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AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM NEW YORK
PRESENTS
CONCERT
TUESDAY JAN 27, 7:30 PM
ELYSIUM - BETWEEN THE CONTINENTS
Holocaust Memorial Concert
FOUND OBJECTS: A MUSICAL-LITERARY EXPEDITION INTO THE LAHR VON LEITIS ARCHIVE
Elysium - between the Continents will present piano pieces and songs by Robert Alexander, Paul Aron, Walter Braunfels, Paul Dessau, Hans Helfritz, Walther Hirschberg, Egon Lustgarten, Franz Mittler, Marcel Rubin, and Karl Wiener, and texts by Hugo Basch, Joseph Fabry, Mimi Grossberg, Margarete Kollisch, and Hans Sahl.
VENUE
Austrian Cultural Forum NY, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022
Reservations required.
FILM SCREENING AND TALK
THURSDAY JAN 29, 7:00 PM
IN SEARCH OF MEMORY: THE NEUROSCIENTIST ERIC KANDEL
Eric Kandel in conversation with Oliver Sacks
In Search of Memory, Petra Seeger, 2008, Filmform Köln
In Search of Memory was released in Vienna in May 2008. Director and producer Petra Seeger presents a portrait of Kandel's life from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna, which he was forced to leave in April 1939, to the Nobel Prize ceremony and his personal rediscovery of Vienna.
For more than six decades, Kandel consistently pursued his interest in the nature of memory, which was, as he says, rooted in his experiences in Vienna.
In addition to the uncontested scientific excellence of the protagonist, In Search of Memory weaves together Kandel's research career with his personal biography. He has the striking ability to explain in a clear and understandable style what his research is about: why the biology of mind is of great importance to the life of millions of people and how his family always encouraged him to explore his original idea of examining the biological basis of mental function.
Following a screening of Petra Seeger's film In Search of Memory: The Neuroscientist Eric Kandel, Oliver Sacks interviews Kandel about his role in the discovery of how memory works.
Kandel, along with his colleagues, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 2000 for discovering the central role synapses play in memory and learning. He is the author of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind.
Oliver Sacks is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and the author of many books, including Awakenings and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
Filmmaker Petra Seeger introduces the film.
Presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, The Embassy of Austria, Office of Science and Technology, and the 92nd Street Y.
VENUE
92nd Street Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
www.92y.org
Tickets: $27.00 (available at 92Y only)
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