Centre's Current Events
2010
Campus postcode is E1 4NS - see location at streetmap.
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12 March 2010. 6.30pm
MATTERS
OF THE HEART by Fay Bound Alberti
Book launch, roundtable, and champagne reception
Speakers: Martin Cowie, Ludmilla Jordanova, Francis Wells
Council Room, Mile End Campus.
RSVP to Thomas Dixon
to book a place. Full invitation here.
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EMBODIED EMOTIONS: History, Performance, Education
A series of five interdisciplinary seminars as part of an AHRC 'Beyond Text' project investigating emotional literacy in primary education. See also the Embodied Emotions AHRC webpage.
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre - located on the ground
floor of the Arts Building - number 12 on the campus
map.
Campus postcode is E1 4NS - see location at streetmap.
Seminars will last approximately two hours, including a post-seminar
reception.
For a poster advertising all these events in PDF form, click here.
3 February 2010. 5.30-7.30pm
SCHOOLING THE EMOTIONS: SEAL in historical context
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
1 March 2010. 6-8pm
ONCE MORE WITH FEELING: Performing the passions
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
23 March 2010. 6-8pm
THE SCIENCE OF EXPRESSION: Physiognomy, evolution, and artificial
companions
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
27 April 2010. 6-8pm
EMOTION, MOVEMENT, AND MEANING: Reading the performing body
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
19 May 2010. 6-8pm
LOST IN TRANSLATION: Issues around dissemination
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
Any enquiries by email to Thomas Dixon.