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TODAY | SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2013 | 11:30am-2:00pm
Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences

Co-sponsored by the New Worlds Theater Project
TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

This hands-on translation workshop will feature New Worlds Theater Company’s Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman, who will facilitate translation and discussion of short pieces from playwrights such as Hirshbein, Leivick, Ash, and Bimko. Continue reading This Week at YIVO

IPA Congress, early analysts, history, Prague, sibling bullying, neuroscience from Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear Colleagues,

As the “lazy days of summer” begin, they are not so lazy for those of us anticipating the IPA congress in Prague. I hope to see many of you there Meanwhile, in the international tradition, our psychoanalytic website is filled with interesting posts which our colleagues all over the globe read and anticipate your comments.

My choices this week include:

1) Please note the IPA Congress Timetable and the many possibilities it offers.
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The Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program at NYPSI

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
PSYCHOANALYTIC FELLOWSHIP
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
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PSYCHOANALYTIC FELLOWSHIP

The Psychoanalytic Fellowship is a one-year program at The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (NYPSI) designed to introduce participants to modern psychoanalytic theory and practice. Continue reading The Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program at NYPSI

Object “AAAH” With Manya Steinkoler at Après-Coup

IPA Prague Congress – Timetable, Working Parties, Gala Dinner, and other developments

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IPA CONGRESS BULLETIN, 

IPA CONGRESS PAPER DATABASE – PRAGUE PAPERS
The IPA has launched an interactive Congress Paper Database which works as a search engine for you to access many papers and presentations delivered at the Prague Congress. Records include complete papers, as well as some abstracts and summaries. To find a paper all you need to do is enter either the title, name of author, type of session or a key word (subject). All confidential papers have been excluded from the database. The papers can be downloaded as PDFs. Continue reading IPA Prague Congress – Timetable, Working Parties, Gala Dinner, and other developments

Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences

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SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2013 11:30am-2:00pm
Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences
Co-sponsored by the New Worlds Theater Project
TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

This hands-on translation workshop will feature New Worlds Theater Company’s Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman, who will facilitate translation and discussion of short pieces from playwrights such as Hirshbein, Leivick, Ash, and Bimko. Continue reading Translating Early 20th Century Yiddish Plays for 21st Century Audiences

The 2013 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Prof. Barbara Engelking

Barbara Engelking

The 2013 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Prof. Barbara Engelking

Read the press release in Polish here.

The Award Committee of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award has the pleasure to announce that Prof. Barbara Engelking of Warsaw, Poland was named the receipient of this year’s prize. Endowed by Prof. Jan Karski at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 1992, the $5,000 prize goes to authors of published works documenting Polish-Jewish relations and Jewish contributions to Polish culture. Continue reading The 2013 Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska Prize at YIVO Awarded to Prof. Barbara Engelking

Nostalgia: Orwell, Koestler, Kafka, Hollywood & Hitler, Lidice from Sasha Rolde on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net

Dear Colleagues,

Fresh from the APSaA meeting in Washington, DC, the beat goes on and the international psychoanalytic website “that never sleeps” is again full of interesting posts which I will outline below.

My suggestions this week are:

1) though perhaps I should not have been, I was taken aback by the post on “British Girls in the 3rd Reich”:

“In the 1930s, many English families sent their daughters to finishing school in Nazi Germany. Rachel Johnson, sister of the London mayor, interviewed several for her most recent book. She told SPIEGEL ONLINE about Britain’s enthusiasm for Hitler’s Reich.” The British press has praised the book for being both entertaining and historically accurate.Johnson, who is the sister of Continue reading Nostalgia: Orwell, Koestler, Kafka, Hollywood & Hitler, Lidice from Sasha Rolde on InternationalPsychoanalysis.net

Peter Fonagy , Ph. D., awarded the Order of the British Empire

PeterFonagyHere is the announcement from the Anna Freud Centre, where Sir Peter Fonagy is Chief Executive Officer.

Professor Fonagy first came into contact with the Centre as a teenager when he received help from the organisation after being separated from his family upon leaving Hungary. Now over 30 years later and after ten years successfully leading the Centre that once helped him, Professor Fonagy has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his services to psychoanalysis and psychology.
Continue reading Peter Fonagy , Ph. D., awarded the Order of the British Empire