Matters Of The Heart by Fay Bound Alberti

Book launch, roundtable, and champagne reception
Speakers: Martin Cowie, Ludmilla Jordanova, Francis Wells

Full invitation available for download:
Matters of the Heart – Dr Fay Bound Alberti

With a response by Joanna Bourke

Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre.

Followed by a champagne reception. Full invitation and abstract available for download:
Ruth Leys Lecture

Dr Wiebke Thormählen
University of Southampton

For an abstract see: 2010 Seminars

One of series of events as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Embodied Emotions’ project.

See also: 
Embodied Emotions AHRC webpage.
Embodied Emotions leaflet [PDF]

Speakers
• Ansuman Biswas – interdisciplinary artist on: how much embodied emotion is hardwired and what can be extrapolated and transmitted to other contexts and cultures
• Sudipto Chatterjee – lecturer and performer within the Sufi Baul tradition on: how do we create transversal cultural spaces in which specification might happen?
• Ali Campbell – on the emergence of a new template for X-Ray Eyes.
With performance by Clare Whistler

One of series of events as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Embodied Emotions’ project.

See also: 
Embodied Emotions AHRC webpage.
Embodied Emotions leaflet [PDF]

Speakers
• Fay Bound Alberti – on skin as a site of expression, emotion, and disease
• Tiffany Watt-Smith – on the meaning of the flinch
• Ali Campbell vs Clare Whistler – on the emotional/aesthetic nature of bodily movement
With performance by Clare Whistler

One of a series of events as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Embodied Emotions’ project.

See also: 
Embodied Emotions AHRC webpage.
Embodied Emotions leaflet [PDF]

Speakers
• Colin Jones – on physiognomy in the 17th and 18th centuries – LeBrun and Lavater
• Thomas Dixon – on Darwin, the idea of expression, and ‘basic emotions’
• Ginevra Castellano – on non-verbal behaviour and human-robot encounters
With performance by Clare Whistler

One of a series of events as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Embodied Emotions’ project.

See also: 
Embodied Emotions AHRC webpage.
Embodied Emotions leaflet [PDF]

Speakers
• Richard Schoch – on advice to actors in the 18th and 19th centuries
• Martin Welton – on actor training, performance, and the emotions
• Ali Campbell – on adapting Boal’s “Rainbow of Desire” to a Primary School context
With performance by Clare Whistler

One of a series of events as part of the AHRC-funded ‘Embodied Emotions’ project.

See also: 
Embodied Emotions AHRC webpage.
Embodied Emotions leaflet [PDF]

Speakers
• Ali Campbell – Introducing ‘Embodied Emotions’ and X-Ray Eyes
• David Spendlove – on emotional literacy in theory and practice
• Kathryn Ecclestone – on the dangerous rise of ‘therapeutic education’
• Thomas Dixon – on the Victorian roots of ideas about educating the feelings
With performance by Clare Whistler