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Apologies for cross posting.  I'm attaching the programme for this event, designed to bring post graduate students and scholars together around current topics in Screen Studies.  This Post Graduate training day aims to explore the way the senses have been thought about and deployed with regard to screen media past and present. While this covers a lot of ground, one impetus for this is what we might call the recent neurological turn in screen and many other studies, which finds much creative value in getting a better understanding of the many ways in which we perceive, and how that relates to what we feel. Another area of continued interest are theories of affect, which from Jean Epstein’s photogénie , Benjamin’s ‘optical unconscious’ to Daniel Sterne’s The Present Moment, have always had a place in film theory. Its recent resurgence however is now a matter of contestation. A third area is Aesthetics, the branch of philosophy that has the body and its relationship to the observable world at its centre. By hearing leaders in the fields and PG students who have grappled with sensate approaches, our aim is to introduce students to the many ways in which the senses now feature in various disciplines as Screen Studies furthers its multi-disciplinary project.