Designer Genes Saturday 2:30 PM EST 4 December 2021
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Supernatural and other circumventions of the natural process of conception have been an abundant wellspring for magical, mythological, and religious narratives. It was held that the widowed queen of an Egyptian pharaoh could pull his posthumous sperm into her womb to create a child. The Olympian god Zeus could procreate in all sorts of ways, including swooping down as a shower of gold into a young womb. His daughter Athena sprang full-born from his head; his son Dionysus from his thigh. And it was the wind of the Holy Ghost that inseminated a certain young virgin. Continue reading Designer Genes at the Helix Center
Click Here to Read: Physicists Detect Neutrinos for First Time Using Large Hadron Collider: The detection represents a “significant breakthrough”—and proves the value of an upcoming experiment By Isaac Schultz on the Gizmodo.com website on November 29. 2021.
Cern Large Hadron Collider Image: Julian Herzog Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: From Beirut to Brooklyn: Eliyah Hawila fooled everyone, including his would-be bride and Brooklyn’s tightknit Syrian Jewish community, into believing he was a Jew. Now that the secret is out, the question is: Who is he, really? by Armin Rosen on the Tablet website on
November 29, 2021.
Beirut lebanon Image: DAVID HOLT from London, England Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
The Contemporary Freudian Society Diversity Committee Presents Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks at 70 Sunday, January 23rd, 2022
Online via Zoom 10am-2:15pm EST (with lunch break)
Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952) is a seminal theoretical text read across disciplines. Fanon utilizes psychoanalytic thinking to understand the oppression of Black people, performances of whiteness, and to put forward a vision for a humanist and anti-colonial culture. Our event is a celebration of Fanon’s work and this important text as it approaches its 70th anniversary. As the psychoanalytic community grapples with racism in our world, clinical work, and in the field’s history, a concentrated, communal, and conversational revisiting of Black Skin, White Masks is timely and imperative.
Philosopher and Fanon scholar Lewis Gordon, PhD will give a keynote presentation outlining some of the tenets of Fanon’s thinking and work and how Continue reading Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks at 70 at CFS
