The Origins of Yiddish: Part Fir How Three Seemingly Contradictory Theories Can Co-Exist

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Click Here to Read: The Origins of Yiddish: Part Fir How Three Seemingly Contradictory Theories Can Co-Exist By Philologos in The Jewish Daily Forward on July 27, 2014, issue of August 01, 2014.

Click Here to Read: Origins of Yiddish Are Anything But Understood Linguistic and Genetic Challenges to Conventional Wisdom By Philologos in The Jewish Daily Forward July 06, 2014, issue of July 11, 2014.

Click Here to Read: The Origins of Yiddish, Part Dray A Little-Known Slavic Language Called Sorbian By Philologos in The Jewish Daily Forward on July 20, 2014, issue of August 01, 2014.

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This Week in Yedies: News from YIVO
Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture: Alumni Voices

This is the third post in a series about alumni of YIVO’s intensive summer program in Yiddish, offered by YIVO and Bard College: “Doing Homework in the Hungarian Pastry Shop: Alicia Svigals, Zumer Program alum, 1980s.” Read more… Continue reading YIVO News

“Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Treating Massive Gender Trauma Psychoanalytically” with Avgi Saketopoulou at CFS

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“Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Treating Massive Gender Trauma Psychoanalytically”
Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 8:00 to 9:45pm, The Culture Center, 410 Columbus Ave (bet. 79 & 80th St), NYC

Psychoanalysis has traditionally treated the body as bedrock. Work with transgender patients however unsettles the centrality of the body’s materiality in the constitution of identity and psychic experience. Continue reading “Mourning the Body as Bedrock: Treating Massive Gender Trauma Psychoanalytically” with Avgi Saketopoulou at CFS

Psychoanalysis/psychiatry/science/the brain and humanism on IP.net from Sasha Rolde

Dear Colleagues,

The loss of life globally whether is is passengers in commercial aircrafts, soldiers and civilians in the middle east, mental health workers in hospitals, or just starving children and victims of infections – all seems uncontrollable. We all look for psychological explanations, and with that in mind I will give you my choices on the international psychoanalytic website as well as the list of contents. Perhaps we and the philosophers have an answer. Personally I am beginning to think that what is happening in the world is the primordial nature’s attempt to keep the human population down and manageable. Animals kill each other and survival of the fittest seems to have kept life on earth going. Any other ideas? Continue reading Psychoanalysis/psychiatry/science/the brain and humanism on IP.net from Sasha Rolde

From photography to supercomputers: how we see ourselves in our inventions

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Click Here to Read: From photography to supercomputers: how we see ourselves in our inventions Neuroscience encourages us to think of our brains as calculation machines, but such analogies, while useful, also demonstrate our limitations by Vaughan Bell in The Observer on July 26, 2014.

Paraplegic Juliano Pinto kicked off this year’s World Cup using a brain-controlled robotic exoskeleton.