BULLETIN BOARD

BULLETIN BOARD

The SATURDAY WORK-IN-PROGRESS WORKSHOPS schedule is as follows: On March 7 the general topic is the biographers’ use and misuse of empathy and the panel is comprised of Charlotte Goodman (Skidmore College), Vivian Rosenberg (Drexel University), Linda Simon (Skidmore), and Paul Elovitz (Ramapo College). On April 4 John Hartman (University of Michigan and private practice) will present on “Group Process and Propaganda: The Case of Nazi

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Anti-Semitic Film.” On April 25 psychoanalysts Mary Lambert, Conalee Shneidman, and Hanna Turken will conclude the spring program with “The Mothers of Psychohistorians.” In September Eva Fogelman (CUNY Graduate Center and private practice) will present on “The Rescuer Self.”

AWARDS AND HONORS: David Beisel, previously the recipient of a New York State Chancellor’s Award for outstanding teaching, has been granted a National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Teaching Excellence Award. He will represent his college in the national competition which will be held in Austin in May. Ralph Colp (Columbia University) has been interviewed extensively on camera for the BBC documentary, “Darwin, the Man,” which will be aired in March.

CONFERENCES: The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society is having its fourth annual conference on November 6-8, 1998, at Emory University in Atlanta Georgia. The theme is “Oedipus Today” and papers and panels are welcome. The Program Chair is Juliet Flower MacCannell, 916 Ashbury Street, San Francisco, CA 94117, Fax: (415) 664-9584, e-mail: <>. The Euro-pean Psychohistory Congress, sponsored by a variety of organizations, is scheduled for July, 1998, in Paris. For information, e-mail <> or fax (718) 488-1086. The featured speaker at the International Psychohistorical Association’s (IPA) June 3-5, 1998, conference at Fordham Law School in New York City will be Alice Miller. Contact Henry Lawton, e-mail <> or phone (201) 891-4980, for convention details. The International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) has a March 1 deadline for paper proposals for its July 12-15, 1998, annual conference in Montreal. The topic is “Identities and Interests at the Close of the Century” and the program chair is Jon Krosnick, Tel.: (614) 292-3496.

TRAVEL: David Beisel enjoyed a mid-year stay in Puerto Rico and Diane Gross (NPAP) is studying Cantonese after traveling to China. Don Hughes (University of Denver) recently spent five weeks in India. After their Egyptian trip was canceled due to fundamentalist terrorism, Lee and Conalee Shneidman took a December break in Central America.

GRANT SUPPORT: Our appreciation to the Ramapo Foundation for 1997 support for typing the interview of Lynn Hunt. The American Psychoanalytic Association (APA) has announced that it has over $130,000 to support new research proposals in 1998. Grants of up to $20,000 per year for up to two years are available for psychoanalytic researchers with a March 15, 1998, deadline. Contact Robert M. Galatzer-Levy of Maryland, Tel.: (312) 922-5077, Fax: (312) 922-5084, e-mail: <>.

OUR THANKS: To our members and friends for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Patrons Herbert Barry, Ralph Colp, Dominic and Mena Potts, and Jerome Wolf; Sustaining Members Alberto Fergusson and Peter Petschauer; Supporting Members: Andrew Brink, Florian Galler, William Joseph, and Hannah Turken; and Contributing Members David Beisel and Michael Hirohama. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to Thomas Blass, Richard Brashares, Andrew Brink, Dan Dervin, Lynn Hunt, George Kren, David Lotto, Andre Modigliani, Peter Petschauer, Robert Pois, Paul Roazen, Francois Rochat, and Lee Shneidman. Thanks to Aimee Elg, Michele O’Donnell, and Michelle White for proofreading, and to Anna Lentz for her assistance.

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