Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union National Security Project
Alex Abdo is a Staff Attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Project. He is counsel in the ACLU’s challenge to the NSA’s phone-records program and has been involved in the litigation of cases concerning the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the treatment of detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Navy brig in South Carolina.… read more »
Professor in the Center for Neural Science, New York University
Cristina Alberini, Professor in the Center for Neural Science, New York University, has been studying the biological mechanisms of long-term memory for the last 20 years. Her studies explore the biological mechanisms of memory consolidation and reconsolidation, the processes by which newly learned information become long-lasting memories, and how memories are modulated and integrated into complex behavioral manifestations.… read more »
Vice President, Agalma Foundation; Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva; Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of the University Hospitals of Geneva
François Ansermet practices as a psychoanalyst in Geneva, and is a member of the School of the Freudian Cause, the New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He is currently Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Geneva and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Children’s Hospital of the University Hospitals of Geneva.… read more »
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 from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo (2012).… read more »
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Heather Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She explores the complex interactions of the human brain and mind with the goal of contributing to improved treatment and prevention of impulsive and compulsive psychiatric disorders.… read more »
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University
Jack Z. Bratich is Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. His work applies autonomist social theory to popular culture and social movement media. He is a zine librarian at ABC No Rio and has co-taught courses at Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City.… read more »
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.… read more »
Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine , SUNY Stony Brook
Stephanie Brown is an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Brown’s research currently focuses on the neuro-affective mechanisms underlying altruistic and prosocial behavior.… read more »
Senior Mastering Engineer, Sterling Sound, New York
Greg Calbi is a partner and senior mastering engineer at Sterling Sound in New York City. Combining technical skill and an innate sense of how music should sound, he manipulates frequency balance, dynamic range, and other characteristics of a mix, aiming to create a heightened emotional response for listeners.… read more »
Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, Columbia University
Andrea Califano is the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, in the departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. He is currently the founding director and chair of the Columbia Initiative for Systems Biology.… read more »
Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Fordham University
Lisa Cataldo, M.Div., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at the Fordham University Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, where she directs the Clinical Program and teaches courses in Clinical Practice, Professional Ethics, Psychology and Religion, and Trauma.… read more »
Professor of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
Anjan Chatterjee is a Professor of Neurology, and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Haverford College and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.… read more »
Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky (www.chichilnisky.com) is a professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics and a University Senator at Columbia University in New York, where she is the Director of the Columbia Consortium for Risk Management (CCRM). A world-renowned economist, she is the creator of the formal theory of Sustainable Development and acted as Lead US Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the Nobel Prize in 2007. … read more »
Professor, Boston University
Bonnie Costello is a professor at Boston University whose scholarly work concentrates on modern and contemporary poetry, often from fresh new angles. She is the author of Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions (1981), Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery (1991), and the general editor of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (1997).… read more »
Philosopher and Art Historian, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Georges Didi-Huberman, philosopher and art historian, teaches at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris, where he has been a lecturer since 1990. He is a winner of the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art given by the College Art Association.… read more »
Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Director of the Program in Teaching, Williams College
Susan Engel is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Founding Director of the Program in Teaching at Williams College. Her research interests include children’s narratives, play, the development of curiosity, and more generally, teaching and learning. Her work has appeared in journals such asCognitive Development and the American Education Research Journal.… read more »
Former Chair of Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
Stuart Firestein is the former Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biological Sciences, where he studies the vertebrate olfactory system. Aside from its molecular detection capabilities, the olfactory system serves as a model for investigating general principles and mechanisms of signaling and perception in the brain.… read more »
President of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis
Mark C. Fishman, M.D., is President of the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. He leads worldwide discovery and early clinical activities of Novartis, which aims to develop novel therapeutics for diseases. Prior to joining Novartis, Dr. Fishman was Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, as well as Chief of Cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the founding Director of their Cardiovascular Research Center.… read more »
Professor of Art History and Director of Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University
David Freedberg is Professor of Art History at Columbia University, and Director of its Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. He is best known for his work on psychological responses to images. His initial publications were on the problems of iconoclasm and censorship, but inThe Power of Images he moved on to discuss a whole range of the ways in which images evoke emotional, behavioral and social responses.… read more »
Professor of Psychobiology, University of Parma
Director, Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Parma
Vittorio Gallese MD is a trained neurologist and Professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, Italy where he is Director of the Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Fellow at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America of Columbia University, New York, USA, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, UK and honorary member of the American College of Psychiatrists.… read more »
Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics, New York University
Paul Glimcher is the Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics at New York University and the Julius Silver Professor of Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology at NYU’s Center for Neural Science. He is an Investigator for the National Eye Institute, National Institute of Aging, and the US.… read more »
Assistant Clinical Professor, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Dr. Haase is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice, an Assistant Clinical Professor at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and a member of the Executive Committee of the Helix Center. Her professional activities include work as editor, writer, and teacher for The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, The Association of Dynamic Psychiatry, and The Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alliance in the areas of bipolar disorder, sexuality, and an emerging interest in global psychiatry.… read more »
Songwriter/Singer/Producer
Jesse Harris is an accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer of artists all over the world. Best known for having written and played guitar on Norah Jones’ breakout hit “Don’t Know Why” (for which he won the 2003 Grammy Award for Song Of The Year), he has also had his songs recorded by numerous other artists, including Smokey Robinson, Willie Nelson, Cat Power, Solomon Burke, and Emmylou Harris.… read more »
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard
Paul Harris is a developmental psychologist with interests in the development of cognition, emotion and imagination. After studying psychology at Sussex and Oxford, he taught at the University of Lancaster, the Free University of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics.… read more »
Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University
Michael Hecht is a Professor of Chemistry at Princeton and holds affiliated appointments in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Institute for Integrative Genomics. His research is at the interface of chemistry and biology. Specifically, his lab works in protein design and synthetic biology, as well as on the molecular underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease.… read more »
Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth
Alan Hirshfeld is Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an Associate of the Harvard College Observatory. He is the author of Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos, The Electric Life of Michael Faraday, Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes,and the forthcoming book Seeing the Light: How Astronomers Discovered the Modern Universe.… read more »
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 »
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, and Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Medicine
Theodore Jacobs is a board certified psychiatrist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the New York University School of Medicine. He’s also a training and Supervising Analyst for adults and children at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Medicine.… read more »
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA
Christopher D. Johnson, when he is not meandering on Warburg’s Wanderstrassen, teaches Spanish early modern literature at UCLA.
Previously he taught comparative literature at Harvard University and early modern English literature at Northwestern University. He is the author of Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought(Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, with Harvard University Press, 2010) and Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg’s Atlas of Images (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2012).… read more »
Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. He received degrees from Yale, the Warburg Institute, and Harvard, and has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Technical University, Dresden, and the Masaryk University, Brno. The holder of the Palacký medal from the Czech Academy of Sciences, he is a member of the Swedish, Flemish, and Polish Academies of Science, and has been a Fellow of the American Academies in Berlin and Rome, among other honors and Fellowships.… read more »
Professor of Mathematics, Graduate Center and Lehman College of the City University of New York
Linda Keen is Professor of Mathematics at the Graduate Center and Lehman College of the City University of New York. She is currently Executive Officer of the Doctoral Program in Mathematics. Her research spans various parts of complex analysis including complex dynamics, hyperbolic manifolds and Teichmuller theory.… read more »
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, The Talking Day was just published by Sibling Rivalry Press.… read more »
Marina Korsakova-Kreyn is a professional pianist and scholar in music perception and cognition. She received her Diploma in Piano Performance from Nizhniy Novgorod State Conservatory, Russia, and she received her Ph.D. in Cognition and Neuroscience from The University of Texas at Dallas.… read more »
Professor of Neural Science, New York University
Joseph LeDoux is a Professor of Neural Science at New York University. His work, which has spanned the topics of emotion, memory, and consciousness, and their interaction in the brain. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.… read more »
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University
Alan Leslie is a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, where he directs the Cognitive Development Laboratory. A Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Leslie investigates the developmental neurocognitive mechanisms and domain-specialized learning involved in abstract ideation emerging early in life such as cause and effect, enduring object, one, two, three, social agent, believing, pretending, desiring, purpose, and moral transgression.… read more »
University Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University
Michael Lewis is a University Distinguished Professor of pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson School. His research has focused on normal and deviant emotional and intellectual development. Through his research, Dr.… read more »
Co-Founder, Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY
David Lichtenstein is a co-founder, faculty member, and supervisor at Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association in New York. He is the Editor of DIVISION/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the CUNY Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology and at Adelphi University Derner Institute.… read more »
Professor Emeritus of Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History and Political Psychology, UCLA
Peter Loewenberg is a Professor Emeritus of Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History and Political Psychology at UCLA. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst and former Dean of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. He is former Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association [IPA] China Committee and currently teaches Psychoanalysis in Shanghai, Wuhan, and Beijing.… read more »
Faculty, Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca
Ludovica Lumer, a philosopher and neurobiologist, was born in Milan in 1971 and, since 1997, has been working with Semir Zeki at the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology (University College London), where she started researching in the field of neuroesthetics, studying the relationship between visual perception and artistic representation.… read more »
President, Agalma Foundation; Professor, Brain Mind Institute and Professor, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, University of Lausanne Medical School
Pierre Magistretti received his M.D. from the University of Geneva in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California at San Diego in 1982. He is Professor and former Director (2005-2012) of the Brain Mind Institute and Professor at the Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience at the University of Lausanne Medical School.… read more »
Assistant Professor in Physiology and Biophysics, Institute for Computational Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Christopher E. Mason is Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine. Professor Mason also holds appointments in the Tri-Institutional Program on Computational Biology and Medicine (Cornell, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University), and at the Weill Cornell Cancer Center, where he is the director of the Single Molecule Research Lab.… read more »
Lecturer of Urdu in the South Asia Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania
Mustafa Menai is Lecturer of Urdu at the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Studies Department. His interests include the pedagogy of teaching language through literature and experimenting with different poetic structures such as ghazal, nazm, and haiku.… read more »
Director, The Helix Center
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College
Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Edward Nersessian is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Distinguished Life Member of the American Psychiatric Association, and Corresponding Member of Société Psychanalytique de Paris. He is co-founder and first co-editor of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis, co-editor of the Textbook of Psychoanalysis and of Controversies in Contemporary Psychoanalysis.… read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Executive Director, Poetry Society of America
Alice Quinn is the executive director of the Poetry Society of America and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia University. She was the Poetry Editor of The New Yorker for two decades and before that was an editor at Alfred A.… read more »
Curator of Digital Resources, Assistant Librarian, Warburg Institute
François Quiviger took his Ph.D. from the Warburg Institute, London, where he works as curator of digital resources, librarian, and researcher. He has written, taught, and curated projects on early modern European academies, on mythology and on Renaissance material culture, art and art theory.… read more »
Artist
Dorothea Rockburne was born in Montreal. She was educated at the Montreal Museum School and at Black Mountain College, where she studied with, among other contemporaries, Philip Guston and Franz Kline, as well as the German mathematician Max Dehn, whose teachings, merging the mathematical and natural worlds, provided her with new and complex approaches to her work.… read more »
Member of the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, Yale University
Gilbert J. Rose served for many years on the faculties of Yale University Medical School and the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a winner of the Sandor Lorand Essay Award of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York and The Founders Teaching Prize of The Western New England Psychoanalytic Society.… read more »
Professor of Modern European History, Otterbein University; Editor, American Imago
Louis Rose is Professor of Modern European History at Otterbein University in Ohio, a member of the Trustees of the Sigmund Freud Archives, Library of Congress, and the Editor of American Imago.
His book, The Freudian Calling: Early Viennese Psychoanalysis and the Pursuit of Cultural Science (Wayne State University, 1998) received the 1999 Austrian Cultural Institute Prize for Best Book in Austrian Studies.… read more »
Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine
Alina Rubinstein is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is on the faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education (IPE), affiliated with the New York University Medical Center, where she is currently co-teaching “Theories of the Self” to psychoanalytic candidates.… read more »
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.… read more »
Frederick S. Troy Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Lloyd Schwartz is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In addition to being a poet and literary critic, Mr. Schwartz is the classical music editor for The Boston Phoenix and a regular commentator on NPR’s Fresh Air.… read more »
Clinical psychologist and research psychoanalyst, The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology
Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and research psychoanalyst on the core faculty of The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and The Harvard Extension School. He is a coeditor of Advances in Descriptive Psychology.… read more »
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.… read more »
Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics, and Systems Biology, Columbia University
Saeed Tavazoie is a systems biologist who was professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton before joining the faculty at Columbia University in 2011. Over the years, his laboratory has addressed fundamental challenges in decoding the regulatory genome and revealing how networks of interacting genes implement complex phenotypes.… read more »
Poet
Jean Valentine has been contributing poems to our literature for half a century. Her first book, Dream Barker and Other Poems, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1965. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 won the National Book Award in 2004, and her most recent book, Break the Glass, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.… read more »
Medical Science Writer and Media Consultant
Michael Waldholz most recently served for six years as managing editor at Bloomberg News/Businessweek,following his 25-year career as a writer, editor, and bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal. At Bloomberg, he was responsible for news coverage related to health care and science, including the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, health insurance, medical services, public health, and health policy.… read more »
Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale University; Visiting Professor, Department of German, New York University
Christopher Wood (A.B., Harvard 1983, Ph.D., Harvard 1991) has been teaching at Yale since 1992. He is currently Visiting Professor in the German Department, New York University, and has taught as a visitor at the University of California (Berkeley), Vassar College, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.… read more »
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