Koshin Paley Ellison Co-Founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care Rev. Dr. Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, cofounded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the first Zen-based organization to offer fully accredited ACPE clinical chaplaincy training in America, which delivers contemplative approaches to care through education, direct service, and meditation practice.… read more »
Ken Paller Professor of Psychology; Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University Ken Paller conducts cognitive neuroscience research at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he also serves as Director of the Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition. Ken’s collaborative research with his students and colleagues focuses on human memory, consciousness, and related issues.… read more »
Regina Pally Co-Founder and Assistant Director, Center for Reflective Parenting Regina Pally is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, in private practice for over 35 years, with a special interest in parents and couples. For 25 years she has studied and written about neuroscience for mental health professionals and the lay public. Most recently she dedicated herself to working in the community to improve the lives of children and their families. … read more »
Cynthia Pannucci Cynthia’s background is in Fine Arts, with a major in Printmaking and a minor in Art History. As a professional artist, her career embraced printmaking, textiles, mixed-media, photography, and interactive sculpture with artwork exhibited at The American Craft and Cooper-Hewitt museums in New York City, and commissions from Citicorp, The Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT; The Staten Island Children’s Museum, and the NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority.… read more »
Spyros Papapetros Associate Professor of Art and Architectural Theory and Historiography, Princeton University Spyros Papapetros is Associate Professor of Art and Architectural Theory and Historiography, a member of the executive committees of the Program in European Cultural Studies and the Program in Media and Modernity, and a Behrman Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton University.… read more »
Takis Pappas Author & Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland Takis S Pappas (PhD, Yale) is a Greek author and researcher currently associated with the University of Helsinki, Finland. Formerly a professor of comparative politics at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, he has also held teaching and research appointments at the universities of Strasbourg, Oslo, Freiburg, Luxembourg, Central European University in Budapest, European University Institute in Florence, Yale, and Princeton.… read more »
Nirav Patel Nirav S. Patel is a Research Scholar at the Honors College, where he researches and teaches programs focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to human-environment interactions within social-ecological systems. As a member at the Rutgers energy Institute and Rutgers Climate Institute, Patel focuses specifically on coupled natural and human systems.… read more »
Denis Pelli Denis G. Pelli, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, NYU, since 1995, studying object recognition and the experience of beauty. Training: BA applied math at Harvard University. PhD in Physiology at Cambridge University. Postdoc on psychophysics of reading with Gordon Legge at U Minnesota.… read more »
Robert Penzer Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College; Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute Robert Penzer, M.D. is Associate Director of the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation. A graduate of Queens College of the City of New York and Harvard Medical School, he completed his residency and fellowship training at New York-Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell Medical College, where he is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and his psychoanalytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is on the faculty and has served in various teaching and administrative capacities.… read more »
Irene Pepperberg Research Associate, Harvard University Irene Pepperberg (S.B, MIT, ’69; Ph.D., Harvard, ’76) is a Research Associate and lecturer at Harvard. She has been a visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, a visiting Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and an adjunct Associate Professor at Brandeis University.… read more »
Tristan Perich Composer Tristan Perich’s (New York) work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics and code. The WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” 1-Bit Music, his 2004 release on Cantaloupe Music, was the first album ever released as a microchip, programmed to synthesize his electronic composition live.… read more »
Peter Pesic Director of the Science Institute & Musician-in-Residence, St. John's College (Santa Fe, NM) A writer, pianist, physicist, and educator, Peter Pesic is the director of the Science Institute and Musician-in-Residence at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM. His six books published by MIT Press concern the intersections of science, music, history, and ideas, including Abel’s Proof: A Search for the Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability, Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres, and Music and the Making of Modern Science.… read more »
Liz Phelps Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University Dr. Liz Phelps received her PhD from Princeton University in 1989, served on the faculty of Yale University until 1999, and is currently the Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University. Her laboratory has earned widespread acclaim for its groundbreaking research on how the human brain processes emotion, particularly as it relates to learning, memory and decision making.… read more »
Colin Phillips Professor of Linguistics & Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland; Director, Maryland Language Science Center; Associate Director, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program Colin Phillips combines linguistics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to understand how language is mentally and neurally encoded, and how children learn language so effortlessly. In the same way that vision scientists study optical illusions in order to reveal the inner workings of the visual system, Phillips and his team study linguistic illusions to reveal how linguistic representations are encoded and navigated in memory.… read more »
Rosalind Picard Founder & Director, Affective Computing Research Group, MIT Media Laboratory Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Empatica Rosalind Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, co-founder and chief scientist of Empatica, providing FDA-cleared biomarkers including the first smartwatch to detect seizures, and co-founder of Affectiva, providing software for technology with emotional intelligence. … read more »
Andrea Pinotti Professor of Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, University of Milan Andrea Pinotti teaches Aesthetics at the Università degli Studi di Milano and is “Directeur de Programme” at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris on the project Monument Nonument. His topics are the “Kunstwissenschaft” (Riegl, Wölfflin, Warburg & company), the image-theories, and the empathy-theories.… read more »
Maria G. Pisano Book Artist, Printmaker, Curator & Educator View Papers / Presentations » Maria G. Pisano is a book artist, printmaker, curator and educator and publishes her work under the Memory Press imprint. Memory Press works are represented in The Library of Congress, 9-11 Memorial Museum, National Library of Medicine, Columbia University, New York Public Library, Stanford University and many more.… read more »
Arkady Plotnitsky Distinguished Professor, Literature, Theory and Cultural Studies, Purdue University Distinguished Professor, Philosophy and Literature, Purdue University Arkady Plotnitsky is a distinguished professor of Literature, Theory and Cultural Studies Program, and Philosophy and Literature program at Purdue University. He has published nine books, several edited or co-edited collections, and about two hundred articles on continental philosophy, Romantic and modernist literature, the philosophy of mathematics and physics, and the relationships among literature, philosophy, and science.… read more »
Tayarisha Poe Independent Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe is a storyteller from West Philadelphia who believes that all stories are inherently multi-sensory and multi-dimensional, and thus should be told that way. She was chosen as one of the 25 New Faces by Filmmaker Magazine in 2015, and in 2016 she received the Sundance Institute’s Knight Foundation Fellowship.… read more »
Mark Polizzotti Author, Director of the Publications Program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Mark Polizzotti has translated more than fifty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, and Raymond Roussel. A Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of a 2016 American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995; revised ed.,… read more »
Lewis Porter Professor of Music, Rutgers University Lewis Porter (Lewisporter.com), long known as a jazz educator and author of books, including the most celebrated volume on John Coltrane, is also very active as a jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Known for a free and open attitude, he contributes to many types of musical situations.… read more »
Daniel Posner Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Daniel Posner is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he teaches and supervises psychiatry residents in psychodynamic therapy. His writing explores a range of topics through the multiple lenses of psychoanalysis, enactive phenomenology, epistemic justice and infancy research.… read more »
Stephen Post Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics, Stony Brook University School of Medicine Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. has taught at the University of Chicago Medical School, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (1988-2008), and Stony Brook University School of Medicine (2008-), where he is Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics.… read more »
Nancy Princenthal Nancy Princenthal is a Brooklyn-based writer whose book Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames and Hudson, 2015) received the 2016 PEN America award for biography. A former Senior Editor of Art in America, she has also contributed to Artforum, the Village Voice, and the New York Times.… read more »
Frances Pritchett Professor of Modern Indic Languages in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University Frances Pritchett is Professor of Modern Indic Languages in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her research interests include classical Urdu ghazal, especially the work of Ghalib and Mir, and traditional narrative genres in Urdu and Hindi.… read more »