You are warmly invited to join us to celebrate LOVE as we “move on uptown” — to the penthouse Faculty Dining Room at Hunter College on Park Avenue, where we will be holding our monthly meetings from now on.

We’ll be welcoming exciting new people, tackling even richer and more relevant issues, and enjoying new ways to truly think together (this time, the “World Cafe” model which enables you to meet twice as many other new friends during the evening).

I’m looking forward to seeing you there! Please register via EventBrite as below…

Understanding LOVE

Conversations New York (CNY)

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Valentine’s Day

6:00 pm sharp (please arrive by 5:45) – 8:00

Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue,

Entrance at the intersection of Lexington Ave. and 68th St.

Faculty/Staff Dining Room, 8th floor

Please see Directions at end

FREE, of course.
To reserve a place, please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understanding-love-tickets-41925375928

Government-issued ID required for entry to building, please.

Please come share your
life-experiences, thoughts, feelings, and insights.

· What does love mean, to you?
· What have you learned about loving wisely and well?
· How is love different for men and for women, for gay and straight folks, and for others – or is it essentially the same for all?
· How does the meaning of love change as we get older?
· What are the connections, for you, between love and sexuality?
· Is love “natural” – or is it “socially-constructed”?
· How is love effected by politics, class, and money?
· Does loving make us healthier?
· What’s one of your favorite works of art about Love (movie, play, poem, picture, song….)?

To stimulate your thinking: Read the brilliant entry on LOVE at Wikipedia.org, covering the scientific, cultural, religious, and psychological knowledge about the subject.

DIRECTIONS:
Subway Directions:The 6 train stops directly under the College at the 68th Street station. There is an entrance to the College in the Subway station. Turn right upon exiting the turnstile and the entrance will be directly in front of you.
Alternatively: You can take the F train to the East 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue stop. After exiting the station, walk north on Lexington Avenue to East 68th Street. The College is located at the intersection of East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue.
Bus Directions: The crosstown M66 bus goes east on 68th Street, and west on 67th Street. Hunter College is located at the intersection of East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue.The M98, M101, M102, and M103 go south on Lexington Avenue and north on 3rd Avenue. Hunter College is located at the intersection of East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue.
Driving: See detailed directions at: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/abouthunter/maps/68th-street-main-campus

Just a friendly final notice/reminder….

The Columbia University Seminars on
Innovation in Education
and
Ethics, Moral Education, and Society
Present
The Human Lifecycle: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Speakers: Uwe P. Gielen and SungHun Kim
St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights
Monday, January 22nd, 2018, 7 pm,
Faculty House, Columbia University

RSVP to GrossAssoc@AOL.com
Our Seminar has regularly focused on the life-cycles we all experience, but so far only in the context of our own familiar cultural and societal milieu. Now, we want to better understand those “passages” by comparison with those of humans in several non-western societies, differing in their subsistence and economic activities, demographic characteristics, and exposure to the forces of globalization.
How might the journey of your life be different if you had been born, raised, and came to maturity in a radically different culture?
The societies include:
· Australian Aborigines (i.e., nomadic foragers in the early stages of settling down during the 1960s),
· Tibetan traditional, nomadic pastoralists during the 1930s-1940s,
· Buddhist Ladakhi farmers and monks in NW India (1979-1980), and
· 21st century South Koreans who are members of a postindustrial “information society”.
The presentation will include comparisons between pre-industrial societies and modern societies, together with insights from the diverse experiences of:
· childhood and adolescence,
· gender roles,
· religious conceptions of the afterlife, and
· the personal challenges that come with rapid social change and globalization.
Dr. Uwe P. Gielen received his Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University, has edited/coedited 27 books mostly in the area of international psychology, and is the Executive Director of the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology at St. Francis College.
Dr. SungHun Kim graduated from the University of Seoul, South Korea and subsequently received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches cross-cultural psychology and various methdology courses at St. Francis College. One of his main interests concerns the study of morality from a cross-cultural perspective.

Ronald Gross

Co-chair, University Seminar on Innovation

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/
516 487-0235 (E-mail preferred)

E-MAIL: GrossAssoc@aol.com

WEBSITES:

http://www.SocratesWay.com

http://www.ConversationsNewYork.com

http://www.OlderBetterWiser.com

http://www.RonaldGross.com

Directions to Faculty House copy.pdf

Conversations New York (CNY) & the Adelphi University Center for Health Innovation present

How can you make this Holiday Season BETTER for you?

Great! or G-r-a-t-e?…

orRe-create!?

Reinventing Your Holidays.docx

The Columbia University Seminars on

Innovation in Education
and
Ethics, Moral Education, and Society
present

High Price:
A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery
That Challenges Everything We Know About Drugs and Society

Speaker: Prof. Carl Hart,
Chair, Department of Psychology, Columbia University

Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, 7-9 PM, Faculty House, Columbia University
RSVP to grossassoc

Directions at bottom.

High Priceis the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, who grew up in one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods and, determined to make a difference as an adult, applies his scientific training to help save real lives.

In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, Dr. Carl Hart recalls his journey of self-discovery, how he escaped a life of crime and drugs and avoided becoming one of the crack addicts he now studies. Interweaving past and present, Hart goes beyond the hype as he examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs, and explain why current policies are failing.

Carl Hart is the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. He is also the Dirk Ziff Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. Professor Hart has published numerous scientific and popular articles in the area of neuropsychopharmacology and is co-author of the textbook Drugs, Society and Human Behavior (with Charles Ksir). His most recent book, “High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society,” was the 2014 winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Professor Hart has appeared on multiple podcasts, radio and television shows including Real Time with Bill Maher and The O’Reilly Factor. He has also appeared in several documentary films including the award-winning “The House I Live In.” His essays have been published in several popular publications including The New York Times, Scientific American, The Nation, Ebony, The Root, and O Globo (Brazil’s leading newspaper).

Suggested On-Line Reading: “The Truth Teller: Carl Hart researches drug effects in humans to separate myth from reality”, https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/winter12/features6

DIRECTIONS TO FACULTY HOUSE

DIRECTIONS
* Enter campus at 116th street and Broadway

• Follow College Walk (116th St.) across Amsterdam Ave towards Morningside Dr.
• After passing Jerome Greene Hall on the left, enter Wien courtyard through gates.
• Follow courtyard around to the right.

• Faculty House will be the last building on the right.
For disability access, follow directions above.
SUBWAY
Take #1 train to 116th St. (Columbia University) stop.
BUS
Four bus lines (M4, M11, M5 and M104) serve the Columbia/Morningside Heights area.
CAR
FROM SOUTH
• Exit the Henry Hudson Parkway at 96th St. and proceed east, crossing Broadway, & turn left (north) at the next light, Amsterdam Ave.
• Proceed north on Amsterdam for 20 blocks to campus.
FROM NORTH
• Exit the Henry Hudson Parkway at 125th St.
& proceed east, crossing Broadway, & turn right (south) at the next light, Amsterdam Ave.

Just correcting the link to the video.