[Art_beyond_sight_theory_and_research] Workshops: Touch and the Value of Object Handling

[Lisa Yayla]

Hi,
If you are in London this workshop may be of interest.
Best,
Lisa

UCL News
Workshops: Touch and the Value of Object Handling
Workshops: Touch and the Value of Object Handling
17 October 2006

Links: UCL Museums and Collections events
UCL Museums and Collections
UCL Museums and Collections are hosting a series of workshops exploring 
touch and object handling in the context of museums.

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the workshops are 
open to all. The first workshop, ‘The History of Touch: What do we Mean 
by Touch?’ will be held in UCL’s Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre from 
10am–4pm on 3 November 2006.

The programme features behavioural brain science expert Professor Alan 
Wing (University of Birmingham) whose session is on ‘Weighty Issues in 
Handling Objects’, Dr Fiona Candlin (Birkbeck College) on ‘The Class 
Politics of Touch’, and neuroscientist Dr Hugo Critchley (UCL Institute 
of Neuroscience), whose session is entitled ‘Emotional Touch: a 
Neuroscientific Overview’

Cognitive neuroscientist Professor Francis McGlone’s (Unilever Research 
and Development) session will cover how ‘Discriminative and affective 
touch are subserved by separate peripheral and central neural systems’, 
and experimental psychologist Dr Charles Spence (University of Oxford) 
on ‘Multisensory Contributions to ‘Touch’: Recent Findings’.

A further three workshops will take place as part of the series: ‘New 
Technologies for Enhancing Object Interpretation’ will be held at the 
University of Central England on 1 December 2006. The series will return 
to UCL on 5 January 2007 for ‘Touch and Memory: The Role of 
Reminiscence’, ‘Therapeutic Approaches to Touch: Object Handling and 
Hospital Patients’ will take place at the Royal London Homeopathic 
Hospital on 2 February 2007, and the end of project conference will take 
place at UCL on 4 May 2007.

Workshops are free, and refreshments will be provided. To book a place 
or for further information contact Ms Devorah Romanek or Dr Helen 
Chatterjee on 0207 679 4113.