May 24 2010
Ellen Handler Spitz has been voted "Professor of the Year, 2009-2010" by the students of the Honors College of the University of Maryland (UMBC).

Spring 2010
Ellen's forthcoming book: Illuminating Childhood: Portraits in Fiction, Film and Drama is featured in the University of Michigan Press Spring Catalog. The book will be available in November 2010.
:: click here to visit the University of Michigan Press feature on Ellen's new book ::

Dec 11 2009
Pacific Northwest College of Art hosted Children’s Creativity: Why the Visual Arts Matter, November 11-14, 2009. This four day symposium focused on the relevance of artistic processes of inquiry, reflection, and expression to the cognitive, emotional, and social development of children. PNCA + FIVE Idea Studios.
:: click here to listen to Dr. Handler Spitz's lecture “Reflections on Space and Childhood" ::

November 12 & 13 2009
Ellen will be the keynote speaker at the Children’s Creativity Symposium at the Pacific Northwest College of Art on Thursday, November 12. In her talk, she will examine the unlimited imaginative dimensions of children’s experiences. In addition to the keynote address, she will also give a lecture titled, “Reflections on Space and Childhood,” where she’ll discuss the complex and powerful role of visual arts in the emotional and cognitive development of children.
She will also conduct a one-hour interview on Oregon Public Radio.
::click here to view the poster::

November 5 2009
Ellen is speaking at the Art Museums and Medical Education: Conversations across Disciplines, M. Victor Leventritt Symposium at Harvard Art Museum, Harvard University.
:: click here to view Dr. Handler Spitz's lecture ::

Summer 2009
Ellen is the Guest Editor of the current issue of "The Journal of Aesthetic Education," Volume 43, Number 2, Summer 2009. The topic of this issue is Children's Literature.
The University of Illinois Press has decided to submit it for a Council of the Editors of
Learned Journals (CELJ) prize.


June 1 2009
Ellen is speaking at the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, on a panel before the evening performance of "Hysteria," a play by the British playwright Terry Johnson. The panel is entitled "The Metamorphoses of Sigmund: Freud and His Afterlives."


March 25 2009
Ellen published an article about Mira Schor's exhibiton "Suddenly" on the Newsgrist
website.
::click here to view the article::

March 20 2009
Ellen attended the opening "Suddenly," New Paintings by Mira Schor at Momenta Art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
::click here to view a piece Ellen wrote in appreciation of this work::
http://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/gravity/

December 5 & 6 2008
Ellen has been in residence as the Erikson Scholar this autumn term at the Erik H. Erikson Institute for Education and Research at the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA.  As a culmination of her residency there, she will present two public lectures on December 5th and 6th, 2008.
::click here to download info details::
::click here to download a profile on Dr. Spitz's research at the Austen Riggs Center::

June 17 2008
View Ellen's letter in "The International Herald Tribune."
::click here to read the article::

May 30 2008
Ellen has been extensively quoted in an article called "Vivid Imaginations" by M. Ingalls in the Jewish Daily FORWARD.
::click here to read the article::

May 7 2008
Ellen delivered a public lecture on "The Impact of Imagery of Picture Books for Young Children" at the Padagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Germany.

May 5 2008
Ellen published an article "Fond and Fearful Memories of an Influential Professor" this week in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
::click here to read Dr. Spitz's article in The Chronicle of Higher Education::
::click here to download the full article::

April 26 2008
Ellen has been elected to membership in the New York Institute for the Humanities.

She is currenlty living and writing in Paris and will give a lecture at the Padagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Germany, on May 7.

January 7 2008
Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz delivered a public lecture on "The Impact of Imagery of Picture Books for Young Children" at the Bakul Children's Library in Orissa, India. The library was founded by the Bakul Foundation.
::article #1: click here to read Dr. Spitz's visit reported in The Hindu::
::article #2: click here to read Dr. Spitz's visit reported in Newindpress.com::
::article #3: click here to read Dr. Spitz's visit reported in indiatogether.com::

Fall 2008
Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz has been named Erikson Scholar at Austen Riggs, Stockbridge, MA.

Jannuary 2008
Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz will be lecturing in three different venues in India -- in Bhubaneswar, Mangalore, and Chennai.

November 16 2007
Ellen delivered a lecture on the anti-memorial art of Horst Hoheisel at the annual meeting of ISTSS (the International Society for Trauma and Stress Studies) in Baltimore.

November 12 2007
Ellen delivered a lecture called "And gladly would s/he learn and gladly teach" at Emory University, Atlanta, in a conference on Psychoanalysis in the University.

September 7 2007
Ellen Talks to Tom Hall, Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. The recording is from Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast, about how children experience imagination and culture differently than adults do.
:: listen to the interview, click here::

June 03 2007
Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz's latest book, The Brightening Glance was reviewed in the most prestigious newspaper in India -- "The Hindu".
::click here to read the interview::

April 19 2007
Allan Stypeck and Mike Cuthbert from The Book Guys interviewed Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz on the aesthetic education and experience of children -- The Brigthening Glance.
:: listen to the interview, click here::

April 13 2007
Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz, author of The Brightening Glance, Imagination and Childhood published by Pantheon.
:: listen to the interview, click here or links below::

http://psychjourney_blogs.typepad.com/
http://www.psychjourneypodcasts.com 

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