I. Current Employment

NOGA A. ARIKHA

I. CURRENT EMPLOYMENT from January 2007 • Bard Graduate Center, NYC: Visiting Assistant Professor. Taught course: The history of the body as matter. Research interests: history of ideas, especially early modern; history of medicine and science; cognitive sciences; philosophy of mind; epistemology; ethics; aesthetics. 2003-2006 • Bard College, NY: Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities. Taught courses: History of Medicine and Psychiatry; First-Year Seminar on ‘What is Enlightenment?’.

II. ACADEMIC CURSUS AND AWARDS 2002-2003 • Fellow in the ‘Art and Neuroscience Project’ at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, New York City. 1997- 2001 • PhD in History, Warburg Institute, University of London. Awarded November 30th, 2001. Title: Nature, Mind and Body in the Age of Mechanism. Supervisor: Jill Kraye. Additional advisors: Charles Hope, David Papineau. Examiners: †Roy Porter, Jonathan Rée. 1995-96 • MA ‘Combined Historical Studies: The Renaissance’, Warburg Institute, University of London. British Academy Studentship. ‘Distinction’ awarded to MA thesis. 1989-93 • BA First Class Honours in German with Philosophy, King’s College, University of London. Awarded annual prize.

III. LECTURES, READINGS, PANELS, SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PAPERS (SELECTED) 2007 • panelist: Meristem Forum, “Restorative Commons for Community Health”, at New York Academy of Medicine. 2006 • guest seminar: Humeurs, forme et fonction : comprendre le corps à la fin du dix-septième siècle, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, CNRS, Paris. 2005 • invited lecture: Speech After Long Silence: Of Poetry and Consciousness, for Campbell Corner Poetry Prize reading, Sarah Lawrence College, at Poets’ House, New York City. 2004 • lecture: Humoural Passions and Seasoned Cares, presented as part of a panel at the Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, ‘Medicine Across Cultures, 600-1600’, New York City. • invited lecture: Passion, Reason and Justification in the Early Enlightenment, presented at the Bar-Hillel seminar series, Van Leer Institute (Jerusalem) and Cohn Center for the History and Philosophy of Science (Tel Aviv University), Jerusalem. 2003 • lecture: Humours and Passions in Early Modern Europe, presented as part of a panel on ‘Perspectives on Early Modern Science’ at the annual History of Science Society conference, Cambridge (MA).

1/4 • invited lecture: Reason and Emotion in the Early Enlightenment, presented at Boston University, ‘University Professors Lecture’. • seminar: Reason and Emotion in the Early Enlightenment, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, New York City (preliminary version of the lecture above). 2002 • seminar: Hadrian’s Stylus, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, New York City. • guest seminar (graduate): Montaigne and Renaissance Passions, for Antoine Compagnon, French Department, Columbia University, New York City. 1999 • lecture: All-Daring Dust: Free Will and Sensation in the Late 17th Century, presented at a colloquium on Sensation in History, 1400 to the Present, Warburg Institute, London. 1998 • seminar: What’s in an Oyster? Animal Minds in the Late 17th Century, presented at the Director’s Seminar of Work in Progress, Warburg Institute, London. 1997 • lecture: Simone Luzzatto’s Socrate: A Sceptic on Trial, presented at a colloquium on The Jews and the Classical Tradition, Warburg Institute, London.

IV. BOOKS 2007 in press • Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, fothcoming in the US from Ecco Press (HarperCollins). 2003 • Text-e: Le texte à l’heure de l’Internet, proceedings of virtual conference (see section VIII), co-edited with Gloria Origgi. Published by the Bibliothèque publique d’information, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

V. ARTICLES 2007 in preparation • article: ‘Wine Psychology’, Journal of Philosophy of Wine, 1. 2006 in press • article: ‘Opaque Humours, Enlightened Emotions and the Transparent Mind’, to be published in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 51, 2007. 2006 • article: ‘Form and Function in the Early Enlightenment’, Perspectives on Science, 14: 4, 2006. 2005 • essay: ‘La Mélancolie et les passions humorales au début de la modernité’, in catalogue of exhibition Mélancolie : Génie et folie en Occident, curated and edited by Jean Clair (Paris: Grand Palais). Translated into German for catalogue of Melancholie: Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (Berlin: Neue Nationalgalerie). • article: ‘Deafness, Ideas and the Language of Thought in the Late 1600s’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 13:2, 2005.

VI. BOOK REVIEWS (SELECTED)

2/4 2001 •Economist: Douwe Draaisma, Metaphors of Memory: A History of Ideas about the Mind. • Economist: Hans Belting, The Invisible Masterpiece. • Times Literary Supplement: Kenan Malik, Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell us about Human Nature.

VII. TRANSLATIONS (SELECTED) 2002 • article: Germana Ernst/Tommaso Campanella, ‘The Sky in a Room: Campanella’s Apologeticus in defence of the pamphlet De siderali fato vitando’, Culture and Cosmos, 6:1 (from Italian to English). 1999 • book: Andrea Carlino, Paper Bodies: A Catalogue of Anatomical Fugitive Sheets, 1538-1687, introduction. The Wellcome Institute, London: Medical History, Supplement No. 19 (from Italian to English).

VIII. COLLECTIVE, EDITORIAL AND VIRTUAL (SELECTED) 2003- ongoing • American Friends of the Warburg Institute: Program Director (2003-2005); Secretary (from 2005). 2004-2005 • Art & Cognition: co-moderator and co-curator with Gloria Origgi of virtual symposium on Interdisciplines website, at http://www.interdisciplines.org/artcognition. 2003 • Understanding Suicide Terrorism: co-moderator with Gloria Origgi of bilingual virtual symposium on Interdisciplines website, at http://www.interdisciplines.org/terrorism. 2002-2003 • Art Cognition: co-curator, co-moderator and co-editor with Gloria Origgi of bilingual virtual symposium on Interdisciplines website, at http://www.interdisciplines.org/artcog. 2001-2002 • text-e: co-curator, co-moderator and co-editor with Gloria Origgi of trilingual virtual symposium on the impact of the Internet on texts; with the Centre Pompidou (Paris), at http://www.text-e.org. 1997-2006 • Prospect Magazine (London): member of Advisory Board. 1994-97 • La Rivista dei Libri: correspondence with the editorial office of the New York Review of Books, from London. 1993 • New York Review of Books (New York): internship as editorial assistant to Robert Silvers, Editor.

IX. MEMBERSHIPS 2007- ongoing • Authors’ Guild (US) 2006- ongoing • History of Science Society 2005- ongoing • ISHPSSB (International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology) 2005- ongoing • New York Academy of Sciences

3/4 X. OTHER EMPLOYMENT (SELECTED) 1996 • IPCRI, charity for the promotion of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation, London: assistance on project development. 1996 • BBC Radio 5, London: internship. 1995 • Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem Cinematheque, Israel: foreign press, press releases, programmes and guest biographies, hosting panel of festival judges. 1992 • BBC Late Show, London: work on interviews with African artists. 1991 • Festival of Film on Art, Asolo, Italy: writing and translation of film synopses for bilingual catalogue. 1990 • Auditorium du Louvre, Paris: coordination for film festival and its catalogue, Faux et Usage de Faux. 1988 • Pierre Bérès Rare Books, Paris: cataloguing of rare books.

XI. LINGUISTIC ABILITIES English-French: native Italian: as-native German: fluent Hebrew: basic Latin: reading knowledge

experienced translator experienced editor

XII. CONTACT DETAILS email: [email protected] website: http://www.nogaarikha.com

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