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Dear Colleague, UCL Museums & Collections warmly invite you to a series of workshops exploring touch and object handling in the context of museums. This series is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Please distribute these details as widely as possible. All are welcome. Touch and the Value of Object Handling Workshop 1: The History of Touch – What Do We Mean by Touch? University College London Wilkins Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre 10am-4pm. Friday 3 November 2006. Programme: Prof. Alan Wing, Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham “Weighty issues in handling objects” Dr. Fiona Candlin, The School of Continuing Education Birkbeck, University of London “The class politics of touch” Dr. Hugo Critchley, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL “Emotional touch: a neuroscientific overview” Prof. Francis McGlone, Cognitive Neuroscience – CSIG, Unilever Research and Development “Discriminative and affective touch are subserved by separate peripheral and central neural systems” Dr. Charles Spence, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford “Multisensory contributions to 'touch': Recent findings” All welcome To book a place and/or for further info. Contact: Devorah Romanek or Helen Chatterjee: Email: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] or Tel: 020 7679 4113. This workshop is FREE; Tea/Coffee will be provided. This programme is generously funded by the AHRC Research Workshops scheme. FUTURE WORKSHOPS IN THIS SERIES: New technologies for enhancing object interpretation: interactives, haptics and interface technologies. Friday 1 December 2006, University of Central England. Touch and memory: the role of reminiscence Friday 5 January 2007, University College London. Therapeutic approaches to touch: Object handling and hospital patients Friday 2 February 2007, Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. Knowledge transfer in object handling: with specific reference to disadvantaged or underrepresented groups. Friday 2 March 2007, British Museum. End of project conference: Touch and the value of object handling Friday 4 May 2007, University College London. Learning and Access Manager Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy Darwin Building Department of Biology University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT Tel:(+44) 020 7679 2647 (Internal ext. 32647) Fax:(+44) 020 7679 7096 Email: [log in to unmask] www.grant.museum.ucl.ac.uk Opening Times: Monday to Friday 1-5pm Group visits (Including: schools, colleges, other universities, special interest groups, researchers, appointments): Monday to Friday 9am-1pm ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail 2. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set psci-com mail 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk **********************************************************************