‘Starting with the Senses’

This Post Graduate training day explores the way the senses have been theorised and deployed with regard to screen media past and present. Impetuses for this include: the recent neurological turn in screen and many other studies; theories of affect; and aesthetics. Leaders in these fields and PG students who have grappled with sensate approaches will introduce a variety of projects and approaches.
9:15-9:45 Registration
9:45 Welcome, Introduction
10:00-11:00 Keynote Speaker: Hugo Spiers, (UCL Institute of Behavioral Neuroscience)
‘Exploring Neuroscience Using Film Installations’
11:00-11:30 Tea Break
11:30-1:00 Panel I: Approaching the Senses
Malcolm Cook (Birkbeck): ‘The narrative of Perception: early animation and neuroscience’
Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary): ‘Understanding “The Savage Within Us”: Why We Have to Sense
Cinema’
Dan Strutt: (Goldsmiths): ‘Using affect theory in film philosophy: strengths and pitfalls’
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 Panel II: Aesthetics and Film
Al Rees (Royal College of Art): Physical Optics
Alexander Düttmann (Goldsmiths): ‘Some Thoughts on Duras, Deleuze and Modern Cinema’
3:30-4:00 Tea Break
4:00-5:30 Panel III: Feeling Film
Chris Berry (Kings): ‘Colour’s Affective Force’
Marlène Monteiro (Birkbeck): ‘The (Filmic) Body in Pain’
Tim Smith (Birkbeck): ‘Film cognition through the eyes of the viewer’
5:30-6.00 Discussion
6.00-7:00 Reception
To Register paste in this entire link: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-courses/ScreenStudiesPGTraining
ALL WELCOME! Entry costs 15 pounds. (Most Colleges are happy to pay this cost for
you; consult your home department for re-imbursement)