2022 Katz Professorship Installation & Lecture

160 Convent Avenue,New York NY 10031

07 November, 2022

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Presenting "The Brain is an Undiscovered Country": Brain Science at the Dawn of the Cold War About Professor Andreas Killen  Professor of History Andreas Killen has been a faculty member at City College since 2005, researching and teaching broadly across the history of the modern era with a focus on the relations among science, politics, and culture. He is the author of three books: Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity (University of California Press, 2006), and 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of the Post-Sixties America (Bloomsbury, 2006). He is also the co-editor of three collections of essays, and his work has appeared on HBO, the History Channel, and NPR, and in the New York Times Magazine. He has received awards from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the National Science Foundation, and the Deutscher Akadamischer Austauschdienst (or DAAD). His talk, “‘The Brain is an Undiscovered Country’: Brain Science at the Dawn of the Cold War,” comes from his forthcoming book, A History of the Brain in the Early Cold War, which will be published by HarperCollins in spring 2023. About Stuart Z. Katz Professorship The Stuart Z. Katz Professorship in the Humanities & the Arts at The City College of New York was established in 2017 by a generous gift from Mr. Stuart Z. Katz, a 1964 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of CCNY. The endowment supports one outstanding professorial faculty member in the Division of Humanities & the Arts for an academic year, providing the professor up to two months of summer salary plus $10,000 to support research and creative activity.  Mr. Katz, a retired attorney, established the gift for the importance of the study of humanities and the arts for a thorough education and life.