The Senses





Friday 6 February 2004





 



The Senses is the second annual interdisciplinary conference to be

hosted by the London College of Music and Media at Thames Valley

University.



 



The conference will be interdisciplinary in nature, with papers from

cultural and critical theorists, musicologists, film theorists,

philosophers, art historians and literary scholars. It aims to include

the latest applications in theory and practice and we anticipate that

the some of the most radical interventions will arise from this

convergence. There are a number of international speakers, coming from

the USA, Australia and New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands.



 



Keynote speakers:



Steven Connor, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck

College, University of London



 



Johnny Golding (S.G./johnny de philo), Professor of Philosophy in the

Visual Arts and Communication Technologies, University of Greenwich



 



Panels will focus on thematic areas such as the audio and visual

disjunction/conjunction in film and video art; issues of gendered and

political sensoriality are treated in several papers while musical and

philosophical concerns converge in others.  The enduring problematic of

prioritisation/hierarchisation is revisited in several papers. 



 



The seven sessions: 



Sensory memories, bodies and natures; corporealities; haptic and captive

acoustics; scopic and classificatory regimes; mimicry in the realm of

the senses and noises off: musical senses / senses of music.



 



Please see website for full list of speakers

(http://mercury.tvu.ac.uk/senses <http://mercury.tvu.ac.uk/senses> ). 



More information may be obtained from the conference co-organisers:



Dr Lesley Stevenson ([log in to unmask]

<mailto:[log in to unmask]> )



Dr Garin Dowd ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> )



 



or 



The Senses Conference

c/o Annette Butters

London College of Music & Media

St Mary's Road

Ealing

London

W5 5RF



t: 020 8231 2567

f: 020 8231 2546



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Please send details of bookings to email or postal address above.



Conference, including lunch: £30

Conference, including lunch and evening reception: £40 



(unwaged: £10)

Please make cheques payable to THAMES VALLEY UNIVERSITY