvedt, Jaak Panksepp, Joel Whitebook


September 30, 2006

The Place of Agency and Norms in Psychoanalysis

Roundtable

Participants: Jorge L. Ahumada, Akeel Bilgrami (moderator), Arnold M. Cooper, Garrett Deckel, Peter D. Kramer, Bernard Reginster


September 29, 2006

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Film Screening

Directed by Freida Lee Mock


September 16, 2006

The Unrecovered

Film Screening

Directed by Roger Copeland


September 09, 2006

Modern Traffic Theory, Behavior, and Imagination

Roundtable

Participants: Murat F. Aycin, Hani Mahmassani, David J. Pine, Alan Pollack (moderator), Roger P. Roess, Michael Schreckenberg


July 27, 2006

Peau d'Ane

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Jacques Demy


June 22, 2006

The Sensibility of the Collector

Roundtable

Participants: Charles Randall Dean, Glenn Horowitz, Francis Levy (moderator), Michael Stone-Richards, Peter Subkowski


June 09, 2006

Psychoanalytic Journals: 150 Years After the Birth of Freud

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

What Happens In A Poem

Roundtable

Participants: Michael Braziller (moderator), Timothy Donnelly, Anne-Marie Levine, David Pollens, Alice Quinn, David Shapiro


May 06, 2006

Psychoanalysis and Literature: 150 Years After the Birth of Freud

Roundtable

Participants: Cathy Caruth, Mark Edmundson, Paul Fry (moderator), Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly, Meredith Anne Skura


April 22, 2006

Mind Versus Soul

Roundtable

Participants: Jason Brown, Marcia Cavell, Marcel Kinsbourne, Dimitri Nanopoulos, Right Reverend Catherine S. Roskam, Roy Herndon Smith


April 09, 2006

Desert Wind

Film Screening

Directed by Francois Kohler


March 20, 2006

International Psychoanalysis: 150 Years After the Birth of Freud

Roundtable

Participants: Sander Abend, Jacqueline Amati Mehler, Alain de Mijolla, Claudio Eisirik, Charles Hanly, and Edward Nersessian (moderator)


February 18, 2006

Unknown White Male

Film Screening

Directed by Rupert Murray


February 17, 2006

Psychoanalysis in the United States: 150 Years After the Birth of Freud

Roundtable

Participants: Jay Greenberg, William Grossman, Peter Loewenberg, Robert Michels, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Jerome Winer


January 14, 2006

Balthus and His Myths

Lecture

Nicholas Fox Weber


January 14, 2006

Imagination in Children

Roundtable

Participants: Paul Harris (moderator), Arietta Slade, Miriam Steele, Marjorie Taylor, Dennie Palmer Wolf


January 14, 2006

Imaginative Problem Solving, Intuition and Emotion-Based Learning

Lecture

Oliver Turnbull


January 13, 2006

What is Imagination?

Roundtable

Participants: Marcia Cavell, Harry Eyres, Rocco Landesman, Rick Moody, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Ned Rorem, C.K. Williams


December 18, 2005

My Name Was Sabina Spielrein

Film Screening

Directed by Elisabeth Marton


December 15, 2005

Origin, Evolution and the Future of Life on Earth

Roundtable

Participants: Christian de Duve, James P. Ferris, Colin McGinn, Edward Nersessian (moderator), Mark Norell, Robert Pollack


December 12, 2005

Book Discussion: Singularities: Landmarks on the Pathways of Life

Lecture

Dr. Christian de Duve


December 02, 2005

The Critical (Un)Conscious: Valuing the Literary and Visual Arts

Roundtable

Participants: Leon Balter, Roger Copeland, Grace Glueck, Geoffrey Hartman, Deborah Jowitt, Lois Oppenheim (moderator),William Wolf


November 11, 2005

Memory, Invention and the Writer's Search For Immortality: Three Writers Consider the Creative Process

Roundtable

Participants: Patricia Hampl, Anne Golomb Hoffman (moderator), Arthur Phillips, Matthew von Unwerth


October 16, 2005

States of Grace: Why the Art of Dance Flourished in the United States Between 1960 and 1980

Roundtable

Participants: Joan Acocella, Toni Bentley, Gary Chryst, Roger Copeland (moderator), David Gordon, David R. White


October 14, 2005

Ballets Russes

Film Screening

Written and Directed by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine


September 22, 2005

Forty Shades of Blue

Film Screening

A film by Ira Sachs


June 29, 2005

The Impulse for Abstraction

Roundtable

Participants: Pat Adams, Charles Altieri, David Joselit, Marcel Kinsbourne, David A. Silbersweig, Laurie J. Wilson


May 07, 2005

Children and Imagination

Informal Meeting

Participants: Edith Ackermann, Hallie Cohen, Paul Harris, Mary Luallen, Edward Nersessian, Theodore Shapiro, Elena Sisto


May 04, 2005

The Dream and the Painted Image

Roundtable

Participants: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, Mary Ann Caws, Hallie Cohen, John Paoletti, Harriet Shorr


April 15, 2005

Writer of O

Film Screening

Written and Directed by Pola Rapaport


March 11, 2005

My Architect: A Son's Journey

Film Screening

Written and Directed by Nathaniel Kahn


February 16, 2005

Artificial Intelligence: Neural Networks and Imagination II

Roundtable

Participants: Paul Harris, David Kirkpatrick, Daniel Salzman, Jeffrey Satinover, William Grossman, Francis Levy, Mary Luallen, Edward Nersessian, Theodore Shapiro


February 01, 2005

Daybreak

Film Screening

Directed by Bjorn Runge


December 08, 2004

In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger

Film Screening

Directed by Jessica Yu


November 17, 2004

Artificial Intelligence: Neural Networks and Imagination I

Roundtable

Participants: Edith Ackermann, Elie Bienenstock, Hallie Cohen, Daniel Gardener, William Grossman, Francis Levy, Mary Luallen, Edward Nersessian, Roger Schank


February 22, 2004

Imagination Institute

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

Creativity and Trauma

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

Process of Creativity

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

A Center on Imagination

Informal Meeting

Participants: Joan Acocella, Bruce Adolphe, Laurie Anderson, Antonio Damasio, Jack Gorman, Francis Levy, Sharon Olds, Edward Nersessian



 

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