panel schedule – Monday 2 July
PANEL 1A 10.30 - 11.50amTemporality & the Arts
LOCATION Grimond Lecture Theatre 2 ( GLT2 )
Chair Mark Pizzato
John Lutterbie: Aesthetics, Silence, and Temporality
Kevin Ryan: Musicians in the Moment: Improvisation and Intentions-In-Action
PANEL 1B 10.30 - 11.50am
Corporeality and Cognition
LOCATION Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 ( GLT3 )
Chair Vera Veldhuizen
Stephen Jurgens: The neuroscience of The Divine Comedy - Inferno: somatic dramaturgy and kinaesthetic video design as a relational theatrical system
Olga Krasa-Ryabets & Inna Tsirlin: Trick of the Eye – visual perception in performance
PANEL 1C 10.30 - 11.50am
Audience Reception and Perception
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 1
Chair Elspeth Jajdelska
James R Hamilton: Performer Power and Character Power
Ellen Gillooly-Kress: Underpinnings of perception: Theatrical audience understanding
PANEL 1D 10.30 - 11.50am
Consciousness for the Arts and Humanities
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 2
Chair ElżbietaTabakowska
Matt Hayler: Unconscious Bias: The Politics of Shaped Perceptions
AnezkaKuzmicova: 'The reading consciousness: three common assumptions revisited’
PANEL 1E 10.30 - 11.50am
Embodiments
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 3
Chair LyubaBugaeva
PolinaKukar: Empathy in Education: A Narrative Inquiry into Practicing Teachers’ Lived Experiences
Daniel Kish & Thomas Tajo: Moved to Panel 2C
PANEL 1F 10.30 - 11.50am
Immersion
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 4
Chair Isabel Jaén Portillo
Sadia Sadia: Catharsis and the Encompassing Environment in Art in the Neo-Digital Age
Anton Rey and Thomas Grunwald: Pimp Your Selves: A Research on the Outskirts of Identity, based on Actor & Avatar
Kirsten Poortier: Searching for the Critical Potential of the Immersive Art Experience
PANEL 1G 10.30 - 11.50am
Dance in situ
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 5
Chair Marco Bernini
Freya Vass-Rhee: Dancing, in the Dark: Situating a Discipline
Sarah Pini & John Sutton: Dancing Bodies, Sharing Minds: A Cognitive Ecological Approach to Stage Presence
PANEL 2A 2.00 - 3.20pm
Cognitive Approaches to Elizabethan Theatre
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 6
Chair Jane Ingram
Ildiko Solti: “Skill of Skills”? – cognitive offloading in the full light arena CANCELLED
Rick Kemp: Performance, disorder and moral argument: A cognitive analysis of Twelfth Night at The Middle Temple, 1602
Christof Diem: Minding the Grotesque: Responses to New Cognitive Needs in Shakespearean Drama
PANEL 2B 2.00 - 3.20pm
The Nordic Weird: What Strangeness Might Contribute to the Cognitive Humanities
LOCATION Grimond Lecture Theatre 2 ( GLT2 )
Chair Jeremy Scott
MerjaPolvinen
Erik van Ooijen
Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad
PANEL 2C 2.00 - 3.20pm
Educating Aesthetics
LOCATION Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 ( GLT3 )
Chair Melissa Trimingham
Andrea Pühringer: The musical-aesthetic situation as a basis for music education processes at the primary school level
Olli Aho and Henna-RiikkaPeltola: Affective realm of musical affordances
Daniel Kish & Thomas Tajo:FlashSonar or Echolocation Education: expanding the function of hearing and changing the meaning of blindness
PANEL 2D 2.00 - 3.20pm
Narrative Time, Rhythm and Attention
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 1
Chair ElżbietaTabakowska
Yanna Popova: Human Temporality and Narrative Experience
MarziaBeltrami:Fractal Plot: Italo Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller
SibylleBaumbach: Literary Attention in the Brain Attic of Detective Fiction
PANEL 2E 2.00 - 3.20pm
Creativity, Improvisation and Flow
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 2
Chair Angela Pickard
Katia Savrami: Neurons dancing in creativity
AskaSakuta: Embodied Flow States and its Role in Movement Performance
PANEL 2F 2.00 - 3.20pm
Cognitive Perspectives on Autism
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 3
Chair Jamie Freestone
Abigail Jackson: Affording embodied interactions with technology for the autistic child: adaptation in the face of crisis
Mabel Giraldo: Imitation and autism. Beyond the controversies, the pedagogical “exceedance” of the theatrical action.
Dorys Calvert: Theater, ehealth and neuroscience: the role of the actor in the creation of an emotional assistive technology
PANEL 2G 2.00 - 3.20pm
Early Modern Empathy, Materiality and Affect
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 4
Chair Boyd Branch
Rebecca Yearling: Cognition, emotion and the early modern spectator
Cory Reed: Empathy, Altruism, and Early Modern Activism in the Drama of Cervantes
Sophie Duncan: 'Careful how you put it down’: cognition and the haptic from rehearsal to stage
PANEL 3A 3.40 - 5.00pm
Enactivism, empathy, ethics, and embodied practices and applications in theatre and drama
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 5
Chair Jeremy Scott
Rhonda Blair: Cognitive Science and Theatre Directing: Suzan-Lori Parks’s In the Blood and Issues of Culture, Ethics, and Politics
Nicola Shaughnessy: 'D/evolving spect/actors and participatory p/arts: ethics and empathy as "other" E’s'
Guy Zimmerman: Caryl Churchill and the New Unnamable presented by Robert Shaughnessy
PANEL 3B 3.40 - 5.00pm
Rethinking Aesthetics
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 6
Chair Lily Wei
Margaret Freeman: The Aesthetics of Sensate Cognition
AncutaMortu: Cognitive Frames of Reference in Art Historical Writing
ElżbietaTabakowska: The Cognitive Present: Visual Art and Verbal Expression
PANEL 3C 3.40 - 5.00pm
Cognitive Rethinkings: Literature
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 7
Chair tbc
Michael Winkelman: ‘Bitterly Hating Bad Literature’: A Cognitive Offensive
Ana Margarida Abrantes: Setting goals, finding gains, bridging gaps. Criticism of cognitive literary studies
Ben Morgan: Arendt and Acting with Others: A Cognitive Re-thinking of The Human Condition (1958)
PANEL 3D 3.40 - 5.00pm
The Play's the Thing: Emotion and Response
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 8
Chair Robert Shaughnessy
OsitaEzenwanebe: “Mediating Audience Response in the Theatre of Ayakoroma’s Dance on his Grave”
Aimee Knupsky and M. Soledad Caballero: 'Despair will give me strength': Joanna Baillie’s Orra and the Limits of Regulatory Flexibility
PANEL 3E 3.40 - 5.00pm
Why Trust?
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 1
Chair tbc
Kay Young: Trust, Intersubjectively, and Elena Ferrante
Julie Carlson: Improvisation and Trust
Sowon Park: Trust, Surveillance and Enactivist Cognition
PANEL 3F 3.40 - 5.00pm
Literature, ‘We’, and the Social Mind
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 2
Chair Ed Tan
Natalya Bekhta: On Social Minds in Fiction: The Representation of Collective Experiences in We-Narratives
Raphael Lyne: We-Representations in Minds and Poems
MattiaGallotti: A Commentary
PANEL 3G 3.40 - 5.00pm
Opportunities for Empathy in Representations of Conflict and Minorities in Young Adult Fiction
LOCATION Grimond Seminar 3
Chair
Vera Veldhuizen: Children’s War Fiction and Construction of Empathy in the Face of Binaries
Anna Savoie: In-group and Out-group Empathy: How Adolescence Creates and Disrupts Binaries in YA Fiction
Anna Purkiss: ‘But what must your world be like?’: Models of Disability and Opportunities for Empathy in She Is Not Invisible