November 05, 2009
Clark Global Freud symposium, public lecture Nov. 21
Psychiatry expert historian to discuss 'Electrotherapy Then and Now'
Clark University's centennial commemoration, "Great Minds Come to Clark--Freud Revisited," continues with a Global Freud Symposium and President's Lecture, featuring cultural and literary historian Sander Gilman, on Saturday, Nov. 21.
Gilman will present "Electrotherapy Then and Now: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Treatments in Psychiatry," a free, public lecture beginning at 8 p.m. in Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing Street.
A cultural and literary historian, author and editor, Gilman is Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University, where he is the Director of the Program in Psychoanalysis and the Health Sciences Humanities Initiative. He is working on a biography of Sigmund Freud.
The symposium is coordinated by Clark Professor Robert Tobin, Henry J. Leir Chair in Foreign Languages and Cultures. Students taking Professor Tobin's Global Freud course will also participate in the seminar and share their research.
Check out the Global Freud Symposium program online.
Note: Symposium presentations are in Dana Commons, second floor.