Academic Speakers

As part of "Find Yourself Friday," The Cohenites will be presenting three academic talks on Leonard Cohen with special emphasis on healing, Buddhism and minimalism as they reference his works.

These speakers will present at the Hospitality Suite (in the Westin Hotel) on Friday afternoon. Featured performers are:

Ira Nadel - Infamous in Cohen fan circles as Leonard's Biographer, Ira Nadel has spoken at numerous Cohenites events in the past. He will be discussing "The New Cohen" - recent developments in Cohen's life and art.

Dr. Thomas Mueller - A local Nephrologist, and ex-LCN board member, Dr. Mueller will be talking about Cohen's connections to medicine, meditation, and Buddhism.

Dr. Thomas Mueller (Academic Talk)

Dr. Thomas Mueller, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta

Dr. Mueller attended the Medical School at Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany, becoming qualified as an MD and Privatdozent (PhD equivalent). He stayed on at Philipps, completing his residency and combined fellowships in Intensive Care Medicine and in Nephrology. More recently, he served as a Research Fellow in the laboratory of Immunogenetics/Molecular Immunology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School with Prof. David Perkins.

Currently serving as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta in the Division of Nephrology and Transplantation Immunology, Dr. Mueller's research focuses on lymphocyte depletion and immune reconstitution, immune monitoring and gene expression profiles in organ transplantation.

Ira Nadel (Academic Talk)

Ira Nadel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a UBC Distinguished University Scholar and winner of the 1996 Medal for Canadian Biography. He has also been awarded a Killam Research Prize, Mellon and Dorot Fellowships at the Ransom Humanities Research Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin, and a Beinecke Fellowship at Yale. He has lectured in England, Israel, Italy, China, Germany, Monaco, Ireland, the U.S. and, of course, Canada.

Forthcoming is a new edition of his biography of Leonard Cohen (Univ. of Texas Press, 2007)

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