Research Methodologies: Embodiment - and the study of cultural and artistic
practices
When: 22 May (10 AM) - 23 May (5 PM) 2008
Where: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (seminar room), Fabianinkatu
24 A, Helsinki (except workshop)
For more information, please visit
www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/Embodiment.htm
Registration recommended by email to:
WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY 21 May (10AM-1PM)
by Dr. Sreenath Nair: ”Restoration of Breath: A Practical Approach to
Consciousness in Performance”
Venue: The Finnish Theatre Academy
For more information and registration contact: Tiina Keisanen
(tiina.keisanen (at) teak.fi)
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 22 May
9:30 Welcome Karen Vedel
09:45-11:00 KEYNOTE
* ”Dance in the Field: Methodological Developments in Dance
Ethnography”
Theresa Buckland (Professor of Performing Arts in the School of English,
Performance and Historical Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/pa/tbuckland.jsp
11.00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-13:00 Research Papers (30 mins)
* ”Other Flesh - Approaches to the Research of Couple and Group
Dances”
Petri Hoppu, PhD (University of Tampere)
* "Embodied larp [live-action role-playing] - Questions of embodied
participation in the games 'Luminescence' and 'the Plastic Cup’”
Juhana Petterson, film director, role playing artist
* ”What remains”
Hanna Järvinen, PhD
13:00-14:15 Lunch break
14:15-15:30 KEYNOTE
* ”Restoration of Breath: Consciousness and Performance”
Dr. Sreenath Nair (Senior Lecturer, Lincoln School of Performing Arts,
Lincoln University, UK)
http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/lspa/staff/1864.asp
15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:00 2 Research Papers (1 hour + 30 mins)
* "The Actor´s art in modern times"
Esa Kirkkopelto, PhD (Finnish Theatre Academy)
* [Title to be confirmed]
Leena Rouhiainen, PhD (Finnish Theatre Academy)
FRIDAY 23 May
09:00-09:30 SUMMARY OF SYMPOSIUM THEMES Hanna Järvinen + Karen Vedel
09:30-10:45 Research papers
* ”On architectural space as embodied and multisensory experience”
Kirsi Saarikangas, PhD, Christina Institute, University of Helsinki
* ”Simulatorium for Enactive Cinema. An extrapolation of the
author's embodiment of emotional theme in Sergei Eisenstein's holistic
montage theory”
Pia Tikka, PhD cand., University of Arts and Design
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:45 Research papers
* ”Observant participation. The practice of silence and stillness”
Karen Vedel, PhD, Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
* ”Silence and beyond - on ethnographic limits and possibilities”
Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, PhD Docent, Professor Medical Anthropology
* "Knowledgeable Bodies. Social maps, space and movement. A case
study from Aden, Yemen"
Susanne Dahlgren, PhD, Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced
Studies
12:45-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:15 KEYNOTE
* ”Embodied Learning and Remembering Across Cultures:
Anthropologists' Experiences”
Judith Okely, Professor Em. Social Anthropology. Deputy Director of the IGS
(International Gender Studies Centre), Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
University.
15:15-16:30 Plenary discussion/closure
16:30 Closing Reception in the Common Room on the 3rd floor of Helsinki
Collegium for Advanced Studies.