Joseph Adamson Joseph Adamson is Professor Emeritus of English at McMaster University. His current area of research focuses on the relevance of Silvan Tomkins’ affect and script theory to literature, in particular how affective and shame dynamics inform and shape a writer’s life and work.… read more »
Larry Amsel Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center Dr. Amsel, a clinical and research psychiatrist, is on the faculty of Columbia University. Dr. Amsel has a mathematics background, and was an early proponent of using decision science, game theory and Behavioral Economics in psychiatric research. In 2003, he organized the first American Psychiatric Association (APA) symposium on the applications of Game Theory to psychiatry, and chaired an invited follow up symposium at the 2015 APA annual meeting.… read more »
Harald Atmanspacher Physicist, The Collegium Helveticum (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) View Papers / Presentations » Harald Atmanspacher, PhD, is a senior scientist and staff member at Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, since 2007. After his PhD in physics at Munich University (1986), he worked as a research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics at Garching until 1998.… read more »
Anna Balas Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College Dr. Anna Balas is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a Training & Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She has had a private adult and child psychiatry practice in Manhattan for over 35 years.… read more »
Akeel Bilgrami Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University Akeel Bilgrami got a B.A in English Literature from Elphinstone College, Bombay University and went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He has a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a Professor on the Committee on Global Thought.… read more »
W. Warner Burke E.L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University W. Warner Burke, PhD, is the E.L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University where he has been since 1979. He teaches leadership and organization change and development. His research focuses on learning agility, multi- rater feedback, and leadership.… read more »
Cheryl Corcoran Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Program Leader in Psychosis Risk, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Cheryl Corcoran is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Program Leader in Psychosis Risk at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Together with Dr. Guillermo Cecchi of IBM, she has identified patterns of language that precede onset of psychosis, including reduction in coherence and complexity.… read more »
Stephanie Dick Assistant Professor, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania Stephanie Dick is an Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in History of Science from Harvard University in 2015 and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows prior to joining the faculty at Penn.… read more »
Ken Dill Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Stony Brook University Director of the Laufer Center for Physical Biology Ken Dill is a Professor of Physics and Chemistry at Stony Brook University, and Director of the Laufer Center for Physical Biology. He helped to solve the `protein folding problem’ and is interested in the principles of proteins, cell evolution and the early molecular origins of life.… read more »
Percival Everett Distinguished Professor of English, University of Southern California Author Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and an author of some thirty books, mostly novels. In his career he has won numerous awards, honors, and fellowships, among the most recent being the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association in 2018.… read more »
Hartry Field Silver Professor, New York University Hartry Field is Silver Professor, and University Professor, at New York University, where he has taught since 1997. Before that he taught at Princeton, University of Southern California, and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is author of Science Without Numbers (1980; expanded edition 2016) and Saving Truth From Paradox, as well as numerous articles in the philosophy of mathematics and of logic, and in other areas of philosophy such as metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of language. … read more »
Branden Fitelson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Northeastern University Branden Fitelson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University. Before teaching at Northeastern, Branden held teaching positions at Rutgers, UC-Berkeley, San José State, and Stanford and visiting positions at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU-Munich (MCMP @ LMU) and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam (ILLC @ UvA).… read more »
James L. Fuller Research Fellow, Columbia University James L. Fuller is a research fellow at Columbia University, where he recently completed his Ph.D. His doctoral research focused on the evolution and expansion of vocal signal repertoires, focusing primarily on the communication system of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis). Dr.… read more »
Markus Gabriel Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, University of Bonn Markus Gabriel, one of the founders of New Realism, was born in 1980 and studied in Heidelberg, Lisbon, and New York. Since 2009 he has held the chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn, and with this appointment he became Germany’s youngest philosophy professor.… read more »
Neil Garrett Henry Wellcome Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford University View Papers / Presentations » Neil Garrett is a Henry Wellcome Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford University. His research centres around aversive behaviour and learning. As part of this, he has led a new line of enquiry examining the role of emotional adaptation in decision making.… read more »
Andrew Gerber Medical Director/CEO, the Austen Riggs Center Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center in New York City Andrew J. Gerber is the Medical Director/CEO of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Gerber completed his PhD in Psychology at the Anna Freud Centre and University College London where he studied with Peter Fonagy and Joseph Sandler, investigating the process and outcome of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in young adults.… read more »
Amitav Ghosh Author Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He is the author of two books of non-fiction, a collection of essays and eight novels. His most recent book is The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016).… read more »
Thomas Callister Hales Mellon Professor of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh Thomas C. Hales is the Mellon Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University, a Tripos Part III from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in representation theory under R.… read more »
Michael Harris Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University Michael Harris is Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University; before that he held positions at Brandeis University and Université Paris-Diderot. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1977 from Harvard University, under the direction of Barry Mazur. He has organized or co-organized more than 20 conferences, workshops, and special programs in his field of number theory.… read more »
Siri Hustvedt Author, Essayist Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; seven novels, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men, The Blazing World, and Memories of the Future, as well as five essay collections, Women, Mothers, Fathers, and Others; A Plea for Eros; Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting; Living, Thinking, Looking; A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women and a work of nonfiction: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves.… read more »
Dale Jamieson Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, New York University. Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection at New York University. His is the author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed and What It Means for Our Future (2014), and Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy (2019, with Michael Oppenheimer, Naomi Oreskes and others).… read more »
John Kress Distinguished Scientist & Curator of Botany, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Dr. W. John Kress is Distinguished Scientist and Curator of Botany at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He formerly served as the Interim Under Secretary for Science at the Smithsonian and Director of Science in the Grand Challenges Consortia.… read more »
David Levine Professor of the Practice of Performance, Theater, and Media, Harvard University David Levine’s work encompasses theater, performance, video and photography. His performance and exhibition work have been presented by the Brooklyn Museum, Creative Time, MoMA, REDCAT, The MCA Chicago, MACBA, Mass MoCA, PS122, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, Theater, BOMB, the New Yorker and the New York Times.… read more »
Emma Levine Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Emma Edelman Levine is an assistant professor of Behavioral Science and the Charles Merrill Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She was recently recognized as a Rising Star of the Association of Psychological Science (2019). Emma studies the psychology of altruism, trust, and ethical dilemmas.… read more »
Michael Lewis Michael Lewis is University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is also Professor of Psychology, Education, Biomedical Engineering, and Social Work at Rutgers University.… read more »
Yiyun Li Author Professor of Creative Writing, Princeton University Yiyun Li is the author of six books, including two story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, three novels, The Vagrants, Kinder Than Solitude, Where Reasons End, and an essay collection, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life.… read more »
Joseph Luzzi Professor of Comparative Literature, Bard College Author Joseph Luzzi (PhD Yale) is Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College and the author of Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy (Yale University Press, 2008), which received the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies; A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), a finalist for the international prize “The Bridge Book” Award; My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; and In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love (HarperCollins, 2015), which has been translated into Italian, German, and Korean.… read more »
Alberto Manguel Writer and translator Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator and critic. He has published both fiction and non-fiction, and received numerous international awards, among others the Formentor Prize 2017 and the Gutenberg Prize 2018. Until August 2018, he was the director of the Argentine National Library.… read more »
Kristopher McDaniel Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Kris McDaniel has a B.A. in philosophy from Western Washington University and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After graduating in 2004, he took a position at Syracuse University, and stayed there until the summer of 2019. … read more »
Darrin McMahon Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College, and formerly the Ben Weider Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University, where he taught from 2004-2014. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, where he received his PhD in 1998, McMahon is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), which has been translated into twelve languages, and was awarded Best Books of the Year honors for 2006 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Library Journal, and Slate Magazine; and Divine Fury: A History of Genius, published with Basic Books.… read more »
Ken Miller Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Biology, Columbia University Kenneth Miller is Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, Columbia University. Co-Director of Columbia’s Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology, its Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, as well as its Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program, Professor Miller also serves as Vice-Chair of its Department of Neuroscience.… read more »
Donald Moss Program Chair of APsaA With 40+ years of clinical experience, author of 4 books, 60+ articles, winner of the Elizabeth Young-Bruehl award from the IPA for his work against prejudice, current Program Chair of APsaA, Moss is a founding member of Green Gang, a group of analysts and scientists focusing on climate change and its denial.… read more »
John Murray Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Physics, Yale University School of Medicine is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Physics at Yale University School of Medicine, where he directs a research program in computational neuroscience with a focus on computational models of neuropsychiatric disorders. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at New York University.… read more »
Priyamvada Natarajan Professor of Astronomy and of Physics, Yale University Priyamvada Natarajan’s research is focused on exotica in the Universe-dark matter, dark energy and black holes. She is noted for her key contributions to two of the most challenging problems in cosmology: mapping the distribution of dark matter and tracing the growth history of black holes.… read more »
Cathy O’Neil Cathy O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was a postdoc at the MIT math department, and a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She then switched over to the private sector, working as a quant for the hedge fund D.E.… read more »
Dennis Overbye Correspondent, New York Times Dennis Overbye is the cosmic affairs correspondent for the New York Times. His reporting can range from the mating habits of black holes and zero-gravity fashion shows to science in the movies, the status of Pluto and the fate of the universe.… 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 »
Aaditya Rangan Associate Professor, Mathematics, New York University Aaditya Rangan is an Associate Professor in the mathematics department at New York University. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and completed his postdoctoral work at NYU. His research has focused for many years on computational and theoretical models of sensory processing, particularly vision and olfaction.… read more »
Francesca Rossi IBM Fellow & IBM AI Ethics Global Leader Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader. She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects. She co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Partnership on AI, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations ITU AI for Good Summit, and the Global Partnership on AI.… read more »
Caleb Scharf Director of Astrobiology, Columbia University Caleb Scharf’s research career spans cosmology, exoplanetary science, and astrobiology. He currently leads efforts at Columbia University in New York to understand the nature of exoplanets and living environments in the universe. He is also a Global Science Coordinator for the Earth-Life Science Institute’s Origins Network at the Tokyo Institute for Technology and a co-founder of YHouse, Inc.… read more »
Nermeen Shaikh Co-Host & News Producer, Democracy Now! Nermeen Shaikh is a Co-Host and News Producer at Democracy Now! She is the author of The Present as History published by Columbia University Press. She has a B.A. (Honours) from Queen’s University in Canada, and an M.Phil. in politics from Cambridge University.… read more »
Francis X. Shen Executive Director, Harvard MGH Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior Dr. Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD is the Executive Director of the Harvard MGH Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior; an Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School; Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience at the Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center; and an Associate Professor of Law, McKnight Presidential Fellow, and faculty member in the Graduate Program on Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota.… read more »
Richard A. Shweder Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. degree in social anthropology in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University in 1972, taught a year at the University of Nairobi in Kenya and has been at the University of Chicago ever since.… read more »
Alma Steingart Assistant Professor, History, Columbia University Alma Steingart researches the interplay between politics and mathematical rationalities. Steingart’s second book manuscript, Accountable Democracy: Mathematical Reasoning and Representative Democracy in America, 1920 to Now, examines how mathematical thought and computing technologies have impacted electoral politics in the United States in the twentieth century.… read more »
Jonathan Stray Research Scholar, Columbia University Computational Journalist Jonathan Stray is a computational journalist at Columbia University, where he teaches the dual masters degree in computer science and journalism and leads the development of Workbench, an integrated tool for data journalism. He’s contributed to The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, Foreign Policy and ProPublica.… read more »
Edwin Turner Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University Edwin Turner is Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University and an Affiliate Scientist at the University of Tokyo’s Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe. After receiving an SB in Physics (MIT ’71) and a PhD in Astronomy (Caltech ’75), he spent brief periods at the Institute for Advanced Study and on the astronomy faculty at Harvard University before joining the Princeton faculty in 1978.… read more »