Witness to an Extreme Century: Thoughts on Scholarship and Activism. A Talk by Robert Lifton, 4/4

Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies
and
The Humanities Initiative
Interdisciplinary Freud Colloquium

are proud to present a lecture by

Dr. Robert J. Lifton
Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University; author of numerous books, including Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir; Death and Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (Winner of the National Book Award ); and The Nazi Doctors (Winner of the Los Angeles Times book prize).

Witness to an Extreme Century:
Thoughts on Scholarship and Activism
Wednesday, April 4 from 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.12 Waverly Place, Room G08

Everyone is welcome.
Given that space is limited, we suggest that you arrive early.

Trauma and Violence Studies Event: Narrativation of Traumatic Experience through Testimony (4/14)

Please join us.

Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies

presents


DR. DORI LAUB
(Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Cofounder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale)


“THE NARRATIVIZATION OF TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE THROUGH TESTIMONY; STRATEGIES OF COPING WITH CRISIS OF WITNESSING”


Wednesday, April 14th at 6:45 p.m.
13-19 University Place, Room 102


Discussant: Sue Grand, Ph.D. (Faculty and supervisor NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Faculty Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis; Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; Author of The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective and (just off the press) The Hero in the Mirror: From Fear to Fortitude.

Introduced by Judith Alpert, Ph.D., (Professor of Applied Psychology, NYU; Faculty and Training Supervisor, NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Co-Director, Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies, NYU; psychoanalyst)

This event is free and open to the public. Photo I.D. required.

Seminar (3/24): Memories of Slavery : Genealogy of National Denial and Resilience

NYU & CNRS Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences announces a new seminar series on

Memory and Memorialization:
Representing Trauma and War

Our collaborators for this series are the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and the Mémorial de Caen (France). Financed by the Partner University Fund (PUF/FACE) of the French Embassy in Washington, our multidisciplinary research project brings together leading academic experts on memory (in its historical, socio-cultural, psychological and neurological manifestations) with top museum professionals engaged in the development and operation of contemporary memorial museums.

Memories of Slavery : Genealogy of National Denial and Resilience

March 24, 2010 (4.30-7.30 pm)
Myriam Cottias | Historian | CNRS

Commentators: Fred Cooper, historian
(NYU), Joseph E. Ledoux, neuroscientist
(NYU), M.-Cl. Lavabre, sociologist (CNRS
by video conference)