Genes, Computers, and Medicine Saturday, February 20, 2016 2:30-4:30 p.m. Past Event Watch the video » Developments in computational neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics have opened up new ways of looking at disease. In a relatively short time span, these advances may lead to significant innovations in the understanding of various diseases, as well as in therapeutics designed to treat them.… read more »
The Meditative State Saturday, March 12, 2016 2:30 - 4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » What is meditation? As difficult as it may be to define this state of mind, its beneficial effects on mental and physical health are incontrovertible. What are the respective roles of conscious and unconscious processes in this voluntarily invoked mental state?… read more »
A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today: Part 5 Part 5: Conclusion A Colloquium of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation and L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud December 5th and 6th, 2015 at the Helix Center Participants: Marilia Aisenstein Psychoanalyst; Former President, Société Psychanalyste de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytic Society) Ian Buckingham Psychoanalyst; President, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Vincent Crapanzano Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Philippe Douste-Blazy United Nations Under-Secretary-General Paul Fry Professor Emeritus of English and Literature, Yale University Lynn Gamwell Writer, Professor of Humanities, School of Visual Arts, New York Claude Landman Psychoanalyst; Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Psychopathologies (EPhEP) (Practical School of Higher Studies in Psychopathologies) Patrick Landman Psychoanalyst; Professor, Université de Paris VII (Paris Diderot University) Emile H.… read more »
A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today: Part 4 Part 4: Culture A Colloquium of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation and L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud December 5th and 6th, 2015 at the Helix Center Participants: Marilia Aisenstein Psychoanalyst; Former President, Société Psychanalyste de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytic Society) Ian Buckingham Psychoanalyst; President, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Vincent Crapanzano Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Philippe Douste-Blazy United Nations Under-Secretary-General Paul Fry Professor Emeritus of English and Literature, Yale University Lynn Gamwell Writer, Professor of Humanities, School of Visual Arts, New York Claude Landman Psychoanalyst; Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Psychopathologies (EPhEP) (Practical School of Higher Studies in Psychopathologies) Patrick Landman Psychoanalyst; Professor, Université de Paris VII (Paris Diderot University) Emile H.… read more »
A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today: Part 3 Part 3: Identity A Colloquium of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation and L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud December 5th and 6th, 2015 at the Helix Center Participants: Marilia Aisenstein Psychoanalyst; Former President, Société Psychanalyste de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytic Society) Ian Buckingham Psychoanalyst; President, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Vincent Crapanzano Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Philippe Douste-Blazy United Nations Under-Secretary-General Paul Fry Professor Emeritus of English and Literature, Yale University Lynn Gamwell Writer, Professor of Humanities, School of Visual Arts, New York Claude Landman Psychoanalyst; Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Psychopathologies (EPhEP) (Practical School of Higher Studies in Psychopathologies) Patrick Landman Psychoanalyst; Professor, Université de Paris VII (Paris Diderot University) Emile H.… read more »
A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today: Part 2 Part 2: Education and Civilizational Crisis A Colloquium of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation and L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud December 5th and 6th, 2015 at the Helix Center Participants: Marilia Aisenstein Psychoanalyst; Former President, Société Psychanalyste de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytic Society) Ian Buckingham Psychoanalyst; President, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Vincent Crapanzano Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Philippe Douste-Blazy United Nations Under-Secretary-General Paul Fry Professor Emeritus of English and Literature, Yale University Lynn Gamwell Writer, Professor of Humanities, School of Visual Arts, New York Claude Landman Psychoanalyst; Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Psychopathologies (EPhEP) (Practical School of Higher Studies in Psychopathologies) Patrick Landman Psychoanalyst; Professor, Université de Paris VII (Paris Diderot University) Emile H.… read more »
A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today December 5 & 6, 2015 Past Event Watch the video [Part 1] » Watch the video [Part 2] » Watch the video [Part 3] » Watch the video [Part 4] » A Colloquium of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation and L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud December 5th and 6th, 2015 at the Helix Center Participants: Marilia Aisenstein Psychoanalyst; Former President, Société Psychanalyste de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytic Society) Ian Buckingham Psychoanalyst; President, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Vincent Crapanzano Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Philippe Douste-Blazy United Nations Under-Secretary-General Paul Fry Professor Emeritus of English and Literature, Yale University Lynn Gamwell Writer, Professor of Humanities, School of Visual Arts, New York Claude Landman Psychoanalyst; Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Psychopathologies (EPhEP) (Practical School of Higher Studies in Psychopathologies) Patrick Landman Psychoanalyst; Professor, Université de Paris VII (Paris Diderot University) Emile H.… read more »
The Realm of Mystery Saturday, October 24, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Donald Rumsfeld famously said, “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”… read more »
Translation Matters Saturday, November 21, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Why is translation, which formerly referred to a set of restricted technical procedures taking place between two languages, now widely understood to be the basis of all human culture? What is it about this dynamic principle of displacement, exchange, and creative renewal that also links it to the exercise of political power and the possession of linguistic/literary capital?… read more »
Speak, Memory Saturday, November 7, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » Over the last thirty years, significant progress has been made in our understanding of the various types of memory, the neural processes of consolidation and reconsolidation, and the biochemistry of memory, as well as the malleability and limits of autobiographical memory.… read more »