{"id":1404,"date":"2017-09-14T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2017-10-13T14:26:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T14:26:46","slug":"signs-of-life-puppetry-emotions-embodiment-and-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/events\/signs-of-life-puppetry-emotions-embodiment-and-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Life: Puppetry, Emotions, Embodiment and Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A panel discussion with Mervyn Millar, Emily Cross, Matthew Longo, Susanne Quadflieg and Joel Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chaired by Tiffany Watt Smith, QMUL.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What role can puppetry play in unravelling the psychology of empathy and our ability to read each other\u2019s emotions? How is it that we can we so easily feel apparently real emotions when watching bodies that are not even flesh and blood? Do we react differently to puppets, robots, avatars and people? And can we ever really \u2018suspend disbelief\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>Puppet designer and director <strong>Mervyn Millar<\/strong> has been Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence at QMUL\u2019s Centre for the History of Emotions during 2017.\u00a0 He will discuss these themes and related phenomena with academic researchers from a variety of fields: Prof <strong>Emily Cross<\/strong> (School of Psychology, Bangor University), Prof <strong>Matthew Longo<\/strong> (Cognitive Neuroscience \u2018Bodylab\u2019, Birkbeck University of London), Dr <strong>Susanne Quadflieg<\/strong> (Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol), Dr <strong>Joel Smith<\/strong> (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Manchester) and some puppeteers will all contribute to round table discussions and debate. Chaired by Dr <strong>Tiffany Watt-Smith<\/strong> (Centre for the History of Emotions, QMUL). This event is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.<\/p>\n<p>Programme:<\/p>\n<p>14.00 Welcome and introductions from the speakers<\/p>\n<p>14.30 &#8211; 15.30\u00a0 Discussion led by Tiffany Watt Smith, inviting cross-talk from the participants and including puppetry performances<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>15.30-16.00 tea and coffee break<\/p>\n<p>16.00-16.50\u00a0Discussion and puppetry<\/p>\n<p>16.50 Questions and wine reception<\/p>\n<p>17.30 Finish<\/p>\n<p>Attendance is free but limited: please email Helen Stark (h.stark@qmul.ac.uk) by 16 October for a place. This event will be recorded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1420\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue-768x257.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue-1024x342.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue-624x209.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Signs of Life: Puppetry, Emotions, Embodiment and Empathy&#8217;, a symposium organised by artist-in-residence Mervyn Millar and funded by Leverhulme Trust, will take place on 20 October 2017. Registration now open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}