Visiting Speakers

Bassist/composer Brad Jones has recorded and toured extensively with a diverse array of artists that include Ornette Coleman, Elvis Costello, Elvin Jones, Sheryl Crow, Muhal Richard Abrams, Cassandra Wilson, Deborah Harry, Dave Douglas, Don Byron, Marc Ribot, and The Jazz Passengers to name just a few.

Ben Kafka is an Associate Professor of Media Theory and History at NYU and a candidate psychoanalyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR-IPA). His first book, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork (Zone Books, 2012; French translation, Le démon de l'écriture, Éditions Zones Sensibles, 2013) investigates the historical, material, and unconscious origins of our conflicts with bureaucracy. He is currently working on a new project about forms of magical thinking under late capitalism and co-directing NYU's Interdisciplinary Freud Studies Group. He sees adult and adolescent patients at the IPTAR Clinical Center.

South African independent filmmaker, Aryan Kaganof is a visual artist, novelist and poet, who explores provocative and politically charged subject matter. Born in 1964 as Ian Kerkhof, he left South Africa for the Netherlands at nineteen to avoid conscription into the South African army during Apartheid. Before enrolling in the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in 1990, he worked for the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement, while also writing for international publications and programming jazz for pirate radio stations.

Kostis Karpozilos is an adjunct lecturerer, as well as a Stavros Niarchos Post-Doc Fellow at Columbia University. He has earned a degree in Modern Greek Literature at the University of Thessaloniki (2002), completed an M.A. in Historical Research at the University of Sheffield (2003) and a Ph.D. in History at the University of Crete (2010). His doctoral thesis entitled “Greek-American Workers, the Communist Movement and the Labor Unions (1900-1950): In Search of Labor Americanism in the Years of Great Depression” focused on Greek-American labor communities, social transformations in the Depression Decade and the New Deal dynamics, challenging thus the traditional viewpoint that presented the history of Greek immigration as a series of “ethnic successes” and “business accomplishments”.

Helene Keable, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, and maintains a private psychiatric and psychoanalytic practice with adults, children and adolescents. Her research interests include the history of child analytic technique in different analytic environments. In 2008, Dr. Keable was the recipient of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Pschodynamic Award for her paper, "Defenses: A Therapeutic Tool and Outcome Measure." Recent publications include: "The Freudian Tradition at One Hundred Years through the Lens of Berta Bornstein (2011);  (co-author) "Practice Parameter for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Children and Adolescents (2012)."<

Thomas Keenan is an author, educator, and scholar with research interests that include media and conflict, literary and political theory, and violence and politics. He is the Director of the Human Rights Project at Bard College, a program that provides students with the opportunity to learn about, and have proactive engagement with, the human rights movement. In the field of human rights, he has worked with the Soros Documentary Fund, WITNESS, and The Journal of Human Rights. He is the author of Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics (1997), and editor of New Media, Old Media (2005) and The End(s) of the Museum (1996). 

Miriam Kingsberg is a Charles A. Ryskamp Fellow (ACLS) and Assistant Professor of modern Japanese history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2009.

Dr. Dimitris Kousouris has studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens (2000) and pursued his graduate studies in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France), where he received a Master's degree (DEA, 2003), and a PhD in History and Civilizations. One of his most recent publication is From Revolution To Restoration: The Greek Postwar Purges, 1944-1949, which was published in 2013.