Oberlin College and Conservatory

Synaesthesia Symposium I

Friday, March 13, 2015 at 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Allen Memorial Art Museum
87 North Main Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

The two-day Synaesthesia Symposium celebrates the art and science of synaesthesia: the figurative or physiological mixing of the senses. In a college-conservatory-museum collaboration, students and faculty across disciplines will showcase their academic and creative work in research presentations, personal accounts of synaesthesia, and multimedia experiments, reflecting on or evoking multisensory experiences. Two keynote lectures will address the neuroscience of synaesthesia and Russian music and the arts.

Synaesthesia Symposium Schedule

Friday, March 13 

1-3 pm: Allen Memorial Art Museum

1-2:20 pm: Synaesthetic artworks at the AMAM Print Study Room. Print Study Room Session requires registration. To register, RSVP to pdimova@oberlin.edu

2:30-3 pm: Hayley Larson, tour of exhibit Shifting Perspectives: The World Through Another's Gaze 

5-6:30 pm: Science Center, Craig Lecture Hall

Keynote Lecture: Edward Hubbard, educational psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison,  Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes: Synesthesia as a Window into Human Nature

March 14, Saturday

9-10:45 am: King Hall, Room 106

Perspectives on Synaesthesia from Neuroscience

Leslie Kwakye, assistant professor, neuroscience, Oberlin College, Integrating Time: Temporal Multisensory Processing in Autism

Student Presentation: Ralph Savarese, English, Grinnell College, "The 'Why' and the 'Why Not' of a Yellowing World": Autism, Literary Writing, and Synesthesia

11 am -12:30 pm: King Hall, Room 106

Keynote Lecture: Anna Nisnevich, music, University of Pittsburgh, Chaikovsky, Synaesthecized

Lunch Reception

1:15-2:45: King Hall, Room 106

Multisensory Perception in Literature, Music, Visual Art, and Dance

Isadora Grevan, visiting assistant professor, Portuguese, Oberlin College, Isadora Duncan's Multisensory Dance and the Kandinsky Connection

Student Presentations

Ann Cooper Albright, professor, dance, Oberlin College, Becoming Light

3-4 pm: Science Center, Nancy Dye Lecture Hall

Screening Session focus on Sonic/Visual/Synaesthetic Relations, TIMARA PlayFest

4:15-5:30: King Hall, Room 106

Synaesthesia and the Arts. Personal and Creative Accounts of Synaesthesia

Claudia Macdonald, professor, music, Oberlin College, Music and Color

Student Presentations

7-9:30 pm: Warner Main Space

The Multimedia Artwork

A showcase of student multimedia artworks and multimedia exhibits.

Carter McAdams, professor, dance, Oberlin College, Thirst, Sacrifice & Transformation: Multiple Collaborations in the OASIS Project, 2012

Sponsored by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation Arts and Technology Initiative, the Mead-Swing Fund, the Departments of Neuroscience and Russian and the Oberlin Media Center.

Event Type

Lectures/Symposia/Workshops

Departments

Academic, Neuroscience, Russian Language, Literature and Culture

Cost

Free and open to the public

Contact Person

Polina Dimova

Contact E-mail Address

pdimova@oberlin.edu

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