Part 4: Culture A Colloquium of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation and L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud December 5th and 6th, 2015 at the Helix Center Participants: Marilia Aisenstein Psychoanalyst; Former President, Société Psychanalyste de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytic Society) Ian Buckingham Psychoanalyst; President, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Vincent Crapanzano... read more! »

Part 5: Conclusion A Colloquium of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation and L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud December 5th and 6th, 2015 at the Helix Center Participants: Marilia Aisenstein Psychoanalyst; Former President, Société Psychanalyste de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytic Society) Ian Buckingham Psychoanalyst; President, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Vincent Crapanzano... read more! »

Part 2: Education and Civilizational Crisis A Colloquium of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation and L’ Association Des Amis de Passages (ADAPes) Comité Freud December 5th and 6th, 2015 at the Helix Center Participants: Marilia Aisenstein Psychoanalyst; Former President, Société Psychanalyste de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytic Society) Ian Buckingham Psychoanalyst; President, New York Psychoanalytic Society... read more! »

This roundtable will explore translation as a fundamental cultural, psychic, and aesthetic process that extends beyond its traditional role as a technical linguistic practice, shaping how meaning is displaced, exchanged, and renewed across contexts.

This roundtable will examine how advances in memory research can deepen our understanding of the role memory plays in normal development and in shaping lived experience, while also informing efforts to address memory impairment in an aging population. It will further consider how dialogue between scientific researchers and practitioners of memory can foster mutual insights into the mechanisms, limits, and cultivation of memory across contexts.

This roundtable will examine the philosophical problem of knowledge and ignorance, considering how we come to recognize the limits of what we know and how “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” can be progressively identified through inquiry, reflection, and dialogue.

This roundtable will examine competing philosophical and historical conceptions of genius, including the relationship between talent and originality, and whether originality is the defining feature of genius.

This roundtable will explore how advances in epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance challenge traditional “nature versus nurture” frameworks by reframing traits, behaviors, and diseases as the products of multifactorial genetic and environmental interactions.

This roundtable will examine how advances in the study of animal cognition and behavior have expanded our understanding from whether animals think to how and to what extent they think, and what their cognitive worlds may consist of.

This roundtable will consider how experiences of war and genocide shape survivors, perpetrators, and descendants, and how violence sanctioned by states or cultures informs individual and collective conscience.