Love, the Interrogative Saturday, February 23rd 2:30 - 4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » In one of his novels, Milan Kundera suggested that “love is a continual interrogation.” What is this thing called love? Is it, as Shakespeare might have it, “the star to every wandering bark”? Or, in Bronzino’s words, “always a fountain and a vase of tears”? Can love be considered a single emotion? A complex of different feelings? An epiphenomenon of neurochemistry? How might we distinguish between parental love, romantic love, and other types of love? What can history, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, poetry, and other disciplines teach us about love? In this roundtable, our participants will interrogate love, and, perhaps, in the encounter, be interrogated by it. Participants: Andrea Bayer Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Andrea Bayer has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1989, first in the Department of Prints and Photographs, and, from 1990, in the Department of European Paintings. There she has been involved in numerous exhibitions, most recently The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini (2011), and Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian Paintings… read more » Lucy L. Brown Clinical Professor in Neurology, Einstein College of Medicine Lucy L. Brown is a Clinical Professor in Neurology at Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She received her Ph.D. in Experimental/Physiological Psychology from NYU in 1973. During a post-doctoral fellowship at Einstein, she worked on visualizing dopamine neurons and testing their plasticity in reward systems in animals. She also learned about brain mapping… read more » Michael Klein Poet, Essayist Michael Klein’s second book of poems, then, we were still living, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and his first book, 1990, tied with James Schuyler to win the award in 1993. A collection of short, lyric essays, States of Independence, won the 2011 BLOOM Chapbook contest in non-fiction, and a new book of poems,… read more » Fred Sander Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry Fred Sander has been teaching and practicing psychoanalysis and family therapy since graduating from Albert Einstein Medical School in 1963. He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry and on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute Psychotherapy Program. A charter member of the American Academy… read more » Dan Slater Journalist, Author Dan Slater, a widely published author of journalism and creative nonfiction, is the author of Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating. A former legal affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Dan is currently a contributor to Fast Company and The New York Times. He also writes for… read more »
Andrea Bayer Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Andrea Bayer has worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1989, first in the Department of Prints and Photographs, and, from 1990, in the Department of European Paintings. There she has been involved in numerous exhibitions, most recently The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini (2011), and Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian Paintings… read more »
Lucy L. Brown Clinical Professor in Neurology, Einstein College of Medicine Lucy L. Brown is a Clinical Professor in Neurology at Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She received her Ph.D. in Experimental/Physiological Psychology from NYU in 1973. During a post-doctoral fellowship at Einstein, she worked on visualizing dopamine neurons and testing their plasticity in reward systems in animals. She also learned about brain mapping… read more »
Michael Klein Poet, Essayist Michael Klein’s second book of poems, then, we were still living, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and his first book, 1990, tied with James Schuyler to win the award in 1993. A collection of short, lyric essays, States of Independence, won the 2011 BLOOM Chapbook contest in non-fiction, and a new book of poems,… read more »
Fred Sander Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry Fred Sander has been teaching and practicing psychoanalysis and family therapy since graduating from Albert Einstein Medical School in 1963. He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry and on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute Psychotherapy Program. A charter member of the American Academy… read more »
Dan Slater Journalist, Author Dan Slater, a widely published author of journalism and creative nonfiction, is the author of Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating. A former legal affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Dan is currently a contributor to Fast Company and The New York Times. He also writes for… read more »