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June 12, 2011

Stranger than Truth: The Art of the Trio

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Mark Helias, Bobby Previte

May 14, 2011

Poetry Scholars and Poet Critics

Roundtable

Participants: Stephen Burt, Bonnie Costello, Heather Dubrow (moderator), Rachel Hadas, Eric McHenry

May 13, 2011

Hamlet

Film Screening

Directed by Lawrence Olivier

May 07, 2011

Theories of Meaning and Motivation

Roundtable

Participants: Emily Balcetis, Ned Block, Lawrence Friedman, Edward Smith

April 26, 2011

Wallace Stevens: Words That Matter

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Susan Howe & Joan Richardson

April 15, 2011

Wild Strawberries

Film Screening

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

April 02, 2011

Realism and Expressionism in the Work of Tennessee Williams

Roundtable

Participants: Enoch Brater, Lee Breuer, Roger Copeland, Joe Jeffreys, Maude Mitchell, Basil Twist

March 25, 2011

Synecdoche, New York

Film Screening

Directed by Charlie Kaufman

March 13, 2011

Asking the East

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Samir Chatterjee, Jin Hi Kim, Min Xiao-Fen

March 12, 2011

Theories of Everything

Roundtable

Participants: David Albert, Glennys Farrar, Charles Liu, Herman Verlinde, Gareth Williams

March 01, 2011

From Homer to 2011: Greek Poetry through the Millennia

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Peter Constantine, Karen Emmerich, Rachel Hadas (moderator), Karen Van Dyck

February 26, 2011

The Limitations of Mental and Physical Reality

Roundtable

Participants: Gregory Chaitin, Joseph J. Kohn (moderator), Tim Maudlin, Edward Nelson, Carol Rovane

February 25, 2011

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Film Screening

Directed by Max Ophuls

February 06, 2011

Living in the Musical Moment: Jazz Guitar

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter & Ken Wessel

February 05, 2011

Poetry and Narrative

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Jonathan Culler, Heather Dubrow (moderator), Marilyn Nelson, Willie Perdomo, James Phelan

January 29, 2011

The Nature of Reality

Roundtable

Participants: Mark Alford, Deepak Chopra (moderator), Stuart Firestein, Stuart Hameroff, Menas Kafatos

January 24, 2011

Accepting Mystery: The Motion/Emotion Connection

Benefit

With Mark Mitton and Stuart Firestein

January 08, 2011

The Red Shoes

Film Screening

Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

December 12, 2010

Living in the Musical Moment: Improvisational Structures for Two Keyboards

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter, Marc Rossi

December 05, 2010

The Art of the Graphic Novel

Roundtable

Participants: Lynda Barry, Hillary Chute (moderator), N.C. Christopher Couch, Ben Katchor, Françoise Mouly

November 14, 2010

From Muse to Music: Exploring the Craft of the American Art Song

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Stephanie Chase, Tom Cipullo, Hope Hudson, Lori Laitman, Richard Pearson Thomas

November 11, 2010

Our Life in Poetry: Frank O'Hara

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Michael Braziller, Mark Doty, David Lehman

November 06, 2010

Finding Equilibrium in Hitchcock's Vertigo

Film Screening & Roundtable

Participants: Richard Allen, John Belton, Joe McElhaney, Edward Neresessian, Brigitte Peucker (moderator)

October 30, 2010

The Imagination of Hamlet

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Brustein, Christian Camargo, Paul Fry (moderator), Laura Levine, Eugene Mahon, Susanne Wofford

October 29, 2010

The Blaney Lecture

Poets Forum Lecture

Participants: Anne Carson

October 29, 2010

Emerging Poets Panel

Poets Forum Panel

Participants: Jericho Brown, Tina Chang, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Meghan O'Rourke, Mark Wunderlich

October 23, 2010

Recovering Syntax: A Poet's Struggle with Aphasia

Roundtable

Participants: Jason W. Brown, Marie Ponsot, Dorothy E. Ross, Jackson Taylor (moderator)

October 16, 2010

Origins of Tragedy

Roundtable

Participants: Joseph LeDoux, Gregory Nagy, Alexander Nehamas, Stephen Scully, Gareth Williams (moderator)

October 04, 2010

Working with Pinter

Film Screening

Directed by Harry Burton

October 02, 2010

Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: Ten Years Later

Roundtable

Participants: Cristina Alberini, Heather Berlin, Vittorio Gallese, Robert Michels, Donald Pfaff, Mark Solms

September 26, 2010

Jazz Improvisation and the Visual Impulse

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Rebecca Allan, Vicky Barranguet, Jane Ira Bloom, Gustavo Casenave, Marty Ehrlich

September 25, 2010

From the WPA to the NEA: Arts Funding Then and Now

Roundtable

Participants: Morris Dickstein (moderator), Rocco Landesman, Kate D. Levin, Susan Quinn, Leslie G. Schultz

September 09, 2010

Alda Merini in Translation

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Susan Stewart & Paolo Valesio

July 28, 2010

The Mirror

Summer Film Series

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

July 21, 2010

Solaris

Summer Film Series

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

July 14, 2010

Andrei Rublev

Summer Film Series

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

June 12, 2010

Parallel Universes: The History of an Idea

Roundtable

Participants: Eva Brann, Christa Davis Acampora, David Morgan, Paul Park (moderator), David Weinberg

June 05, 2010

Vegetarianism in the Age of Global Consciousness

Roundtable

Participants: Nils Norén, Gary Null, Benjamin Sachs (moderator), Andrew Smith, Ronald Stram

June 03, 2010

The Politics of Ecstasy

Roundtable

Participants: Pearl Abraham, Michael Eigen (moderator), Larry Shainberg, Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Richard Sloan

May 22, 2010

The Politics of Identity and Social Cohesion

Roundtable

Participants: Paul Berman, Richard Bulliet (moderator), Dan Stets, Isser Woloch

May 20, 2010

Star Wars and Modernism: An Artist Commentary

Film Screening and Discussion

Participants: Colby Chamberlain, R. Luke DuBois, John Powers

May 08, 2010

Crossing the Line

Film Screening

Directed by Daniel Gordon

May 04, 2010

The Art of the Sonnet

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Heather Dubrow (moderator), Phillis Levin, Paul Muldoon, Susan Wolfson

May 01, 2010

The Allure of the Hive: Social Networking and Social Change

Roundtable

Participants: Nicole Ellison, David Kirkpatrick, Dhiraj Murthy, Sean Parker, Andrew Rasiej

April 25, 2010

Moving and Playing: Jazz Improvisation and Dance Conversation

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Carmen De Lavallade, Rufus Reid, Aaron Shafer-Haiss, Andrea Weber

April 24, 2010

Understanding the Placebo Effect

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Ader, Rob DeRubeis (moderator), John Kelley, Richard Kradin, Rosamond Rhodes

April 17, 2010

Romanticism, Enlightenment, and Counter-Enlightenment

Roundtable

Participants: Akeel Bilgrami, Taylor Carman, Garrett Deckel, Colin Jager, Joel Whitebook

March 25, 2010

Dancing in the Dark: Julie Taymor, Oedipus Rex, and the Gaze of Upright Posture

Presentation

Participants: Roger Copeland

March 16, 2010

An Ancient Stringed Instrument Reborn: The Angular Harp

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Stephanie Chase, Bo Lawegren, Tomoko Sugawara

March 13, 2010

The Lure and Blur of the Real

Roundtable

Participants: Barbara Browning, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), John Cameron Mitchell, Rick Moody, David Shields (moderator), Fred Tomaselli

March 02, 2010

Confessionalism and Poets of the Middle Generation

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Michael Braziller & Edward Hirsch

February 27, 2010

Joseph Cornell's Flushing Meadows: A Work of Art and Mourning

Film Screening and Roundtable

Participants: Eric Edelman, Anne Morra, Susan Scheftel, Martin Wilner

February 20, 2010

The Role of Psychotherapy in the Age of Neuroreceptors and Genes

Roundtable

Particpants: Brian Koehler, Ze'ev Levin, Charles Marmar, Ira Steinman (moderator)

January 23, 2010

Objectified

Film Screening

Participants: Steven Heller & Gary Hustwit

January 10, 2010

Mixed Marriage: Jazz and the Post-Klezmer Revolution in NYC

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter & Greg Wall

December 19, 2009

Aging and Creativity

Roundtable

Participants: Patricia Bloom, Carmen De Lavallade, Audrey Flack, Elinor Fuchs, Gordon Rogoff

December 12, 2009

Love and Pleasure in the Age of Electricity

Roundtable

Participants: Elizabeth Auchincloss, Anne Cattaneo, Barry Komisaruk, Rachel Maines

December 08, 2009

Madmen, Exiles, and Savage Detectives: Latin American Poetry from Arenas to Bolaño

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Laura Healy, Jaime Manrique

December 05, 2009

Time

Roundtable

Participants: Olga Ast, George Musser, Mark Norell, Michael Shara, Peter Whitely

November 21, 2009

Close-Up Music: The Jane Ira Bloom Quartet and the Intimacy of Ideas

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Dawn Clement, Mark Helias, Matt Wilson

November 17, 2009

Daniel Mendelsohn on C.P. Cavafy

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Daniel Mendelsohn

November 15, 2009

The Inventions of Bob Dylan

Roundtable

Participants: Christopher Ricks, Matthew von Unwerth, Sean Wilentz

November 14, 2009

Mathematics and Beauty

Roundtable

Participants: Eva Brann, Brian Greene, Mario Livio, Barry Mazur, Elaine Scarry

November 12, 2009

Poetry and Microgenesis

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Jason W. Brown, Steven Meyer

November 08, 2009

The Return of the Wingdale Community Singers

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Nina Katchadourian, Hannah Marcus, Rick Moody, Randy Polumbo

November 07, 2009

The Future of Health Care

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Doar, Jonathan Jacobs, Diane Meier, Helen Morik, Gregory Nersessian

November 03, 2009

Alice Neel

Film Screening

Participants: Michel Auder, Andrew Neel, Matthew von Unwerth

October 17, 2009

Mathematics and Religion

Roundtable

Participants: Dominic Balestra, Loren Graham, Edward Nelson, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Max Tegmark

October 17, 2009

Naming God, Naming Infinity: Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity

Talk

Loren Graham

October 16, 2009

"Show Me Your Environment and I Will Tell You Who You Are": Place, Pathos, and the Problems of Identity

Academy of American Poets Talk

Participants: David Baker

October 04, 2009

Imposters, Forgery, Fraud, and Illusion

Roundtable

Participants: George Bisacca, Mark Mitton, Laney Salisbury

October 03, 2009

Living in the Musical Moment: Jazz Bassoon

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter & Mike Rabinowitz

September 26, 2009

Historical Capitalism: Money and Imagination

Roundtable

Participants: Marshall Berman, Simon Critchley, Sandra Sherman

September 22, 2009

Persian Poetry: Origins, Translations, and Influences

Poetry Reading & Discussion

Participants: Iraj Anvar, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Roger Sedarat, Niloufar Talebi

September 17, 2009

An Evening with Leonhard Euler

Talk

Participants: William Dunham

September 09, 2009

Exploring Beethoven's Sound World: Historically Informed Practice and the Seventh Symphony

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Stephanie Chase, Thomas Crawford

July 30, 2009

Siberian Lady Macbeth

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Andrzej Wajda

July 15, 2009

The Maids

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Christopher Miles

July 08, 2009

Butley

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Harold Pinter

June 07, 2009

Min Xiao-Fen's Blue Pipa Trio

Performance & Discussion

Participants: Dean Johnson, Steve Salerno, Min Xiao-Fen

June 06, 2009

Theater of War

Film Screening

Directed by John Walter

May 21, 2009

Our Life in Poetry Benefit

Poetry Reading

Participants: Michael Braziller, Eamon Grennan, Edward Hirsch, Marie Ponsot

May 16, 2009

Diaghilev/Cunningham: 1909/2009

Roundtable

Participants: Joan Acocella, Jonah Bokaer, Roger Copeland, Valda Setterfield

May 13, 2009

Surrealism and Beyond: Paul Eluard and René Char

Poetry Course

Participants: Mary Ann Caws, Nancy Kline, Lois Oppenheim

May 11, 2009

Food for Thought: The Je Ne Sais Quoi of Taste

Benefit

Participants: Dave Arnold, Serge Becker, Stuart Firestein, Alex Guarnaschelli, Mark Mitton, Nils Noren, Philip Pearlstein

May 05, 2009

Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle

Film Screening

Directed by Ari Marcopoulos & Chuck Smith

May 02, 2009

Addiction

Roundtable

Participants: Cristina Alberini, Stephen Delafield, William Gottdiener, Scott Russo

April 26, 2009

Lightning in a Bottle: Creating, Presenting, and Preserving Jazz

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Deena Adler, Billy Banks, Craig McIver, Odean Pope, Loren Schoenberg, Lee Smith, Myles Weinstein

April 25, 2009

On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Evil

Roundtable

Participants: Richard Bernstein, Jacques Lezra, Edward Nersessian, Kent Reynolds, Joel Whitebook

April 21, 2009

Living in the Musical Moment: Classical Violin Meets Jazz

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter & Andy Stein

April 18, 2009

On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Violence and the City

Roundtable

Participants: David Brotherton, Brandon del Pozo, Steven Marans

April 14, 2009

Modernists that Matter: Mallarmé and Apollinaire

Poetry Course

Participants: Mary Ann Caws, Nancy Kline, Lois Oppenheim

April 07, 2009

"Cohered out of Tumult and Chaos": The Poetry of Walt Whitman

Poetry Course

Participants: Matt Miller & Cody Walker

April 05, 2009

On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Sex and Violence

Roundtable

Participants: Jessica Benjamin, Anthony Di Fiore, James Gilligan (moderator), Allan Siegel, Larry Siever, Neal Simon

March 21, 2009

The Comic Imagination

Roundtable

Participants: Lewis Black, Jim Holt, Bruce McCall, Tami Sagher, Cody Walker (moderator)

March 14, 2009

Dancing on the Ceiling: Music and the Brain

Roundtable

Participants: Jim Anderson, Taoufiq Ben Amor, Jane Ira Bloom, Josh McDermott, Alexander Stein

March 07, 2009

Evolution of God(s)

Roundtable

Participants: Jennifer Hecht, Elaine Pagels, Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Tyler Volk (moderator), Robert Wright

March 05, 2009

Living in the Musical Moment: Interspecies Jamming with Whales, Birds, and Humans

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Lewis Porter & David Rothenberg

February 28, 2009

On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Genocide

Roundtable

Participants: Joyce Apsel, Benedict Kiernan (moderator), Taylor Krauss, Patricia McCormick, Henri Parens

February 22, 2009

Full Metal Jacket

Film Screening

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

February 21, 2009

On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of War

Roundtable

Participants: David Blight, R. Brian Ferguson, John Horgan (moderator), Dori Laub

February 14, 2009

Creative Ambiguity in Scientific and Humanistic Thought

Roundtable

Participants: Eva Brann, Heather Dubrow, Donald Pfaff (moderator), Robert Shapley, Michael Shelley, Sandra Sherman

February 07, 2009

On Aggression

Roundtable

Participants: Edward Donnerstein, Peter Moskos, Debra Niehoff, Theodore Shapiro (moderator)

January 31, 2009

Spinoza

Roundtable

Participants: Akeel Bilgrami (moderator), Jonathan Israel, Steven Nadler, Joel Whitebook, Catherine Wilson

January 21, 2009

David Levy and Metaphysical Jazz

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: David Levy

January 17, 2009

The World of the Translator

Roundtable

Participants: Peter Cole, Peter Constantine, Jonathan Galassi, Edith Grossman, Suzanne Jill Levine, Qiu Xiaolong

January 11, 2009

Literacy and Imagination

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Logan (moderator), Jonathan Rosen, Bambi Schieffelin, Lance Strate

January 10, 2009

Helvetica: Typography and Literacy

Film Screening and Roundtable

Participants: Christopher Calderhead, Arem Duplessis, Steven Heller (moderator), Elinor Aishah Holland, Gary Hustwit, Elaine Lustig Cohen

December 20, 2008

Living in the Musical Moment: Banjo Innovations

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Béla Fleck & Lewis Porter

December 14, 2008

Jazz Improvisation: The Art of the Ballad

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Drew Gress, Fred Hersch

December 13, 2008

Autobiography/Biography: Narrating the Self

Roundtable

Participants: Nicholson Baker, David Shields, Judith Thurman, Simon Winchester, Louise Yelin (moderator)

December 12, 2008

My Winnipeg

Film Screening

Directed by Guy Maddin

December 10, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Anne Stevenson

December 06, 2008

Deep Listening: Why Audio Quality Matters

Roundtable

Participants: Steve Berkowitz, Greg Calbi (moderator), Evan Cornog, Michael Fremer, Kevin Killen, Craig Street

November 22, 2008

I'll Go On: An Afternoon of Samuel Beckett

Film Screening & Roundtable

Participants: Edward Albee, Tom Bishop, Alvin Epstein, Lois Oppenheim (moderator), John Turturro

November 18, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: In Pursuit of Bewilderment

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller (moderator), Timothy Donnelly, Matthea Harvey, Dennis Nurkse

November 15, 2008

Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Philippson Bible

Roundtable

Participants: Mary Bergstein, Abigail Gillman, Diane O'Donoghue (moderator), Bennett Simon, Andrew Stein Raftery

November 14, 2008

Is Freud Dead?: The Relevance of Freud's Theory of Group Psychology in Today's World

Roundtable

Participants: Mark Edmundson (moderator), Ken Eisold, Jim Hopkins, Bennett Markel, Jane McAdam Freud

November 08, 2008

Caché

Film Screening & Roundtable

Participants: Roy Grundman, Edward Nersessian, Brigitte Peucker (moderator), Brian Price, Garrett Stewart

November 01, 2008

True Crime: Inside the Mind of Mayhem

Roundtable

Participants: John Coston, Spencer Eth (moderator), Joe Loya, Shoba Sreenivasan, Qiu Xiaolong

October 28, 2008

Musical Creatures: How Vertebrate Locomotion Shapes Human Music

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Stephanie Chase, Andrew Warshaw

October 26, 2008

Greed

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Frank, Rabbi Philip Hiat, David Kirkpatrick (moderator), Jay Phelan, Lawrence Tancredi

October 25, 2008

The Presumption of Rationality: Psychological Challenges to Legal Certainty

Roundtable

Participants: Peter Brooks, Anne Dailey (moderator), Carol Gilligan, Nomi Stolzenberg, Kenji Yoshino

October 23, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: Auden in New York

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & David Lehman

October 22, 2008

The Design of Influence: How Images and Words Sway Minds

Re:Mind Roundtable

Participants: Steve Brodner, Steven Heller (moderator), Paul Starr, Jason Young

October 19, 2008

Fear(s) of the Dark

Film Screening

A film by: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire

October 18, 2008

Paraphilias

Roundtable

Participants: Arnold Davidson, Otto Kernberg (moderator), Richard Krueger, Linda Williams, Susan Winemaker

October 17, 2008

Salo

Film Screening

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini's

October 15, 2008

Voters and Friends: Group Influence in Individual Political Belief

Re:Mind Roundtable

Participants: Bryan Caplan, Eric Dickson, Kristina Hoke, Howard Lavine, Jeff Merritt

October 14, 2008

The Poetry of Eros

Roundtable

Participants: Charles Martin, Sharon Olds

October 11, 2008

From Looking to Voyeurism

Roundtable

Participants: Mary Ann Doane, Katherine Frank, Dany Nobus (moderator), Saul Robbins, Sarah Stanbury

October 06, 2008

Blow Up

Film Screening

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

October 04, 2008

The Body and its Image

Roundtable

Participants: Marina Abramovic, Paul Campos, Sander Gilman (moderator), Marcel Kinsbourne, Sabine Wilhelm

October 03, 2008

Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Plays

Roundtable

Participants: Robert Brustein, Alvin Epstein, Eugene Mahon, Ron Rosenbaum, Daniela Varon, J.P. Wearing

September 28, 2008

Living in the Musical Moment: Percussion Madness

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: David King & Lewis Porter

September 27, 2008

Love Code: The Chemistry of Intimacy

Roundtable

Participants: Stephanie Brown, Sue Carter (moderator), Elaine Hatfield, Dolores Malaspina, Stephen Porges

September 23, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Marie Ponsot

September 20, 2008

Sex and Love: The Biology of Romance

Roundtable

Participants: Michael Baum, Helen Fisher, Siri Gullestad, Hiroaki Matsunami, Michael Numan, Donald Pfaff (moderator)

September 15, 2008

Left and Right: What Neuroscience is Revealing about Political Thought

Re:Mind Roundtable

Participants: David Amodio, Joy Hirsch, John Neffinger (moderator), Alexander Todorov

September 13, 2008

Mating in Captivity: Sexuality and Monogamy

Roundtable

Participants: Michael Kimmel, Francis Levy, Pamela Paul, Esther Perel, Owen Renik (moderator)

July 30, 2008

Le Gai Savoir

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

July 23, 2008

La Chinoise

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

July 10, 2008

Place, Imagination, and Identity

Re:Mind Roundtable

Participants: Daniel Casarella, Sasha Gordon, Lee Kiang (moderator), Adam Libow, Dana O'Keefe, Nathaniel Rich

July 09, 2008

La Jetée

Chamber Film Screening

Directed by Chris Marker

June 25, 2008

Living in the Musical Moment: Don Byron & Lewis Porter

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Don Byron & Lewis Porter

June 24, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: Post-War Polish Poets

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Edward Hirsch

June 16, 2008

Dreams with Sharp Teeth

Film Screening

Directed by Erik Nelson

June 14, 2008

Emotion and Invention in Architecture

Roundtable

Participants: Donald Albrecht, David Howes, Sanjoy Mazumdar, Julio Salcedo (moderator), Jerome Winer

June 12, 2008

Jazz Improvisation and the Written Word

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: Jane Ira Bloom, Jay Clayton, Jerry Granelli, David Tronzo

June 09, 2008

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine

Film Screening

Directed by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach

June 07, 2008

Susan Sontag: Public Intellectual, Polymath, Provocatrice

Roundtable

Participants: Joan Acocella, Robert Boyers (moderator), Roger Copeland, Phillip Lopate, James Miller

May 31, 2008

Psychogeography: The Landscapes of Memory

Roundtable

Participants: André Aciman, Vito Acconci, Russell Epstein, Matthew von Unwerth (moderator)

May 27, 2008

Our Life in Poetry: William Butler Yeats

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Eamon Grennan

May 17, 2008

Wingdale Community Singers

Music Performance & Discussion

Participants: David Grubbs, Nina Katchadourian, Hannah Marcus, Rick Moody

May 13, 2008

Imagination and Mathematics: The Geometry of Thought

Poetry Course

Participants: Barry Mazur & Eva Brann

May 12, 2008

Perception and Imagination: Masters of Theatrical Illusion

Roundtable

Participants: Jules Fisher, Peter Maloney, Gregory Meeh, Mark Mitton (moderator), Charles Reynolds

May 10, 2008

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

Film Screening

Directed by Scott Hicks

May 03, 2008

Cross-Cultural Improvisation

Music Performance & Discussion

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

Music Performance & Discussion

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

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Andrew Motion

April 05, 2008

Living in the Musical Moment: Dharma Jazz

Music Performance & Discussion

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

Music Performance & Discussion

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

Poetry 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

Music Performance & Discussion

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

Poetry 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's 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

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Marie Ponsot

November 20, 2007

Music and Imagination: Beyond the Haunting Melody

Music Performance & Discussion

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

Music 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

Poetry Course

Participants: Michael Braziller & Eamon Grennan

June 05, 2007

Our Life in Six Lyrical Poems: Sylvia Plath

Poetry 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: Who's Tormenting Whom

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

Poetry Course

Participants: Michel Braziller & Louise Glück

April 28, 2007

The Origins of Norms: The Place of Value in a World of Nature III

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 II

Lecture

Speakers: Anne Harrington and John Forrester

April 26, 2007

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

Poetry 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

Poetry 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

Poetry 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 21, 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 19, 2005

My Name Was Sabina Spielrein

Film Screening

Directed by Elisabeth Marton

December 17, 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 13, 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 17, 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 02, 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