SPEAKERS’ INFORMATION

Richard H. Armstrong, Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston.

Mary Bergstein is a scholar of Italian Renaissance art, who has published essays on the history of art and the history of psychoanalysis in 'The Art Bulletin' and 'American Imago.' She is Professor and Chair of Art History at the Rhode Island School of Design."

Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy and former Dean

of The New School for Social Research; PhD 1958, Yale University.

Harold P. Blum, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Supervising and Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center. He is also the Executive Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives and has been the editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Daniel Boyarin: Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley.

Mark Edmundson, Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor Romantic Poetry, Literary Theory, Department of English, University of Virginia. Author, Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson and Sigmund Freud , Why Read?, and Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference. He is also currently working on a book about the last two years of Freud's life, to be called "The Death of Sigmund Freud."

Florence Friedman, Adjunct Professor, Egyptology, Brown University. Dr. Friedman was the Curator of Ancient Art at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design from 1986 to 2000.

PD Dr. phil. Benigna Gerisch, born 1960, Psychoanalyst (DPV/IPA); Diplomaed-Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Psychological Psychotherapist, Familytherapist; study of psychology and literature in Hamburg. 1996 PhD with the theme: "Suicidality among women - myth and reality: a critical analyst", 1998 published by edition diskord. 1999: University lecturing qualification with the theme: “A psychoanalytical approach to suicidality among women under special consideration of the development of gender identity”, published 2003 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Since 1990 psychotherapist and scientific member in the Center for Therapy and Studies of Suicidal Behavior at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf and as psychoanalyst in private practice. Associate Member of the European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; DPV-Member of the working party on interface issues (WPI) of the EPF. 2000: winner of the scientific award for young people given by the DPV for the development of psychoanalytical explanatory patterns for the psychoanalytical understanding of suicidality in women. Numerous publications on suicidality and gender differences as well as psychoanalytical studies on suicidality in novels, films and in theatre. Last publication – together with Ines Kappert und Georg Fiedler : "'A thinking, which leads to death:' Suicide—the taboo and his violation—interdisciplinary studies on suicide," published 2004 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Sharon Gillerman is Associate Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles and adjunct Assistant Professor of History at USC.

Abigail Gillman is Assistant Professor of German and Hebrew at Boston University. She has published essays on German Jewish modernism, Bible translation, and contemporary Austrian Jewish culture.

Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University. For 2004-5 he is the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University.

Ethan Kleinberg, Associate Professor of History and Letters , Wesleyan University ; Associate Editor of History and Theory. He is the author of Generation Existential: Heidegger's Philosophy in France, 1927-1961 (Cornell U Press) and is in the process of completing his second book, The Myth of Emmanuel Levinas. His current research interests include European intellectual history, critical theory, educational structures, post-colonialism, and the philosophy of history.

Cecile E. Kuznitz, Assistant Professor of Jewish History; Director of Jewish Studies, Bard College. Visiting assistant professor of Jewish history/Jewish studies, Georgetown University (2000-2003).

Leo A. Lensing, Professor of German and Film Studies, Wesleyan University. He has published widely on the literature and culture of fin-de-siècle Vienna. His recent books include Letter about the Father, a biographical essay on Karl Kraus, and "Semmering 1912", an edition of Peter Altenberg’s book and annotated picture-postcard album (with Andrew Barker). He reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and also writes occasionally for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. His most recent publication is the documentation of an unknown meeting of the Wednesday Society on the topic “Electra, ancient and modern,” for Luzifer-Amor, a German journal devoted to the history of psychoanalysis.

Joanna Lipper is a filmmaker and the author of Growing Up Fast (Picador, 2003). She holds an M.Sc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology from The Anna Freud Centre and University College London. Based in New York City, she runs Sea Wall Entertainment. Her films include Inside Out: Portraits of Children, Growing Up Fast and Little Fugitive.

Frederic Morton, Author of A Nervous Splendor : Vienna 1888-1889, Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914. Runaway Waltz : A Memoir from Vienna to New York.

Peter Neubauer, Editor, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Psychoanalyst in Private Practice.

Robert A. Paul, Dean, Emory College; Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Marty Peretz has been editor-in-chief of The New Republic since 1974 and is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard.

Carl J. Rheins, YIVO's Executive Director, is a specialist in German Jewish History and is a former Vice President of Adelphi University. He has lectured at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Cornell University and Miami University of Ohio. Three of his scholarly articles have appeared in the Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute (1978,1980 and 1981). He spent the 1969-70 academic year at the University of Vienna.

Arnold Richards was Editor of JAPA from 1994 to 2003 and before that was an Editor of TAP. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and on the faculty of the NYU and Mount Sinai Medical Schools Departments of Psychiatry.

Marsha Rozenblit , Harvey M. Meyerhoff, Professor of Jewish History, University of Maryland, College Park.

Jill Salberg, Faculty, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Faculty, National Institute for the Psychotherapies; Supervisor, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy; Faculty, Jewish Community Center in Manhattan.

Inge Sholz Strasser, director of the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna. Editor with Giselher Guttmann and Oliver W. Sacks, Freud and the Neurosciences: From Brain Research to the Unconscious.

Eliza Slavet, a member of the Interdisciplinary Faculty at New York University’s Gallatin School and a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of California San Diego.

Bruce Slovin, Chair. YIVO Board of Directors. Chairman, Center for Jewish History.

Carol Kahn Strauss, executive director, Leo Baeck Institute; speaker: The Berlin Holocaust Memorial in the Context of German Jewish History. Dinner at Residence of German Embassy, Washington, DC; Honorary Trustee, Center for Jewish History.

Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. Liliane Weissberg is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and the Graduate Chair.

Joel Whitebook is a trained philosopher and practicing psychoanalyst. He is on the faculty of Columbia University's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry) at its College of Physicians and Surgeons and Chair of its University Seminar on Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Whitebook is a leading expert on psychoanalysis and the Frankfurt School and his written a major text on the topic entitled Perversion and Utopia. He is currently writing an intellectual biography of Freud for Cambridge University Press.


		SPEAKERS’ INFORMATION Richard H. Armstrong, Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston. Mary Bergstein is a scholar of Italian Renaissance art, who has published essays on the history of art and the history of psychoanalysis in 'The Art Bulletin' and 'American Imago.' She is Professor and Chair of Art History at the Rhode Island School of Design." Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy and former Dean of The New School for Social Research; PhD 1958, Yale University. Harold P. Blum, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Supervising and Training Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center. He is also the Executive Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives and has been the editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Daniel Boyarin: Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley. Mark Edmundson, Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor Romantic Poetry, Literary Theory, Department of English, University of Virginia. Author, Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson and Sigmund Freud , Why Read?, and Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference. He is also currently working on a book about the last two years of Freud's life, to be called "The Death of Sigmund Freud." Florence Friedman, Adjunct Professor, Egyptology, Brown University. Dr. Friedman was the Curator of Ancient Art at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design from 1986 to 2000. PD Dr. phil. Benigna Gerisch, born 1960, Psychoanalyst (DPV/IPA); Diplomaed-Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Psychological Psychotherapist, Familytherapist; study of psychology and literature in Hamburg. 1996 PhD with the theme: "Suicidality among women - myth and reality: a critical analyst", 1998 published by edition diskord. 1999: University lecturing qualification with the theme: “A psychoanalytical approach to suicidality among women under special consideration of the development of gender identity”, published 2003 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Since 1990 psychotherapist and scientific member in the Center for Therapy and Studies of Suicidal Behavior at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf and as psychoanalyst in private practice. Associate Member of the European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis; DPV-Member of the working party on interface issues (WPI) of the EPF. 2000: winner of the scientific award for young people given by the DPV for the development of psychoanalytical explanatory patterns for the psychoanalytical understanding of suicidality in women. Numerous publications on suicidality and gender differences as well as psychoanalytical studies on suicidality in novels, films and in theatre. Last publication – together with Ines Kappert und Georg Fiedler : "'A thinking, which leads to death:' Suicide—the taboo and his violation—interdisciplinary studies on suicide," published 2004 by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Sharon Gillerman is Associate Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles and adjunct Assistant Professor of History at USC. Abigail Gillman is Assistant Professor of German and Hebrew at Boston University. She has published essays on German Jewish modernism, Bible translation, and contemporary Austrian Jewish culture. Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University. For 2004-5 he is the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University. Ethan Kleinberg, Associate Professor of History and Letters , Wesleyan University ; Associate Editor of History and Theory. He is the author of Generation Existential: Heidegger's Philosophy in France, 1927-1961 (Cornell U Press) and is in the process of completing his second book, The Myth of Emmanuel Levinas. His current research interests include European intellectual history, critical theory, educational structures, post-colonialism, and the philosophy of history. Cecile E. Kuznitz, Assistant Professor of Jewish History; Director of Jewish Studies, Bard College. Visiting assistant professor of Jewish history/Jewish studies, Georgetown University (2000-2003). Leo A. Lensing, Professor of German and Film Studies, Wesleyan University. He has published widely on the literature and culture of fin-de-siècle Vienna. His recent books include Letter about the Father, a biographical essay on Karl Kraus, and "Semmering 1912", an edition of Peter Altenberg’s book and annotated picture-postcard album (with Andrew Barker). He reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and also writes occasionally for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. His most recent publication is the documentation of an unknown meeting of the Wednesday Society on the topic “Electra, ancient and modern,” for Luzifer-Amor, a German journal devoted to the history of psychoanalysis. Joanna Lipper is a filmmaker and the author of Growing Up Fast (Picador, 2003). She holds an M.Sc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology from The Anna Freud Centre and University College London. Based in New York City, she runs Sea Wall Entertainment. Her films include Inside Out: Portraits of Children, Growing Up Fast and Little Fugitive. Frederic Morton, Author of A Nervous Splendor : Vienna 1888-1889, Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914. Runaway Waltz : A Memoir from Vienna to New York. Peter Neubauer, Editor, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Psychoanalyst in Private Practice. Robert A. Paul, Dean, Emory College; Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies. Marty Peretz has been editor-in-chief of The New Republic since 1974 and is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard. Carl J. Rheins, YIVO's Executive Director, is a specialist in German Jewish History and is a former Vice President of Adelphi University. He has lectured at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Cornell University and Miami University of Ohio. Three of his scholarly articles have appeared in the Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute (1978,1980 and 1981). He spent the 1969-70 academic year at the University of Vienna. Arnold Richards was Editor of JAPA from 1994 to 2003 and before that was an Editor of TAP. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and on the faculty of the NYU and Mount Sinai Medical Schools Departments of Psychiatry. Marsha Rozenblit , Harvey M. Meyerhoff, Professor of Jewish History, University of Maryland, College Park. Jill Salberg, Faculty, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Faculty, National Institute for the Psychotherapies; Supervisor, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy; Faculty, Jewish Community Center in Manhattan. Inge Sholz Strasser, director of the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna. Editor with Giselher Guttmann and Oliver W. Sacks, Freud and the Neurosciences: From Brain Research to the Unconscious. Eliza Slavet, a member of the Interdisciplinary Faculty at New York University’s Gallatin School and a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at the University of California San Diego. Bruce Slovin, Chair. YIVO Board of Directors. Chairman, Center for Jewish History. Carol Kahn Strauss, executive director, Leo Baeck Institute; speaker: The Berlin Holocaust Memorial in the Context of German Jewish History. Dinner at Residence of German Embassy, Washington, DC; Honorary Trustee, Center for Jewish History. Liliane Weissberg, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. Liliane Weissberg is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and the Graduate Chair. Joel Whitebook is a trained philosopher and practicing psychoanalyst. He is on the faculty of Columbia University's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry) at its College of Physicians and Surgeons and Chair of its University Seminar on Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Whitebook is a leading expert on psychoanalysis and the Frankfurt School and his written a major text on the topic entitled Perversion and Utopia. He is currently writing an intellectual biography of Freud for Cambridge University Press.

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