Academic Workshop
SENSORY EXPLORATION AND EVALUATION:
NEW THEMES IN PERCEPTION AND ACTION
18 -19 APRIL 2011
Academic workshop organised by the Institute of Philosophy at University of London and the Department of Philosophy at National University of Colombia; academics from both countries will present their most recent works on the topic; as part of the British Academy UK – Latin America and the Caribbean Link Programme. University of London, Stewart House.
Day One: Monday 18 April, ST274/275, Stewart House
10.00 Welcome and Introductory remarks
10.30 Prof Adrian Cussins (National University of Colombia)
Content and Cognitive Trails
Commentary: Dr Hong Yu Wong (Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen)
2.00 Prof Barry C Smith (Institute of Philosophy, University of London)
Flavour Perception and Sensory Exploration
Commentary: Carlos Márquez (Doctoral student, National University of Colombia)
4.00 Prof Ignacio Avila (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Molyneux’s Question
Commentary: Dr Fiona MacPherson (University of Glasgow)
Day Two: Tuesday 19 April, ST274/275, Stewart House
10.30 Prof Charles Spence (University of Oxford)
The Psychology and Neuroscience of Flavour Perception
Commentary: Dr Ophelia Deroy (Institute Jean Nicod)
2.00 Dr Hong Yu Wong (University of Tübingen)
Bodily Awareness and Action
Commentary: Diana Acosta (Master's Student in the National University)
4.00 Roundtable Discussion
led by Anderson Pinzon (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
5.30 End of Workshop
Contemporary Circus
CIRCOLOMBIA RETURNS WITH URBAN At the ROUNDHOUSE
4 – 16 APRIL 2011
Forget everything you know about circus. Circolombia is nothing like the animal jumping circus you remember as a child. Circolombia is gritty, modern, full of attitude and comprised of a motley crew of exuberant young artists, whose awe-inspiring acrobatic prowess is matched by their high voltage energy. Urban features some of the best performers from Circo Para Todos (Circus For All), Colombia's national circus school and the first professional circus school in the world for disadvantaged young people, which produces world-class performers.
‘One of the world’s most exciting youth circus troupes’ – Daily Telegraph
‘A show with real attitude’ – Guardian****
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH
Time: 7.30pm, plus Saturday matinees 2.30pm
For more info: www.roundhouse.org.uk
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Literature
FREE THE WORD! LONDON FESTIVAL 2011: TRANSLATING POWER
FREE THE WORD! LONDON FESTIVAL 2011: TRANSLATING POWER
6 – 10 APRIL 2011
Free the Word Festival: Authorising History
Around the world, novelists are constantly rewriting history. Juan Gabriel Vásquez has questioned received versions of the history of Colombia in both The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana, each time prompting a national re-examination of his country’s identity. He talks about the peculiar ways in which writers can make and unmake history.
Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez won the 2011 Alfaguara Spanish literary prize for his novel "El ruido de las cosas al caer" (The Sound of Things Falling).
Vásquez was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1973. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne between 1996 and 1998, and now lives in Barcelona. He has translated works by John Dos Passos, Victor Hugo and E.M. Forster, amongst others, into Spanish. His highly praised novel The Informers was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. His novel The Secret History of Costaguana won the Qwerty Prize in Barcelona and the Fundación Libros y Letras in Bogotá. He is also the author of a short-story collection, Los amantes de Todos los Santos, a collection of essays, El arte de la distorsión, and a short biography of Joseph Conrad, El hombre de ninguna parte. His work has been published in fourteen languages worldwide.
9 April, 7.00pm
Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA
More information: http://www.freewordonline.com/events
