Sander Gilman is prepared to present the following talks:
Aesthetic Surgery, the Jews, and the Invention of Beauty
Art and the Creation of the Natural
Albert Einstein’s Violin: Jews, Music and Modern Life
Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Aesthetic Surgery, and Transgender Surgery:
The History of an Idea in Psychiatry and Its Implications for Today
Diagnosis: A History of Medicine in Increments
Can the Experiences of the Jews serve as a Template for today’s Diaspora Muslims?
Confronting the Present in the Past: German-Jewish Exiles in London 1933-1950
Anti-Semitism and Exile: Sigmund Freud in Hampstead
Children and Rescue: Anna Freud Confronts the Present in the Past
Anti-Freud: Elias Canetti, The British, and the Jews
Art Historians Learn to See: Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich, and Edgar Wind Confront the Present in the Past
After the Shoah: H. G. Adler – From Terezin to London
Electrotherapy Then and Now: the Voice, Psychoanalysis, and Contemporary Treatment in Psychiatry
Jews and Sport: Bodies that Matter
Jews and Booze: Genetic and Social Explanations for a Jewish Immunity to Alcoholism
Jewish Culture in a Globalized World
Just say “No”: Sex and Disease in George Bush’s America
Multiculturalism and the Jews
Nazi Politics and Medicine
Psychoanalysis and the Creative Impulse: Seeing and Creating
Redefining GLAMOUR: Aesthetic Culture in a Historical Context
Seeing the Insane: Representing Madness from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century
“The Nose on Your Face”: Faces and Souls in August Sander’s Germany
Waiting: A Jewish Preoccupation
What is “Real” about Genes?
Whose Body Is It Anyway? Sexual Transformation in Germany (1890-1933)
Why Don’t We Trust our Food? Obesity and Infection today.
Why is that Funny? A New Debate about the Limits of Representation after 9/11?
Other topics can be provided based on interest.