BULLETIN BOARD

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The Psychohistory Forum Program Committee is now planning the 2005-2006 Work-In-Progress Saturday Seminars. David Lotto will present on “The Psychology of Vengeance” and Thomas Ferraro on “The Psychology of Sports.” CONFERENCES: Sue Erikson Bloland, Eli Sagan, and Charles Strozier were among the presenters at the Thoughts on War, Death, and Freedom, a two-day conference on the psychology of political violence at New York University on May 14 and 15, 2005. The International Psychohistorical Association will meet on June 8-10 in Manhattan and the International Society for Political Psychology will hold its annual convention on July 3-6 in Toronto.

CONGRATULATIONS AND AWARDS: Ruth Dale Meyer was awarded a doctoral degree on May 27, 2005 from Pacifica Institute in California for her successful defense of her dissertation, Clio’s Circle: Historians Who Dare to Embrace the Unconscious. Robert Quackenbush received a 2004 Vision Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for his role in establishing the Gravida Awards for outstanding contributions to the advancement of psychoanalysis. Charles B. Strozier has won a Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship for his book, Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst, which Other Press reprinted as a paperback in January. Naomi Janowitz, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California-Davis won the CORST essay prize in psychoanalysis and culture and gave the award lecture, “Lusting for Death: Unconscious Fantasies in an Ancient Jewish Martyrdom Text,” at the American Psychoanalytic Meeting in New York City on January 21, 2005. Avner Falk’s Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict was published by the University of Wisconsin Press last fall and Jay Gonen’s Yahweh Versus Yahweh: The Enigma of Jewish History was published by Wisconsin earlier this year. (Both books are in the hands of reviewers.) Leon Rappoport’s Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor is scheduled to be published in the fall by Praeger.

TRAVEL: Rudolph Binion will be in China in September where he will present to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on European identity from a psychohistorical perspective. Binion will spend the rest of the year in France doing research and writing. Dick Booth will spend several weeks in Italy and other parts of Europe.

WELCOME: To new mem-

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bers Jennifer Eastman, Kenneth Fuchsman, and Lynn Sommerstein. Our appreciation to our Forum meeting hosts Mary Lambert, Connee Shneidman, and Lee Shneidman.

OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Herbert Barry and Ralph Colp; Patrons David Beisel, Andrew Brink, Mary Lambert, Peter Loewenberg, Peter Petschauer, Shirley Stewart, and Jacques Szaluta; Sustaining Members C. Frederick (Fred) Alford and David Lotto; Supporting Members Connee and Lee Shneidman; and Members Dick Booth, Bob Lentz, Peggy McLaughlin, Richard Morrock, Dom and Mena Potts, Nancy Unger, and George Victor. Our thanks for thought-provoking materials to David Beisel, Rudolph Binion, Sue Erikson Bloland, Lisa Cassidy, Daniel Dervin, Alan Dundes, David Lotto, Carl Pagter, Philip Pomper, Joan Seymour, Howard Stein, and Beisel’s 14 students from Psychohistory II at SUNY-RCC. To Gary Schmidt for editing, Tom Ossa for proofreading, and Lauren Gargani for Publisher 2003 layout. We also wish to thank our numerous referees, who must remain anonymous.