CSW Events

DO PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS HURT MORE THAN THEY HELP? A talk by journalist Robert Whitaker.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 3-4:30. Babbio Auditorium.

The prize-winning journalist Whitaker started reporting on the treatment of mental illness for the Boston Globe in the 1990s and has become an authority on the topic. In this talk, based on his 2010 book Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, he will present startling evidence that psychiatric drugs, far from reducing overall rates of mental illness, may be making many people sicker.

CHURCHILL'S MAD SCIENTIST: A talk by journalist Madhusree Mukerjee.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012, 3-4:30. Babbio Auditorium.

In her powerful book Churchill's Secret War, Madhusree Mukerjee, a physicist and journalist, presents overwhelming evidence that Winston Churchill, the hero of World War II, was responsible for a famine that devastated India in the early 1940s. In her talk, Mukerjee will focus on the insidious influence on Churchill of his closest friend and advisor, the physicist Lord Cherwell, a.k.a. "the Prof," whose enthusiasm for eugenics resembled that of the Nazis.

THE END OF WAR: A talk by journalist John Horgan.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 4-5:30. Babbio Auditorium.

In his new book The End of War, CSW director John Horgan argues that war, from being ancient, innate and inevitable--as many prominent scientists claim--is a recent cultural "invention" that culture can help us transcend. In this event, Horgan will discuss the ideas in his book in conversation with Lisa Dolling, professor of philosophy and Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Stevens. 

All CSW events are free and open to the public. For more information see the CSW website, www.stevens.edu/cal/csw, or contact CSW Director John Horgan, jhorgan@stevens.edu. The CSW and CTPE are part of CAL, the Stevens College of Arts & Letters. CSW Events