Events

Past Events

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

Monday 23rd November, 2009

1pm, Arts 2

‘Love Detectors and Kiss-o-meters: The Role of the Erotic in the History of Deception Testing’, by Dr Geoff Bunn

Dr Geoff Bunn (Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘Love Detectors and Kiss-o-meters: The Role of the Erotic in the History of Deception Testing’
Abstract available for download: Dr Geoff Bunn: Love Detectors and Kissometers