I have been fortunate to have spent two years at the Center. For reasons of space, I write only about the second. Had the closet in my office been large enough, I would have stayed for a third year, but…
Monthly Archives: November 2014
The Stream of Consciousness and Beyond in Ulysses
Julia Rothenberg (Class of 2013-14) on Erwin R. Steinberg (Class of 1970-71)
Erwin R. Steinberg (Professor of English and Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University 1946-2007) was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences for 1970-71. He used the year to develop his Ph.D. dissertation into a book,…
CASBS: Effects on Me and Observations for the Future Kenneth J. Arrow, Class of 1956-57
(Talk given at the 60th Anniversary Event on Nov 9, 2014) Basic inspiration: a unity of the social sciences with psychology; hence the term, “behavioral” – very much inspired by Talcott Parsons. Motivations: a mixture of psychoanalysis, rational behavior. Social…
Serendipity at the Center
Robert 0. Keohane, Class of 2004-05, 1987-88 & 1977-78
I was a “double recidivist” at the Center. I couldn’t stay away. After an initial year (1977-78) while I was on the Stanford faculty, I was there again in 1987-88 (from Harvard) and in 2004-05 (from Duke). The first time…
On Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Class of 1955-56
Albert Rothenberg M.D, Class of 2013-14 & 1986-87
One of the earliest women invited to spend a year (1956) at CASBS, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann was a pioneering psychoanalyst who spent the major portion of her professional life treating psychotic patients. Born in Germany, she escaped the Hitler Anschluss in…
Serendipity, CASBS, and Me
Charles S. Carver, Class of 2014-15
Of the many illustrious documents produced during Fellowships at CASBS, very few are better known among psychologists than the slim, engaging volume that was published in 1960 by George Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl Pribram. The book was called Plans…
The Leaders We Need
Michael Maccoby , Class of 1968-69
I arrived late to the Center, because I was active in Senator Eugene McCarthy’s campaign for the Democratic nomination. Once settled in, I worked at writing Social Character in a Mexican Village, sending drafts to the senior author, Erich Fromm.…
Fire on the Hill: The Making of a Modern Classic
Kamala Visweswaran (Class of 2014-15) on M.N. Srinivas, Class of 1964-65 & 1969-70
I came to know of MN Srinivas as a UC Berkeley student in a course on “Social Stratification in India” taught by Anthropology Professor Gerald Berreman (a CASBS Fellow in 1976). Best known for his concept of “sanskritization” which explained…
CASBS Memories
Peter Eisinger , Class of 1985-86
The class of 1986 worked hard and played hard. I wrote the first half of a book during my year. But it was not a hard slog. Erica, who worked as an associate at the Wilson, Sonsini law firm that…
My Most Vivid Memory
Nan Keohane , Class of 1978-79, 1987-88 & 2004-05
My most vivid memory of the Center is the bike ride up the hill first thing in the morning in the early spring, when the miners’ lettuce was in bloom and the fields were green and fragrant with the morning…