Social Work Saturday: Frances Perkins

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Click Here to Read: Frances Perkins on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal on the Francis Perkins Center.org website.

Click Here to Read: Social Security Pioneers: Frances Perkins on the Social Security Administration website.

Click Here to Read: Frances Perkins Biography: Civil Servant, Government Official (1882–1965) on the Bio.com website. Continue reading Social Work Saturday: Frances Perkins

History Friday: Eric Foner

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Click Here to Read: Eric Foner’s Website.

Click Here to Read: Civil War Historian Eric Foner on the Radical Possibilities of Reconstruction on the Democracy Now website on March 11, 2015.

Click Here to Read: “The face of racism today is not a slaveowner”: Eric Foner on the past and present of white supremacy South Carolina is hardly alone in refusing to confront the Continue reading History Friday: Eric Foner

Harvard’s prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates

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Click Here to Read: Harvard’s prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates: Prisoners participating in Bard College initiative to provide them a liberal arts education beat Ivy League students who won national title only months ago by Lauren Gambino in New York and agencies on the Guardian website on October 7, 2015.

The debating team from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, lost to a group of New York prisoners. Photograph: Lisa Poole/AP

Philosophy Thursday: Jeremy Bentham

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Click Here to Read: Jeremy Bentham on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Click Here to Read: Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832) on the Utiliatarian.com website.

Click Here to Read: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham on the Library of Economics and Liberty website. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Jeremy Bentham

Psychoanalysis and Buddhism with Jeffrey B. Rubin at CFS

Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
Six-Session Program (9 Contact Hours)
Instructor: Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD
Dates: November 2, 9, 16, 23
December 7 and 14, 2015
Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm
Location: Upper West Side, NYC

We live in a world where increasing numbers of mental health professionals meditate, and in which meditators, including Buddhist teachers, avail themselves of psychotherapy. There is a burgeoning interest in the relationship between these two disciplines of transformation.

Both psychoanalysis and Buddhism are concerned with alleviating suffering and illuminating human identity. Each Continue reading Psychoanalysis and Buddhism with Jeffrey B. Rubin at CFS