THE SENSES-conference-London

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THE SENSES

an interdisciplinary conference at the London College of Music & Media - a faculty of THAMES VALLEY UNIVERSITY

Friday 6 February 2004

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together contributions from those conducting research into areas of enquiry linked in a variety of ways
to The Senses. It has the allied ambition of stimulating cross-disciplinary debate. It is hoped that the publication of a selection of those papers aired at the conference will follow.

It is anticipated that the conference will include participants working in the areas of Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Literary Studies, Musicology, Media Studies, Philosophy (including the philosophy of science), Psychoanalytic Theory, Visual Cultures and Art History.

Keynote speakers

Professor Steven Connor, Birkbeck College, University of London

Professor Sue Golding, University of Greenwich

The organisers invite abstracts for papers of 20 minutes in length on subjects related to The Senses.=A0 Proposed topics might include:

The metaphysics of the senses
Sensory absences
Priority and hierarchy
Synaesthesia
Sensory pleasures
Gesamtkunstwerk
The prosthetic
The extrasensory
Intersensoriality
Sense and nonsense
Membranes, fa=E7ades and thresholds
Sense and memory
Sense and cognition
Sensation
Concupiscence
Correspondance
Sensory overload
Causality and the senses
The inner senses
Contact senses / distance senses
Pain
Intensity
Sense and virtuality
Dream/Illusion/Mirage/Hallucination
Common sense [sensus communis]
Altered states
Sense and form
Sensibility and intellect
Emotions
Movement/Kinaesthetics
Affect
Beauty
Immersive/Interactive Environments
Simulation
Sensory boundaries and limits
Derangement of the senses
Sense and coordination/differentiation
Decadence and the senses
Inhuman senses

Please submit abstracts of 250 words to

Dr Lesley Stevenson by 10 November 2003 to

lesley.stevenson@tvu.ac.uk AND senses@tvu.ac.uk

http://mercury.tvu.ac.uk/senses