Oberlin College and Conservatory

Synaesthesia Symposium at Oberlin College

Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 10:00am to 10:00pm

King Building, 106
10 North Professor Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

The Synaesthesia Symposium is a two-day event that celebrates the art and science of synaesthesia: the artistic or physiological mixing of the sensory impressions.

In a college-conservatory-museum collaboration, students and faculty across the disciplines will showcase their academic and creative work in research presentations, personal accounts of synaesthesia, and multimedia experiments reflecting on or evoking multisensory experiences.

Keynote lectures:

March 13, 5-6:30 pm, Craig Auditorium

Edward Hubbard, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes: Synesthesia as a Window into Human Nature

March 14, 11 am -12:30 pm, King 106

Anna Nisnevich, University of Pittsburgh

Chaikovsky, Synaesthecized

The Synaesthesia Symposium is organized in connection with the course RUSS 226, Synaesthetic Utopias: Russian Modernism Across the Arts, and is generously sponsored by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation Arts and Technology Initiative and the Mead-Swing Grant.

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