CANCELLED: Scientific Meeting: Applied Analysis in Global Diplomacy

Dr. Volkan was the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI) at the School of Medicine, University of Virginia; a member of the International Negotiation Network (INN) under the directorship of former President Jimmy Carter; a temporary consultant to the World Health Organization in Albania and Macedonia; a member of the International Advisory Board, Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; an inaugural Yitzhak Rabin Fellow, Rabin Center for Israeli Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel; a visiting professor of psychiatry, University of Ankara in the Turkish capital, Ege University in Izmir and Cerrahpașa Medical School in Istanbul, Turkey; a visiting professor of political psychology, Bahceșehir University, Istanbul, Turkey; an honorary supervisor and consultant, Società per lo studio dei disturbi della personalità in Milan, Italy; a visiting professor of law, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts; a Fulbright/Sigmund Freud-Foundation visiting scholar of psychoanalysis in Vienna, Austria; a visiting professor of political science at the University of Vienna; aboard member of the Freud Foundation in Vienna; a member of the Working Group on Terror and Terrorism, International Psychoanalytic Association, and a visiting professor at El Bosque University, Bogota, Colombia.

Dr. Volkan was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times with letters of support being sent from twenty-seven countries. He has been a recipient of the Nevitt Sanford, Elise Hayman, Bryce Boyer, Hans Strupp, Sigmund Freud (given by the city of Vienna), and Mary Sigourney awards, and the Margaret Mahler Literature Prize. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from Kuopio University (now called the University of Eastern Finland), Finland; Ankara University, Turkey; the Eastern European Psychoanalytic Institute, Russia; Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus, and Kyrenia-American University, North Cyprus.

The author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of sixty psychoanalytic and psycho-political books, some of which have been translated into Chinese, Finnish, German, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish, Dr. Volkan has written hundreds of published papers and book chapters and has served on the editorial boards of sixteen national or international professional journals.

Henry Nunberg, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard University Law School and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine.  He is a member of and on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  Dr. Nunberg, formerly on the voluntary faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College, has a particular interest in neuropsychoanalysis and is a member of the Neuropsychoanalysis Society.  He is Professional Director of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund, Inc. Dr. Nunberg’s publications have most recently focused on trauma not emanating from childhood.