Events

Past Events

Monday 21st June, 2010

6.30pm, Arts 2

In conversation with Ron Athey, Leverhulme artist in residence

Booking is now open for the final event in Ron Athey’s residency at the Centre for the History of the Emotions.

‘VICTIM ART’: PLAGUE, PERFORMANCE, AND METAPHOR
Speakers: Ron Athey, Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone, Martin O’Brien, Brian Lobel.

Tuesday 1st June, 2010

1pm, Lock-keeper's Cottage

‘Science and Morals in the Affective Psychopathology of Philippe Pinel’

Dr Louis Charland
University of Western Ontario

One of a series of lunchtime seminars. See: 2010 Lunchtime Seminars

Monday 24th May, 2010

6pm, Lock Keepers Cottage

‘Motion and Emotion: Eighteenth-Century Treatises on Musical Performance at the Intersection of Mechanical Body and Expressive Soul’

Dr Wiebke Thormählen
University of Southampton

For an abstract see: 2010 Seminars

Wednesday 19th May, 2010

6-8pm, Arts 2

LOST IN TRANSLATION: Issues around dissemination

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

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

Monday 17th May, 2010

6.30pm, Arts 2

‘What If Anything Do Faces Reveal?’, by Ruth Leys

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

Tuesday 27th April, 2010

6-8pm, Arts 2

EMOTION, MOVEMENT, AND MEANING: Reading the performing body

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

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

Tuesday 23rd March, 2010

6-8pm, Arts 2

THE SCIENCE OF EXPRESSION: Physiognomy, evolution, and artificial companions

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

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

Friday 12th March, 2010

6.30pm, Arts 2

‘Matters of the Heart’, by Fay Bound Alberti

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

Monday 1st March, 2010

6-8pm, Arts 2

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING: Performing the passions

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

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

Wednesday 3rd February, 2010

6-8pm, Arts 2

Schooling the emotions: SEAL in historical context

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

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