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Oliver Sacks at Columbia University

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This is primarily a Columbia University and NYC-focused list. Please visit www.oliversacks.com for a complete guide to upcoming events. To learn more about how your department or campus group can work with Dr. Sacks, contact the Arts Initiative at 212.851.1872 or artsinitiative@columbia.edu

Upcoming

Friday, June 4, 2010
Strangers in the Mirror
Featuring: Oliver Sacks + Chuck Close
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Past


Jun 3, 2009
Narrative Medicine Rounds - "Hallucinations"
Hammer Health Sciences Center/Long Library Room 401
701 W. 168th Street
(Corner of 168th & Fort Washington Ave.)
NY, NY
open to the public, 5:00pm


June 1, 2009
Keynote, Annual Joint Meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine and the New York Academy of Medicine
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
open to the public, 5.30pm

May 15, 2009
Pediatric Neurology Dept Grand Rounds - "Savants"
McIntosh Room Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, 12:00 CUMC only noon

Jan 29, 2009
Eric Kandel, Oliver Sacks and Petra Seeger: In Search of Memory
Kaufman Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, 7:00pm
Jan 13, 2009
Dr. Sacks on being a melanoma patient
Flanzer Auditorium, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, CUMC, 635 West 165th Street, 7th Floor, 3:00pm


Jan 8, 2009
Dr. Sacks on Charles Bonnet Syndrome
Flanzer Auditorium, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, CUMC, 635 West 165th Street, 7th Floor, 4:15pm


Dec 3, 2008
Lecture at the Babio Center
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 4:00pm

Nov 6, 2008
Mind, Memory, and the Actor
Oliver Sacks in Conversation with Lee Bollinger and Michael Boyd
Miller Theater, Columbia University, 6:00pm

May 5, 2008
Lecture on Music
P&S Alumni Dean’s Day

May 15, 2008
School of the Arts Café Science event in association with SoA thesis exhibition
Panel discussion with Stuart Firestein (biology) and Jon Krakauer (neurology)
Fisher Landau Gallery, Long Island City.

Apr 25, 2008
Oliver Sacks on "Musicophilia"
The Music Humanities Course-Wide Lecture
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall, Columbia University, 11:00am

Apr 8, 2008
"Musicophilia": The Center for Bioethics - 6th Anniversary Special Event
The Herbert G. Cohen, MD Memorial Lecture in Neuroscience
Alumni Auditorium, 630 W 168th Street, CUMC, 4:00pm

Apr 5, 2008
Screening of Awakenings documentary
Columbia undergraduate Neuroscience Society

Feb 2, 2008
Public interview by Lis Harris
School of the Arts, Writing Division, 8:00pm

Dec 12, 2007
Neurology Grand Rounds: Music
CUMC

Sep 7, 2007
Lecture on musical hallucinations
Psychiatric Institute, CUMC

Mar 7, 2007
Oliver Sacks on "Music and Mind
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University
Columbia University, Low Memorial Library, Faculty Room, 6:15pm

 

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The Arts Initiative at Columbia University, 2009
Contact the Arts Initiative at 212.851.1872 or artsinitiative@columbia.edu

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