‘Sensing Collectivities’ Ph.D. Summer School, Hamburg

25 May 201725 May 2017

This June in Hamburg is a Ph.D. Summer School in Hamburg with the theme of 'Sensing Collectivities', which runs alongside another workshop, 'Thermal Objects'. Dr. Michael Liegl invited me to deliver one…

Talk at Temple University, Feb 23rd

16 Feb 2017

An upcoming talk in the Architecture division of the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. February 23rd. The title of the talk: 'The Architecture of the Oculomotor: Body Motility, Ocular…

Affect Theory Conference #affectWTF

19 Oct 201516 Feb 2017

So, over to Amish country for the first tie in many years, to Lancaster, PA for the rather amazing Affect conference. The fluidity of audiences between rooms, appearing and then…

‘Intimate Listening’: paper for Emotional Geographies conference 2015

18 Aug 201516 Feb 2017

Katy Bennet from the University of Leicester approached me months ago to speak at the 'Emotional Geographies' conference in Edinburgh in June. I went to the first ever Emotional Geographies…

Talk on robots as ‘companion species’ at Carnegie Mellon, Jan 14th

28 Dec 201416 Feb 2017

So my next upcoming talk is at Carnegie Mellon University, at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, on January 14th, 4-5.30pm. Link on the CMU website is here. Here is the title…

Leonardo Art-Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) in NY: January 19th

17 Jan 201416 Feb 2017

Short notice, but I'm speaking at an art-science event in New York on the 19th. LASER is part of the beautiful, sprawling Leonardo project that encompasses a journal, book series,…

Upcoming talk at CIQR, Duquesne University: ‘On inner touch and the moving body’

20 Nov 201316 Feb 2017

Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research (CIQR -- "seeker": http://www.duq.edu/ciqr/) Date: December 5 (Thurs.), 4:30-6:00, Berger Gallery (207 College Hall), Duquesne University Update: A video of the talk is available on…

‘Reconfiguring Sensation’: A ‘stream’ of papers and a roundtable at SLSA

17 May 201330 Oct 2013

The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) have a fantastic conference each year. Someone told me about it last year too late, there was a 'stream' of panels…

Paper accepted for SPHS 2013 on ‘motricity’ in Merleau-Ponty

17 May 20131 Nov 2013

The Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS), whose conference runs after SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy), have accepted my paper on concepts of movement in Merleau-Ponty.…

A talk at the Einstein Forum, Berlin Jan 31st

25 Jan 20131 Nov 2013

The Einstein Forum based in Potsdam, near Berlin, has asked me to contribute an evening lecture ahead of a full day's discussion, a symposium, about touch. Fantastic stuff, and you…