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To achieve its mission, the Philoctetes Center holds roundtable discussions with experts from various fields (neuroscience, psychology, mathematics, psychoanalysis, humanities, art, philosophy and theology). These discussions are recorded and transcribed and the records are edited and archived on our website.

 

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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' 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

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 - Roundtable

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 - Evening II

Lecture